Test Duration
40 mins
Difficulty Level
Moderate
Questions
- 7 COBOL MCQs
- 5 IBM DB2 MCQs
- 5 IBM JCL MCQs
Availability
Ready to use
About the test:
The Mainframe Online Test uses scenario-based MCQs to evaluate candidates on their knowledge of mainframe technologies, including COBOL programming language, JCL, VSAM, CICS, and DB2. The test aims to evaluate a candidate's ability to design and develop mainframe applications that adhere to industry standards and best practices effectively.
Covered skills:
Test Duration
40 mins
Difficulty Level
Moderate
Questions
Availability
Ready to use
The Mainframe Online Test helps recruiters and hiring managers to identify qualified candidates from a pool of resumes, and helps in taking objective hiring decisions. It reduces the administrative overhead of interviewing too many candidates and saves time by filtering out unqualified candidates.
The insights generated from this assessment can be used by recruiters and hiring managers to identify the best candidates for the Mainframe Developer role. Anti-cheating features enable you to be comfortable with conducting assessments online. The Mainframe Developer test is ideal for helping recruiters identify which candidates have the skills to do well on the job.
Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.
The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.
Why we started Adaface ->We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.
These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this IBM Mainframe Test will be non-googleable.
🧐 Question | |||||
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Medium Decision Control | Solve | ||||
Medium Multi Dimensional Arrays | Solve | ||||
Medium VSAM File Processing in COBOL | Solve | ||||
Medium Database Performance Tuning and Data Consistency | Solve | ||||
Medium DB2 Isolation Levels and Data Consistency Revisited | Solve | ||||
Medium Optimizing Query Performance | Solve | ||||
Medium Transaction Handling and Error Recovery in DB2 | Solve | ||||
Medium Disposition Parameters | Solve | ||||
Medium Execution Order and Return Codes | Solve | ||||
🧐 Question | 🔧 Skill | ||
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Medium Decision Control | 2 mins COBOL | Solve | |
Medium Multi Dimensional Arrays | 2 mins COBOL | Solve | |
Medium VSAM File Processing in COBOL | 2 mins COBOL | Solve | |
Medium Database Performance Tuning and Data Consistency | 3 mins IBM DB2 | Solve | |
Medium DB2 Isolation Levels and Data Consistency Revisited | 2 mins IBM DB2 | Solve | |
Medium Optimizing Query Performance | 2 mins IBM DB2 | Solve | |
Medium Transaction Handling and Error Recovery in DB2 | 3 mins IBM DB2 | Solve | |
Medium Disposition Parameters | 2 mins IBM JCL | Solve | |
Medium Execution Order and Return Codes | 2 mins IBM JCL | Solve |
🧐 Question | 🔧 Skill | 💪 Difficulty | ⌛ Time | ||
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Decision Control | COBOL | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Multi Dimensional Arrays | COBOL | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
VSAM File Processing in COBOL | COBOL | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Database Performance Tuning and Data Consistency | IBM DB2 | Medium | 3 mins | Solve | |
DB2 Isolation Levels and Data Consistency Revisited | IBM DB2 | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Optimizing Query Performance | IBM DB2 | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Transaction Handling and Error Recovery in DB2 | IBM DB2 | Medium | 3 mins | Solve | |
Disposition Parameters | IBM JCL | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Execution Order and Return Codes | IBM JCL | Medium | 2 mins | Solve |
With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!
Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito
The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment IBM Mainframe Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.
Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the IBM Mainframe Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.
Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.
API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.
Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.
This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.
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The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.
Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.
We have the following anti-cheating features in place:
Read more about the proctoring features.
The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.
Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.
Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.
No. Unfortunately, we do not support practice tests at the moment. However, you can use our sample questions for practice.
You can check out our pricing plans.
Yes, you can sign up for free and preview this test.
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