SQL Server Online Test

About the test:

The SQL Server Online test uses scenario-based MCQs to evaluate candidates on their knowledge of SQL Server, including their proficiency in writing complex SQL queries, administering SQL Server instances, and managing data. Additionally, the test assesses a candidate's understanding of SQL Server security, performance optimization, and disaster recovery. The test aims to evaluate a candidate's ability to work with SQL Server effectively and efficiently in various real-world scenarios.

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

Вопросы для высокопоставленных кандидатов оценивают расширенные темы, такие как:

** Оптимизация запросов **: Вопросы оценивают способность кандидата оптимизировать запросы с использованием индексации, разделения и других методов. Этот навык необходим для улучшения производительности и масштабируемости базы данных.
** Ожидается, что кандидаты будут опытными в дизайне базы данных, нормализации и дизайне схемы. Эти знания имеют решающее значение для разработки эффективных и обслуживаемых баз данных.
** Хранимые процедуры и функции **: Вопросы оценивают способность кандидата писать эффективные и повторно используемые хранимые процедуры и функции. Этот навык важен для уменьшения количества избыточного кода и улучшения производительности базы данных.
** Транзакции и блокировка **: кандидаты оцениваются по пониманию транзакций, уровней изоляции и блокировки. Эти знания необходимы для обеспечения целостности данных и избегания вопросов параллелистики.
** Настройка производительности **: Вопросы оценивают способность кандидата диагностировать и решать проблемы с производительностью в SQL Server. Этот навык важен для обеспечения того, чтобы базы данных могли обрабатывать большие объемы данных и высокий пользовательский трафик.
** Высокая доступность и аварийное восстановление **: Ожидается, что кандидаты будут опытны в настройке решений высокой доступности и аварийного восстановления, таких как кластеризация, репликация и резервное копирование/восстановление. Эти знания необходимы для обеспечения того, чтобы критические базы данных всегда были доступны и защищены от потери данных.
** Безопасность и соответствие **: Вопросы оценивают понимание кандидата на функции безопасности SQL Server и правила соответствия, такие как GDPR и HIPAA. Эти знания важны для обеспечения безопасности баз данных и соответствия юридическим и нормативным требованиям.
** Business Intelligence **: Кандидаты оцениваются по своей способности проектировать и разрабатывать решения бизнес -аналитики с использованием инструментов SQL Server, таких как сервисы анализа, службы интеграции и службы отчетности. Эти знания важны для предоставления понимания и принятия решений, управляемых данными.
** Процессы ETL **: Вопросы оценивают способность кандидата в проектирование и реализацию процессов извлечения, преобразования, нагрузки (ETL) с использованием служб интеграции SQL Server. Этот навык важен для интеграции данных из разных источников и преобразования его в полезную информацию.
** Ожидается, что кандидаты будут опытными в разработке и реализации решений по складке данных с использованием инструментов SQL Server, таких как службы анализа и службы интеграции. Эти знания важны для предоставления центрального репозитория для больших объемов данных и обеспечения анализа и отчетности данных.

