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.NET Developer Technical Questions for Non-Technical Interviewers

We were recently asked for some questions and answers for a non-technical interviewer to assess technical staff in a bunch of interviews.
Everybody with an ounce of technical knowledge knows this is folly but our client decided to persevere so we felt honour-bound to help out.

Just incase it ever happens to you maybe you can make use of the list?  (of course if you’ve got other good ones then shout up!)

  1. What’s autoboxing?  Is it when you automatically turn a stack primitive type into a heap object?  or is it a type of specialist car vs. human pugilism sporting event?
  2. Is a singleton: a hot but lonely lady who lives alone?  Or a design pattern which allows a single object to be instantiated once and re-used?
  3. Generics:  is that a language feature for substituting custom types into objects and methods for type safety and maximum re-use, or a medical name for old people?
  4. What is WPF?  A misspelling of WTF?  or Windows Presentation Framework?
  5. Is SQL Server Agent: A member of the British Secret Service or a part of SQL Server that allow intelligent running of jobs?
  6. A “Select Clause” is…  a SQL statement for retrieving data?  Or a member of the Santa Clause family? (interviewees get extra points for know that it’s his brother-in-law from his second marriage… )
  7. The difference between ASP and ASPX?  Nothing, but ASPX is just X-tra fast compared to ASP?  Interpreted vs. Compiled with a different display and eventing model?
  8. LINQ is… a character from popular Nintendo games?  A nice way of doing list comprehensions and navigating trees and networks in a simple language

Any More?

(footnote: of course we didn’t hand this to the client to ask - although in truth it couldnt’ be too much more comprehensive when it’s a bunch of binary answers)

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