Interview Questions

Productivity is a result of the way that a business operates – the result of the way that its people, business processes, different functional units and suppliers come together to meet the needs and wants of its customers.

Productivity is the combination of intelligent planning and focused efforts and hence, it is a combination of Efficiency and Effectiveness.

Efficiency :

Efficiency is an internal measure of performance for companies that shows how well the company converts inputs into outputs. The more the ratio of outputs to inputs approaches 100 percent, the better the efficiency of the process will be. In simple terms, it is “doing things right” and comes from proper harnessing of time, cost and efforts.

Effectiveness :

Organizational effectiveness is an external measure of performance and indicates how well an organization fulfills the demands of various organizational stakeholders. Simply put, it is “doing the right things."

- Divide the data into sections

- Add the sections together using 1's complement arithmetic

- Take the complement of the final sum, this is the check sum

Employee Travel and Expense Report (ETER ) / Direct Pay / Unencumbered Goods and Services

- The ETER is examined for compliance with Travel policy by the accounting clerk prior to submission to Accounts payable

- Accounts Payable enters ETER Information into Banner as a Direct pay, generates a Banner invoice number, and records invoice information

- Reimbursement checks for ETERs will be processed within five business days after a completed and correct ETER is received by Accounts payable and scheduled for payment in the payment cycle following.

- ETERs should be submitted within  60 calendar days of incurring the expenses. TEARs submitted for expenses older than two months will not be processed nor reimbursed.

There are two types of macros. They are object-like and function-like.

JAD (Joint Application Development) is a methodology that involves the client or end user in the design and development of an application, through a succession of collaborative workshops called JAD sessions.

The JAD approach, in comparison with the more traditional practice, is thought to lead to faster development times and greater client satisfaction, because the client is involved throughout the development process. In comparison, in the traditional approach to systems development, the developer investigates the system requirements and develops an application, with client input consisting of a series of interviews.

In networking, the Open Systems Interconnection is commonly called as OSI model. It has a 7 layer architecture for the communication.

In OSI network architecture, the routing is performed by network layer which is layer number 3 with the help of intermediate routers.