IT Job Interview

Software developers and QA staff use bug tracking software tools frequently.  If interviewers ask you what bug tracking tools you use, here are a few you can give: (more…)

How do you handle version control in your development environment?  What version control software have you used?  These are common questions in application development interview.  Be prepared. (more…)

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software tools are one of the cutting-edge products just emerging onto the technology scene in recent years. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing to reliably connect and coordinate the interaction of significant numbers of diverse applications across extended enterprises with transactional integrity. (more…)

Network administrators are often required to select, install, configure and manage client security software to protect network and desktop from security threats. Some of the commonly used security software are listed below: (more…)

With increasing budgets, IT is coming back.  If you are a job seeker with the right skills, it is fairly easy to join the force of 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market.  It is true that companies are sending U.S. IT job offshore, but how many?  In my estimate, about 2%, really not much.  Then, what are the right skills a job seeker should hold.  It’s easy to find out.  Look at Monsters and Dice to see what’s in demand.  That’s what I found: (more…)

Web services are self-contained, modular applications that are able to work together without relying on custom-coded connections, because they are built on open standards. Web services share a common protocol so they can communicate with each other despite the fact that they speak different languages. (more…)

Interoperability enables communication, data exchange, or program execution among various systems in a way that requires the user to have little or no awareness of the underlying operations of those systems. (more…)

You cannot ignore SOA if you keep yourself updated in IT. Although everyone is talking about SOA, there are in fact few SOA projects going on, therefore not many techies actually got hands-on experience on SOA.

However it is time now to grab some knowledge on SOA in order to stay ahead of the crowd. Here’s just brief instruction of SOA. You can search tons of info on the web for this topic. (more…)

Network administrators, network engineers, and systems administrators should understand the network architecture described as the 7 Layers of the OSI Model. The OSI, or Open System Interconnection, model defines a networking framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the bottom layer, over the channel to the next station and back up the hierarchy. (more…)

While everyone knows how hot SOA is, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is for sure the next hot spot. It is a big advantage for you to talk about your knowledge, or even better, – hands-on experience on ESB during an interview. If your goal is to get a high-end enterprise architect position, it’s time now to obtain some skills on ESB. Here is just a brief description of ESB: (more…)