Most of us believe that it is illegal for an interviewer to ask questions relating to religious beliefs, national origin, marital status etc. This is only a widespread belief. In most of the states, interviews are allowed to ask questions relating to these and asking such questions is not illegal. What’s actually illegal is to make a hiring judgment on the basis of the answers given to such questions. That is why, smart interviewers do not ask such questions because they know that can not factor in the answers given.

However, you may run into situations where the interviewer asks questions relating to religion, belief, marital status etc. What would you do? Possibility can be that you might already have faced such a situation. What did you do? What’s more important is what you should do. By asking such questions, the interviewer is not making an attempt to screen you out illegally. Instead, he is making a small talk. However, they may not just realize that questions like these tread on risky grounds.

It’s a tricky situation anyway. In any case, you wouldn’t like to ruin your rapport because you want to turn the interview into a successful one. If you want to make it a successful interview, you would never want to respond with guns blazing.

If you look at the situation practically, it is definitely your perquisite to make an issue of what the interviewer asks. On the other hand, it is only up to you whether you feel like fighting the battle or not.

There is one more option to the situation as well. If the interviewer raises an issue like your parenthood and relates it to your job performance, you can speak to the interviewer directly and respond with a polite answer. You might respond by saying: “I do have kids, and they’re great, but please know that there’s nothing that would hinder or interfere with my ability to work the hours required to get the job done.”

And if you smell something in the interview, you will certainly need to reconsider your employment decision.

What is difference between foreground and background thread?
• Foreground threads have the ability to prevent the current application from terminating. The CLR will not shut down an application (which is to say, unload the hosting AppDomain) until all foreground threads have ended.

• Background threads (sometimes called daemon threads) are viewed by the CLR as expendable paths of execution that can be ignored at any point in time (even if they are currently laboring over some unit of work). Thus, if all foreground threads have terminated, any and all background threads are automatically killed when the application domain unloads.

What is the difference between STA and MTA?

In single threaded apartment (STA) each thread is isolated in a separate apartment underneath the process. The process can have any number of apartments that share data through a proxy. The application defines when and for how long the thread in each apartment should execute. All requests are serialized through the Windows message queue such that only a single apartment is accessed at a time and thus only a single thread will be executing at any one time. STA is the

threading model that most Visual Basic developers are familiar with because this is the threading model available to VB applications prior to VB.NET. You can think of it like an apartment building full of a row of one room apartments that are accessible one at a time through a single hallway. The advantage this provides over single

threaded is that multiple commands can be issued at one time instead of just a single command, but the commands are still sequentially executed. The free threaded/Multi Threaded Apartment (MTA) model has a single apartment created underneath the process rather than multiple apartments. This single apartment holds

multiple threads rather than just a single thread. No message queue is required because all of the threads are a part of the same apartment and can share data without a proxy. You can think of it like a building with multiple rooms that are all accessible once you are inside the building. These applications typically execute faster than

single threaded and STA because there is less system overhead and can be optimized to eliminate system idle time.

What do you mean by Share Point Portal ?

Here I have taken information regarding  Share Point Portal Server 2003 provides mainly access to the crucial business information and applications.With the help of Share Point Server we can server  information between  Public Folders, Data Bases, File Servers  and the websites that are based on Windows server 2003. This Share Point Portal is  integrated with MSAccess and Windows servers,So we can get  a Wide range of document management functionality. We can also create a full featured portal with readymade navigation and structure.

1.6.2What is cross page posting in ASP.NET2.0 ?

When we have to post data from one page to another in application we used server.transfer method but in this the URL remains the same but in cross page posting there is little different there is normal post back is done but in target page we can access values of server control in the source page.This is quite simple we have to only set the PostBackUrl property of Button,LinkButton or imagebutton which specifies the target page.In target page we can access the PreviousPage property.And we have to use the @PreviousPageType directive.We can access control of PreviousPage by using the findcontrol method.When we set the PostBackURL property ASP.NET framework bind the HTML and Javascript function automatically.

What you thing about the WebPortal ?

Web portal is nothing but a page that allows a user to customize his/her homepage. We can use Widgets to create that portal we have only to drag and drop widgets on the page. The user can set his Widgets on any where on the page where he has to get them. Widgets are nothing but a page area that helps particular function to response. Widgets example are address books, contact lists, RSS feeds, clocks, calendars, play lists, stock tickers, weather reports, traffic reports, dictionaries, games and another such beautiful things that we can not imagine. We can also say Web Parts in Share Point Portal. These are one of Ajax-Powered.

How to start Outlook,NotePad file in AsP.NET with code ?

Here is the syntax to open outlook or notepad file in ASP.NET VB.NET Process.Start(“Notepad.exe”) Process.Start(“msimn.exe”); C#.NET System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“msimn.exe”); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(“Notepad.exe”);

What is the purpose of IIS ?

We can call IIS(Internet Information Services) a powerful Web server that helps us creating highly reliable, scalable and manageable infrastructure for Web application which runs on Windows Server 2003. IIS helps development center and increase Web site and application availability while lowering system administration costs. It also runs on Windows NT/2000 platforms and also for above versions. With IIS, Microsoft includes a set of programs for building and administering Web sites, a search engine, and support for writing Web-based applications that access database. IIS also called http server since it process the http request and gets http response.

What is main difference between GridLayout and FormLayout ?

GridLayout helps in providing absolute positioning of every control placed on the page.It is easier to devlop page with absolute positioning because control can be placed any where according to our requirement.But FormLayout is little different only experience Web Devloper used this one reason is it is helpful for wider range browser.If there is absolute positioning we can notice that there are number of DIV tags.But in FormLayout whole work are done through the tables.

How Visual SourceSafe helps Us ?
One of the powerful tool provided by Microsoft to keep up-to-date of files system its keeps records of file history once we add files to source safe it can be add to database and the changes ade by diffrenet user to this files are maintained in database from that we can get the older version of files to.This also helps in sharing,merging of files.

Can you define what is SharePoint and some overview about this ?

SharePoint helps workers for  creating  powerful personalized interfaces only by dragging and drop pre-defined Web Part Components. And these Web Parts components also helps non programmers to get information which care  and customize the appearance of Web pages. To under stand it we take an example  one Web Part might display a user’s information another might create a graph showing current employee status  and a third might show a list of Employees Salary. This is also possible that each functions has a link to a video or audio presentation.So now  Developers are unable to  create these Web Part components and make them available to SharePoint users.

What is different between WebUserControl and in WebCustomControl?

Web user controls: – Web User Control is Easier to create and another thing is that its support is limited for users who use a visual design tool one gud thing is that its contains static layout one more thing a seprate copy is required for each application.
Web custom controls: -Web Custom Control is typical to create and gud for dynamic layout and another thing is it have full tool support for user and a single copy of control is required because it is placed in Global Assembly cache.

What is Sandbox in SQL server and explain permission level in Sql Server ?

Sandbox is place where we run trused program or script which is created  from the third party. There are three type of Sandbox where user code run.
Safe Access Sandbox:-Here we can only create stored procedure,triggers,functions,datatypes etc.But we doesnot have acess memory ,disk etc.
External Access Sandbox:-We cn access File systems outside the box. We can not play with threading,memory allocation etc.
Unsafe Access Sandbox:-Here we can write unreliable and unsafe code.

How many types of cookies are there in .NET ?

Two type of cookeies.
a) single valued eg request.cookies(”UserName”).value=”dotnetquestion”
b)Multivalued cookies. These are used in the way collections are used example
request.cookies(”CookiName”)(”UserName”)=”dotnetquestionMahesh”
request.cookies(”CookiName”)(”UserID”)=”interview″

When we get Error ‘HTTP 502 Proxy Error’ ?

We get this error when we execute ASP.NET Web pages in Visual Web Developer Web server, because the URL randomly select port number and proxy servers did not recognize the URL and return this error. To resolve this problem we have to change settings in Internet Explorer to bypass the proxy server for local addresses, so that the request is not sent to the proxy.

What do you mean by three-tier architecture?

The three-tier architecture was comes into existence to improve management of code and contents and to improve the performance of the web based applications.There are mainly three layers in three-tier architecture.the are define as follows
(1)Presentation
(2)Business Logic
(3)Database
(1)First layer Presentation contains mainly the interface code, and this is shown to user. This code could contain any technology that can be used on the client side like HTML, JavaScript or VBScript etc.
(2)Second layer is Business Logic which contains all the code of the server-side .This layer have code to interact with database database and to query, manipulate, pass data to user interface and handle any input from the UI as well.
(3)Third layer Data represents the data store like MS Access, SQL Server, an XML file, an Excel file or even a text file containing data also some addtional database are also added to that layers.

What is Finalizer in .NET define Dispose and Finalize ?
We can say that Finalizer are the methods that’s helps in cleanp the code that is executed before object is garbage collected .The process is called finalization . There are two methods of finalizer Dispose and Finalize .There is little diffrenet between two of this method .
When we call Dispose method is realse all the resources hold by an object as well as all the resorces hold by the parent object.When we call Dispose method it clean managed as well as unmanaged resources.
Finalize methd also cleans resources but finalize call dispose clears only the unmanged resources because in finalization the garbase collecter clears all the object hold by managed code so finalization fails to prevent thos one of methd is used that is: GC.SuppressFinalize.

Define SMTPclient class in DotNet framework class libarary ?

Each classes in dotnet framework inclue some properties,method and events.These properties ,methods and events are member of a class.SMTPclient class mainly concern with sending mail.This class contain the folling member.
Properties:-
Host:-The name or IP address of email server.
Port:-Port that is use when sending mail.
Methods:-
Send:-Enables us to send email synchronously.
SendAsynchronous:-Enables us to send an email asynchronously.
Event:-
SendCompleted:-This event raised when an asynchronous send opertion completes.

Does .NET CLR and SQL SERVER run in different process ?

Dot Net CLR and all .net realtes application and Sql Server run in same process or we can say that that on the same address because there is no issue of speed because if these two process are run in different process then there may be a speed issue created one process goes fast and other slow may create the problem.

What is Com Marshler and its importance in .NET ?

Com Marshler is one of useful component of CLR. Its Task is to marshal data between Managed and Unmanaged environment .It helps in representation of data accross diffrenet execution enviroment.It performs the conversion of data format between manage and unmanaged code.By the helps of Com Marshlar CLR allows manage code to interoperate with unmanaged code.

What is CSU and its description ?

CSU stands for comma separate values also called comma delimited.It is plain text file which stores spreadsheets or basic datatype in very simple format.One record in each line and each field separted with comma’s it is often used to transfer large ammount spreadsheet data or database information between program.

The IHttpHandler and IHttpHandlerFactory interfaces ?

