Re: DBA quiz

From: JRStern <JRStern_at_gte.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 03:27:39 GMT
Message-ID: <3aa2f4fd.17342136_at_news.gte.net>


  • Colonel Mustard in the Library.
  • The man with the zebra smokes Camels.

J.

On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:44:42 GMT, Aloha
Kakuikanu<alohakaku_nospam_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>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 Mon Mar 05 2001 - 04:27:39 CET

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