So has this person responded yet on the suggestions. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from VIVA -----Original Message----- From: Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens@xxxxxxxxx> Sender: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:04:38 To: <mdinh@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: rgravens@xxxxxxxxx Cc: gabriel.aragon@xxxxxx<gabriel.aragon@xxxxxx>; cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx<cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle-l-freelists<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Questions for a Jr. DBA One issue that hasn't been mentioned and perhaps should is that if you are interviewing referrals provided by an agency, the responses tend to get better over time. What I have seen is that the referring agency begins to anticipate the questions and "coaches up" candidates before they send them over. Is that an acceptable brain dump? I don't know but what I do know is that the open ended questions Tim proposed way back should help detect the difference between true knowledge and a memorization of the correct answer. -- Rumpi Gravenstein