The IHttpHandler interface is implemented by all the handlers. The interface consists of one property called IsReusable. The IsReusable property gets a value indicating whether another request can use the IHttpHandler instance. The method ProcessRequest() allows you to process the current request. This is the core place where all your code goes. This method receives a parameter of type HttpContext using which you can access the intrinsic objects such as Request and Response. The IHttpHandlerFactory interface consists of two methods – GetHandler and ReleaseHandler. The GetHandler() method instantiates the required HTTP handler based on some condition and returns it back to ASP.NET. The ReleaseHandler() method allows the factory to reuse an existing handler.

What is Viewstate?

View state is used by the ASP.NET page framework to automatically save the values of the page and of each control just prior to rendering to the page. When the page is posted, one of the first tasks performed by page processing is to restore view state.
State management is the process by which you maintain state and page information over multiple requests for the same or different pages.
Client-side options are:

Server-side options are:

Use the View State property to save data in a hidden field on a page. Because ViewState stores data on the page, it is limited to items that can be serialized. If you want to store more complex items in View State, you must convert the items to and from a string.
ASP.NET provides the following ways to retain variables between requests:
Context.Handler object Use this object to retrieve public members of one Web form’s class from a subsequently displayed Web form.
Query strings Use these strings to pass information between requests and responses as part of the Web address. Query strings are visible to the user, so they should not contain secure information such as passwords.
Cookies Use cookies to store small amounts of information on a client. Clients might refuse cookies, so your code has to anticipate that possibility.
View state ASP.NET stores items added to a page’s ViewState property as hidden fields on the page.
Session state Use Session state variables to store items that you want keep local to the current session (single user).
Application state Use Application state variables to store items that you want be available to all users of the application.

DOTNET PAGE LIFECYCLE ?

While excuting the page, it will go under the fallowing steps(or fires the events) which collectivly known as Page Life cycle.
Page_Init — Page Initialization
LoadViewState — View State Loading
LoadPostData — Postback data processing
Page_Load — Page Loading
RaisePostDataChangedEvent — PostBack Change Notification
RaisePostBackEvent — PostBack Event Handling
Page_PreRender — Page Pre Rendering Phase
SaveViewState — View State Saving
Page_Render — Page Rendering
Page_UnLoad — Page Unloading

What is Satellite Assemblies ?

Satellite assemblies are often used to deploy language-specific resources for an application. These language-specific assemblies work in side-by-side execution because the application has a separate product ID for each language and installs satellite assemblies in a language-specific subdirectory for each language. When uninstalling, the application removes only the satellite assemblies associated with a given language and .NET Framework version. No core .NET Framework files are removed unless the last language for that .NET Framework version is being removed. For example, English and Japanese editions of the .NET Framework version 1.1 share the same core files. The Japanese .NET Framework version 1.1 adds satellite assemblies with localized resources in a \ja subdirectory. An application that supports the .NET Framework version 1.1, regardless of its language, always uses the same core runtime files.

What is CAS ?

CAS is the part of the .NET security model that determines whether or not a piece of code is allowed to run, and what resources it can use when it is running. For example, it is CAS that will prevent a .NET web applet from formatting your hard disk. How does CAS work? The CAS security policy revolves around two key concepts – code groups and permissions. Each .NET assembly is a member of a particular code group, and each code group is granted the permissions specified in a named permission set. For example, using the default security policy, a control downloaded from a web site belongs to the ‘Zone – Internet’ code group, which adheres to the permissions defined by the ‘Internet’ named permission set. (Naturally the ‘Internet’ named permission set represents a very restrictive range of permissions.)

Automatic Memory Management ?

Automatic Memory Management: From a programmer’s perspective, this is probably the single biggest benefit of the .NET Framework. No, I’m not kidding. Every project I’ve worked on in my long career of DOS and Windows development has suffered at some point from memory management issues. Proper memory management is hard. Even very good programmers have difficulty with it. It’s entirely too easy for a small mistake to cause a program to chew up memory and crash, sometimes bringing the operating system to a screeching halt in the process.

Programmers understand that they’re responsible for releasing any memory that they allocate, but they’re not very good at actually doing it. In addition, functions that allocate memory as a side effect abound in the Windows API and in the C runtime library. It’s nearly impossible for a programmer to know all of the rules. Even when the programmer follows the rules, a small memory leak in a support library can cause big problems if called enough.

The .NET Framework solves the memory management problems by implementing a garbage collector that can keep track of allocated memory references and release the memory when it is no longer referenced. A large part of what makes this possible is the blazing speed of today’s processors. When you’re running a 2 GHz machine, it’s easy to spare a few cycles for memory management. Not that the garbage collector takes a huge number of cycles–it’s incredibly efficient.
The garbage collector isn’t perfect and it doesn’t solve the problem of mis-managing other scarce resources (file handles, for example), but it relieves programmers from having to worry about a huge source of bugs that trips almost everybody up in other programming environments.
On balance, automatic memory management is a huge win in almost every situation.

ASP.NET Authentication providers and IIS Security?

ASP.NET implements authentication using authentication providers, which are code modules that verify credentials and implement other security functionality such as cookie generation. ASP.NET supports the following three authentication providers:

Forms Authentication: Using this provider causes unauthenticated requests to be redirected to a specified HTML form using client side redirection. The user can then supply logon credentials, and post the form back to the server. If the application authenticates the request (using application-specific logic), ASP.NET issues a cookie that contains the credentials or a key for reacquiring the client identity. Subsequent requests are issued with the cookie in the request headers, which means that subsequent authentications are unnecessary.

Passport Authentication: This is a centralized authentication service provided by Microsoft that offers a single logon facility and membership services for participating sites. ASP.NET, in conjunction with the Microsoft® Passport software development kit (SDK), provides similar functionality as Forms Authentication to Passport users.

Windows Authentication: This provider utilizes the authentication capabilities of IIS. After IIS completes its authentication, ASP.NET uses the authenticated identity’s token to authorize access.

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Find the Nth highest salary without using of Top Keyword.

select max(empsal) from emp e1

where N <= (Select count(distinct empsal) from emp e2

where e1.empsal <= e2.empsal)

Write SQL for creating duplicate table

Select * into emp2 from emp

>>emp2 is new table ; emp is existing table

Write SQL for copying data from one table to another table

insert into emp3 select * from emp
>> emp3 is empty existing table

Delete the duplicate data from below table “SalesHistory”

Product SaleDate SalePrice

Computer 1919-03-18 00:00:00.000 1008.00

BigScreen 1927-03-18 00:00:00.000 91.00

PoolTable 1927-04-01 00:00:00.000 139.00

Computer 1919-03-18 00:00:00.000 1008.00

BigScreen 1927-03-25 00:00:00.000 92.00

PoolTable 1927-03-25 00:00:00.000 108.00

Computer 1919-04-01 00:00:00.000 150.00

BigScreen 1927-04-01 00:00:00.000 123.00

PoolTable 1927-04-01 00:00:00.000 139.00

Computer 1919-04-08 00:00:00.000 168.00

The new CTE feature in SQL Server 2005 makes it very easy to remove these duplicates, with or without a primary key.

The script below defines my CTE. I am using a windowing function named DENSE_RANK to group the records together based on the Product, SaleDate, and SalePrice fields, and assign them a sequential value randomly. This means that if I have two records with the exact same Product, SaleDate, and SalePrice values, the first record will be ranked as 1, the second as 2, and so on.

;WITH SalesCTE(Product, SaleDate, SalePrice, Ranking)

AS

(

SELECT

Product, SaleDate, SalePrice,

Ranking = DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY Product, SaleDate, SalePrice ORDER BY NEWID() ASC)

FROM SalesHistory

)

DELETE FROM SalesCTE

WHERE Ranking > 1

What is CTE?

Common Table Expressions, or CTE, are a new construct introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that offer a more readable form of the derived table that can be declared once and referenced multiple times in a query. Moreover, CTEs can be recursively defined, allowing a recursive entity to be enumerated without the need for recursive-stored procedures.

What is the basic functions for master, msdb, model, tempdb databases?

The Master database holds information for all databases located on the SQL Server instance and is the glue that holds the engine together. Because SQL Server cannot start without a functioning master database, you must administer this database with care.
The msdb database stores information regarding database backups, SQL Agent information, DTS packages, SQL Server jobs, and some replication information such as for log shipping.
The tempdb holds temporary objects such as global and local temporary tables and stored procedures.
The model is essentially a template database used in the creation of any new user database created in the instance

What is De-normalization?

De-normalization is the process of attempting to optimize the performance of a database by adding redundant data. It is sometimes necessary because current DBMSs implement the relational model poorly. A true relational DBMS would allow for a fully normalized database at the logical level, while providing physical storage of data that is tuned for high performance. De-normalization is a technique to move from higher to lower normal forms of database modeling in order to speed up database access.

What is an execution plan? When would you use it? How would you view the execution plan?

An execution plan is basically a road map that graphically or textually shows the data retrieval methods chosen by the SQL Server query optimizer for a stored procedure or ad-hoc query and is a very useful tool for a developer to understand the performance characteristics of a query or stored procedure since the plan is the one that SQL Server will place in its cache and use to execute the stored procedure or query. From within Query Analyzer is an option called “Show Execution Plan” (located on the Query drop-down menu). If this option is turned on it will display query execution plan in separate window when query is ran again.

What is SQL Profiler?

SQL Profiler is a graphical tool that allows system administrators to monitor events in an instance of Microsoft SQL Server. You can capture and save data about each event to a file or SQL Server table to analyze later. For example, you can monitor a production environment to see which stored procedures are hampering performance by executing too slowly.

Use SQL Profiler to monitor only the events in which you are interested. If traces are becoming too large, you can filter them based on the information you want, so that only a subset of the event data is collected. Monitoring too many events adds overhead to the server and the monitoring process and can cause the trace file or trace table to grow very large, especially when the monitoring process takes place over a long period of time.

What is User Defined Functions?

User-Defined Functions allow to define its own T-SQL functions that can accept 0 or more parameters and return a single scalar data value or a table data type.

What kind of User-Defined Functions can be created?

There are three types of User-Defined functions in SQL Server 2000 and they are Scalar, Inline Table-Valued and Multi-statement Table-valued.

What is the difference between a local and a global variable?

A local temporary table exists only for the duration of a connection or, if defined inside a compound statement, for the duration of the compound statement.

A global temporary table remains in the database permanently, but the rows exist only within a given connection. When connection are closed, the data in the global temporary table disappears. However, the table definition remains with the database for access when database is opened next time.

What is log shipping?

Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of database and transaction log files on a production SQL server, and then restoring them onto a standby server. Enterprise Editions only supports log shipping. In log shipping the transactional log file from one server is automatically updated into the backup database on the other server. If one server fails, the other server will have the same db can be used this as the Disaster Recovery plan. The key feature of log shipping is that is will automatically backup transaction logs throughout the day and automatically restore them on the standby server at defined interval.

Can a stored procedure call itself or recursive stored procedure? How many level SP nesting possible?

