Xtreme way to Round 2 ITPro ICup 2008 (just sharing my experience)
First of all, I want to introduce myself here.. (this is my first post though XD)
My name is Arief Widhiyasa and I always using a nickname Clawford in the internet. My mainly interest is in gamedev (game development) and I hope I'll start writing about gamedev here as soon as I finished my first big game (I hope for a lot of support for all of you XD). I also interested in med-level programming (usually using C++) and development using win32-API, MFC, directX, etc (old way though XD XD XD, but I still don't like using high level lang very much :P)
A long intro though (phew...). This time I want to share my last night experience when following IT Pro quiz 2 ICup 2008. And unbelieveable result coming this morning... The portal said that I'm allowed to follow round 2, with a round 2 score 22 out of 30 with rank 39 (many people with the same score here), and here is the halfway result of round 1 with me in rank 40.
Nahh.. what I want to say is that I really don't have any knowledge in IT pro (literally I means XD), I just using few tricks for answering that kind of multiple choice questions and optimizing google and wikipedia helps. The reason why I write these things bcoz I want for the real master in IT pro (coz I'm real noobz in IT Pro, and most of my time spent playing minesweeper when following IT Pro training :P, *I'm still hearing of course XD*) to be able to past this round (coz I think this round really doesn't show our skill at all) easilly and bow the name of Indonesia to France :D.
OK. let's get started, most of all, these are the requirements needed :
- a fast internet connection (fast in this statement means that you can open google searh result first page in less than 5 seconds)
- a messenger with so many IT friends in it :P (better ask than sorry :D)
- (optional) a one click button to search a query (I find it really helpfull bcoz we're racing with time)
For a single question, there are many ways to solve it, such as :
- just answer, coz we already know the answer (as I remember I only answered 2 questions this way XD)
- use few tricks to reduce the possibility of answer (assuming you don't have knowledge related to the answer), such as :
+ contradictive choice, ex. i remember a question like this, 'which of this statement is correct about universal groups?' CMIIW, and in the choice bellow, there are two contradictive choices. e.x. 'this allowed members from all domains' and 'this only allow members from specific domains', so we can reduced the possibility to this 2 choice and after that instinct work :P (atm, my instinct is bcoz of the word of 'universal', the first choice fits best :D)
+ I don't really know how the best way to describe this. but it's just a ad-hoc method of multiple choice answering where you analyze choices relationship and reduce the possible answer. for example.... still don't know how to explain this XD... If I come up with a good way I'll update this post... (hope I don't forget XD)
- use the help of google and wikipedia :D
this is the most effective way to answer a question. these are some step that I do when using google and wikipedia.
The way i'm using google :P :
- First, i ussualy choose all the question, click the one button search and slighly view the result. After that if i don't get any helpful result (most of the time), optimize the query as necessary and view the result (usually i will get some clue here), and if you need a spesific answer (e.x. how many days, or what is blablbla), simply add the word days in the query and the magic works.... *ta daaa* i found the answer :P. Most of the time I really didn't need to go to the page resulted by google. Play with the query, and answers will come :P
- And if that really doesn;t work, try to combine the choice with the query :D. And to optimize time, if i already try to combine 3 choice and the result is very far from expected, i just choose the last choice :D (time is money XD)
- If two ways above really don't work, where i get confusing result, this is the time to ask my friends :D (and hope they come with an answer XD)
The way i'm using wiki :
wiki is useful only when i want to know a description or (*'kepanjangan' in english XD*) of abbreviation. Other than that needs, reading wiki will spend a lot of our competition time.
(phew** writing for about 40 minutes) I think that's all i can share rite now XD, I hope this post can help everyone when following IT pro, or generally when answering multiple choice question :P. And I hope for your comments and if there is something i could add or change i will be very thankful ^ ^