COMPUTING

GENERAL

1 What is the Third Normal Form for a relational database?

Open Systems

The mailer daemon for your ISP returns to you a warning message that one of your emails encountered a "connection refused." What does this mean? Has the recipient decided he or she doesn't want mail from you?
What is the most important use of an HTML frame in commercial web sites?
Distinguish between these paradigms for systems development: (a) procedural (b) data driven (c) object-oriented (d) artificial intelligence

IBM Mainframes

A field containing high values is redefined as a packed field and then is unpacked. Will there be a data exception (S0C7?) Explain.
Differentiate between re-entrant, re-usable, serially re-usable.
What (if any) are the limitations of modifying Working Storage in CICS programs in the following environments?

Macro level
Command level, VS Cobol 1974
Command level, VS Cobol 1985
Command level, VS Cobol II
Command level, CobolMVS Reference: Joseph Summerville: Advanced CICS Design Techniques, Concepts and Guidelines (Reinhold, 1987)
You are a maintenance mainframe IBM COBOL programmer and you are presented with a production problem in which apparently every inquiry to a VSAM file has failed. The (COBOL2) job has run normally but it has produced no output. What is the first thing to check in the Cobol program (and subprograms)?
What advantages are offered to an IMS application by Field Level sensitivity?
In an IMS shop, when should a new PSB defined? Why?

Here is a CICS quiz by AOL member CRONID. There is a DB2 quiz there in a frame on his mainframe legacy faq home page.