Section One: Please provide your written answers to the following. 1.

Do you consider yourself to be good with numbers, quantitative analysis, or scripting

languages? Give an example.

2. What are you looking for in a job?

3. Using at least 10 words describe your attention to detail.

4. Looking at http://www.starmine.com/qa_test1.htm please find and document as many discrepancies (e.g., logical inconsistencies, questionable calculations, grammar errors, spelling errors, etc.) as you can in 10-15 minutes.

Section 2

Please highlight the right answer with a color

1.
5 Pts Wh en writ ing SQL , I: Actu ally pref er to get anot her colle agu e to writ e SQL for me a. Prefer to use a GUI tool to generate SQL automatically

b. c.

Am comfortable and proficient at writing out the SQL manually Have not written SQL statements or queries but am willing to learn

2.
10 PtsI hav e the follo win g exp erie nce

writi ng SQL quer ies: I hav e curr ent exp ertleve l SQL exp erie nce, incl udin g inne r and oute r join s, sub sele cts and aggr egat ion, and coul d dem onst rate this kno wle dge in an inte rvie w setti a. I am a former SQL expert, as defined above, but my skills are a bit rusty and I would need some time to get up to speed

ng b. c. I have used SQL but have never acquired expert-level skills, as defined above I would be new to writing SQL queries

3.
5 PtsI n SQL ,a "gro up by" is use d for: Gro upin g simi lar row s toge ther a. Sorting of data

b. c.

Aggregate functions Finding "natural" groups

4.
10 PtsR egar ding mat hem atic

s and mat hem atic s clas ses: I took mat h only bec aus e it was a requ irem ent in my maj or a. I took mathematics because I enjoyed math classes

b.

I took mathematics because I knew it would help me in my career; but it's a tool not a love affair I have not had any college level classes in mathematics I've been out of school for at least 5 years but I still am advancing my skills in mathematics through outside activities

c. d.

5.
10 PtsV ia clas ses, boo ks, or exp erie nce I

hav e lear ned the follo win g num ber of com pute r lang uag es (incl udin g SQL , C+ +, VB, MAT LAB , Pyth on, Rub y, PHP , Perl, Java , etc. ): 0 com pute r lang uag es a. 1 to 2 computer languages

b. c.

3 or more languages but I am NOT looking for a developer career 3 or more languages and I AM looking for a developer career

6.
10 PtsT he follo win g stat eme nt best desc ribe s the larg est spre ads heet I hav e built mys elf: I hav en't built my own spre ads heet s a. 100 cells or less with some calculations

b. c.

1000 cells or less with at least 4 columns of calculations Multiple sheets of data, thousands of cells and at least 8 columns of calculations

7.
5 PtsI

n Exc el, wha t do the doll ar sign s mea n in $A$ 1: It lock s the cell A1 fro m futu re editi ng a. Dollar sign formatting for cell A1

b. c.

Easier searching on all cells It creates an absolute reference to Cell A1

8.
5 Pts Whi ch is high er, the mea n U.S. hou seh old inco

me or the med ian U.S. hou seh old inco me and why : The mea n bec aus e of the high stan dard devi atio n of the US hou seh old inco mes a. The median because of the high standard deviation of the US household incomes

b. c.

The mean because the wealthiest households have extremely large incomes The median because there are more poor households than wealthy

9.
5 PtsT he stan dard devi

atio n help s us mak e whic h of the follo win g stat eme nts abo ut a set of data : Dat a that sho wa high stan dard devi atio n are mor e likel y to hav e mult iple pea ks in the hist ogra m. a. When comparing two histograms of the same kind of data (e.g. price returns), a larger standard deviation indicates more spread or variability in one histogram compared to the other.

b.

The square root of the sum of the deviations of the data from the mean.

c.

The data is noisy and cant be trusted when the standard deviation is high relative to the mean.

10.
I wou ld be hap pies t defi ning my mis sion at Tho mso n Reu ters as: Test ing com plex soft war e syst ems in a high ly tech nica l envi ron men t. a. Helping co-workers improve their development processes

5 Pts

b. c.

Helping the company avoid the embarrassment of bugs found by customers Performing precise validation of data models and UI specifications

d.

Creating new financial models and metrics