The Beatles ... Not The Worst Group Ever Made
1) In the song Penny Lane, where is Penny Lane?
a) In my ears and in my eyes
b) There beneith the cool suburban skies
c) Near the octopus's garden
d) It's Rocky Raccoon's house
2) How would you best describe Rocky Raccoon?
a) Angry, vengeful
b) Homical
c) Love-lost
d) Dying while telling jokes
3) In a correct HTML file, name one kind of metadata that might exist.
4) (Yes/No) Can one make a table cell containing a picture of Paul
McCartney.
5) I have a normal array named 'a'. I wish to copy it into
another array named 'b'. Please write me perl code to do
this. Points for brevity.
6) The variables types in perl are ...
scalar
normal arrays
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7) Write me a function in perl that returns the sum of it's two
arguments. Show me it running.
8) List every nation from the 'nations' database that is 100%
Muslim. One point if you can tell me the national codes ('sa',
'ym') and another point if you can tell me the national names ('Saudi
Arabia', 'Yemen'). Show me the SQL query on your screen.
9) When running the 'die' command on a CGI script, where does the text
go?
The browser screen
The error log
Both
Neither
You should not use die commands in CGI scripts
10) Make me an SQL table that can hold the following items.
Insert the two items. Show me
("White Album", 19.95)
("Blue Album", 23.50)
11) What permissions does a CGI script use?
No permissions
No permissions to any file except /tmp/* and the
right to make network sockets
Full root permissions
Anything else
12) Suppose the singer table has 100 items, and the writer table has 27
items.
Only three writers have been sung. How many rows will the
query "select * from singer, writer" generate?
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13) Suppose that as Lenon is doing his update and before Lennon update
is complete
the power fails. When the power is restored what will the
database
contain?
a) Some records updated but not others
b) No records updated
c) All the records updated
d) None of these horrible answers
14) When can you set a cookie using a CGI script?
a) Anytime
b) Only when printing the header
c) Only after printing the header and during
printing the body of the page
d) Only after printing the page and before the CGI
script
exits
e) After the CGI script exits
f) None of the stinky answers
15) What is a relation?
a database
a table
a tuple
a column
At http://euclid.nmu.edu/~randy/test there is a thumbnail and a
picture. Make me a web page showing the thumbnail such that when
I click on the thumbnail I see the full picture.
Make me a web page that tells if apoe is logged on. Hint ... the
command 'w' wll tell you who's logged on and the command "ps augx" will
list all processes and their owners and the command 'last apoe' will
tell if apoe is logged in.
Write me a web page that lists the nations of the world in order by
gdp. It must do a database query. Extra point if you use a
table.