Yes. Because Transact-SQL supports recursion, you can write stored procedures that call themselves. Recursion can be defined as a method of problem solving wherein the solution is arrived at by repetitively applying it to subsets of the problem. A common application of recursive logic is to perform numeric computations that lend themselves to repetitive evaluation by the same processing steps. Stored procedures are nested when one stored procedure calls another or executes managed code by referencing a CLR routine, type, or aggregate. You can nest stored procedures and managed code references up to 32 levels.

What is @@ERROR?

The @@ERROR automatic variable returns the error code of the last Transact-SQL statement. If there was no error, @@ERROR returns zero. Because @@ERROR is reset after each Transact-SQL statement, it must be saved to a variable if it is needed to process it further after checking it.

What is Raiseerror?

Stored procedures report errors to client applications via the RAISERROR command. RAISERROR doesn’t change the flow of a procedure; it merely displays an error message, sets the @@ERROR automatic variable, and optionally writes the message to the SQL Server error log and the NT application event log.

What is difference between DELETE & TRUNCATE commands?

Delete command removes the rows from a table based on the condition that we provide with a WHERE clause. Truncate will actually remove all the rows from a table and there will be no data in the table after we run the truncate command.

TRUNCATE
TRUNCATE is faster and uses fewer system and transaction log resources than DELETE.
TRUNCATE removes the data by deallocating the data pages used to store the table’s data, and only the page deallocations are recorded in the transaction log.
TRUNCATE removes all rows from a table, but the table structure and its columns, constraints, indexes and so on remain. The counter used by an identity for new rows is reset to the seed for the column.
You cannot use TRUNCATE TABLE on a table referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
Because TRUNCATE TABLE is not logged, it cannot activate a trigger.
TRUNCATE can not be Rolled back using logs.
TRUNCATE is DDL Command.
TRUNCATE Resets identity of the table.

DELETE
DELETE removes rows one at a time and records an entry in the transaction log for each deleted row.
If you want to retain the identity counter, use DELETE instead. If you want to remove table definition and its data, use the DROP TABLE statement.
DELETE Can be used with or without a WHERE clause
DELETE Activates Triggers.
DELETE Can be Rolled back using logs.
DELETE is DML Command.
DELETE does not reset identity of the table.

Difference between Function and Stored Procedure?

UDF can be used in the SQL statements anywhere in the WHERE/HAVING/SELECT section where as Stored procedures cannot be.
UDFs that return tables can be treated as another rowset. This can be used in JOINs with other tables.
Inline UDF’s can be though of as views that take parameters and can be used in JOINs and other Rowset operations.

When is the use of UPDATE_STATISTICS command?

This command is basically used when a large processing of data has occurred. If a large amount of deletions any modification or Bulk Copy into the tables has occurred, it has to update the indexes to take these changes into account. UPDATE_STATISTICS updates the indexes on these tables accordingly.

What is the difference between a HAVING CLAUSE and a WHERE CLAUSE?

Specifies a search condition for a group or an aggregate. HAVING can be used only with the SELECT statement. HAVING is typically used in a GROUP BY clause. When GROUP BY is not used, HAVING behaves like a WHERE clause. Having Clause is basically used only with the GROUP BY function in a query. WHERE Clause is applied to each row before they are part of the GROUP BY function in a query. HAVING criteria is applied after the the grouping of rows has occurred.

What is a Linked Server?

Linked Servers is a concept in SQL Server by which we can add other SQL Server to a Group and query both the SQL Server dbs using T-SQL Statements. With a linked server, you can create very clean, easy to follow, SQL statements that allow remote data to be retrieved, joined and combined with local data.
Storped Procedure sp_addlinkedserver, sp_addlinkedsrvlogin will be used add new Linked Server.

What is Collation?

Collation refers to a set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared. Character data is sorted using rules that define the correct character sequence, with options for specifying case-sensitivity, accent marks, kana character types and character width.

What’s the difference between a primary key and a unique key?

Both primary key and unique enforce uniqueness of the column on which they are defined. But by default primary key creates a clustered index on the column, where are unique creates a nonclustered index by default. Another major difference is that, primary key doesn’t allow NULLs, but unique key allows one NULL only.

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what is qualifiers?

What is storage class? explain with example

Explain about preprocessor?

Write a macro with two argument A, B. where A is byte and B specifies a bit position of the byte. macro should clear the particular bit position in the given byte?

Write prototype for a function pointer and array of function pointers?

Explain the following definition?

char   c;
char  *pc;
const char  *pcc;
char const  *pcc2;
char * const   cpc;
const char * const   cpcc;

What is dangling pointers?

What is wild pointers?

Explain different memory section in processor?

Explain dynamic allocation memory?

In which memory section dynamically allocated memory is located?

what are possible problem in dynamic memory allocation?

i will give the answer for this questions later. I request you to give the answers, so that we can discuss answers here.

It’s so quiet. Mr. Stripeypants is down by the reflective heater, listening to me type. When I think of my birth, I think of a young girl, my mother Amelia, only 16 years old. I think of Augusta, Georgia in the 1950’s, Broad Street, one of the widest streets in the world, window shopping, my grandfather hanging out at the White Elephant bar. My mother tells me I had a thick head of black hair and the photographs bear that out. One in particular has me sitting in my grandfather’s lap. He is smiling, I am smiling, in a frilly dress and patent leather shoes.

I once thought I was born out of wedlock but that was another erroneous belief. It wasn’t until a few years ago when Mom and I were talking about her relationship with my father (whom I haven’t seen since I was about 6 years old) that she told me she married my father first — it wasn’t until later that I was conceived and born. I had thought until that time that she married him because she was pregnant. Nope. That’s how I began to learn how important it is to ask all the questions you have for your parents while they are still alive. Their memories may be fading, but at least you will have their version of what happened right from the horse’s mouth.

I was born not long after my Uncle Jack drowned in Clarks Hill Lake. He was only 18. Another assumption I made was that people were sad when I was born, still mourning the death of my uncle. Mom was quick to correct me, told me how joy-filled everyone was when I came into the world. What was it like for a 16-year-old in the 1950’s to birth a child? My father wasn’t a good provider. So my mother left him when I was two and went to work to put food on the table for us. Once she started showing, they made her quit high school, something that would be unthinkable today. They also made her quit her job in the Boy Scout admin office because they thought it would not be a good example for the boys to see a married woman that was pregnant.

It does make me realize how far we have come as women since the 1950’s. I recently heard a woman speak who was a stewardess on Northwest Orient in the 1950’s. She’s written a book and they were interviewing her on MPR. She said they had strict height and weight restrictions on stewardesses and you had to periodically “weigh in.” She also said you had to wear your hair a certain way, could not have dentures or partials, or wear glasses or contacts. Can you imagine the uproar today if those kinds of restrictions were put on American women?

But back to my birth. My earliest memories are not until I am about 6 years old. But once I went under hypnosis and remembered my birth father throwing me up in his arms and catching me, a loving gesture. I was an infant, all smiles. When I think of my birth, I think of my grandmother, too. And wish I could ask her what it was like for her when I was born. My mother tells me that nursing was painful. It makes me want to ask other women if nursing is painful for them. I never hear anyone talk about it. Much like I never hear people talk about miscarriages.

There are so many opportunities for women to be shamed. Are they good mothers, do they nurse, have they miscarried — many things which are out of their control. Did they have a natural birth or was labor induced. All of this falls on women, women who become mothers. A few years ago, my mother and I tried to find her step-sister’s grave. She died shortly after birth and my grandmother had scraped together the money for a marker. It was a rainy Georgia afternoon when Mom and I wandered through the Babyland area of the cemetery and finally stumbled upon her overgrown marker. There was an angel engraved into the stone.

Mom pushed the grass away with her foot, umbrella in her other hand, and I snapped a photograph. It was one of my first ventures back to Georgia to dig up the family history, interview my mother and other family members. The journey has led to many emotional ups and downs, most good. I felt happy that we had found the baby’s grave. And wondered about the circumstances of her birth. My grandmother is no longer here to tell me. She was unlucky in love in her early life. But the last man she married, Raymond, was a sweetheart. I felt so happy she finally found a man who would be sweet to her, someone she deserved.

You know what’s odd? I more remember the circumstances of each of my sibling’s births than I do my own. I was 4 years old when my brother came home from the hospital in Tennessee. I was 14 when my youngest sibling was born. We remember more than we think we do. If the right question is asked, a jumble of strange seemingly unlinked thoughts and emotions pour through the mind and heart. And that only leaves you to wonder more — what will be the circumstances of my death?

-Related to topic post WRITING TOPIC – 3 QUESTIONS. [NOTE: This is the third of three questions mentioned by actor and writer Anna Deavere Smith in an interview with Bill Moyers (see link). She talked about the questions in the context of interviewing people and listening to them. The three questions came from a linguist Smith met at a cocktail party in 1979; the questions were, according to the linguist, guaranteed to break the patterns and change the way people are expressing themselves. QuoinMonkey, ybonesy, and frequent guest writer Bob Chrisman take on the three questions by doing a Writing Practice on each.]

-Also related to posts: PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by ybonesy), PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman), PRACTICE — Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by QuoinMonkey), PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman); PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by ybonesy), and PRACTICE — Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by QuoinMonkey), PRACTICE: Do You Know The Circumstances Of Your Birth? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman), PRACTICE: Do You Know The Circumstances Of Your Birth? — 15min (by ybonesy), and two Guest practices False Accusation, Almost Dying.

This question doesn’t always come up, so it is common for interviewees to be unprepared when asked who else they have applied to. It can feel difficult to answer as it breaks into your pitch as perfect candidate for their company, and it can distract you with thoughts of how you actually quite liked the look of their key competitor too…

You could just list a few companies and try to move on quickly but, as Jeff Riley and Deena Panthaky explain, there is a way to put a more positive spin on your answer and demonstrate your professional strategic thinking. Listen to find out how!

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This podcast is the fourth in our series on difficult interview questions.

Here you will get more frequently asked questions on software testing. Read these questions carefully so that you will definitely succeed your interview and easily you can get job.

All The Best Friends!!!!

Interview questions can be hard or easy.  I have been on a few interviews lately and have found a few questions that were difficult for me to answer.  The first two questions were for a grocery store position and the last one is for a virtual assistant position.

1.  Why should we hire you?

2.  Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

3.  Tell me about yourself — tell me what your friends, neighbors would say about you?

On the first question I just went over my qualifications for the position (stumbling through it).  I wish I had prepared for  a question like this and could have had a smoother answer.  Just answering hard worker, team player, dependable, blah, blah, blah just didn’t seem enough.  A week after I was asked that question I ran across a video of how to answer the question.  I was close.  You do go back over your qualifications for the position.  It’s like a 30 second advertisement for yourself.

In all honesty on the second question the first thought that came to my mind was retired and on the beach.  I knew that wasn’t a good answer so I stalled by saying I had never been asked that question.  Guess I need to have a game plan of where I want to be in 5 years.  The job I was interviewing for wasn’t like a career job so I answered that I hoped to be moving up in the company and taking on more responsibilities.  Any advice on how to answer that one?  I would truly appreciate it.

