SQL Server Online Test

About the test:

The Microsoft SQL Server 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:

Transactional and relational Database
Database & Database Objects
Synchronization
Database Monitoring & Maintenance
SQL Server Database Security & Troubleshooting

Configurations
Installation
Transaction Logs
Backup & Recovery
Storage Area Network (SAN)

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9 reasons why

Adaface SQL Server Online Test is the most accurate way to shortlist SQL Server DBAs

Reason #1

Tests for on-the-job skills

The SQL Server 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.

Non-googleable questions & proctoring features enable you to be comfortable with conducting assessments online. The SQL Server Online Test is ideal for helping recruiters identify which candidates have the skills to do well on the job.

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.

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 ->

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.

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

🧐 Question
Medium Merge data sources	Solve
Teylor Swift is a developer at your company and is setting up a data flow transformation to merge 2 data sources. 1 source contains item data and the other source contains data regarding the company which made the item. The 2 data sources use SQL Server and have a 3-character CompanyCode column. Both data sources contain an ORDER BY clause to sort the data by CompanyCode in ascending order. Teylor wants to make sure that the Merge Join transformation works without additional transformations. What would you recommend? A: Change the ORDER BY clause on the item source to order by ItemName. B: Set the appropriate SortKeyPosition properties on the data sources. C: Set the IsSorted property on both data sources. D: Change the Merge Join transformation to a Merge transformation.
Medium Multi Select	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
Easy Select & IN	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: Which of the following SQL queries would return the year when neither a football or cricket winner was chosen?
Medium With, AVG & SUM	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many tuples does the following query return?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium Merge data sources	2 mins SQL Server	Solve
Teylor Swift is a developer at your company and is setting up a data flow transformation to merge 2 data sources. 1 source contains item data and the other source contains data regarding the company which made the item. The 2 data sources use SQL Server and have a 3-character CompanyCode column. Both data sources contain an ORDER BY clause to sort the data by CompanyCode in ascending order. Teylor wants to make sure that the Merge Join transformation works without additional transformations. What would you recommend? A: Change the ORDER BY clause on the item source to order by ItemName. B: Set the appropriate SortKeyPosition properties on the data sources. C: Set the IsSorted property on both data sources. D: Change the Merge Join transformation to a Merge transformation.
	Medium Multi Select	2 mins SQL	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
	Easy Select & IN	3 mins SQL	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: Which of the following SQL queries would return the year when neither a football or cricket winner was chosen?
	Medium With, AVG & SUM	2 mins SQL	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many tuples does the following query return?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Merge data sources	SQL Server	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Teylor Swift is a developer at your company and is setting up a data flow transformation to merge 2 data sources. 1 source contains item data and the other source contains data regarding the company which made the item. The 2 data sources use SQL Server and have a 3-character CompanyCode column. Both data sources contain an ORDER BY clause to sort the data by CompanyCode in ascending order. Teylor wants to make sure that the Merge Join transformation works without additional transformations. What would you recommend? A: Change the ORDER BY clause on the item source to order by ItemName. B: Set the appropriate SortKeyPosition properties on the data sources. C: Set the IsSorted property on both data sources. D: Change the Merge Join transformation to a Merge transformation.
	Multi Select	SQL	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
	Select & IN	SQL	Easy	3 mins	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: Which of the following SQL queries would return the year when neither a football or cricket winner was chosen?
	With, AVG & SUM	SQL	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many tuples does the following query return?

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

Reason #5

Designed for elimination, not selection

The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment Microsoft SQL Server 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.

Reason #6

1 click candidate invites

Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the Microsoft SQL Server 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 & comparative results

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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What topics are covered in the SQL Server Online Test?

Modo Windows, modo mixto

Dos modos de autenticación

Perfilador sql

Procedimiento almacenado recursivo

Tablas temporales locales y globales

Verifique la restricción

Subvención

Agente de servidor SQL

Tareas programadas

JUNTARSE

Función de piso

Cerraduras

Función de firmar

Se utiliza para ejecutar un lote de código SQL cuando los comandos de inserción o actualización o eliminación se ejecutan en una tabla

Generar

Columna de identidad

#REF!

Bulebia

SQL dinámico

Unión todos

Establecer la declaración de in/desactivado de nocount

Mesas mágicas

SQL Server crea tablas mágicas para contener los valores durante las operaciones DML

Subestino

Carnex

Para la cláusula

Tipos de varchar y nvarchar

GetDate y Sysdatetime

Muestra

Utilizado para extraer una muestra de filas al azar que son necesarias para la aplicación

Tipo de datos XML

Se utiliza para almacenar documentos XML en la base de datos de SQL Server

Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades

Inyección SQL

Índice filtrado

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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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FAQs

¿Puedo combinar múltiples habilidades en una evaluación personalizada?

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¿Tiene alguna característica anti-trato o procuración en su lugar?

Tenemos las siguientes características anti-trate en su lugar:

Preguntas no postradas
Procuración de IP
Procedor web
Procedores de cámara web
Detección de plagio
navegador seguro

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¿Cómo interpreto los puntajes de las pruebas?

Lo principal a tener en cuenta es que una evaluación es una herramienta de eliminación, no una herramienta de selección. Una evaluación de habilidades está optimizada para ayudarlo a eliminar a los candidatos que no están técnicamente calificados para el rol, no está optimizado para ayudarlo a encontrar el mejor candidato para el papel. Por lo tanto, la forma ideal de usar una evaluación es decidir un puntaje umbral (generalmente del 55%, lo ayudamos a comparar) e invitar a todos los candidatos que obtienen un puntaje por encima del umbral para las próximas rondas de la entrevista.

¿Para qué nivel de experiencia puedo usar esta prueba?

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¿Cada candidato tiene las mismas preguntas?

Sí, te hace mucho más fácil comparar los candidatos. Las opciones para las preguntas de MCQ y el orden de las preguntas son aleatorizados. Tenemos características anti-trato/procuración en su lugar. En nuestro plan empresarial, también tenemos la opción de crear múltiples versiones de la misma evaluación con cuestiones de niveles de dificultad similares.