Why you should use NPM Online Test?

The NPM Online Test makes use of scenario-based questions to test for on-the-job skills as opposed to theoretical knowledge, ensuring that candidates who do well on this screening test have the relavant skills. The questions are designed to covered following on-the-job aspects: Creating and maintaining folder structures in NPM Working with JSON in NPM Performing queries in NPM Using databases in NPM Referencing in NPM Understanding and using operators in NPM Manipulating database objects in NPM Working with URLs in NPM Managing tables in NPM Handling exceptions and errors in NPM

NPM Online Test

About the test:

The NPM Online Test is preferred by recruiters to assess on-the-job skills of candidates before an interview. It reduces technical screening time by 80% by enabling employers to identify qualified candidates.

Covered skills:

Folder structures
Queries
Referencing
Database Objects
Tables

JSON
Database
Operators
URL

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9 reasons why

Adaface NPM Test is the most accurate way to shortlist JavaScript Developers

Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The NPM Online Test helps recruiters and hiring managers 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 at the first step of the hiring process.

The test screens for the following skills that hiring managers look for in candidates:

Able to efficiently handle exceptions and errors
Demonstrates understanding of folder structures and organization
Proficient in working with JSON data
Able to write effective queries for database manipulation
Ability to work with database concepts such as referencing and operators
Familiarity with database objects and their relationships
Skilled in working with URLs and handling URL parameters
Able to create and manipulate tables in a database

Reason #2

No trick questions

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.

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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.

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Reason #3

Non-googleable questions

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.

How we design questions

These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this NPM Online Test will be non-googleable.