The last question was a little hard as I wasn’t sure exactly how to answer it.  The interview was for a virtual position so the interviewer was trying to find out a little more about me and what I’m about seeing that they could not see me as we were talking on the phone.  At first I answered (stumbled actually) with some work qualities.  Later the interviewer asked me again to tell me what my neighbors, friends, enemies would say about me.  There I gave a more personal answer of how I’m friendly and helpful and normally cheerful.  I’m left wondering how better to answer this question.

Interviews are all very different.  You never know what you will be asked so it is hard to prepare for what to say.  I know that I will do a good job at no matter what job I get.   Learning how to get the message across on why I am the best candidate for the position and that they won’t regret hiring me is the hurdle I have to get over.  I do believe some pondering on how to answer these questions better will help me in the future.

I didn’t get the grocery store position but I think I did pretty well on the virtual assistant interview.  I will know more in the next two weeks as to what the outcome for that position is.  Wish me luck!

“Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or an instructor? How did you resolve it?”

The correct answer is not that you get along with everybody. Most of us have disagreements or differing opinions at some point. Use the STAR technique. Desribe a situation in which you had a conflict, outline the action you took and the results you achieve. Remember that high on the list of desirable qualities in an employee is “team player”. They aren’t looking for people who win every argument or give in all the time but employees who can rationally outline their position and come to agreement.

OOPs Interview Questions

What is an Object?

An object is a self-contained piece of functionality that can be easily used, and re-used as the building blocks for a software application.

Objects consist of data variables and functions (called methods) that can be accessed and called on the object to perform tasks. These are collectively referred to as members.

What is a Class?

Much as a blueprint or architect’s drawing defines what an item or a building will look like once it has been constructed, a class defines what an object will look like when it is created. It defines, for example, what the methods will do and what the member variables will be.

Declaring a C# Class

Before an object can be instantiated we first need to define the class ‘blueprint’ for the object. In this chapter we will create a Bank Account class to demonstrate the concepts of C# object oriented programming.

A C# class is declared using the public class keywords followed by the name of the class. Although the C# compiler will accept just about any name for a class, programming convention dictates that a class name begin with a capital letter:

public class BankAccount
{

}

We have now defined a class which currently contains no members. The next task, therefore, is to add some members.

Creating C# Class Members

Class members or properties are essentially variables and methods embedded into the class. Members can be public, private or protected.

public members can be accessed from outside the object and are also visible in classes derived from the current class. private members can only be accessed by methods contained in the class and are not accessible to derived classes. protected classes are only available to derived classes.

This is the key to what is called data encapsulation. Object-oriented programming convention dictates that data should be encapsulated in the class and accessed and set only through the methods of the class (typically called getters and setters).

We can now extend our BankAccount class to add member variables to hold the account name and number. True to the concept of data encapsulation we will be making some of these members private and writing methods to access these values later:

public class BankAccount
{

        public string accountName;
        public int accountFee;
        private int accountBalance;
        private int accountNumber;
}

Now that we have defined the properties of our class we need to look briefly at a few additional data member types, and then learn how to create object instances from the class.

Static, Read-only and Const Data Members

In addition the data member types we have looked at so far, C# also provides support for a number of additional member types.

C# static member types (also referred to as class properties) are used to store data values which are common to all object instances of class. For example, all bank customers would likely earn the same rate of interest on a savings account. An interestRate member would, therefore, be declared as static since it is common across all object instances of the class.

Static members are declared using the static keyword. For example:

public class BankAccount
{
       public static int interestRate;
}

Static members are accessed through the class, not though the object. For example we would change the interestRate member for all object instances by reference the BankAccount class as follows:

BankAccount.interestRate = 10;

For data members that must not be modified the const and readonly keywords are provided by C#. Both achieve the same objective of preventing the value assigned to a data member from being changed after it has been declared. The value of a const or readonly member must be assigned at creation time:

public readonly daysInWeek = 7;

Instantiating an Object from a C# Class

The process of creating an object from the class ‘blueprint’ is called instantiation. The first step is to create an object variable of the required object type. An instance of the object is then created using the new keyword and assigned to the object variable:

         BankAccount custAccount;

         custAccount = new BankAccount();

It is also possible to declare the object variable and assign the object in a single statement:

        BankAccount custAccount = new BankAccount();

Now that we have an instance of our BankAccount class the next step is learn how to access the members of the class.

Accessing C# Object Members

Now that we know how to write a class and instantiate objects from the class, we now need to know how to access the members of the object. Firstly, you will recall that we declared some members as being public and others as being private. The public methods are fully accessible from outside the object. This is achieved using something called dot notation. Dot notation is a mechanism by which object members may be accessed by specifying the object and member names separated by a dot (.). For example, to access the accountName member of an object named custAccount we would reference this member using custAccount.accountName:

using System;

class Hello
{
    public class BankAccount
    {

        public string accountName;
        public int accountFee;
        private int accountBalance;
        private int accountNumber;
    }

        static void Main()
        {

               BankAccount custAccount = new BankAccount();

               custAccount.accountName = "John Smith";

               custAccount.accountFee = 5;

               Console.WriteLine ("Customer Name is " + custAccount.accountName);

               Console.WriteLine ("Account Fee = $" + custAccount.accountFee);
        }
}

The above code assigns values to the accountName and accountFee members of our object. It then references the properties in order to display text which reads:

Customer Name is John Smith
Account Fee = $5

This approach works well for public class members, but not for private members. An attempt, for example, to use dot notation to access the private accountNumber member will result in a compilation error along the the lines of:

error CS0122: 'Hello.BankAccount.accountNumber' is inaccessible due to its protection level

In order to access private members we need to provide access methods in the class.

Adding Methods to a C# Class

Class method members are sections of code contained in a class which can be called from outside an object to perform specific tasks. Common types of methods are getter and setter methods which are used to access private data members of a class. For example, we can declare a getter and a setter method to get and set the protected accountNumber member:

public class BankAccount
{

        public string accountName;
        public int accountFee;
        private int accountBalance;
        private int accountNumber;

        public int getAccountNumber()
        {
               return accountNumber;
        }

        public void setAccountNumber(int newNumber)
        {
               accountNumber = newNumber;
        }

}

Class methods are called using dot notation. For example, to set the value of the accountNumber:

        BankAccount custAccount = new BankAccount();

        custAccount.setAccountNumber( 12345 );

        Console.WriteLine ("Account Number = " + custAccount.getAccountNumber() );

The above code sets the account number using the setter method and then displays the account number using the getter method.

Now that we have looked at method class members the next task is to look at two special class methods, constructors and finalizers.

C# Constructors and Finalizers

Despite the grand sounding names, C# class constructors and finalizers are nothing more than methods which get called when an object is instantiated and destroyed. The constructor is particularly useful for allowing initialization values to be passed through to an object at creation time. Let’s say that we would like to be able to initialize the accountName and accountNumber members at the point that we initialize the custAccount object. To do so we need to declare a constructor.

Constructors are declared the same way as other methods with the exception that the name of the method must match the class name:

public class BankAccount
{

        public string accountName;
        public int accountFee;
        private int accountBalance;
        private int accountNumber;

        // Constructor
        public BankAccount(string acctName, int acctNumber)
        {
               accountName = acctName;
               accountNumber = acctNumber;
        }

        // ....

}

We can now use the constructor to initialize these members at object creation:

        BankAccount custAccount = new BankAccount("Fred Wilson", 123456);

Finalizers are used to clean up any resources used by a class object when the object is destroyed. Unlike constructors which can be triggered from code using the new keyword there is no way to explicitly call a finalizer (for example there is no delete equivalent to the new keyword). Instead, the finalizer will be called when the garbage collector decides that the object instance is no longer needed. All the programmer can be sure of is that the finalizer will be called at some time between the when the object is no longer needed by the code and the point that the application terminates.

Finalizers are defined in the same way as constructors with the exception that the name is preceded by a tilde (~):

        // Finalizer
        public ~BankAccount(string acctName, int acctNumber)
        {
              // Code to perform clean up
        }

What is Inheritance?

The concept of inheritance brings something of a real-world view to programming. It allows a class to be defined which has a number of characteristics and then other classes to be created which are derived from that class. The derived class inherits all of the features of the parent class and typically then adds some features of its own.

By deriving classes we create what is often referred to as a class hierarchy. The class at the top of the hierarchy is known as the base class and the derived classes as subclasses. Any number of classes may be derived from a class. It is only possible for a derived class to inherit from one class. As such, C# is known as a single inheritance programming language.

Classes need not only be derived from a base class. For example, a subclass can also inherit from another subclass.

An Example of Inheritance

As with most programming concepts the subject of inheritance in C# is perhaps best illustrated with an example. In the previous chapter we created a class called BankAccount:

public class BankAccount
{

        public string accountName;
        public int accountFee;
        private int accountBalance;
        private int accountNumber;

        public int getAccountNumber()
        {
               return accountNumber;
        }

        public void setAccountNumber(int newNumber)
        {
               accountNumber = newNumber;
        }

}

This class does a good job of defining characteristics common to any type of bank account, such as account holder name, account number and current balance. Imagine, however, that our banking program needs to support a number of specific types of account. For example, the bank might offer its customers an interest bearing savings account. A savings account will have all the characteristics of our BankAccount class but would also need a way to store the prevailing interest rate. One option would be to create a brand new class from the ground up called SavingsAccount which duplicates everything we have in our BankAccount class, plus extra members needed for a savings account. Another, more efficient method is to derive a SavingsAccount class from the BankAccount class and then add in the extra functionality into this subclass.

Creating a Subclass in C#

Now that we have ascertained that we need to create a sub class of our BankAccount class we can take a look at the code necessary to achieve this. Subclasses are declared in the same way as any other class with the exception that the class name is followed by a colon (:) followed by the name of the class from which it is to inherit. With this in mind we can begin by creating our SavingsAccount class:

public class BankAccount
{

        public string accountName;
        public int accountBalance;
        public int accountNumber;

        public BankAccount (string name, int number)
        {
               accountName = name;
               accountNumber = number;
        }

        public int getAccountNumber()
        {
               return accountNumber;
        }

        public void setAccountNumber(int newNumber)
        {
               accountNumber = newNumber;
        }

}

public class SavingsAccount : BankAccount
{
}

We have now created a sub class of BankAccount called SavingsAccount, but at this point the SavingsAccount class is no different than its parent class. Next we need to add some new members to add the behavior we need:

public class SavingsAccount : BankAccount
{
        public double interestRate;

        public SavingsAccount (string name, int number, int balance, double rate)
               : base (name, number)
        {
               accountBalance = balance;
               interestRate = rate;
        }

        public double monthlyInterest()
        {
               return interestRate * accountBalance;
        }
}

We now have a new class called SavingsAccount which inherits all the members of the BankAccount class and adds some members of its own. In particular we have added a new data member called interestRate which will store the interest rate paid on the account together with a new method to calculate the monthly interest.

