Online Pro/E aptitude test. Anyone?

[mterrian]

Has anyone participated in an employer supplied online aptitude test for Pro/E? I had to take one at a site called www.proveit.com and I thought I crushed it. Ended up with half wrong.

 

[design-engine]

I think that 10 or so questions asked during a phone interview can determine if someone knows Pro/ENGINEER or not. These types of questions (above) are designed to filter the bulk before the interview process. The problem is that the people who design the test often forget that non degreed designes who are really talented at Pro/ENGINEER are not typically the types of people who take multiple choice questions well.

If someone knows Pro/ENGINEER with a couple years experience they should be able to clean up a series of interferences that are over and under sized parts created by other designers. How do you figure that out from a multiple chose questioner?
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[spidernate]

I loved and hated multiple choice tests in school. When in doubt, pick "D", all of the above!

 

[truit01]

I also did an online Pro-E apptitude test and ended up with a 51%. Still got hired though!

 

[design-engine]

I made a 85 on the ISDX test. I hate multiple chose questions unless I have the answers.
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[airion]

I had an interview where the company's ProE administrator handed me a print of some generic widget with various types of features and asked me to model the part and recreate the drawing. I don't think there was anexact time limit, but before I had quite added all the final details to thedrawing he was satisfiedwith my abilities.


Atmy current company ourengineering group took some multiple choice tests to evaluate if any trainingwas needed. There were lots of questions thatdidn't apply to what we do, so the scores didn't necessarily reflect on our capabilities.


I think the hands on type of test is a far better way to evaluate someone.

 

[zpaolo]

I took the "Creating Geometry from Surfaces and Curves using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0" and scored 80%, I'm currently at 145th place

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[design-engine]

but hands on is hard to grade in quantities.And if companies like BAE are to filter from 6500 resumes they need an outside company to help them filter down.

 

[dgs]

I'd like to give some of these a shot. Anyone got a link? the proveit site listed at the top doesn't show any Pro|E tests that I could find.

 

[design-engine]

Here is one. Multiple choice.

What color is a surface when it is selected?

A Red
B Green
C Yellow
D Silver

 

[dgs]

Red. Well, more like pink, but I think it's supposed to be red.

 

[jimshaw]

Here is one. Multiple choice.

What color is a surface when it is selected?

A Red
B Green
C Yellow
D Silver

Um, what is red, Alex? I'll take "Family Tables" for 800 please...

 

[audctrl]

Here is one. Multiple choice.

What color is a surface when it is selected?

A Red
B Green
C Yellow
D Silver

Wouldn't this depend on the system color settings? So I choose E whatever color I want to make it.

 

[[-Skint-]]

Here is one. Multiple choice.

What color is a surface when it is selected?

A Red
B Green
C Yellow
D Silver

Wouldn't this depend on the system color settings? So I choose E whatever color I want to make it.

All you rich people and your colour tv`s... im still on a 10" B&W

 

[kdem]

You can change the selected color from the system colors palate which changes the color of the surface when selected but I've found PTC usually bases these questions on the default settings.

 

[design-engine]

The answer is Pink but there is not that option. I can't answer these types of questions. Drives me mad.

 

[mgnt8]

I took a few of those and scored decent, not perfect. After going over the answers I realized I actually knew all of them but I hit the wrong selection, consistently about 3/4 the way thru on 2 or 3. Story of my life - I breeze thru multiple choice for awhile then go off the rails near the end.

 

[jclark]

Here is one. Multiple choice.



What color is a surface when it is selected?



A Red

B Green

C Yellow

D Silver

And that is relevant to a designer because???

What a ridiculous question. The other problem that comes up with many programs is people know them by muscle memory or custom mapkeys, and how is one able to properly demonstrate that?

Generally, we've done the approach of asking how people are familiar with certain attributes in Pro/E, be it top down design or what not, then ask what they like/dislike about those key attributes, and strengths/weaknesses of them

Usually if you get someone to talk about specifics you can get a feel if they are BS'ing or not. Then there is the hands on test if you can afford the time to adminster them.

 

[harichennai]

i could not find the test...


is a registration needed?

 

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