- Tell me about yourself.
- What types of development environments have you used in the past?
- What would you do if you were asked to perform a task and weren't sure how to complete it?
- Can you tell me about a work situation where you delivered excellent customer service?
- Can you give me an example of a time that you’ve been flexible in a workplace?
- What makes you stand out as a candidate?
- Tell me how the internet works.
- Pretend I’m not a tech person. Can you explain Application Support in simple terms?
- What is the difference between a GUI and a CLI?
- What’s your process in troubleshooting a crashing application?
- How would you go about automating your systems weekly maintenance tasks?
- What is OOP?
- what is an interface?
- What is class?
- Tell me about constructors.
- What is an object?
- What are methods?
- How do you instantiate an object from a class?
- What is the difference between final and finally?
- What is the difference between Arrays and ArrayLists?
- What is a database?
- What is database management software?
- What is DDL/DML?
- What is the difference between DML and DDL and give one example of each?
- What is the difference between SQL and MySQL?
- How do you write a SQL SELECT statement?
- What is a primary key?
- How does an INNER JOIN work?
- What is normalization? What is its purpose?
- Given a Company table that contains all Companies in a particular state (fields: Name, Address, City, Zip, Phone), write a query that counts all the Companies within a given zip code.
- Continuing with the above example, there is another table “Employees” with fields: company_id (referencing the Company table), Employee Name, Title, Phone, Position Type (P=part-time, F=Full-time), list all employees of a company within a specific zip code.
- Given a Student table that contains information about students at a school (fields: Name, GPA, Phone, Address, DateOfBirth), describe how I can return the names and GPAs of the students that have a GPA of at least 3.5 AND were born IN or BEFORE the year 2008 as well as students that have a GPA under 2.0 AND were born AFTER the year 2008.
- Continuing the previous query, how can I change it if I wanted to see the results in descending order from the most recent birthyear? (ORDER BY DateOfBirth DESC)
- What is ITIL?
- What are some of the main benefits to implementing ITIL in an organization?
- You are an employee working at the help desk of a large technology company. You receive a ticket from a user requesting help, stating that they cannot reach the company website. What might be a possible cause of this?
- What are some of the guiding principles of the ITIL framework?
- What is SSH? How is it useful to us in the context of Linux?
- What is the difference between UNIX and Linux?
- Explain the UNIX architecture . What are the different pieces?
- What are the three types of data streams in BASH?
- What Linux command would I use to view the files or contents of my current directory? (follow up: What about if I wanted to view all the files including hidden files?)
- What is the Linux command to change permissions of a file or directory?
- What Linux command would I use to view the permissions of the files in my current directory?
- Describe 2 different ways to create a general file in the Linux terminal. (Example: touch new_file OR cat > new_file )
- What are the 3 types of users in Linux? (General/regular, Root, Service) (follow up: why do we have service users? [security])
- What are the 3 main file types in Linux? (General, Directory and Device) (follow up: which is most commonly used?[general])
- What Linux command would I use to create a new directory? (follow up: What about to delete an empty directory?)
- Describe how you would go about renaming a file in Linux. (mv original_filename new_filename) (follow up: what if I wanted to delete the file? [rm file_name])
- How could you see a list of all the commands you've entered since the start of a terminal session in Linux? (history)
- Describe a way to append text to an existing file. (example: echo 'some text' >> existing_file.txt)
- Describe a way to concatenate the contents of 2 files into a new file. (example: cat file1 file2 > new_file)
- What is redirection in Linux and please provide an example?
- Describe what a pipe does in Linux.
- What is the grep command used for in Linux? (follow-up: can you provide an example?)
- Imagine you have a text file that is a list of students' names. In Linux, how could I see the output of the file in reverse alphabetical order? (Example: sort -r file_name.txt)
- How would I set up a database server? What are my options?
- What is PL/SQL, how is it different from SQL?
- What is the difference between a Stored Procedure and a Function?
- What is a trigger?
- What is the difference between a primary and foreign key constraint?
- What is WebLogic?
- In WebLogic, and other servers, we have the ability to create clusters. What is a clu ster? And what is the benefit of using them?
- What are some of the ways to monitor the performance of your WebLogic server?
- What is Tomcat used for?
- How are web applications deployed on Tomcat?
- How can we monitor the performance of our Tomcat server?
- What is one tool that can be used to monitor alerts and the status of devices on a network?
- What are Job Codes in Linux/Unix?
- What is an example of a CRON job?
- What are some of the ways to check the health/status of an application?
a. Name a few Object Oriented programming languages b. How is OOP different from a Procedural language like C c. Name 4 key concepts from OOP
a. Given an array of numbers, describe a logic to find the smallest number b. Given an array of Strings, describe a logic to find the total number of Strings with length less than 5 characters
a. Write the logic in 2(b) above in the form of a program with 2 functions, one for finding the length of a string, and another for finding the number of strings with less than N characters.
a. In the following code find the error:
String[] myList = [“red”,”blue”,”green”];
for (int i=0; myList.length; i++);
if (myList[i] == “blue”) print “Found blue\n”;b. Write a BASH script that prompts a user for their name, stores it to a variable, prompts a user for their age, stores it to another variable, and finally prints out a string with the values of the variables.