Wavex on-line ability test

Wavex is a company that makes full use of many of the popular technologies available today, always investing in people, emerging ideas and products.

Wavex perform a range of IT services to both SMEs and large corporates. Wavex are currently deploying a new support model designed for SMEs, having developed a number of tools and applications to further distance themselves from other support organisations. Wavex are always looking for individuals that exhibit outstanding ability within IT or supporting areas.

We only employ the best engineeers. We use this test to determine if you are one of them.

"No one really seems to leave Wavex, apart from the occasional Ozzie going back home"

"Wavex actually puts money aside for its employees to spend on the fun stuff they want, that’s pretty cool."

You may upload your CV here but you MUST do the test to be considered. Prior to uploading, please rename the document to your name (FirstnameLastname)

The below test is an attempt to ensure any candidates that reach the interviewing process are already of a very high standard. It will provide you with immediate feedback once you have completed it.

This page is to help us find out about you. Don't worry if you can't answer some questions. Please take your time to answer the questions to the best of your knowledge. Unfortunately, any results from retaken tests will be discarded.

"Everyone welcomed me when I joined the company, and I soon found myself with alot of new friends."

"The speed at which things change here at Wavex means there is never a dull day and I get tons of hands-on experience with many technologies."

"The development and fast pace of Wavex constantly keep me interested, I can honestly say there hasn’t been one day in 4 and a half years that I haven’t laughed at work"

We do look at all the results.

Should take you about 15-25 minutes. The time you take is recorded.

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  • How would you stop a service on a remote machine?

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  • How would you connect a USB mouse to an NT4 Server

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  • What does the article Q332103 refer to?

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  • What service would you restart if printing stopped.

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  • If a user tells you they can't logon, what would you try.

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  • What settings might you change to allow VPN traffic through your firewall

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  • Why would you use FAT instead of NTFS

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  • What port does DNS use

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  • What port does SMTP use

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  • How would telnet help you test email

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  • Stopping which Exchange 5.5 service will stop all the others

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  • How would you prevent SMTP relaying

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  • How many email addresses can each Exchange user have?

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  • What client service allows you to logon to a domain?

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  • What Windows 95/98 command line shows you the network setup.

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  • What application would be launched if you run a file ending in .mdb

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  • A particular problematic program launches every time a user logs onto their machine. Where would you look to stop this?

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  • What does PING tell you?

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  • What is the broadcast address for a machine with an IP address of 123.123.2.5 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224

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  • If a host had an IP address of 123.123.2.5 and the Internet gateway had a private address of 123.123.2.1, what would the ROUTE ADD command look like to create the default gateway on the host.

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  • How would you find out all the current IP sessions.

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  • What is the decimal for 1111 (base 2)

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  • What information would the following command give you on a Microsoft OS. TRACERT -d -h 1 www.microsoft.com

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  • If you had 500 machines which you wanted on the same LAN, what subnet mask would you use?

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  • What protocol carries HTML

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  • What port does web traffic normally use

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  • What application allows multiple clients to access the web via a single machine.

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  • How much do you drink (be honest!)?

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  • How would you rate your ability with Exchange 2000

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  • How would you rate your ability with Windows 2000 server?

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  • How would you rate your ability with IIS?

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  • How would you rate your knowledge of TCP/IP?

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  • How would you rate your ability at configuring firewalls (routing, blocking, NAT)

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  • What type of connector is often used to plug into hubs and switches?

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  • What device might you see this line within its configuration? crypto isakmp key passw123 address 214.204.172.98

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  • What is IP spoofing?

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  • What is a valid private IP address?

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  • What term refers to the process that alters a private IP address to a public IP address

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  • If you had a company who's public website was www.bigcompany.com what DNS domain would you use to setup the company's Windows 2000 based internal network.

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  • How would you rate your ability with ASP programming?

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  • What application might you use isinteg on?

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  • Why might a user be unable to run Microsoft Word?

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  • What technology supplied a host with IP address details?

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  • What function does the LMHOST file provide

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  • Tell us a joke.

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  • What are your hobbies and interests?

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  • What impact may Kazza have if running on a companies PC?

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  • What answer does this code provide the first time its run?
    Dim iLoop As Integer
    Dim iTotal As Currency
    Randomize 5
    For iLoop = 1 To 20
    iTotal = iTotal + Rnd(10)
    Next

    Debug.Print iTotal

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  • What software might you use to burn a CD?

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  • What might you plug a Centronics parallel cable into?

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  • Whats the maximum users for SBS

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  • What are the effects of using Winsock proxy?

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  • If you see the System Idle Process running at 99% what does this tell you?

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  • rundll32.exe performs what function?

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  • What file extension might be associated with Acrobat?

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  • What amount of data (in K) can be trasfered a second on a 10Mb backbone network.

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  • What might a UNC look like?

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  • What is safe mode?

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  • How do you get into Safe mode Windows 98?

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  • On boot up, the message "Non system disk or disk error".

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  • How do you enter the registry editor?

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  • What protocol is routable

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  • Which WAN connection service can provide transmission speeds faster than 100Mbps

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  • After making changes in the LMHOSTS file, what command should be run?

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  • What type of record within DNS points to an email server.

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  • If three records exist within DNS, pointing to three email servers for a company, server1 has a preference of 10, server2 a preference of 20, and server3 has a preference of 200, which server will be the first contacted for inbound email.

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  • During a server installation a second SCSI device failed to be detected, how would you resolve this.

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  • How would you force replication of the active directory between domain controllers?

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  • What was your previous job?

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  • What was the last technical problem you solved with which you where proud?

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  • Whats your favorite film?

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  • What professional qualifications do you have?

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  • What frustrates you about IT?

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  • What would be your ideal job?

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  • What of the following implements fault tolerance?

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  • What application would you use to export multiple mailboxes to .pst files?

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  • Is SBS how would you setup a new user?

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  • Why might you use a CNAME?

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  • Why would you increase a DNS serial number

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  • What service is often associated with AT

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  • What type of DNS record is www.wavex.co.uk

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  • When using NSLOOKUP, what does ls -d achieve?

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  • What set command would you use to display the server which looks after a DNS domain.

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  • What back office applications come with SBS

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  • How would you disable a device in NT4?

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  • How many people have you managed?

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  • Wavex is also looking for individuals who would fit into a corporate environment, do you have experience in this area?

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  • What command is likely to be most prevalent in logon scripts?

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  • What application understands files with an extension .asp

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  • When a host (host A) is talking to a remote host (host B) which is listening to port 80, what source port would host A use?

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  • If you had a multi-homed machine with two IP addresses, 10.0.0.5 and 212.32.4.6, which IP address would you likely bind to, if you wished to monitor Internet traffic?

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  • If you have a network address of 10.0.0.0/24 and see extensive traffic to 10.0.0.255, what does this tell you?

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  • How many bytes are reserved for the destination address in an IP header?

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  • What is a jabber and a runt?

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  • If you wished to capture ICMP traffic, which port would you listen to?

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  • How often do you wear a suit to work?

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  • Have you done any training or coaching? If so, what?

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  • How important is it to have greater responsibility as your career goes on?

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  • How would you respond in this scenario? "A client is investigating a service failure which you have identified as Wavex's fault - how would you respond to the client? And what steps would you take internally to deal with this?"

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  • What is your date of birth (dd/mm/yy)?

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  • What salary are you looking for?

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    Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. We look over all the results.

    "I’m an engineer and similar to what sales people have had, I love the fact that I have a good salary and every bit of work I do gives me a extra monthly bonus!"