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by tomek4

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Greetings: I am in the process of designing a questionnaire for prospective employees to gage their knowledge of MS apps. esp. MSAccess. What kind of mid-to-higher level questions could I pose to test their knowldge? I downloaded the questionnaire template from here but need more database questions. Any ideas much appreciated

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by lito

What is The applicants level of learning and experience such as basic, intermediate and advance?

If you have an advance knowledge of MS Access how could you link your other databases with Access Report Programs?

by pat estes

One way to almost ensure the user's proficiency is to require Microsoft Office User Specialist certification (MOUS). This is a program that tests users and awards different levels of skill. This keeps you from having to make up your own test.

by lenysb

A proficient user of access is one that can write modules,macros, and other commands in SQL. Do you have this ability?

by ravi

I agree with one of the previous respondents that MOUS certification is a good way to measure an applicant's background. Nevertheless, I list some questions below. If you get a blank stare for any of these questions, you may want to move on to thenext candidate:

1. What does normalization mean?
2. What is a primary key?
3. What is a relationship?
4. Can you set up an union of two tables using SQL?
5. Should tables, forms, queries, macros, and modules be in one MDB? If not, whynot?
6. What is a Jet engine? Assuming the applicant doesn't say anything about flying in answer to this question, you may want to ask about the database engine in Access 2000.
7. What is VBA?

Some of these questions are rather basic and you probably should ask them first so that you can eliminate the undesirable candidates rather quickly.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

by letuchiy

Don't spend your time, try to use the outsourcing.

Visit the www.brainbench.com website. Brainbench people have prepared (and carefully beta tested before publishing) about 50 different tests including those for Access programmers and Office appsusers.

There are entries for both employees and employers and both free and payed services there.

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