Passing Arguments to the Base Class Constructor

Of particular significance is the constructor. In the BankAccount base class we have a constructor which takes the account name and account number as arguments. In the SavingsAccount subclass we need to accept two additional arguments – the balance and the interest rate. The : base code instructs C# to handle the name and number arguments using the constructor from the base class. The remaining two arguments are then passed to the SavingsAccount constructor.

With our subclass complete we can now make use of it:

       static void Main()
        {
          SavingsAccount saveAccount = new SavingsAccount("Fred Wilson", 123456, 432, 0.02F);

          Console.WriteLine ("Interest this Month = " + saveAccount.monthlyInterest() );
        }

What is a C# Abstract Class?

Abstract class is a class that has no direct instances, but whose descendants may have direct instances. There are case i which it is useful to define classes for which the programmer never intends to instantiate any objects; because such classes normally are used as base-classes in inheritance

hierarchies, we call such classes abstract classes These classes cannot be used to instantiate objects; because abstract classes are incomplete. Derived classes called concrete classes must define the missing pieces.

Abstract Members

A C# abstract class contains abstract members which define what a subclass should contain. These abstract members only declare that a member of a particular type is required, it does not implement the member. Implementation of abstract members takes place within the derived class. A subclass which derives from an abstract class and fails to implement abstract methods will fail to compile.

Declaring a C# Abstract Class

Abstract classes are declared using the abstract modifier in the class declaration:

public abstract class Talk
{
}

Abstract member functions and properties are also declared using the abstract keyword. For example to declare an abstract method in our Talk class the following code is required:

     public abstract void speak();

We now have an abstract class with an abstract method named speak(). Note that this declaration only states that any class derived from the Hello base class must implement a method called speak() which returns no value (i.e it is declared as void). It does not, however, implement the method.

Deriving from an Abstract Class

In order to subclass from an abstract class we simply write code as follows:

public class SayHello : Talk
{
}

We now have a class called SayHello which is derived from the abstract Talk class. The next step is to implement the abstract speak() method. When implementing abstract members in a derived class the override modifier must be used. For example:

public override void speak()
{
        Console.WriteLine("Hello!");
}

We now have a subclass derived from the Talk abstract class which implements the abstract speak() method.

We can now bring all of this together into a simple program:

using System;

class Hello
{

public abstract class Talk
{
        public abstract void speak();

}

public class SayHello : Talk
{
        public override void speak()
        {
               Console.WriteLine("Hello!");
        }
}

        static void Main()
        {
               SayHello hello = new SayHello();

               hello.speak();
        }
}

The Difference Between abstract and virtual Members

So far we have only looked at abstract class members. As discussed above an abstract member is not implemented in the base class and must be implemented in derived classes in order for the class to compile.

Another type of member is a virtual member. A member defined as virtual must be implemented in the base class, but may be optionally overriden in the derived class if different behavior is required. For example, the following example implements a virtual method in the Talk class:

using System;

class Hello
{

public abstract class Talk
{
        public abstract void speak();

        public virtual void goodbye()
        {
               Console.WriteLine("Talk class says goodbye!");

        }
}

public class SayHello : Talk
{
        public override void speak()
        {
               Console.WriteLine("Hello!");
        }
}

        static void Main()
        {
               SayHello hello = new SayHello();

               hello.speak();
               hello.goodbye();
        }
}

When executed, the goodbye() method in the Talk class will be executed resulting in the following output:

Hello!
Talk Class says goodbye!

If we decide that the default goodbye() method provided by the Talk class is not suitable for the requirements of the SayHello subclass we can simply implement our own version of the method using the override modifier:

using System;

class Hello
{

public abstract class Talk
{
        public abstract void speak();

        public virtual void goodbye()
        {
               Console.WriteLine("Talk class says goodbye!");

        }
}

public class SayHello : Talk
{
        public override void speak()
        {
               Console.WriteLine("Hello!");
        }

        public override void goodbye ()
        {
               Console.WriteLine ("SayHello Class says goodbye!");
        }
}

        static void Main()
        {
               SayHello hello = new SayHello();

               hello.speak();
               hello.goodbye();
        }
}

Now when we execute our program the SayHello implementation of the googbye() method will be called:

Hello!
SayHello Class says goodbye!

What’s an Interface?

An interface is a reference type object with no implementation.  You can think of it as an abstract class with all the implementation stripped out and everything that is not public removed.  Abstract classes are classes that can not be instantiated.  No properties or methods are actually coded in an interface, they are only defined.  So the interface doesn’t actually do anything but only has a signature for interaction with other classes or interfaces.  A good analogy for an interface is a pencil and a pencil sharpener.  When we talk of a pencil and a pencil sharpener we generally know what they do and how they interact. We don’t have to know the inner workings of a particular sharpener or pencil, only how to use them through their interface.

public interface IPencil

{

void Write();

bool IsSharp { get; }

}

public interface IPencilSharpener

{

void Sharpen(IPencil pencil);

}

Abstract class vs. Interface

An abstract class can have abstract members as well non abstract members. But in an interface all the members are implicitly abstract and all the members of the interface must override to its derived class.

An example of interface:

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interface iSampleInterface
{
  //All methods are automaticall abstract

  int AddNumbers(int Num1, int Num2);
  int MultiplyNumbers(int Num1, int Num2);
}

Defining an abstract class with abstract members has the same effect to defining an interface.

The members of the interface are public with no implementation. Abstract classes can have protected parts, static methods, etc.

A class can inherit one or more interfaces, but only one abstract class.

Abstract classes can add more functionality without destroying the child classes that were using the old version. In an interface, creation of additional functions will have an effect on its child classes, due to the necessary implementation of interface methods to classes.

The selection of interface or abstract class depends on the need and design of your project. You can make an abstract class, interface or combination of both depending on your needs.

Here’s what I know. Mom and Dad were living on Neat Lane in Albuquerque’s south valley. There were four kids at home, three girls and a boy. Larry had been the youngest, he was four, and Mom and Dad were hoping for a boy to play with him. That’s one of the details of my birth that I grew up knowing.

I also grew up knowing that I was named after my mom’s mom and that Dad hadn’t wanted to name me that but they’d run out of names. They’d named the oldest daughter Patricia, after mom’s brother Pat. The next one Roberta, after Mom’s other brother, Robert. Janet must have gotten a name that came with no obligations; just a name that Mom and Dad liked. Larry, or Lawrence—his must have been a name they liked, too. I can’t think of any Larrys in the family. And then when I was girl, they gave me Roma. And Mom always says that grandma was “tickled.”

Mom had me in a hospital. The old Saint Jo’s. Whenever we drove on the freeway out to Los Lunas, Mom would point off toward the new St. Joseph’s and say, “See the older building? That’s where you were born.” All these years I thought it was this really old building that is about two or three stories, made of thick granite stone that has turned a sooty gray. I had taken to pointing it out whenever we were near there and telling my girls that that was where I was born. But just the other day, when I took my mom to the new St. Jo’s to get eye surgery, she pointed to a different old building and said that one was the old hospital. “Well, what’s that building over there,” I asked. “Oh, that’s the old sanitarium.”

So all this time, the place where I thought I had been born was actually the old mental institution. It was a letdown to know that the old St. Jo’s was not nearly as old looking. It just looked like a lesser, worn-down hospital.

I do know that back in the days when Mom had her kids, they let mothers stay for three or so days afterward in order to recuperate. I imagine that must have been the calm before the storm. Back home, waiting, there were a 4-year-old, a 6-year-old, a 10-year-old, and a 12-year-old. Wow. Just tonight I went shopping with the girls for two hours and afterward, on the drive home, the girls were chatty and excited, and I had to say, “Hey you two, I’m a little overwhelmed so can we drive the rest of the way in silence?”

They were good about it, and so was I. Mom would have just screamed, “I can’t stand it anymore!” Poor Mom. Five kids is an awful lot to have.

That’s about all I know of my birth story. Everything fast forwards from there on out to when I got sick with the croup and the emergency tracheotomy. It’s funny, though. I can picture them coming back home with me. I think in those days moms held their infants in their laps in the car. I’m pretty sure Dad had a big car. I’ve seen a big car in the old photos. And I picture Dad and Mom walking into the small house they had, and all the kids being excited. I wonder if Larry was disappointed. I bet he was.

I think I slept in a crib in Mom and Dad’s bedroom for my first year, maybe two. I remember sharing a room with Janet, and did Larry share a room with us, too? I know the house only had a couple of bedrooms. Dad converted the garage into a den. There are a lot of gaps in my memory about the house on Neat Lane.

I don’t have a baby book, but we had lots of old pictures. I was in plenty of them, often being held up on Dad’s knee for the camera. And we have lots of old movies. Jim took them and had some made into a video for my parents’ 50th. Or was it for their 60th?




-Related to topic post WRITING TOPIC – 3 QUESTIONS. [NOTE: This is the third of three questions mentioned by actor and writer Anna Deavere Smith in an interview with Bill Moyers (see link). She talked about the questions in the context of interviewing people and listening to them. The three questions came from a linguist Smith met at a cocktail party in 1979; the questions were, according to the linguist, guaranteed to break the patterns and change the way people are expressing themselves. QuoinMonkey, ybonesy, and frequent guest writer Bob Chrisman take on the three questions by doing a Writing Practice on each.]

-Also related to posts: PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by ybonesy), PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman), PRACTICE — Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by QuoinMonkey), PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman); PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by ybonesy), and PRACTICE — Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by QuoinMonkey); PRACTICE: Do You Know The Circumstances Of Your Birth? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman)

When you pull out your keyboard to interview someone within or outside your group, the questions you ask will determine the impact of the article you write, whether it’s for a customer magazine, an internal newsletter, an awards submission or a marketing case study. Deciding which questions to ask can make the difference between a drab column and an insightful feature.

Of course, the specific questions likely will be different for every interview, but it’s useful to have a basic framework on which to build the set of questions that will elicit the story you want to write. The following framework can serve as a starting point in developing your interview questions and can help you guide the interview subject through the crucial subject areas:

1. What were the challenges/issues that led you to take/seek action (the “pain points” or opportunities)?

2. Why did you choose this approach?

3. What were the barriers you faced?

4. Describe the process you used or developed.

5. Who influenced this the most, and how?

6. What are the most significant impacts of this action/product/service/decision on people, customers and/or the organization?

7. How will this change things?

8. What will not change?

9. What specific results do you expect to see/have you seen, and when?

10. What are your plans for the future in this arena?

11. What tips can you offer to others?

12. Who else should I interview on this?

These 12 questions may lead to a dozen more as you prepare to explore a particular topic area, but this foundation may enable you to build a logical structure for your interview to help ensure that you capture the information you need.

One way employers can dismantle Marxism is to employ a litmus test.  Employers test potential employees every day.  Just add a few anti-communist tests to the job interview.  For instance.

If man-made Climate Change exists, which of the following nations will contribute the most to global warming over the next 10 years?

