Couple of IT interview questions..
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rz30 please go ahead for the interview and let us all know how you did. Ignore most the people on here because they just stuck up anyway.
If it is for a basic technician job everybody has to start somewhere and to be at the bottom of IT you require very little IT knowledge but for some reason people on here think you require a lot more. I rest my case.
Good luck though.
EDIT: Just to add another point, just because NT is still used in some places does not mean you have to know Windows NT to get into IT. Eventually NT will be fazed out and no-one will be using if. I bet theres not many Windows NT boxes about now anyway.
If it is for a basic technician job everybody has to start somewhere and to be at the bottom of IT you require very little IT knowledge but for some reason people on here think you require a lot more. I rest my case.
Good luck though.
EDIT: Just to add another point, just because NT is still used in some places does not mean you have to know Windows NT to get into IT. Eventually NT will be fazed out and no-one will be using if. I bet theres not many Windows NT boxes about now anyway.
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Well, to be fair, he did ask.
And he's not going for a basic technician job, he's going for a job where he cannot answer even a basic interview question. If he didn't need any knowledge, why do they bother asking?
If he was going up against other people for the same job, people that actually knew the answer, he wouldn't get the job.
It's as well to wish him "good luck", because luck is all he has...
Job interviews and candidate selection are not always as black and white as that.
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If he was going up against other people for the same job, people that actually knew the answer, he wouldn't get the job.
Wrong, just because someone can't answer a technicial question, they however might be very well presented and the candidate might answer other questions in better manner than the opponent candidates.
Just because one can't answer the question does not mean they won't get the job.
If both candidates were exactly the same but for answering that question, sure.
But if one has good experience in a high pressure customer service role and the other has sat under a log reading about networks for the last 5 years they may well think it easier to train him on technical matters than train the other guy on phone manner / handling customers.
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You're the only "stuck up" moron in the thread.
As I've said not COUNTLESS TIMES, we aren't saying that he NEEDS all the knowledge described in the thread by various professionals, we were merely HIGHLIGHTING his shortcomings in his attitude towards his own knowledge.
He simply CANNOT go to any job interview thinking that he knows best, when quite clearly he doesn't. His attitude of "network architects" don't do anything except plug in cables was incredibly short sighted (and rightly so given that he had only ever seen consumer grade kit), but he needed to be made aware of these facts. Furthermore, thinking he could learn all this from wikipedia in a few hours was nothing short of retarded.
Nowhere has any of the professionals in this thread hinted that he shouldn't try for the job, or that he needs to know everything discussed, only that he needs to change his perspective and attitude.
Now, go crawl back under your "fuzzy merry happyland" rock and pretend that you know best.
Is still used in some places? It's used in countless places and with products like SBS Microsoft are making real inroads into the SME market - oftentimes it's cheaper to run that than hiring someone in to put together a comparable system running on an open-source/free platform.
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You judge me like you know me on a public forum. How mature. The op is not the one who needs to change his attitude around here.
Crawl back under my fuzzy merry happyland? You going to explain in english or do you have nothing else to say so you come out with this 'talk'.
I know IT knowledge is very hard but nobody goes into IT expected to no everything alright. end of. You talk to this guy like hes some poo on the end of your shoe!!!
Yes, but you can't keep relying on Windows NT for answers/questions because not everybody was bought up in the Windows NT era. If you go learn MS server 2003 your not expected to know Windows NT as your there to learn MS server 2003 not NT.
Why, explain instead of just saying fail.
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No, I'm right, as I often have to hire people - and have been for well over 10 years (albeit software developers rather than network admins - but the principles are the same), and I tend to hire people who have the skills I require, and if you can't answer the most basic experience question with yes, but you also display fundamental lack of really REALLY BASIC understanding...then mind the door on the way out...
It's not the fact that the question wasn't answered. A simple "no" would have been a much better and more accurate answer...but he then portrayed a complete and utter lack of understanding, confusing network topology (peer to peer) with application (bit torrent).
This is on the back of a thread about how good he is at programming (yet considers OO principles to be advanced) and web design (which I didn't bother reading, but I can safely assume contained more of the same)...
Just read through this thread as I never saw it the first time around, have to admit I've never had so many laughs and fits of rage in a single thread as this one.
You spent most of the thread belittling many of our chosen professions, and you still appear to be doing it now. A "PC engineer with some networking" really gives you no grounds to say that its not a difficult job - I'm betting you haven't even been exposed to anything more complicated than some ADSL routers, possibly a VPN or 2 and definitely no Cisco kit.
For future guidance, in interviews - don't try to blag it if you don't know. I've been through a few interviews, and while for most questions I've been able to properly answer the question, a few questions I've not been 100% on - so I've been honest about it. Tell them you're not entirely sure but are willing to learn - don't say "I'm sure it's easy" or anything like that, as chances are you don't know the half of it.
You spent most of the thread belittling many of our chosen professions, and you still appear to be doing it now. A "PC engineer with some networking" really gives you no grounds to say that its not a difficult job - I'm betting you haven't even been exposed to anything more complicated than some ADSL routers, possibly a VPN or 2 and definitely no Cisco kit.
For future guidance, in interviews - don't try to blag it if you don't know. I've been through a few interviews, and while for most questions I've been able to properly answer the question, a few questions I've not been 100% on - so I've been honest about it. Tell them you're not entirely sure but are willing to learn - don't say "I'm sure it's easy" or anything like that, as chances are you don't know the half of it.
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I assume this means we can look forward to rz30 posting in the Servers and Enterprise Solutions forum, sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience?
Please don't give him ideas - there's too many of them in there at the moment!
"I want a server"
"What for?"
"I dont know...."
"I need a 6tb storage system with redundancy and disaster recovery"
"A few HP ML110s full of SATA drives should do it!"
"Oh, and Mozy online backup"
Makes me wince sometimes in there.
"I want a server"
"What for?"
"I dont know...."
"I need a 6tb storage system with redundancy and disaster recovery"
"A few HP ML110s full of SATA drives should do it!"
"Oh, and Mozy online backup"
Makes me wince sometimes in there.
Digging this up.
Just to say i am know working as a PC Engineer with some networking(which should increase). So yes i know what peer-to-perr is now, but i still stand by what i said that it not a particularly difficult job.
I have just finished a 4 year degree on Networks, and im STILL learning everyday. For you to say one year down the line its not particularly difficult is utter rubbish. You sure you are not working for PC World.