Excercise for a Job interview

[DarkShadow]

My contract finished over a month ago. Over the past couple of weeks I've been on the job market on full form. I've managed to secure an interview on the 8th of July

For this interview I have an exercise to do. I've been given an excel document with over a 100 companies. There are about 30 fields to each company. I must create a site that returns matches by location, type, industry and a general search box.

I really want this position so I want to develop it in the best possible way. I think they'll be looking through my thought process in whatever I create, I'm confident in my communication skills and the ability to explain. I'm yet to ask what software they have on their local computer but I'll do that first thing tomorrow.

I wanted some opinions on the following solutions:

1) Dump all data in SQL and then use reporting services to filter the information back. (Been a couple of years since I used this)

2) Store data in access and use ASP.NET to create the web page. (Really rusty skills)

3) Use PHP and mySql. Create a web interface, create some kind of hierarchy and a search box.

Would really appreciate any advice. Thanks

 

[DarkShadow]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I got a response from the manager in regards to the software.

The PC that we have available has a business office suite, including web browser, and internet access, so you might choose to use this machine to demonstrate a page that is hosted on a publicly accessible server, or you might choose to bring in a laptop and run the page locally.

Please bear in mind that all of the site we run are based on Microsoft platforms (ASP, ASP.net, SQL Server).

I don't have any hosting space nor do I have access to a laptop. Is this a reasonable request?