1.  China

2.  India

3.  United States

Don’t hire anyone who picks number three.  There are several reason for this.  Firstly, anyone who picks number three above is too stupid to work for you.  Second such stupidity is not innate.  No one was born that stupid.  That kind of stupidity has to be taught and believed to be regurgitated.  Moreover, you have to be an evil, American hating commie bastard to believe it.  You know like our current government.

On the off off off chance that there are some in the audience who though thoroughly brain washed nevertheless possessed the intelligence and will to honestly ask why shouldn’t you  believe that the US would have the greatest impact on Climate Change, if Global warming  were not a commie redistribution hoax, I offer the following:

How many people are in the US?   About 300 million.  Taking China and India combined, there are over 2 billion people.  We have more stringent environmental controls and we have already gone through the dirtiest parts of the industrial revolution.  China and India have weaker environmental controls and they have millions of people who have yet to go through the dirtiest parts of the industrial revolution.  If you are not an evil, stupid, America hating commie bastard, it is obvious that if the scam of Climate change were real,  then China and India must out pollute us by a wide, wide margin.  Dirt poor slum dogs in India are not sitting around hoping the industrial revolution will pass them by.

By the way, let us suppose you question the notion that we have already been through the dirtiest parts of the industrial revolution.  I turn your attention to London in the 1800s.   Study soot, coal dust, an black lung.  You will find that major industrial cities in Europe and the US used to be black with coal dust and smoke from factories in the 1800s.

By the way, if you go to an industrial Chinese cities these days what do you find?  If you need a hint, look at news stories around the time of the Olympics in China.  Notice they had to shut down factories to make the air clean enough to run the Olympics.

Unless you are an evil, American hating, commie bastard, like our current government, it is clear that the United States is not the problem.

The Capitalist Manifesto:  Dismantling Marxism

No Wealth

How to Bankrupt a Nation

President Karl Marx…A Love Story

***

Creating Wealth

Wishing Well

Constellation of Idiots

Whose fault is it?

Post Consumerism

How to Plunder a Nation

Selling Zero

The Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington

Dictionary of Dreams

It is better to be Drunk than Wasted

By Bob Chrisman


It was a dark and stormy night on May 3, 1952. I’ve always wanted to write that cliché opener. Flood waters had swept across the area around St. Joseph, but the Missouri Methodist Hospital was high on a hill. My mother delivered a healthy baby boy. The nurses told her that I looked just like my father because I had thick black hair and sideburns like my father.

I thought I was the second child. My sister was almost ten years older than I was and no one talked about another pregnancy. Had my parents not decided to go to the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, the year I turned 15, I would have lived and died not knowing about the other pregnancy.

Someone told my mother that we needed certified copies of our birth certificates to come back into the United States so she ordered a copy for each of us. They arrived one morning in the mail and she took the official looking, Manila envelope into her bedroom to open. I sat on the floor in anticipation of seeing my birth certificate.

She handed it to me and I read every entry. “Mom, my birth certificate is wrong. It says you have had two other children by live birth.” I showed her the line of the certified copy.

“No, it’s correct.” She walked to the chest of drawer and put the other birth certificates in the box where she kept all the important papers.

“Was the baby a boy or a girl?” I asked because the idea of a missing sibling intrigued me.

“I don’t remember. It was a miscarriage. Something was wrong with the baby.” She kept moving away from me and I was too enthralled with this new knowledge to let it go.

“But, how could you not remember?’

“It’s been a long time ago. I don’t remember anymore.” She walked out of the bedroom.

I let the topic drop because she wouldn’t give me any information. I didn’t take up the question again until years later when my mother, then in her 80s, wrote a short autobiography at my request. She mentioned the loss of a baby somewhere around 1946. My sister would have been going on four years old.

My sister doesn’t remember anything, but she would have been three going on four. My favorite aunt and uncle said they didn’t know anything about a pregnancy which seems hard to believe if the child was a live birth.

As I reflect on that lost baby, I wonder how that colored her reaction to being pregnant with me and to my birth. Maybe that accounts for the way she protected me against everything and everyone. I’ll never know the answers to my questions, which are a circumstance of my birth.




-Related to topic post WRITING TOPIC – 3 QUESTIONS. [NOTE: This is the third of three questions mentioned by actor and writer Anna Deavere Smith in an interview with Bill Moyers (see link). She talked about the questions in the context of interviewing people and listening to them. The three questions came from a linguist Smith met at a cocktail party in 1979; the questions were, according to the linguist, guaranteed to break the patterns and change the way people are expressing themselves. QuoinMonkey, ybonesy, and frequent guest writer Bob Chrisman take on the three questions by doing a Writing Practice on each.]

-Also related to posts: PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by ybonesy), PRACTICE: Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman), PRACTICE — Have You Ever Come Close To Death? — 15min (QuoinMonkey),  PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by Bob Chrisman); PRACTICE: Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by ybonesy), and PRACTICE — Have You Ever Been Accused Of Doing Something You Didn’t Do? — 15min (by QuoinMonkey)

Punjab Technical University (PTU)  was established by in the year 1997, to promote Technical, Management & Pharmaceutical education. www.ptu.ac.in

The university under its administration, has 150 Engineering colleges, 41 B.Sc MLT colleges 156 Management colleges, 96 Pharmacy colleges,68 architecture colleges  and 42 Hotel Management & Catering Technology Colleges and 302 Learning centers under distance education.

The university which is located in the city of Jalandhar in India offers a number of AICTE and Non-AICTE courses .

The University has more than  60,000 students studying.

PTU has announced the result, you can check at http://www.ptudep.org/results.asp

I am sharing some php interview question to you ………..

• What are the differences between Get and post methods in form submitting, give the case where we can use get and we can use post methods?
• Who is the father of PHP and explain the changes in PHP versions?
• How can we submit a form without a submit button?
• In how many ways we can retrieve the date in the result set of mysql using PHP?
• What is the difference between mysql_fetch_object and mysql_fetch_array?
• What is the difference between $message and $$message?
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• How can we create a database using PHP and mysql?
• What are the differences between require and include, include_once?
• Can we use include (”techinterviews.php”) two times in a PHP page “makeit.PHP”?
• What are the different tables present in mysql, which type of table is generated when we are creating a table in the following syntax: create table employee(eno int(2),ename varchar(10)) ?
• Functions in IMAP, POP3 AND LDAP?
• How can I execute a PHP script using command line?
• Suppose your Zend engine supports the mode Then how can u configure your PHP Zend engine to support mode ?
• Shopping cart online validation i.e. how can we configure Paypal, etc.?
• What is meant by nl2br()?
• Draw the architecture of Zend engine?
• What are the current versions of apache, PHP, and mysql?
• What are the reasons for selecting lamp (linux, apache, mysql, PHP) instead of combination of other software programmes, servers and operating systems?
• How can we encrypt and decrypt a data present in a mysql table using mysql?
• How can we encrypt the username and password using PHP?
• What are the features and advantages of object-oriented programming?
• What are the differences between procedure-oriented languages and object-oriented languages?
• What is the use of friend function?
• What are the differences between public, private, protected, static, transient, final and volatile?
• What are the different types of errors in PHP?
• What is the functionality of the function strstr and stristr?
• What are the differences between PHP 3 and PHP 4 and PHP 5?
• How can we convert asp pages to PHP pages?
• What is the functionality of the function htmlentities?
• How can we get second of the current time using date function?
• How can we convert the time zones using PHP?
• What is meant by urlencode and urldocode?
• What is the difference between the functions unlink and unset?
• How can we register the variables into a session?
• How can we get the properties (size, type, width, height) of an image using PHP image functions?
• How can we get the browser properties using PHP?
• What is the maximum size of a file that can be uploaded using PHP and how can we change this?
• How can we increase the execution time of a PHP script?
• How can we take a backup of a mysql table and how can we restore it. ?
• How can we optimize or increase the speed of a mysql select query?
• How many ways can we get the value of current session id?
• How can we destroy the session, how can we unset the variable of a session?
• How can we destroy the cookie?
• How many ways we can pass the variable through the navigation between the pages?
• What is the difference between ereg_replace() and eregi_replace()?
• What are the different functions in sorting an array?
• How can we know the count/number of elements of an array?
• What is the PHP predefined variable that tells the What types of images that PHP supports?
• How can I know that a variable is a number or not using a JavaScript?
• List out some tools through which we can draw E-R diagrams for mysql.
• How can I retrieve values from one database server and store them in other database server using PHP?
• List out the predefined classes in PHP?
• How can I make a script that can be bilanguage (supports English, German)?
• What are the difference between abstract class and interface?
• How can we send mail using JavaScript?

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Question

What is Oracle Financials?
Answer

Oracle Financials products provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long- and short-term accounting system issues. Regardless of the size of the business, Oracle Financials can meet accounting management demands with:

Oracle Assets: Ensures that an organization’s property and equipment investment is accurate and that the correct asset tax accounting strategies are chosen.

Oracle General Ledger: Offers a complete solution to journal entry, budgeting, allocations, consolidation, and financial reporting needs.
Oracle Inventory: Helps an organization make better inventory decisions by minimizing stock and maximizing cash flow.
Oracle Order Entry: Provides organizations with a sophisticated order entry system for managing customer commitments.
Oracle Payables: Lets an organization process more invoices with fewer staff members and tighter controls. Helps save money through maximum discounts, bank float, and prevention of duplicate payments.
Oracle Cash Management: Lets you perform bank reconciliation and cash forecasting.

Oracle Personnel: Improves the management of employee- related issues by retaining and making available every form of personnel data.
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Oracle Receivables:. Improves cash flow by letting an organization process more payments faster, without off-line research. Helps correctly account for cash, reduce outstanding receivables, and improve collection effectiveness.
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ORACLE PURCHASING – PURCHASE ORDERS FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
CONTENTS
——–
1. In the Price type quickpick in the Purchase Order Lines zone in enter
Purchase Order form, there is a value called COST PLUS FEE. What is the
COST PLUS FEE price type? How is Purchase Order treating this
price type?
2. What is 2-way, 3-way, 4-way matching? How is this set up?
3. How do you reflect discount from a supplier on a Purchase orders?
4. How do you change the created date on a Purchase Order?
5. What is the sorting order for requisition lines in autocreation of a
Purchase Order?
6. What does the error ‘APP-50022: Oracle Human Resources could not retrieve a
value for User Type profile option’ mean?
7. In the Enter Receipts (RCVRCERC) form and using different responsibilities
produces different values in the action required field. The Purchasing
Responsibility shows Direct and Standard while the Inventory Responsibility
shows just Direct.
Why are the action options for creating receipts different in Inventory
compared Purchasing?
8. How do you purge Cancelled Requisitions?
9. On the requisition form in the source details zone, there is a field
labeled supplier item. Where does this information on the quickpick come
from and how can this information default in?
10. You are entering a requisition and are unable to find the header or line
note fields. Was this replaced in GUI by attachments?
11. When you select the Notifications form to review approvals and click on
approve button for a Requisition waiting for approval, the ‘Reject’ box is
greyed out. How does the approver reject a requisition?
12. What are standard Quotations used for?
13. When do you see the status of a Purchase order as Archived?
14. Where are standard notes in GUI?
15. In Oracle Purchasing, where is the automatic numbering for Purchase Order
defined and maintained?
16. There is a field for the organization code. What is this code?
17. Can the original Purchase Order can be viewed in any way without resorting
to SQL, for a revised Purchase Order?