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 Backup Strategy Backups Troubleshooting	Solve
As a DBA, you receive an alert notifying you that the production database has gone offline due to a severe issue. Fortunately, you have a proper backup strategy in place. The backups are performed as follows: 1. Full database backup every Sunday at 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backup every day at 2:00 AM, except Sunday. 3. Transaction log backup every hour. Today is Wednesday, and the failure occurred at 10:15 AM. You have the following backup files available: 1. Full backup: Full_Backup_Sun.bak taken on Sunday 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backups: Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak taken at 2:00 AM on their respective days. 3. Transaction log backups: Hourly backups from Sunday 3:00 AM until Wednesday 10:00 AM, like TLog_Backup_Wed_09.bak, TLog_Backup_Wed_10.bak. Given the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 15 minutes, which of the following sequences of restore operations would ensure minimal data loss? A: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Wednesday. B: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Tuesday and Wednesday. C: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM. D: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Sunday to Wednesday 10:00 AM. E: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
Medium Transaction Log Management Performance Tuning Log Management	Solve
You are a DBA at a large company managing an SQL Server database which is crucial for daily operations. The database is configured with the Full recovery model. The database is experiencing considerable transaction log growth during business hours, which is impacting the disk space and performance. The following operations are performed on this database: 1. A large ETL process that runs every night, which transforms and loads data into several tables. 2. A data archiving job that runs every night, which removes old data from several tables. 3. Frequent read/write operations during the day as part of normal business operations. Given this scenario, which of the following strategies could help manage the transaction log growth effectively? A: Switch to the Simple recovery model. B: Schedule frequent log backup and cleanups during business hours. C: Shrink the transaction log file size during business hours. D: Increase the database file size.
Medium Multi Select	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
Medium 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?
Hard With, AVG & SUM	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many tuples does the following query return?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium Backup Strategy Backups Troubleshooting	3 mins SQL Server	Solve
As a DBA, you receive an alert notifying you that the production database has gone offline due to a severe issue. Fortunately, you have a proper backup strategy in place. The backups are performed as follows: 1. Full database backup every Sunday at 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backup every day at 2:00 AM, except Sunday. 3. Transaction log backup every hour. Today is Wednesday, and the failure occurred at 10:15 AM. You have the following backup files available: 1. Full backup: Full_Backup_Sun.bak taken on Sunday 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backups: Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak taken at 2:00 AM on their respective days. 3. Transaction log backups: Hourly backups from Sunday 3:00 AM until Wednesday 10:00 AM, like TLog_Backup_Wed_09.bak, TLog_Backup_Wed_10.bak. Given the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 15 minutes, which of the following sequences of restore operations would ensure minimal data loss? A: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Wednesday. B: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Tuesday and Wednesday. C: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM. D: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Sunday to Wednesday 10:00 AM. E: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
	Medium Transaction Log Management Performance Tuning Log Management	3 mins SQL Server	Solve
You are a DBA at a large company managing an SQL Server database which is crucial for daily operations. The database is configured with the Full recovery model. The database is experiencing considerable transaction log growth during business hours, which is impacting the disk space and performance. The following operations are performed on this database: 1. A large ETL process that runs every night, which transforms and loads data into several tables. 2. A data archiving job that runs every night, which removes old data from several tables. 3. Frequent read/write operations during the day as part of normal business operations. Given this scenario, which of the following strategies could help manage the transaction log growth effectively? A: Switch to the Simple recovery model. B: Schedule frequent log backup and cleanups during business hours. C: Shrink the transaction log file size during business hours. D: Increase the database file size.
	Medium Multi Select	2 mins SQL	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
	Medium 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?
	Hard With, AVG & SUM	2 mins SQL	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many tuples does the following query return?

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Backup Strategy Backups Troubleshooting	SQL Server	Medium	3 mins	Solve
As a DBA, you receive an alert notifying you that the production database has gone offline due to a severe issue. Fortunately, you have a proper backup strategy in place. The backups are performed as follows: 1. Full database backup every Sunday at 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backup every day at 2:00 AM, except Sunday. 3. Transaction log backup every hour. Today is Wednesday, and the failure occurred at 10:15 AM. You have the following backup files available: 1. Full backup: Full_Backup_Sun.bak taken on Sunday 2:00 AM. 2. Differential backups: Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak taken at 2:00 AM on their respective days. 3. Transaction log backups: Hourly backups from Sunday 3:00 AM until Wednesday 10:00 AM, like TLog_Backup_Wed_09.bak, TLog_Backup_Wed_10.bak. Given the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of 15 minutes, which of the following sequences of restore operations would ensure minimal data loss? A: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Wednesday. B: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Tuesday and Wednesday. C: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM. D: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, then all Transaction Log backups from Sunday to Wednesday 10:00 AM. E: Full_Backup_Sun.bak, Diff_Backup_Mon.bak, Diff_Backup_Tue.bak, Diff_Backup_Wed.bak, then Transaction Log backups from Wednesday 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
	Transaction Log Management Performance Tuning Log Management	SQL Server	Medium	3 mins	Solve
You are a DBA at a large company managing an SQL Server database which is crucial for daily operations. The database is configured with the Full recovery model. The database is experiencing considerable transaction log growth during business hours, which is impacting the disk space and performance. The following operations are performed on this database: 1. A large ETL process that runs every night, which transforms and loads data into several tables. 2. A data archiving job that runs every night, which removes old data from several tables. 3. Frequent read/write operations during the day as part of normal business operations. Given this scenario, which of the following strategies could help manage the transaction log growth effectively? A: Switch to the Simple recovery model. B: Schedule frequent log backup and cleanups during business hours. C: Shrink the transaction log file size during business hours. D: Increase the database file size.
	Multi Select	SQL	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Consider the following SQL table: How many rows does the following SQL query return?
	Select & IN	SQL	Medium	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	Hard	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 roles can I use the Microsoft SQL Server Test for?

