i need some C/C++ test intervie questions

[techievasant]

hello everyone,
Iam vasant from India..
I have a test+interview on C /C++ in the coming month so plz help me
by giving some resources of FAQS, interview questions, tracky
questions, multiple choice questions.etc..
I'll be indebted to everyone..
Thanks in advance..
regards
vasant shetty
Bangalore
India

[Bill Reed]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:47:06 +0200, Irrwahn Grausewitz
<ir*****@freene t.de> wrote:

Morris Dovey <mr*****@iedu.c om> wrote in
<DF*********** ******@news.usw est.net>:

Jeremy Collins wrote:

It was originally "Bill Haley and the Comments" I suppose, and
their name got mangled somewhere along the way...

Didn't he write the <something><som ething> C Boogie?

BTW: Does anyone know who wrote "C You Later, Alligator" ?

I'm not sure, but the Honeydrippers did "C of Love" and there was a
movie by the same title co-starring John Goodman (of King Ralph fame)
who I have always thought should get the starring role in the next
Bill Haley biographical film.

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Bill Reed wrote:

Irrwahn Grausewitz wrote:

Morris Dovey wrote:

Jeremy Collins wrote:

It was originally "Bill Haley and the Comments" I suppose, and
their name got mangled somewhere along the way...

Didn't he write the <something><som ething> C Boogie?

BTW: Does anyone know who wrote "C You Later, Alligator" ?

I'm not sure, but the Honeydrippers did "C of Love" and there was a
movie by the same title co-starring John Goodman (of King Ralph fame)
who I have always thought should get the starring role in the next
Bill Haley biographical film.

Hm, how would John Goodman rate on the famous 1 to 10 scale of C
knowlegde?

Talking about music, I've searched my Beatles collection and found:

Tell Me What You C
I've Just C'n A Face
You Won't C Me
C Of Time
C Of Holes
C Of Monsters

Hm, "Monsters Of C" sounds better to me ...

--
Sig. Sic.

[Kevin D. Quitt]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:44:54 +0000 (UTC), Richard Heathfield
<do******@addre ss.co.uk.invali d> wrote:

So I suppose the right answer is that the question is broken, or at least
provides insufficient information to give a meaningful answer. In this
case, however, the right answer is unlikely to get you hired unless the
interviewer is very clueful.

I repeat: this is not a pass/fail exam, and not meant to be scientific.
It is meant mostly as a bullshit detector for people who claim skills they
don't have. When I'm hiring a C programmer, I know about what level of
expertise I'm looking for, and my test includes questions about other than
just C programming.

As far as the scale goes, I've always assumed it's asymptotic rather than
either linear or log. I suppose "What's C" should be zero, but who really
cares? And as far as how people rate themselves, I look for a major
disparity between how they rate themselves and how they perform on the
rest of the test.

While I do not want to make the test public, I will send a copy to anybody
who asks. The answer sheet will cost you, though. 8o)
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[Kevin D. Quitt]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:56:25 +0000 (UTC), Richard Heathfield
<do******@addre ss.co.uk.invali d> wrote:

Though sometimes interviewers are looking for self-confidence, which means
that the higher someone rate himself the better.
I think it's quite rare for those who interview me for C-based roles to come
away from the ordeal worrying about my diffidence.

If faced with a
psychological test of this nature than you should always rate yourself as
well as it is possible to defend.

The last eight words are critical. If somebody rates themselves as a ten,
I'd expect them to answer every one of the questions correctly, even the
"trick" question. If somebody rates themselves as a 9, I would expect
them only to miss the few tricky questions that don't really reflect C
expertise (so much as they reflect reading this group).

Nowadays, it's quite rare, at interview, to come across a C test that I
can't punch a few holes in.
I think you'd have a hard time doing that with mine. Most of the
questions that have a "right" answer were 'borrowed' from this group or
the FAQ. Punching a hole in any of my questions gets you an automatic
acknowledgement that your C skills are stringer than mine. I consider
that unlikely in a candidate; the old hats in this group are excepted, but
I doubt I'd be interviewing any of you, and if I were, it wouldn't include
the test. More along the lines of "You can't do any better than here?".

But of
course I would resist that temptation, on courtesy grounds.

