questions asked...

before i forget, i wanted to document the questions asked... although i can only recall half the questions because by the end of day i was dazed and confused, beatened and shamed...

~ unix: find all text files containing my email address in /test directory
~ write a program that finds the min, max of a sequence of numbers
~ what goes into a testplan
~ what do you do if there is no product requirements documents, how do you write your testplan
~ write a program given a string, prints the words back in reverse order (ex. "today is thursday" will output "thursday is today")
~ write a program given a word, prints out only the non-repeating characters (ex. input "hello" output "heo" since letter L repeats)
~ how do you test a software calculator program
~ what is difference between Testing and QA
~ what is the difference between Apache Tomcat and Microsoft IIS servers
~ what is the difference between SSH and SSL
~ what is the difference between http POST and http GET, which is client side or server side
~ what is the difference between client server and web application (he means outlook exchange and like yahoo mail)
~ if given 2 servers, how can you tell which one is app server and which is web server
~ when using Ping, what is the parameter name to see the time the request took, does Ping tells you number of hops.
~ if someone comes and tell u the connection to the web server is slow, what do you do (without any tools your company has made)
~ SQL: what is INNER JOIN, left join, right join, what is a soft join
~ compare any 2 of the languages you know (C, PHP, Java)
~ what is main difference between C and Java that Java does better, elaborate
~ write HTML code for a table
~ how do you test a login page with username, password and submit button
~ UNIX: what's the command to kill a process
~ What is a proxy
~ what happens when you type in a web URL into your browser - how does the resulting page gets returned
~ what is a robot.txt file for
~ in PHP write a program that ask user for 2 numbers and output thems back (this one is actually funny, when i hear a question like that i think, oh PHP only, and i realized i never wrote PURE php code that takes in user's input/output, so i actually ended up putting a scanf statement in there with the caveat that it was a C statement!!! but in reality, i've done the input thing many times using php-html... which is why PHP is so easy to use in the first place!!!! silly me, at least the girl who interviewed me laughed with me... )
~ biggest lesson learned in QA
~ how did you get into QA
~ what do you like about QA