2. “How many cows are in Canada?” – Asked at Google, Local Data Quality Evaluator candidate.

3. “How many quarters would you need to reach the height of the Empire State building?”

4. “A penguin walks through that door right now wearing a sombrero. What does he say and why is he here?” – Asked at Clark Construction Group, Office Engineer candidate.

5. “What songs best describes your work ethic?” – Asked at Dell, Consumer Sales candidate.

6. “Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says you can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. What is it?” – Asked at Amazon, Product Development candidate.

7. “What do you think about when you are alone in your car?” – Asked at Gallup, Associate Analyst candidate.

8. “How would you rate your memory?” – Asked at Marriott, Front Desk Associate candidate.

9. “Name 3 previous Nobel Prize Winners.” – Asked at BenefitsCONNECT, Office Manager candidate.

10. “Can you say: ‘Peter Pepper Picked a Pickled Pepper’ and cross-sell a washing machine at the same time?”

11. “If we came to your house for dinner, what would you prepare for us?” – Asked at Trader Joe’s, Crew candidate.

12. “How would people communicate in a perfect world?” – Asked at Novell, Software Engineer candidate.

13. “How do you make a tuna sandwich?” – Asked at Astron Consulting, Office Manager candidate.

14. “My wife and I are going on vacation, where would you recommend?” – Asked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Advisory Associate candidate.

15. “You are a head chef at a restaurant and your team has been selected to be on Iron Chef. How do you prepare your team for the competition and how do you leverage the competition for your restaurant?” – Asked at Accenture, Business Analyst candidate.

16. “Estimate how many windows are in New York.” – Asked at Bain & Company, Associate Consultant candidate.

17. “What’s your favorite song? Perform it for us now.” – Asked at LivingSocial, Adventures City Manager candidate.

18. “Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when time is 11:50.” – Asked at Bank of America, Software Developer candidate.

19. “Have you ever stolen a pen from work?” – Asked at Jiffy Software, Software Architect candidate.

20. “Pick two celebrities to be your parents.” – Asked at Urban Outfitters, Sales Associate candidate.

21. “What kitchen utensil would you be?” – Asked at Bandwidth.com, Marketer candidate.

22. “If you had turned you cell phone to silent, and it rang really loudly despite it being on silent, what would you tell me?” – Asked at Kimberly-Clark, Biomedical Engineer candidate.

23. “On a scale from one to ten, rate me as an interviewer.” – Asked at Kraft Foods, General Laborer candidate.

24. “If you could be anyone else, who would it be?” – Asked at Salesforce.com, Sales Representative candidate. ’

25. “How would you direct someone else on how to cook an omelet?” – Asked at PETCO, Analyst candidate.

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This morning we have been given an opportunity to attend a talk/orientation on the new Product version of Acronis, Acronis is a Data backup software and disaster recovery solutions that has been around way back 2002. It started as a home based solution Backup & recovery tool and has captured consumers because of its friendly user interface.

So to get us started we need to know why backing up files is important, i’ll enumerate some basic examples:

1.  First your files are important to you/companies.

2.  Data Recovery are expensive

3.  Stolen/Lost or Damaged drives are expensive

Now given this three main reasons, for me is enough to think about backing up your data. Imagine those files containing important information that you need for your company/business to function. Thinking ahead of the possible scenario might be beneficial to you, that is where Acronis comes into play.

Acronis offers solution for this kind of situation, focused on the Windows and Linux Operation systems, targeting this two OS holders that has a lot of market share and given that its consumers are many. Some of the features are cataloging and searching of backed up files, Monitoring, reporting of backed up files, Deduplication wherein one original file will be backed up and depending on the quantity that needs to be backed up will be hashed for future recovery therefore freeing/saving more space used during the backup.

• Centralized Management

• Disaster Recovery

• Data Recovery

• Acronis Universal Restore

• Superior Virtualization Support

• Flexible Any-to-Any Migration

• Applications Support

• Flexibility to Grow

One of the main feature of Acronis is their snapshot technology, where the system will take a picture of your whole system for that current time and will give you an option to restore that state in the future. They Also support virtual machine backups, which i think is a plus, considering that many uses it. Backing up files is mainly divided into two parts Hot & Cold Backup. Hot is online backing up and cold is offline, the other category is the warm Backup wherein the OS is running, one example of this backup is during morning backups where users are not usually working. Replication is also highlighted in the talk, five destinations of backup will be readily available depending on the settings. Acronis is known to have a Set & Forget features for its ease of use which really appeal to its users, that Set & Forget features is one of the foundations that makes Acronis stay in the business for almost ten years. That reason alone is a basis for taking it seriously and also considering it to be part of your business.