🧐 Question
Medium I/O cycle and main module Event Loop	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: X will be logged after Y always B: Y will be logged after X always C: The order of executing timeout and immediate callbacks is non-deterministic and is bound by the performance of the process D: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the main module and not in the I/O cycle E: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the I/O cycle so setImmediate is always executed before any timers scheduled in the I/O phase, independently of how many timers are left
Easy Res methods	Try practice test
If none of the methods (res.download, res.end, res.json, res.jsonp, res.redirect, res.render, res.send, res.sendFile, res.sendStatus) are called from a route handler to terminate request response cycle, what happens to the the client request? A) Will be left hanging indefinitely B) Will get an internal server error - 500 C) Will get a service unavailable error - 503 D) Will be left hanging for a while and then request timeout error - 408
Medium Phases and Timers Event Loop	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: Adaface will be logged after Lovelace. B: Lovelace will be logged after Adaface. C: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback which takes 10 seconds. Only after this is finished, the event loop will execute the timers that are finished. So the timeout call back will actually be executed after 205 ms even though it is scheduled to be run after 200 ms D: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback. While executing the callback, the scheduled timer becomes ready to be executed. So the runtime executes the timer and then completes processing the callback.
Medium Async Await Promises Promises Async-Await	Try practice test
What will the following code output? A: 24 after 5 seconds and after another 5 seconds, another 24 B: 24 followed by another 24 immediately C: 24 immediately and another 24 after 5 seconds D: After 5 seconds, 24 and 24 E: Undefined F: NaN G: None of these
Medium Bitcoin prices Axios Promises	Try practice test
Review the following JavaScript code and pick the correct options: Assume that the API returns a successful 200 response code and a JSON object as the response body. What would the value of ‘a’ be after the code is executed?
Medium My Module Scope	Try practice test
What will the output of the following JavaScript code be?
Medium Promise Resolve Promises Async-Await	Try practice test
What does the following code output?
Easy Throw, Try, Async Promises Async-Await	Try practice test
What does the following JS code output?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium I/O cycle and main module Event Loop	2 mins NodeJS	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: X will be logged after Y always B: Y will be logged after X always C: The order of executing timeout and immediate callbacks is non-deterministic and is bound by the performance of the process D: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the main module and not in the I/O cycle E: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the I/O cycle so setImmediate is always executed before any timers scheduled in the I/O phase, independently of how many timers are left
	Easy Res methods	3 mins NodeJS	Try practice test
If none of the methods (res.download, res.end, res.json, res.jsonp, res.redirect, res.render, res.send, res.sendFile, res.sendStatus) are called from a route handler to terminate request response cycle, what happens to the the client request? A) Will be left hanging indefinitely B) Will get an internal server error - 500 C) Will get a service unavailable error - 503 D) Will be left hanging for a while and then request timeout error - 408
	Medium Phases and Timers Event Loop	2 mins NodeJS	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: Adaface will be logged after Lovelace. B: Lovelace will be logged after Adaface. C: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback which takes 10 seconds. Only after this is finished, the event loop will execute the timers that are finished. So the timeout call back will actually be executed after 205 ms even though it is scheduled to be run after 200 ms D: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback. While executing the callback, the scheduled timer becomes ready to be executed. So the runtime executes the timer and then completes processing the callback.
	Medium Async Await Promises Promises Async-Await	2 mins JavaScript	Try practice test
What will the following code output? A: 24 after 5 seconds and after another 5 seconds, another 24 B: 24 followed by another 24 immediately C: 24 immediately and another 24 after 5 seconds D: After 5 seconds, 24 and 24 E: Undefined F: NaN G: None of these
	Medium Bitcoin prices Axios Promises	2 mins JavaScript	Try practice test
Review the following JavaScript code and pick the correct options: Assume that the API returns a successful 200 response code and a JSON object as the response body. What would the value of ‘a’ be after the code is executed?
	Medium My Module Scope	2 mins JavaScript	Try practice test
What will the output of the following JavaScript code be?
	Medium Promise Resolve Promises Async-Await	2 mins JavaScript	Try practice test
What does the following code output?
	Easy Throw, Try, Async Promises Async-Await	2 mins JavaScript	Try practice test
What does the following JS code output?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	I/O cycle and main module Event Loop	NodeJS	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: X will be logged after Y always B: Y will be logged after X always C: The order of executing timeout and immediate callbacks is non-deterministic and is bound by the performance of the process D: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the main module and not in the I/O cycle E: In this case, the function calls are scheduled in the I/O cycle so setImmediate is always executed before any timers scheduled in the I/O phase, independently of how many timers are left
	Res methods	NodeJS	Easy	3 mins	Try practice test
If none of the methods (res.download, res.end, res.json, res.jsonp, res.redirect, res.render, res.send, res.sendFile, res.sendStatus) are called from a route handler to terminate request response cycle, what happens to the the client request? A) Will be left hanging indefinitely B) Will get an internal server error - 500 C) Will get a service unavailable error - 503 D) Will be left hanging for a while and then request timeout error - 408
	Phases and Timers Event Loop	NodeJS	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
Review the following NodeJS code: Pick the correct statements: A: Adaface will be logged after Lovelace. B: Lovelace will be logged after Adaface. C: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback which takes 10 seconds. Only after this is finished, the event loop will execute the timers that are finished. So the timeout call back will actually be executed after 205 ms even though it is scheduled to be run after 200 ms D: Once the asyncOpThatTakes195ms completes reading the file, it starts executing the callback. While executing the callback, the scheduled timer becomes ready to be executed. So the runtime executes the timer and then completes processing the callback.
	Async Await Promises Promises Async-Await	JavaScript	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
What will the following code output? A: 24 after 5 seconds and after another 5 seconds, another 24 B: 24 followed by another 24 immediately C: 24 immediately and another 24 after 5 seconds D: After 5 seconds, 24 and 24 E: Undefined F: NaN G: None of these
	Bitcoin prices Axios Promises	JavaScript	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
Review the following JavaScript code and pick the correct options: Assume that the API returns a successful 200 response code and a JSON object as the response body. What would the value of ‘a’ be after the code is executed?
	My Module Scope	JavaScript	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
What will the output of the following JavaScript code be?
	Promise Resolve Promises Async-Await	JavaScript	Medium	2 mins	Try practice test
What does the following code output?
	Throw, Try, Async Promises Async-Await	JavaScript	Easy	2 mins	Try practice test
What does the following JS code output?

Reason #4

1200+ customers in 75 countries

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

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Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment NPM Online 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.

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Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the NPM Online 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.

Reason #7

Detailed scorecards & benchmarks

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Reason #8

High completion rate

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.

Reason #9

Advanced Proctoring

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About the NPM Assessment Test

Why you should use Pre-employment NPM Online Test?

