Product DescriptionThe Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for COBOL programming careers! Over 150 Certification Questions, Answers, and Explanations It's clear that even today global demand for COBOL programmers is robust. Practitioners who wish to remain competitive in the global market need new resources. And finding these resources can be difficult. This book is the direct response to demand for information you can use right now in your COBOL programming career. Over 150 COBOL Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guide you through the learning process. From helping you to assess your COBOL skills to evaluating candidates for a job, COBOL Interview Questions, Answers, & Explanations will help you understand what you really need to know and what you can safely ignore. The book is organized around COBOL's defining features, standards, and common applications. Each question includes everything you need to know to master the interview or properly evaluate a candidate, and is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile COBOL implementations. Key certification and interview topics include: COBOL standards, Challenges with configuration and platforms like CICS. This book also includes code samples, and information about synthesis, interoperability, and system monitoring and security.
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Rating: - Don't waste your money!
Who paid the first two reviewers of this book? This book has so many problems.... where do I start?
1) Nothing new is presented in this book. All the questions and answers came from web sites. You can search the web and get the same information. The author does not even make an effort to organize the data or edit the data for accuracy.
2) Some of the answers are wrong. For example, question 87 claims that you can not move a COMP-3 field to an edited field.... so untrue!
3) Some ... Read More
Rating: - really nice book
I don't see any other books that pay this close attention to a very important job market: Legacy systems. Specifically, COBOL.
Considering that all of the baby boomers who wrote this code and deployed original systems are eithre retiring for good -- or coming out of retirement to work as contract programmers, I think that this
book is the right book at the right time.
It includes information on programming theory like "What does passing by content mean?"
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Rating: - if you want to learn COBOL
Then you should consider this book. This is not a comprehensive
COBOL programming manual - which you should purchase.
Rather, this is a book to help you pick up a job in COBOL. If you
are interested in finding out the most important aspects of COBOL,
and how to best prepare yourself for a job interview in a hurry -
then save yourself some time and purchase this book.
If you need a programming reference, then this is not the book for you.
- Don't waste your money!
- really nice book