SQL Server DBA
MS SQL Server Database Admin

What topics are covered in the SQL Server Online Test?

Режим Windows, смешанный режим

Два режима аутентификации

SQL Profiler

Рекурсивная сохраненная процедура

Местные и глобальные временные таблицы

Проверьте ограничение

Подпрограмма

Агент SQL Server

Дела по расписанию

Объединяться

Функция пола

Замки

Знак функции

Используется для выполнения партии кода SQL, когда вставка или обновление или удаление команд выполняются против таблицы

Курок

Идентификационный столбец

#REF!

Bulkcopy

Динамический SQL

Союз все

Установите оператор NOCOUNT ON/OFF

Магические столы

SQL Server создает магические таблицы для сохранения значений во время операций DML

Подстрах

Чавинкс

Для пункта

Типы варчар и NVARCHAR

GetDate и SysDateTime

Пример столов

Используется для извлечения образца строк, которые все необходимы для применения

XML DataType

Используется для хранения документов XML в базе данных SQL Server

CDC

SQL -инъекция

Отфильтрованный индекс

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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

Что такое онлайн -тест SQL Server?

Онлайн -тест SQL Server - это оценка навыков, которая оценивает знания и навыки кандидата, связанные с Microsoft SQL Server, которая представляет собой систему управления реляционной базой данных, используемая для хранения и извлечения данных. Тест обычно включает вопросы по функциям SQL Server, дизайне базы данных, SQL -запросам и т. Д.

Могу ли я объединить несколько навыков в одну пользовательскую оценку?

Да, конечно. Пользовательские оценки настроены на основе вашей должности и будут включать вопросы по всем необходимым навыкам, которые вы указываете.

Есть ли у вас какие-либо функции против Chating или Proctoring?

У нас есть следующие функции антихиализации:

Необъемлющие вопросы
IP Proctoring
Веб -прокторинг
Веб -камера Proctoring
Обнаружение плагиата
Безопасный браузер

Узнайте больше о функциях Proctoring.

Как мне интерпретировать результаты тестов?

Основная вещь, которую нужно помнить, это то, что оценка - это инструмент устранения, а не инструмент отбора. Оценка навыков оптимизирована, чтобы помочь вам устранить кандидатов, которые технически не имеют квалификации для этой роли, она не оптимизирована, чтобы помочь вам найти лучшего кандидата на роль. Таким образом, идеальный способ использования оценки - определить пороговый балл (обычно 55%, мы помогаем вам сравнить) и пригласить всех кандидатов, которые забивают выше порога для следующих раундов интервью.

На каком уровне опыта я могу использовать этот тест?

Каждая оценка Adaface настроена на ваш инструкции/ Идеальный кандидат (наши эксперты по предметам выберут правильные вопросы для вашей оценки из нашей библиотеки из 10000+ вопросов). Эта оценка может быть настроена для любого уровня опыта.

Каждый кандидат получает одинаковые вопросы?

Да, вам намного проще сравнить кандидатов. Варианты для вопросов MCQ и порядок вопросов рандомизированы. У нас есть против Chating/Proctoring. В нашем плане предприятия у нас также есть возможность создать несколько версий одной и той же оценки с вопросами аналогичных уровней сложности.