Very good!
The candidate should tell:

a. the parts are historical and not compliant for new designs (but very
good for hobby). RoHS is not a problem of basic principles of electronics
but a manufacturing one.
b. power supply, signal generator, oscilloscope, DVM is must for solving
any problem involving electronics (those are given by default).
c. at least the following things can be designed with those parts:
repeater, inverter, integrator, derivator, log amplifier, comparator with
enhanced output current
d. some more passive components would be necessary for a precise design


Such question involves basic knowledge and creativity. The same types of
questions should be defined for embedded systems or other electronic field
(such RF, mixed electronics, etc).

I have somewhere a test given in 1960-1970 to the US military technicians.
Is a very good one, I will search for it.
The
 multiple choice test will never tell if the candidate will be able to
design something in his lifetime, just that he has good memory, fortune or
knowledge.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:00 PM, <enkitec@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>      One can build a log amplifier with these parts.
>
>      Mark Jordan
>
>
> On 06-Jan-15 14:45, Vasile Surducan wrote:
> > This is an old and good one indeed! Much better than Dwayne test
> anyway...
> > :)
> > Vasile
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:21 PM, David C Brown <dcb.home@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> This problem of setting unambiguous questions which actually test the
> >> students knowledge of his subject has been around for at lnearly a
> century
> >> as is attested by this story about Niels Bohr.
> >>
> >> http://felix.physics.sunysb.edu/~allen/Jokes/bohr.html
> >>
> >>
> >>> The best question ever is a very simple one: you have 1x10K, 1x1nF,
> >>> 1xBC107, 1xLM741.
> >>> What can you do with those (used all or separated)?
> >>> This question beat any test with variants.
> >>>
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