The NPM Online Test makes use of scenario-based questions to test for on-the-job skills as opposed to theoretical knowledge, ensuring that candidates who do well on this screening test have the relavant skills. The questions are designed to covered following on-the-job aspects:

Creating and maintaining folder structures in NPM
Working with JSON in NPM
Performing queries in NPM
Using databases in NPM
Referencing in NPM
Understanding and using operators in NPM
Manipulating database objects in NPM
Working with URLs in NPM
Managing tables in NPM
Handling exceptions and errors in NPM

Once the test is sent to a candidate, the candidate receives a link in email to take the test. For each candidate, you will receive a detailed report with skills breakdown and benchmarks to shortlist the top candidates from your pool.

What topics are covered in the NPM Online Test?

Folder structures
Folder structures refer to the organization and arrangement of files and directories within a computer system. In the context of this test, measuring this skill is important as it demonstrates the candidate's ability to effectively structure and organize their project files, ensuring clarity and maintainability.
JSON
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write and easy for machines to parse and generate. Assessing this skill in the test is crucial as it reflects the candidate's understanding of how to work with JSON data, manipulate and parse JSON objects, and use JSON formatting in web applications.
Queries
Queries involve retrieving specific data from a database using SQL. Evaluating this skill is important for recruiters as it measures the candidate's ability to construct and execute queries, demonstrating their proficiency in accessing and manipulating data efficiently.
Database
The database skill assesses the candidate's knowledge and understanding of managing relational databases, including creating, querying, and modifying database tables using SQL. Measuring this skill is important as it reflects the candidate's ability to work with database systems, design efficient database schemas, and perform data manipulation tasks.
Referencing
Referencing in programming refers to the ability to access and use data or objects that are stored in one location from another location. This skill is measured in the test to assess the candidate's capability to appropriately reference and utilize data or resources, showcasing their understanding of how to establish connections and relationships between different parts of a program.
Operators
Operators in programming are symbols or keywords that perform specific operations on operands. Measuring this skill in the test is important as it indicates the candidate's proficiency in using different operators to perform various calculations, comparisons, and logical operations, highlighting their ability to write efficient and effective code.
Database Objects
Database objects refer to the components that make up a database, such as tables, views, indexes, and stored procedures. Assessing this skill is important for recruiters as it reflects the candidate's understanding of the different database objects and their purpose, as well as their ability to create, modify, and manage these objects effectively.
URL
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a specific web resource, such as a webpage or a file. Evaluating this skill in the test is crucial as it measures the candidate's knowledge and understanding of how to work with URLs, including constructing and parsing URLs, handling query parameters, and navigating between webpages or resources.
Tables
Tables are one of the fundamental components of a relational database and are used to store and organize data in a structured manner. Measuring this skill is important as it demonstrates the candidate's understanding of how to create, modify, and manage database tables, including defining appropriate data types, constraints, and relationships, showcasing their ability to design and implement efficient database structures.
Full list of covered topics
The actual topics of the questions in the final test will depend on your job description and requirements. However, here's a list of topics you can expect the questions for NPM Online Test to be based on.
Folder structures
JSON
Queries
Database
Referencing
Operators
Database Objects
URL
Tables

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What roles can I use the NPM Online Test for?

JavaScript Developer
NodeJS Developer

How is the NPM Online Test customized for senior candidates?

For intermediate/ experienced candidates, we customize the assessment questions to include advanced topics and increase the difficulty level of the questions. This might include adding questions on topics like

Implementing authentication and authorization in NPM
Optimizing performance in NPM
Implementing caching mechanisms in NPM
Working with asynchronous code in NPM
Implementing security measures in NPM
Writing test cases for NPM applications
Configuring and deploying NPM applications
Troubleshooting and debugging NPM applications
Collaborating with team members using NPM
Managing project dependencies with NPM
Working with third-party libraries and plugins in NPM

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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.

85%

reduction in screening time

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NPM Hiring Test FAQs

Can I combine multiple skills into one custom assessment?

Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify. Here's a quick guide on how you can request a custom test.

Do you have any anti-cheating or proctoring features in place?

We have the following anti-cheating features in place:

Non-googleable questions
IP proctoring
Screen proctoring
Web proctoring
Webcam proctoring
Plagiarism detection
Secure browser
Copy paste protection

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How do I interpret test scores?

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.

What experience level can I use this test for?

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.

Does every candidate get the same questions?

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.