Technical Questions asked at interviews?

m4cc45

m4cc45

m4cc45

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Hi,

I have an interview around the corner and wondered what technical questions you have been asked recently. It's hard, even with the most knowledgeable IT person, to prepare for such a thing.

At the moment I have:

PDC Emulator Roles
Redundancy in DNS
General clustering questions

Any other ideas?

Cheers,


M.
 
tbh you can't prepare for such interviews... basically if the general interview goes well your technical interview will be ok.

However if you are not pleasing to the eye or saying something wrong in a general way then you could get the BOFH mode interviewer who'll just ask you impossible questions that they currently dont have an answer for.

Typically the questions will be geared to the problems that they are currently experiencing.

Best not prepare and save your worry - go in there fresh with an excellent knowledge of their architecture.

Good luck
 
What job is it? Best thing to do would be to see what platforms/programs/languages they use and familiarise yourself with them.
 
What about:

What are the FSMO Roles (of which PDC emulator is one).

What is a GC?

What is Native mode in Windows and Exchange?

What is a Universal group?

Learn the common TCP ports (25, 23, 21, 22, etc).

Also try here for exchangy stuff: http://www.exchangefaq.org/
 
IT is a huge area so it would help more if you said what area you were applying for. Here are a couple of technical questions I got asked in my interviews recently before getting the job \o/.

How do you tell if the stack grows up or down in the memory?

Which scheduling algorithm (in your opinion) is the best for time-shared systems and why?

Explain java's autoboxing feature.
 
Sorry for the delay... :)

It's a Windows based job. It's a job I've been doing for the past 5 or so years (well the same industry) but, obviously, the software they use is going to be slightly different..

I have been asked a few standard questions which is in the first post I'm sure there must be something that most people will ask for.

The are will be more towards Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, Windows, Servers, Generic Networking / Cisco equipment...


M.
 
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Triad2000 said:
What about:

What are the FSMO Roles (of which PDC emulator is one).

What is a GC?

What is Native mode in Windows and Exchange?

What is a Universal group?

Learn the common TCP ports (25, 23, 21, 22, etc).

Also try here for exchangy stuff: http://www.exchangefaq.org/
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Good ones. Luckily I know the answers to them ones! Anymore for anymore? :)
 
m4cc45 said:
Hi,

I have an interview around the corner and wondered what technical questions you have been asked recently. It's hard, even with the most knowledgeable IT person, to prepare for such a thing.

At the moment I have:

PDC Emulator Roles
Redundancy in DNS
General clustering questions

Any other ideas?

Cheers,


M.
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A common one is .... "How much porn do you download and from where?"
 
Subliminal Aura said:
What type of clustering questions have you had so far ?

Since it looks like you're aiming be a senior windoze freak you didn't mention backups/disaster recovery ?
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What are the requirements for a clustered environment.
Questions regarding failover and Network Load Balancing. Describe what failover and NLB are and why you'd use them.

Completley forgot about backup and DRS though I'm not worried about that area - that's a really open area where its more about opinions than a right and wrong area and yes it is a senior role.. :)
 
sgx.saint said:
A common one is .... "How much porn do you download and from where?"
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Sadly I can't link as I'm sure OC would think it was a competitor (they do a sideline in electric 'toys') unfortunately I can't give you an amount, however it's never enough!


M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Sadly I can't link as I'm sure OC would think it was a competitor (they do a sideline in electric 'toys') unfortunately I can't give you an amount, however it's never enough!


M.
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lol, be prepared to back up your answer with proof ;)
 
sgx.saint said:
lol, be prepared to back up your answer with proof ;)
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Hence why I use Logmein.com - I can show them in the interview though the picture is a bit jerky (no pun intended!)

Anyway back on topic.. <G>



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
What are the requirements for a clustered environment.
Questions regarding failover and Network Load Balancing. Describe what failover and NLB are and why you'd use them.

Completley forgot about backup and DRS though I'm not worried about that area - that's a really open area where its more about opinions than a right and wrong area and yes it is a senior role.. :)
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Good you sound confident ... not sure about your clustering skills tough... examples of applications that you have clustered would be nice...

Have you ever been mad enough to try and cluster Windows XP ! Sounds mad ? yes ? Sounds impossible - maybe - Your thoughts as to how you would do it ;)
(even though its a stupid general question that will tax the internals of how xp works and how would try to get them working over a cluster)

But really you must have had some indication from your agent as to what the company is gearing towards, focus on this above others.
 
Seems pretty random to me. I've had interviews with zero technical questions, and one where I was made to look a bit stupid.

My advice is not to try and prepare an answer for every potential qeustion, because that is impossible. Instead, try and work out how you will approach questions you don't know the answer to (explaining how quick you are to pick up new things, how you would go about finding out the answer etc).
 
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