Hi everyone, I just had this tes

[steveAn]

Hi everyone,

I just had this test (those who pass get to go on to an interview). I did ok except for the ASP questions, which I just skipped over.

One of them was something like "what are the eight major functions of ASP". Does this sound like anything anyone could answer for me? I figure that looking up each of those functions would be a good way for me to start to learn.

Thanks!

 

[onpnt]

"what are the eight major functions of ASP".

That's a intersting question.
First talk about the fact that there are "NO" functions in ASP technicaly. There are Methods. That is what the question should have stated on the test. In regards to functions, it would be language specific. That most likely being vbscript. At that point there are no major functions to me and most ASP developers. To name the major functions would go far past eight to around 20 or 30.

As far as ASP goes, and how the question should have been ask of
"what are the eight major Methods of ASP"
in no particular order:
1)CreateObject
2)Execute
3)Write
4)abandon
5)Clear
6)End
7)Transfer
8)Redirect

And to talk further on this topic the list of any one object would be foolish to requet on something of a test without including collections and events in ASP. This is where response, request, application, session, your form objects are all going to be needed information.

My advice for what it's worth, go to

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/asp/quickref/asp_intro.html

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

I truly feel anyone that wants to start developing with ASP should read every word of every object listing on these sites. If your not going to gain schooling or such, then you should get a little information that is well documented first before ever writing
<%
Response.Write &quot;Hello World!&quot;
%>

Hope that helps out a bit

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[steveAn]

Thanks for guiding me in the right direction onpnt! You are right - it did say methods (my mistake). I may have been wrong about the number too - but I'm pretty sure it asked for &quot;the&quot; eight.

Cheers!

 

[Tarwn]

Thats odd, I could understand if it asked about the 8 major objects (Request, Response, Server, Application, Session, Filestream, Textstream, File, Folder, Dictionary ok, maybe thats 10 )

But I don't see how you could make a listr of the 8 most important ASP methods, when in fact there is the language issues (as onpnt stated), so you would really only be listing methods of the ASP objects listed above.

I don't know, I probably would have failed that particular question

-Tarwn

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[onpnt]

I was thinking that I would ahve failed it to. As I wrote my reply and got further into it I relized it just didn't sound quite right. Maybe there's a human resources guy out there that is writing the review questions to be asked which they have no idea of what they are writing but ignore resumes on the fact they didn't get the wrong answer to their wrong question. umm... That never hap?!?

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[steveAn]

Hey Guys,

truth is, I knew nothing about ASP at the time so I don't really remember what that question was exactly. I actually wrote this a couple of months ago - but the question has always bothered me a little because it seemed like something easy I could've prepared for (the way it was worded, it sounded like it should be on the first page of &quot;ASP for Dummies&quot.

The test was extremely annoying because there were about 30 questions like that covering ASP, Databases, Html, Javascript (or VBScript), CSS, couple of other miscellaneous on development techniques,etc.., all for a &quot;Junior Web Developer&quot; position. Plus, that only meant that out of the 40 of us writing it, only those who passed got to move on to the interview. It angered me to read ridiculous questions like, &quot;What are the 5 main benefits of CSS?&quot;. I don't think I could name the 5 best of anything!

I got a letter recently stating that &quot;no qualified candidate(s) had been identified&quot;... &quot;the competition has been deemed unsuccessful&quot;. I think you were right about the author of the test (I think it was the guy who I would've been working for). He was there to give a little speech and distribute the test and he looked and acted more like tax accountant than a web developper (no offence to accountants out there - I'm just generalizing).

Oh well, at least I know now how to prepare for the worst case scenario (please tell me that that's the worst case scenario!!!)

 

[Genimuse]

Having co-built a 120-person company that hired plenty of web developers (since that was our business), I can suggest another possible author of the test: whomever the company considered their best developer. This person is probably really, really well-versed in everything on the test, and considered the test quite simple and appropriate for a junior position, forgetting that even the more senior folks in his group might have a hard time with many of the questions.

We had this problem for a while (though it was all asked in interviews). When I finally heard about the issues (candidates were never sufficiently qualified, blowing too many questions), I sat in on a few and decided that we needed to only have this person interview the more senior candidates since his standards were simply too high for reality.

 

[Tarwn]

The thing that bothers me is that those test questions seem to bookish. I could see asking for some of the advantages of using particular technologies, and then asking for someone to correct a piece of code or write a small sample (or larger, depending on their position), but asking what the x main benefits of a technology...
If I ever have an interview like that I will probably fail miserably, probably due to copping an attitude during the testing process...
Then again, I feel like I am adequate enough to deserve displaying a little attitude if somone used memorization quesztions to test my &quot;skill&quot; in these areas

-Tarwn

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