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Some Quiz Questions
We've got some questions on our web site that used formerly form part of our
quizzes; these days, we publish each question along with the answers,
so you can look up any of the questions below and find what the answer
should be. After all - we're a company that prides iteslf in answering
techincal questions in the open source arena!
Link also to our
general quiz index and
to our directories of short articles on
PHP,
Perl,
Java and
MySQL.
Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 Here are some sample questions from our quizzes
Subject: MySQL, Level: Advanced Q. MySQL runs on which operating systems? Q. Which of the following can add a row to a table? Q. Internally information is held in tables. Which of these is NOT a valid format: Q. In a LIKE clause, you can could ask for any value ending in "ton" by writing
Subject: MySQL, Level: Basics Q. MySQL is Q. To use MySQL on your computer, you'll need Q. MySQL supports the complete SQL99 standard Q. MySQL Access security is controlled through Q. In a LIKE clause, you can ask for any 6 letter value by writing:
Subject: MySQL, Level: Intermediate Q. MySQL is available Q. The main MySQL program that does all the data handling is called Q. A SELECT command without a WHERE clause returns Q. Which of these is not a valid name for a column Q. The USE command
Subject: Perl Programming, Level: Advanced Q. Perl calls a subroutine called AUTOLOAD Q. if $x contains the string: <B>This is bold</B><EM> and this is emphasised</EM><BR> which Perl command would remove all the HTML tags to give: This is bold and this is emphasised Q. If you are opening a file for read access, and you know that others may open it at the same time, possibly to modify its contents, you should: Q. A quick and easy way to check the existence / status of a large number of objects in a directory structure is to use: Q. If you're running a Perl script on your server via CGI and you wish to send back a reply page to the user immediately, then have the script go off, enquire of a database and email the answers back to the user, you would: Q. You manage a workstation which collects log file data during the week which you want to automatically transfer to another system each weekend via the internet. You'll do this using a Perl program. Which Protocol is most suitable? Q. What special use has the "=" character in URL encoding? Q. If you're writing a program that will automatically download and search a site for some specific information, how do you know if your automatic program is welcome? Q. Which of these is NOT a special subroutine name?
Subject: Perl Programming, Level: Basics Q. Which operating systems is Perl available on? Q. Perl is Q. The printf format "%6.2f" displays a number ... Q. A (scalar) perl variable can store: Q. How did Perl get its name? Q. Perl was first released in: Q. The function most used to write our from a Perl program is Q. The chop function Q. Perl programs cannot easily be distributed within an email, unless mime or base 64 encoding is used. Q. The eq operator tests ...
Subject: Perl Programming, Level: Intermediate Q. What type of variable is INPUT? Q. The program line @vvv=<XYZ>; Q. Which of the following means "1 or more white spaces" in a regular expression match? Q. s/(\w)/\u$1/g; Q. Which of these is NOT a standard output command: Q. Which of these is a valid regular expression meaning "contains any digit"? Q. Which of these is a way of declaring a variable of limited scope: Q. The function to delete a file in Perl is Q. Which of these operators uses regular expressions? Q. For a time in the month of March, the localtime function will return a month of:
Subject: Java Programming, Level: Advanced Q. A skeleton is: Q. To find how wide a character string will appear in your AWT window, use: Q. In order to store an object directly in a file, it must be: Q. In order to move smoothly from one graphics frame to the next, you need: Q. In a Java Regular expression, which of these is NOT a match to a backspace?
Subject: Java Programming, Level: Basics Q. Java is: Q. HotJava is Q. RMI is Q. The acronym "JAVA" stands for: Q. Which Java platform "manages the infrastructure and supports the Web services to enable development of secure, robust and interoperable business applications."?
Subject: Java Programming, Level: Intermediate Q. Which Utility class would you use if you want to have an array which can be extended dynamically while your Java program runs? Q. From how many classes can you inherit methods directly into a subclass? Q. Which of these statements is wrong? Q. If I want to compare the two strings in the variables "one" and "two" to see if the contents of the strings are identical, which do I write?
Q. If X and Y are objects, and you write Q. A JVM is ...
Subject: Tcl Programming, Level: Advanced Q. To strech a widget to fill a cell in a grid, you would use Q. To open a client socket to "finger", you might write Q. Which option to send is best used to mimic a user's input? Q. To find the width the screen, you would use
Subject: Tcl Programming, Level: Basics Q. Which of these statements is a Tcl comment? Q. Tcl statements are usually teminated by Q. Expect is: Q. The Tk extension to Tcl provides:
Subject: Tcl Programming, Level: Intermediate Q. To join multiple lists into a single list you would use Q. To ensure that a prompt appears before you read in an answer, you should use Q. To read an entire file at one go, you would use: Q. The latest verstion of Tcl is 8.1
Subject: PHP Programming, Level: Advanced Q. What's the best way to copy a file from within a piece of PHP? Q. To get the age of a dog held in the object $ourdog, you might write: Q. The -q option on the PHP command line means Q. If you get a true value back from the mail function it means:
Subject: PHP Programming, Level: Basics Q. PHP is available Q. Which of these does PHP NOT stand for? Q. PHP is used Q. Where do you place your PHP scripts? Q. Which of the following is not a valid variable name?
Subject: PHP Programming, Level: Intermediate Q. An array has five elements. The elements are called: Q. Are there regular expressions in PHP? Q. Which of these statements is true? Q. If you want to process a string one character at a time, you can simply treat the string as an array of single characters Q. How would you add 1 to the variable $count? Q. The last block of a switch statement should be labelled
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