COBOL Assessment Test

Candidates Assessed

21367+

Organizations Served

129+

iMocha’s Cobol online test is the preferred pre-employment test for recruiters and hiring managers to hire job-fit candidates for roles such as Jr. Cobol Developer, Software Engineer Developer – Cobol, and Micro Focus Cobol Developer. This Cobol skill test reduces hiring time by 45% and increases interview to selection ratio by 62%.

Test Summary

Using powerful reporting, you will have detailed analysis of test results to help you make better decisions and predict candidate and employee success. The Cobol Online test enables employers and recruiters to identify potential hires by evaluating working skills and job readiness. For this reason, emphasis is laid upon evaluating the knowledge of applied skills gained through real work experience, rather than theoretical knowledge.

This test may contain MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions), MAQs (Multiple Answer Questions), Fill in the Blanks, Whiteboard Questions, Audio/Video Questions, LogicBox (AI-based pseudo coding platform), Job-based Simulations, True or False Questions, etc.

Cobol: The test contains 20 questions on Cobol to assess the candidates in that particular area.

Test Duration: 20 minutes

No. of Questions: 20

Level of Expertise: Entry/Mid/Expert

Useful for hiring

Jr. Cobol Developer
Software Engineer Developer - Cobol
Micro Focus Cobol Developer

Topics Covered

Write Out-Rec statement

iMocha’s COBOL online test evaluates candidate’s ability to work on OUTREC control statement which allows to reformat the input records after they are sorted, merged or copied

Procedure - Division Statement

This test helps in assessment of candidate’s knowledge about COBOL procedure division statement which contains the actual operations to be performed to complete the task

Merge Verb

Our Cobol skill test evaluates candidate’s ability to work with MERGE statement which combines two or more identically sequenced files

Rewrite Verb

Our test assesses candidate’s understanding about file handling verbs in Cobol where rewrite verb is used to update the records

String Verb

This test checks candidate’s proficiency in string handling in Cobol where string verb is used to concatenate the strings

Access Mode Clause

Our Cobol test evaluates candidate’s ability to use access mode clause in Cobol which defines how Cobol reads and writes files

You can customize this test by

Setting difficulty level of test

Choose easy, medium or hard questions from our skill libraries to assess candidates of different experience levels.

Combining multiple skills into one test

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Adding your own questions to the test

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Requesting a tailor-made test

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“Siemens needed an employee review metric that was based on pure data, making it simpler for the hiring managers to evaluate their team. At the same time, we wanted the employees to be able to show case their domain knowledge and skills without the fear of any biases affecting their review process.”