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
——————-
1. In the Price type quickpick in the Purchase Order Lines zone in enter
Purchase Order form, there is a value called COST PLUS FEE. What is the
COST PLUS FEE price type? How is Purchase Order treating this
price type?
Answer
——
The functionality for COST PLUS FEE price type is not in Oracle Purchasing at
this point of time. PO does not do anything with this price type.
It is an enhancement request that is being looked at for future releases.
2. What is 2-way, 3-way, 4-way matching? How is this set-up?
Answer
——
2-way matching verifies that Purchase order and invoice information match within your tolerances as follows:
Quantity billed <= Quantity Ordered Invoice price <= Purchase order price (<= sign is used because of tolerances) 3-way matching verifies that the receipt and invoice information match with the quantity tolerances defined: Quantity billed <= Quantity received 4-way matching verifies that acceptance documents and invoice information match within the quantity tolerances defined: Quantity billed <= Quantity accepted. (Acceptance is done at the time of Inspecting goods). Whether a PO shipment has 2-way, 3-way or 4-way matching can be setup in the Shipment Details zone of the Enter PO form (character) Receipt required Inspection required Matching Yes Yes 4-way Yes No 3-way No No 2-way In GUI, Shipments block, alternative region, click on More…this brings up a region with ‘Invoice matching’ column where you can choose 2-way, 3-way or 4- way match. You can find more detailed information about matching in the Oracle Payables Reference Manual (Volume 3) Topical Essay on Integrating your Payables and Purchasing Information. 3. How do you reflect discount from a supplier on a Purchase orders? Answer —— The legal document is the Purchase order not the quote and therefore the purchase order should reflect agreed upon price. Secondly if the discount comes after the PO then AP should handle it when invoicing. If you are using a blanket Purchase order then you can use price breaks. 4. How do you change the created date on a Purchase Order? Answer —— The ‘Created’ date on the Purchase order is not an updateable field, due to it being a legal document once approved. 5. What is the sorting order for requisition lines in autocreation of a Purchase Order? Answer —— Requisition lines first meet search criteria determined by “find” screen, and then are grouped together by item and item category, then by need-by date. After you choose an action, enter any search criteria to narrow the selection of requisition lines. Oracle Purchasing chooses requisition lines from the requisition pool that meet your search criteria. All requisition lines for the same item and item category are grouped together, but they are not necessarily in order alphabetically. Within each grouping of item and item category, requisition lines are ordered by need-by date. 6. What does the error ‘APP-50022: Oracle Human Resources could not retrieve a value for User Type profile option’ mean? Answer —— The profile HR: User Type needs to be set. Set the profile option ‘HR: User Type’ at the Responsibility level. 7. In the Enter Receipts (RCVRCERC) form and using different responsibilities produces different values in the action required field. The Purchasing Responsibility shows Direct and Standard while the Inventory Responsibility shows just Direct. Why are the action options for creating receipts different in Inventory compared Purchasing? Answer —— Set the Profile option RCV: Allow routing override to ‘YES’ at the application level. 8. How do you purge Cancelled Requisitions? Answer —— To purge any Purchase orders or Requisitions: – assign the Payables Purge GUI responsibility to the user – have the user choose that responsibility – then choose Purge from the menu – under the Category field do a List of Values and pick Simple Requisitions for cancelled requisitions The choices are listed. 9. On the requisition form in the source details zone, there is a field labeled supplier item. Where does this information on the quickpick come from and how can this information default in? Answer —— The supplier item field on the requisition can be populated by using either the supplier item catalog or ASL. Take an item from the supplier item catalog that has an associated supplier item, add it to the order pad and then add it to the requisition. After doing this go to the source details zone. The supplier item is defaulted in for that item you choose from the catalog. Navigation: –> Purchasing –> Supplier Item catalog
10. You are entering a requisition and are unable to find the header or line
note fields. Was this replaced in GUI by attachments?
Answer
——
The attachments have replaced notes. The attachments are better because at the
header level, the requisition notes were not coming over to the Purchase Order
whereas the attachment does come over to the Purchase Order.
11. When you select the Notifications form to review approvals and click on
approve button for a Requisition waiting for approval, the ‘Reject’ box is
greyed out. How does the approver reject a requisition?
Answer
——
You cannot reject Requisitions submitted to yourself. You can only reject those
from others.
12. What are standard Quotations used for?
Answer
——
Standard quote is one that you can tie back to a PO. For example, navigate to
RFQ -> Auto create -> enter a PO and reference it back.
13. When do you see the status of a Purchase order as Archived?
Answer
——
You must approve or print a specific purchase order before you can see it in
the history information.
14. Where are standard notes in GUI?
Answer
——
Go to Setup –> Attachments –>Create attachment. Go to Purchase Order and
attach the attachment to the Purchase Order. In GUI, notes are replaced by
attachments.
15. In Oracle Purchasing, where is the automatic numbering for Purchase Order
defined and maintained?
Answer
——
The navigation path for GUI is:
Setup –> Organizations –> Purchasing Options, Numbering alternate region
The navigation path for Character is:
\ Navigate Setup Purchasing Options Purchasing, Numbering options
16. There is a field for the organization code. What is this code?
Answer
——
This code is a short abbreviation for the organization.
17. Can the original Purchase Order can be viewed in any way without resorting
to SQL, for a revised Purchase Order?
Answer
——
The original version of a revised PO cannot be viewed from the PO form or PO
summary form. Information on the original PO can be obtained from the
PO_HEADERS_ARCHIVE and PO_LINES_ARCHIVE tables using the PO_HEADER_ID column as
a common reference using SQL only.

Questions:

1. What is an Organization & Location?
2. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle Inventory Module?
3. What are the Attributes of Item Category & System Items?
4. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle Purchasing & Oracle Payables?
5. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle HumanResources & Oracle Payroll?
6. How would you create an Employee (Module Name) Describe?
7. What is a Position Hierarchy? Is there any restriction to create that?
8. To whom we call as a Buyer? What are the Responsibilities?
9. How do you Setup an Employee as a User – Navigation?
10. How many Approval Groups we have? Describe?
11. Describe the Types of Requisition?
12. How many Status’s and Types For RFQ’s & Quotations Describe?
13. How many Types of Purchase Orders We Have?
14. What is a Receipt?
15. What is Catlog Rfq?
16. Give me online about Planned Po?
17. How can the manger view the Approval Documents Information?
18. Whether the manager can forward to Any other person? How?
19. Can u resend the document your subordinate how?
20. What is Po Summary?

Answers:

1. It is a Ware House Which you can Store the Items, And You can setup your business Organization Information Like Key Flexfilelds,Currency,Hr Information and starting time and end time. Location’s are like godown place, office place, production point.

2. System items,Item Categories,Account Alias,Sales Order,Item Catalog,Stock Locators

3. The classification of items are Category Like Hard ware and Software, where as the Systems are individual items like Cpu,Key Board.

4. No Flexfields, But the help of Inventory And Human Resources we can use

5. Job Flexfield,Position Flexfield,Grade Flexfiled,Costing,People Group Flexfield,Personal Analysis Flexfield.

6. If Human Resource is Installed Hr/Payroll, If Not I can create Employee using with Gl,Ap,Purchasing,Fixed Assets

7. It is a Grouping of Persons for Approving and Forwarding the Documents from one person to another person, there is no restriction.

8. The Employee is nothing a Buyer, who is responsible for Purchase of Goods or services.

9. Security—-User—-Define, System Administration Module

10. Document Total,Accounts,Items,Item Categories,Location

11. Purchase Requistion,Internal Requistion

12. In Process,Print,Active,Closed for Rfq’s In Process,Active,Closed for Quotation

13. Standard,Purchase Agreement,Blanket Po,Planned Po

14. To Register the Purchase orders/Po lines for shipment purpose

15. It contains Price breaks with different quantity levels

16. For a Agreement for long period for goods

17. Notifications Window

18. Yes, In the Notifications Window under the Forward to Push Button

19. Yes, In the Notifications Window under the Forward to Push Button

20. The Purchase Order Summay Information like total lines, and status.

Find below the Interview questions related to oracle apps technical interview. The Questions are primarily on Sysadmin and AOL (Application Object Library) Responsibilities. The questions are in MCQ style. The answers are written at the end of each question.
1. Which of the following is not associated with a responsibility?
A. Menu
B. Request group
C. Data group
D. Password expiration
Ans:D

2. What do you need to do to allow a different user to see your output file?
A. The user must log on as a system administrator.
B. The user must have the View My Requests form in system administrator mode.
C. The user must be logged on with the same responsibility as the user that generated the output file, and the profile option Concurrent: Report Access Level value must be set to Responsibility.
D. The user must be logged on as the same responsibility as the one that generated the output file and profile option Concurrent: Report Access Level value is User.
Ans:C

3. When will a request group become a request security group?
A. When the request group is assigned to a responsibility
B. When the request group is specified for the Submit Request form
C. When the request group is defined with request sets
D. When the request group is defined with stage functions
Ans:A

4. How can you customize the SRS process?
A. Change the form title
B. Restrict it by request group
C Eliminate the Submit Another Request dialog window
D. All of the above
Ans:D

5. Which is not a component of a request set?
A. Stage
B. Group
C. Request
D. Parameter Ans:B

6. Which of the following operations cannot be performed with the internal concurrent manager?
A. Restart
B. Verify
C. Deactivate
D. Terminate
Ans:A

7. Which one of the following will be the correct outcome with two include rules in a combined rule?
A. Program will be included if the program is in one of the include rules
B. Program will be included if the program is in both of the include rules
C. Program will be included if the program is run by one of the two Oracle IDs in the include rules
D. None of the above
Ans:B

8. When will the number of actual processes be less than the number of target processes?
A. When the concurrent manager is down
B. When the concurrent manager is coming up
C. When there are not enough requests
D. All of the above
Ans:D

9. Which of the following is not a component of parallel concurrent processing?
A. Internal monitor
B. Transaction manager
C. Primary node
D. Secondary node
Ans:B

10. Which of the following is the overriding level for profile option values?
A. Site
B. Application
C. Responsibility
D. User
Ans:D

11. Which of the following is the correct sequence for setting up database change audits? A. Audit installations, audit tables, audit groups, audit trail update tables request
B. Audit installation, audit groups, audit tables, audit trail update tables request
C. Audit trail update tables request, audit installation, audit groups, audit tables
D. Audit groups, audit tables, audit trail update tables request, Audit Installation
Ans:B

12. Which of the following is not a document sequence type?
A. Category
B. Automatic
C. Gapless
D. Manual
Ans:A

13. Which of the following determines the subdirectory for an executable?
A. Application name
B. Execution method
C. Subroutine
D. Execution filename
Ans:B

14. For what is the Token field used?
A. Default value
B. Profile option value
C. Oracle Reports parameter
D. Value set
Ans:C

15. How are output files associated with various printer components?
A. Through the printer type of the selected printer and the selected print style
B. Through the selected print style and the selected printer driver
C. Through the selected printer type and the selected print style
D. Through the printer type of the selected printer and the selected
Ans:A

Below is the list of question asked in Oracle Apps Technical Interviews.

