"Linux is now not supported"

[Andrew Warren]

John Posada wrote:

> Poking holes in the interview question is not the "test". This
> is an interview and the purpose of the question was to see if
> you knew a process. Answer the question.

Come on, John... Lots of interviewers would ask that question WANTING to see whether the candidate tries to get more information before jumping in with a solution.  Here, for example, is a guy who'd immediately no-hire anyone who responded the way you suggested:

    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
    (search the page for "design a house")

If you aren't interested in rephrasing the question to make it crystal-clear that you're asking for a crisis-handling process, at least cut people some slack for assuming that you might have been asking for a crisis-recognition process.

-Andrew