High marks right there. 8o)

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[Martin Dickopp]

Kevin D. Quitt <KQ****@IEEInc. com> writes:

If faced with a psychological test of this nature than you should
always rate yourself as well as it is possible to defend.

The last eight words are critical. If somebody rates themselves as a ten,
I'd expect them to answer every one of the questions correctly, even the
"trick" question.

Out of curiosity, would you allow the applicant to look into the C
standard? After all, I can also consult the standard while actually
programming.

Martin

[Ben Pfaff]

Martin Dickopp <ex************ *@zero-based.org> writes:

Out of curiosity, would you allow the applicant to look into the C
standard? After all, I can also consult the standard while actually
programming.

Out of curiosity, how many people actually do this? I know that
I fairly often refer to it myself while programming and have even
cited bits of it in debates at the office (VMware at the moment,
Stanford later this month).
--
"The fact that there is a holy war doesn't mean that one of the sides
doesn't suck - usually both do..."
--Alexander Viro

[Dave Vandervies]

In article <87************ @pfaff.stanford .edu>,
Ben Pfaff <bl*@cs.stanfor d.edu> wrote:

Martin Dickopp <ex************ *@zero-based.org> writes:

Out of curiosity, would you allow the applicant to look into the C
standard? After all, I can also consult the standard while actually
programming.

Out of curiosity, how many people actually do this? I know that
I fairly often refer to it myself while programming and have even
cited bits of it in debates at the office (VMware at the moment,
Stanford later this month).

I've often done so, for reasons ranging from "support for my claims
about some obscure language construct that somebody is trying to tell me
(works|doesn't work)" to "no harder than checking the man page to make
sure I have the argument order right"
dave

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Dave Vandervies dj******@csclub .uwaterloo.ca

I don't know if I'm being pedantic here or just being silly.
--Joona I Palaste in comp.lang.c

[Martin Dickopp]

Ben Pfaff <bl*@cs.stanfor d.edu> writes:

Martin Dickopp <ex************ *@zero-based.org> writes:

Out of curiosity, would you allow the applicant to look into the C
standard? After all, I can also consult the standard while actually
programming.

Out of curiosity, how many people actually do this?

I don't know about other people, but I refer to standards (or RFCs, or
whatever is applicable to the given situation) quite regularly.

Martin

[Bill Reed]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:09:49 +0200, Irrwahn Grausewitz
<ir*****@freene t.de> wrote:

Bill Reed wrote:

Irrwahn Grausewitz wrote:

Morris Dovey wrote:
Jeremy Collins wrote:

> It was originally "Bill Haley and the Comments" I suppose, and
> their name got mangled somewhere along the way...

Didn't he write the <something><som ething> C Boogie?

BTW: Does anyone know who wrote "C You Later, Alligator" ?

I'm not sure, but the Honeydrippers did "C of Love" and there was a
movie by the same title co-starring John Goodman (of King Ralph fame)
who I have always thought should get the starring role in the next
Bill Haley biographical film.

Hm, how would John Goodman rate on the famous 1 to 10 scale of C
knowlegde?

Talking about music, I've searched my Beatles collection and found:

Tell Me What You C
I've Just C'n A Face
You Won't C Me
C Of Time
C Of Holes
C Of Monsters

Hm, "Monsters Of C" sounds better to me ...

I'm beginning to think this thread is no longer Cworthy.

[Kevin D. Quitt]

Have you ever been on the hiring end? Put out an ad for a C programmer
and you'll get a foot-thick stack of resumes, perhaps 5% of which are
actually people with C skills (although 50% will claim C skills).
headhunters can cut the stack down a bit, but I'm still left with weeding
out those who only claim to have C skills. Hence the "test".

A significant percentage of applicants through agencies will bow out
because they're embarrassed by how they do on the test (again - I send it
to them before the interview), or for personal reasons. Does this latter
mean that I might lose somebody I'd otherwise want? Possibly, but I have
to balance that against how much interview time I save.

If you claim a reasonable level of C expertise and get more than half the
questions right (or maybe get them wrong for interesting reasons), I'll be
talking to you.

I make this sound like I'm hiring people all the time. I'm not. It's a
rare occurrence and something I dread.
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