1. Explain Directory Structure of APPS?
2. How to activate, deactivate and run Concurrent Managers?
3. What is the location for concurrent request or manager logfiles and output files?
4. Specify the standard naming conventions for the logfile and output file?
5. How to write LOG information from PL/SQL block to log file?
6. What is Request Group?
7. What is Request Set?
8. What is difference between the Request Group and Request Set?
9. What are the steps to develop a simple Oracle Apps form?
10. What are the important Libraries in Template.fmb?
11. Which Concurrent Manager will run when you run the report in Oracle Application ?
12. How to create a Multi-org report in Apps?
13. State the mandatory parameters while developing Multi-org report in Apps?
14. What is the Schema for AOL?
15. What is the significance of :$FLEX$ ?
16. State some of the FND tables?
17. How to create Query-only form in Oracle Apps with out touching the fmb file?
18. What is the profile option pertaining to Operating Unit?
19. What is the difference between Applsys and Apps?
20. How to Register Shell Script Program in Oracle Applications? How to use parameters while registering shell script as a concurrent program?
21. How to Register PL/SQL Stored Procedure in Oracle Apps? What are the Mandatory thing we need to do for creating PL/SQL Procedure before Registering into Apps?
22. What is Zoom? How to enable zoom feature using Custom.pll?

Oracle Receivables is not an easy module to set-up. To crack the interview is bit more tedious.Below are some of the Functional questions pertaining to Oracle AR module. Just go through them and brush up your skills.

1. How many Address’s can have one Customer?
Primary Address, Bill – To – Address, Ship – To – Address

2. Customer Number Always Automatic / Manual?
Any thing Either Manual or Automatic

3. What are the Mandatory Address’s you should create a Customer for Communicate him?
Remit – To – Address

4. Can U Merge the Customers? If How?
Using the Merging Customer Window

5. What is Accounting Rules?
It is For Generating Revenue Recognition Programs like Monthly, Quarterly

6. What is Invoicing Rules?
The Invoicing Rules Helps you when you receive data from Outside systems like Auto Invoices how the data should insert and It contains 2 rules Advance Invoice, Arrears Invoice.

7. Where should the customers send the payments of Invoices?
Remittance Banks or Vendor Places

8. What is the Transaction Type?
It describes us Whether you want transfer the Receivables data into General Ledger or not. And also when ever you create an invoice what are the accounts should be effected and also the sign of Transaction also.

9. What is a Transaction Source?
It is For Invoice or Invoice Batch numbers whether automatically or manually

10. How many Transactions we have?
Six, Credit Transactions: Invoice: Debit Memo: Charge back: Guarantee: Deposit

11. How can i reduce the Invoice amount?
Using with Credit Transactions

12. What are the Accounts to be use in Transaction Types (Few)?
Revenue, Receivables, Freight, Tax, Clearing, Unearned, Unbilled

13. How can i Assign a Deposit amount to an Invoice?
In the Invoice Window “Commitment” Region

14. What is the Guarantee?
It is agreement between both sides for goods or services in the future , specific range of periods

15. Give the Navigation for Credit Transactions?
Transactions/Credit Transactions

16. How many ways you can apply the Receipt Amount?
Application: Mass Apply

17. How will you know a Customer Balance Amount?
Using with the Customer Account Overview window

18. Can U Define Customer Agreements using with AR?
No, In the Oracle Order Entry Module

19. What are Aging Buckets?
It is for Outstanding Reports purpose the no of days in various ranges

20. How will U View the Outstanding Balance of a Customer?
Generating the Aging Buckets Report

Here is a list of questions that you as an ID might encounter during interviews.

1. What is ADDIE?
2. Have you ever had to deviate from the ADDIE model for any course? If yes, explain.
3. What is the difference between an ILT and WBT?
4. What is the process you use to create instruction?
5. How do you create observable performance objectives using Robert Mager’s theory?
6. Can u tell us something about education theories – Gagne, Bloom’s…?
7. How do u work with a difficult SME?
8. How do you create a WBT for a client who simply gives you their classroom training PPTs to be converted into a WBT?
9. How would you incorporate Kirkpatrick’s second level of evaluation to create performance-based training?
10. What is your proficiency level of the listed eLearning tools? Flash, Captivate, Camtasia, Breeze, Blackboard.
11. How you ensure you work effectively with subject matter experts?
12. Describe how you get information from “difficult” Subject Matter Experts?
13. Describe your design process.
14. How do you ensure your Learning Objectives are met?
15. How do you measure the success of your course?
16. Which of Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels do you have the most experience with?
17. If you design a course for a sales class, and the instructor comes to you saying the attendees just are not understanding the material, what would you say or do?
18. how to repeat an action in Word? (F4)
19. how to add your name as author of a document in Word
20. Could you introduce your favorite instructional design models, theories, and/or tactics and how to moderate/integrate them in real situation?
21. Could you give some comments to be kept in mind when we design a web-based instruction with comparison to the traditional ISD?
22. Do you interact with prospective learner or instructor in the process of ISD? If you do, could you introduce the way to interact with them and its advantage and disadvantage?
23. Could you give some recommendation/tip for effective and harmonious teamwork with SME, and other team members from your experience?
24. Could you give some advices for the novice designers who want to be a professional Instructional Designer?
25. What is your educational background?
26. What is your prior experience (experience related and Dot related to multimedia development)?
27. How long have you been in this field?
28. How do you classify yourself?
29. Do you have experience in any other role other than that of ID?
30. What is your philosophy of instructional design or multimedia development?
31. How did your educational background and prior experience prepare you for the job?
32. What kind of change have you seen in the field of courseware development over the last three years and how have your job, role, and duties changed as a result?
33. How do you expect the duties of an instructional designer likely to evolve in the near future?
34. How have your educational background and prior experience prepared you to cope and keep up with this change?
35. What are your roles and main duties as instructional designer
36. What other roles do instructional designers from your company customarily perform?
37. What is your relationship with other staff members?
38. What is your relationship with the clients?
39. How long has your company been in business?
40. What are the characteristics of your main competitors?
41. Describe the working environment of your company?-its philosophy, work ethics. how people treat each other, etc.
42. What is the ID models/processes you use to develop an instructional program?
43. Do you use the same model/process or different ones for the programs to be developed? Any trend in using ID models you’ve noticed in recent years?
44. What parts of the design and production process are you directly involved in and what are your responsibilities?
45. How has your involvement in the production process changed in the last three years? Are you involved in parts of the process you weren’t before? Likewise, are you not involved in parts you were before?
46. How has the design and production process changed in the last three years?
47. What additional changes do you anticipate in the near future? How will these changes affect your role?
48. Do you have input in the vision of the project?
49. At what point in the production process do you first become involved?
50. What other roles do you work closest with and why?
51. At what point do you stop working on a title?
52. Are you involved in creating the storyboard/flowchart? When do you begin to create it?
53. What aspects of your storyboard are often subject to editing? Client
54. Do you have direct contact with the client, or does someone else in the company handle those interactions? How do they do that?
55. What has changed with respect to your relationships with clients in the last three years? Teamwork
56. How often do you meet and what is the purpose of the meeting?
57. How do team members communicate with each other?
58. How important is teamwork to the product development?
59. How to build a successful team?
60. How many instructional designers are involved in developing a prototype?
61. Are the prototypes a segment of the title or a totally separate project?
62. Do you often create more than one prototype?
63. Does the prototype limit you in the production of the entire title?
64. If you also author a prototype:
65. What is your preference of authoring tools? Why?
66. How is a tool chosen for a specific project?
67. What is the key equipment necessary for authoring?
68. What do you think are the keys to a good instructional design?
69. How do you make a design inviting and fun?
70. Are you often requested to use gender-specific or ethnic-specific designs, and if so, under what circumstances?
71. How do you decide to use text, visuals, or interactions in your design?
72. How do you build interactivity into your designs?
73. What types of transitions do you employ in your designs?
74. What type of feedback do you use in your design? Why?
75. Do you often have to use color-codes/color schemes/designs that the client wishes to use?
76. Do you try to address different learning styles/ability levels in your design?
77. Do you prefer learner-controlled designs?
78. How many levels (from the main menu) do you suggest in a design?
79. How do the subject matter experts contribute to the multimedia application?
80. You involved in any type(s) of the evaluation of the products? In what way?
81. Does your company evaluate your performance or that of other instructional designers’?
82. How should the performance of instructional designers be evaluated? Personal
83. Can you think of any examples of lessons learned from experiences in the field?
84. What are some major obstacles you face in doing your job?
85. What aspects of your job do you like most?
86. What advice would you give someone who wants to become an instructional designer?
87. What type of qualities would you personally look for in an instructional designer?
88. What quality makes up a good instructional designer?
89. Describe your typical day?
90. Do you meet with the client? If so, how often? Why is it important?
91. Which roles are involved in the design phase, how many?
92. Have you had any clients return for repeat business with you? Why do you think so?
93. What authoring tools are most commonly used in multimedia development?
94. If you use different authoring tools to develop a prototype and the final product:
95. What is your preference of authoring tools for developing the final product? Why?
96. How is a tool chosen for a specific project?
97. What is the key equipment necessary for authoring the final product?
98. Do designs ever need to be altered after they have been approved because they are unfeasible from a production point of view?
99. How do you communicate the scope of a change you are requested to make?
100. What is the relationship between authoring and programming?
101. Should authors know some programming?
102. Do you develop and use templates?
103. Do you work from a style guide, and if so, how is it created and who creates them?
104. What is the process for collecting all the pieces you use m the title?
105. How do you gather information about the learners you expect to be in the class?
106. How detailed are the learner outcomes for the class? Does the college have to review and sign-off on them?
107. Do you have to come up with all learner activities? Do you design them from scratch or find existing materials, like a book or tutorial?
108. Do you have to test the learner’s at the end of the course? Even if the college does not require it, do you go through some kind of assessment so the learners can prove to their employers (current or prospective) that their skills have improved?
109. Tell us about your favorite instructional design models and theories.
110. How do you evaluate your course? A survey handed out to the learners at the end of the course? How do you use the evaluation to change the course?
111. the manager of the sales department walks into your office and says she needs training on customer service. What do you do?”
112. How do you design and develop an excellent learning experience?
113. Tell about your qualifications for this job?
114. What technical skills you have?

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