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  <Title>Question Answering Using Encyclopedic Knowledge Generated from the Web</Title>
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2 IT Engineers Examinations
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The Class II examination consists of quadruplechoice questions, among which technical term questions can be subdivided into two types.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the first type of question, examinees choose the most appropriate description for a given technical term, such as &amp;quot;memory interleave&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;router.&amp;quot; In the second type of question, examinees choose the most appropriate term for a given question, for which we show examples collected from the examination in the autumn of 1999 (translated into English by one of the authors) as follows:  1. Which data structure is most appropriate for FIFO (First-In First-Out)? a) binary trees, b) queues, c) stacks, d) heaps 2. Choose a LAN access method where mul null tiple terminals transmit data simultaneously and thus they potentially collide.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> a) ATM, b) CSM/CD, c) FDDI, d) token ring In the autumn of 1999, out of 80 question, the number of the first and second types were 22 and 18, respectively.</Paragraph>
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