Section One: Please provide your written answers to the following.

Do you consider yourself to be good with numbers, quantitative analysis, or scripting languages? ive an e!ample. "hat are you loo#ing for in a $ob? %sing at least &' words describe your attention to detail. (oo#ing at http:))www.starmine.com)qa*test&.htm please find and document as many discrepancies +e.g., logical inconsistencies, questionable calculations, grammar errors, spelling errors, etc., as you can in &'-&. minutes. Section / Please highlight the right answer with a color &. . Pts "hen writing S0(, 1: 2ctually prefer to get another colleague to write S0( for me Prefer to use a %1 tool to generate S0( automatically 2m comfortable and proficient at writing out the S0( manually 3ave not written S0( statements or queries but am willing to learn /. &' Pts 1 have the following e!perience writing S0( queries: 1 have current e!pert-level S0( e!perience, including inner and outer $oins, subselects and aggregation, and could demonstrate this #nowledge in an interview setting 1 am a former S0( e!pert, as defined above, but my s#ills are a bit rusty and 1 would need some time to get up to speed 1 have used S0( but have never acquired e!pert-level s#ills, as defined above 1 would be new to writing S0( queries

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1n S0(, a 5group by5 is used for: rouping similar rows together Sorting of data 2ggregate functions 6inding 5natural5 groups

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8egarding mathematics and mathematics classes: 1 too# math only because it was a requirement in my ma$or 1 too# mathematics because 1 en$oyed math classes 1 too# mathematics because 1 #new it would help me in my career9 but it:s a tool not a love affair 1 have not had any college level classes in mathematics 1:ve been out of school for at least . years but 1 still am advancing my s#ills in mathematics through outside activities

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;ia classes, boo#s, or e!perience 1 have learned the following number of computer languages +including S0(, <==, ;>, ?2@(2>, Python, 8uby, P3P, Perl, Aava, etc.,: ' computer languages & to / computer languages 4 or more languages but 1 am BO@ loo#ing for a developer career 4 or more languages and 1 2? loo#ing for a developer career

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@he following statement best describes the largest spreadsheet 1 have built myself: 1 haven:t built my own spreadsheets &'' cells or less with some calculations &''' cells or less with at least 7 columns of calculations ?ultiple sheets of data, thousands of cells and at least D columns of calculations

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1n F!cel, what do the dollar signs mean in G2G&: 1t loc#s the cell 2& from future editing Dollar sign formatting for cell 2& Fasier searching on all cells 1t creates an absolute reference to <ell 2&

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"hich is higher, the mean %.S. household income or the median %.S. household income and why: @he mean because of the high standard deviation of the %S household incomes @he median because of the high standard deviation of the %S household incomes @he mean because the wealthiest households have e!tremely large incomes @he median because there are more poor households than wealthy

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@he standard deviation helps us ma#e which of the following statements about a set of data: Data that show a high standard deviation are more li#ely to have multiple pea#s in the histogram. "hen comparing two histograms of the same #ind of data +e.g. price returns,, a larger standard deviation indicates more spread or variability in one histogram compared to the other. @he square root of the sum of the deviations of the data from the mean. @he data is noisy and canIt be trusted when the standard deviation is high relative to the mean.

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1 would be happiest defining my mission at @homson 8euters as: @esting comple! software systems in a highly technical environment. 3elping co-wor#ers improve their development processes 3elping the company avoid the embarrassment of bugs found by customers Performing precise validation of data models and %1 specifications <reating new financial models and metrics

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