The Key Features of Acronis

• Backup

• Disaster Recovery

• Data Recovery

• Virtualization Support

• Easy-to-Use Centralized Management

• Powerful Storage Management

• Eliminates Redundant Data

• Broad Range of Storage

The latest version of Acronis Backup & Recovery is ABR 11.5 Advanced Platform

For physical, virtual, cloud and heterogeneous environments:

• Agent for Windows : Image or file-based backups of entire Windows machines.

• Agent for Linux : Image or file-based backups of entire Linux machines.

• Agent for VMware vSphere : Agentless backup for VMware virtual machines.

• Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V: Agentless backup of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines.

• Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server : Backup of Microsoft Exchange Server with cluster support and granular recovery.

“BACKUP is useless without great RECOVERY”

Created by: Lynyrd Yanga and Janvier Pakaew

Many people in the industry today want the same objective as you. Building the idea of a start-up is the easiest to do but the main problem is in the developing stage.

In business, start-up is an example of a buzzword. According to Wikipedia, Buzzword is a word or phrase used to impress, or an expression which is fashionable. Buzzwords often originate in jargon, According to Mr. Bryan Bibat, buzzwords are words that are overused and has been redefined its meaning. The meaning of a start-up nowadays is a instant business wherein if you have a unique and solid idea you will become the next Mark Zuckerberg and earn a million money right away. And that’s not going to happen.

Seminars and company used the “start-up” to persuade people to make their own business which is a good objective, but people misunderstand it and don’t realize how hard it is.

Mr. Bibat said that it is not enough that you have the solid and unique idea of a start-up. You must also have a solid knowledge, team, and scale to develop your idea to become a product.

He also said that if you want to build a start-up just for a money and fame, you will definitely not get it. But if you want to have a start-up to solve a particular problem, experience and expand your knowledge and network somehow it will work. He also added that start-up will somehow work if it is good for the public.

Let’s look at it in reality that business is a hardest thing to do. Don’t look at it like people who build a start-up and say “Ok, this is my start-up where is my money” because definitely it will not work.

Buzzwords are used by the business guys to talk to other business guys and most people is just parroting what these guys are saying. For example, an engineer said to a forum that a new programming language is the best language ever that can beat the other language. And you are just a random PHP, Java, or Developer and absorb what the engineer said. Let these guys do their work, and look it in a fundamental manner.

Don’t just go with the flow with the trends, ignore the buzzwords, be independent and try it with yourself. Explore new things to discover new knowledge. Don’t be a parrot on what you hear or see.

Famitsu revealed the withdrawn of Sony’s PlayStation in its hometown however Sony plans to continue to mount the video gaming console world. Expect to see PS2 for sale at its best. This device is known for a massive gaming library nearly 11,000 games and still thrive in many countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China.

PS2 started hit the scene in 2000 and spear-headed the new era of home entertainment with its high-quality 3D gaming and built-in DVD player.  This device went to achieve 155.1 million sales and earned the title of the most popular video game console of all time.

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Best Director: Brillante Mendoza (“Thy Womb”)

Best Actress: Nora Aunor
Best Actor: Dingdong Dantes
Best Supporting Actress: Wilma Doesnt (“Sisterakas”)
Best Supporting Actor: Cesar Montano (“El Presidente”)
Best Child Actor: Miguel Vergara (“One More Try”)

Best Screenplay: “One More Try”
Best Original Story: “Thy Womb”
Best Editing: Vito Kahili (“One More Try”)
Best Cinematography: “Thy Womb”
Best Production Design: “Thy Womb”
Best Visual Effects: “Shake, Rattle, and Roll 14: The Invasion”
Best Make-up: “El Presidente” noypistuff
Best Theme Song: Apl De Ap and Jamir Garcia of Slapshock (“El Presidente”)
Best Musical Score: Jessie Lasaten (“El Presidente”)
Best Sound Engineer: Albert Idioma (“El Presidente”)

FPJ Memorial Award: “One More Try”
Most Gender-Sensitive Film Award: “Thy Womb”
Youth Choice Award: “El Presidente”
Best Float: “El Presidente”