Hi Pavan,
I took a test for j2ee role just last week and was very disappointed by the content of test. The role under consideration was 'J2EE developer' who has worked extensively with
Tomcat,
Struts,
JSP,
Servlet and Oracle as backend. So I expected lot of questions on web technology. However, the test started with very basic
java questions and then went into AWT, Swing, and
applet. I passed the test with 80% score as I missed few questions in swing. I spoke with my agent about it and told him that if the client is looking for Swing or AWT skill, I am not the right person. But he said that this test is just an initial screening process. I really got irritated with it, cause after 4.5 years of strong J2EE experience, I didn't like the idea of being tested on Swing and AWT in the screening process. I got the impression that nobody at client side has ever seen contents of that damn test and its there just for the sake of saying that we have tough interviewing process.
However, after my interview experience in UK, I can say that ppl here don�t see if you know basic java or j2ee skills. They are not interested whether you know try-catch-finally or exception handling etc. What the client wants to understand is how you have used your skills in your project. Whets was the business problem and how did you arrive to the solution. They are more interested in practical use of a technology than a theoretical knowledge of it.
That�s my experience, other people can have different one.
Let me know your experience and about the technical test. And best of luck.
-Tejal
[ February 23, 2006: Message edited by: Tejal Pande ]