General Tech Interview Questions

General Tech Interview Questions

System integration questions

1. What is EAI? What are the tools are used? – EAI is Enterprise Application Integration. Tools used are: WebSphere ICS, WebSphere MQ series, WebSphere Application Server, Tibco, Seebeyond, Vitria etc.
2. What is Integration? – Integration is nothing but integrating different applications softwares like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Seibel etc. which belongs to different vendors.
3. How do I connect diferent software which belongs to different vendors? – There is an adapter for each application which helps to interact respective application with the integration broker.
4. On which techology is integration broker built? – Usually the brokers like WebSphere ICS,WAS are built on J2EE technology.

Programming interview questions

A recruiter sent this simple set of interview questions for a programming position.

1. How can you defined OOP?
2. How can you use OOP in your projects/products/applications?
3. What is copy constructor?
4. How many types of copy constructor are there?
5. What shallow copy constructor does/behaves?
6. Does C++ support copy constructor?
7. Does Java support copy constructor?
8. (If the answer to the previous question was correct) Why doesn’t Java support copy constructor?
9. What is software life cycle?

Web designer interview questions

A reader had to go through the interview for Web Designer / Graphic Designer position and sent in his set of questions.

1. Whats is the difference between cellspacing and cellpadding?
2. If a page has to be loaded over all frames in window, what should be the value of TARGET attributes?
3. Which one of the following settlement is correct?
1. A table cannot contain another table
2. A Form can ve nested inside another form
3. Which element are table cells
4. List out tags that are support exclusively by IE and Netscape.
5. What tags are used to embed one html page inside another html page (without using frames)?
6. In dreamweaver what is used to apply same layout to my pages.
7. Which HTML tag is used to define an internal style sheet?
8. How do you define an inline style?

SAS interview questions

1. What SAS statements would you code to read an external raw data file to a DATA step?
2. How do you read in the variables that you need?
3. Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they used?
4. If reading a variable length file with fixed input, how would you prevent SAS from reading the next record if the last variable didn’t have a value?
5. What is the difference between an informat and a format? Name three informats or formats.
6. Name and describe three SAS functions that you have used, if any?
7. How would you code the criteria to restrict the output to be produced?
8. What is the purpose of the trailing @? The @@? How would you use them?
9. Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?
10. What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write to an external file? What statement do you code to write the record to the file?
11. If reading an external file to produce an external file, what is the shortcut to write that record without coding every single variable on the record?
12. If you’re not wanting any SAS output from a data step, how would you code the data statement to prevent SAS from producing a set?
13. What is the one statement to set the criteria of data that can be coded in any step?
14. Have you ever linked SAS code? If so, describe the link and any required statements used to either process the code or the step itself.
15. How would you include common or reuse code to be processed along with your statements?
16. When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to locate that data: scan, index, or indexc?
17. If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the code to force SAS to use only those variable?
18. Code a PROC SORT on a data set containing State, District and County as the primary variables, along with several numeric variables.
19. How would you delete duplicate observations?
20. How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?
21. How would you code a merge that will keep only the observations that have matches from both sets.
22. How would you code a merge that will write the matches of both to one data set, the non-matches from the left-most data set to a second data set, and the non-matches of the right-most data set to a third data set.
23. What is the Program Data Vector (PDV)? What are its functions?
24. Does SAS ‘Translate’ (compile) or does it ‘Interpret’? Explain.
25. At compile time when a SAS data set is read, what items are created?
26. Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?
27. Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical.
28. Name statements that function at both compile and execution time.
29. Name statements that are execution only.
30. In the flow of DATA step processing, what is the first action in a typical DATA Step?
31. What is _n_?

Interview questions for Business Objects developer

1. What is a universe?
2. Analysis in business objects?
3. Who launches the supervisor product in BO for the first time?
4. How can you check the universe?
5. What are universe parameters?
6. Types of universes in business objects?
7. What is security domain in BO?
8. Where will you find the address of repository in BO?
9. What is broad cast agent?
10. In BO 4.1 version what is the alternative name for broadcast agent?
11. What services the broadcast agent offers on the server side?
12. How can you access your repository with different user profiles?
13. How many built-in objects are created in BO repository?
14. What are alerters in BO?
15. What are different types of saving options in web intelligence?
16. What is batch processing in BO?
17. How can you first report in BO by using broadcast agent?
18. Can we take report on Excel in BO?

IT management interview questions

A recruiter for executive search company forwarded the list of questions that are usually asked by one top technology company for newly hired IT managers, CIOs, CTOs and division Vice Presidents. No answers, naturally, as some questions are highly personal and there are no 100% correct answers.

1. Summarize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the financial position of the company as you understand them.
2. We view the accounting/financial management functions in this position as more than tracking numbers, but tracking and analyzing number to find ways to reduce expenditures and increase revenues. What experience do you have in using your accounting and financial management skills to identify waste and opportunity? What were the results of your efforts?
3. How have you increased revenues in the previous companies you’ve worked for?
4. How much success have you had with budgets you have developed or assisted in developing? Explain.
5. When you think about managing the optical networking group, what do you think? How would you approach this responsibility? What would you like to know about it?
6. What are the most important policies and procedures in your philosophy to cash management?
7. When analyzing your group budget, what would you be looking for?
8. Describe two instances when you had to work weekends or evenings to meet expectations and/or “fill the gap” from other employees and/or subordinates?
9. What types of reports would you like to review your first month on the job and why? What kind of regular meetings would you schedule with your division managers?
10. What experience do you have with Local Area Networks/Servers/computer technicians and dealing with vendors?
11. What do you want staff to tell you about their position your first week on the job? After the first month?
12. How will you determine your expectations from your staff? At what point do you believe it is important to give staff a “Preview Review”?
13. How will you help staff change from a “This is how I’ve always done it.” to new processes you implement?
14. How do you reward excellence, innovation, initiative, teamwork?
15. How many performance evaluations have you conducted in the last 12 months? How did your reports fare? How did you help them do well? What could you have done to help them perform at the highest level?