DBA quiz

On my last job interview for DBA position they gave me the test below. I fell flat, and so did all of my friends, whom I asked. One of them wrote a C program that calculates the answer, but I cannot believe that DBA folks are supposed to know how to program C.

1. The first question whose answer is B is question
   (A) 2
   (B) 3
   (C) 4
   (D) 5
   (E) 6
   
2. The only two consecutive questions with identical answers are questions
   (A) 2 and 3
   (B) 3 and 4
   (C) 4 and 5
   (D) 5 and 6
   (E) 6 and 7
   
3. The last question with the same answer as this one is question
   (A) 10
   (B) 9
   (C) 8
   (D) 7
   (E) 6
   
4. The number of questions with the answer A is
   (A) 0
   (B) 1
   (C) 2
   (D) 3
   (E) 4
   
5. The answer to this question is the same as the answer to question
   (A) 10
   (B) 9
   (C) 8
   (D) 7
   (E) 6
   
6. The number of questions with answer A equals the number of questions with answer
   (A) B
   (B) C
   (C) D
   (D) E
   (E) none of the above
   
7. Alphabetically, the answer to this question and the answer to the following question are
   (A) 4 apart
   (B) 3 apart
   (C) 2 apart
   (D) 1 apart
   (E) the same
   
8. The number of questions whose answers are vowels is
   (A) 2
   (B) 3
   (C) 4
   (D) 5
   (E) 6
   
9. The number of questions whose answer is a consonant is
   (A) a prime (i.e. 2,3,5,7)
   (B) a factorial (i.e. 1,6)
   (C) a square (i.e. 0,1,4,9)
   (D) a cube (i.e. 0,1,8)
   (E) divisible by 5 (i.e. 0,5,10)
   

10.The answer to this question is
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D
(E) E
Received on Sun Mar 04 2001 - 20:44:42 CET