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Network Experience - The 7 Layers of Network

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 […]

Microsoft (Silly) Interview Questions

Microsoft is a smart company but a lot of silly questions will be asked if you go for an interview in Microsoft. The bad thing is, a lot other companies copied Microsoft questions for their own interviews. In my opinion, these questions make little sense and can hardly test your qualifications, but some […]

Illegal Interview Questions

Federal and State laws state that employers can only ask you questions related to the job which you are applying.  But in many situations the interviews may not aware the laws.  With small companies their HR staff may be untrained on these issues.  Therefore there is chance you will be asked to answer illegal questions.
How […]

Inappropriate Interview Questions

Sometimes interviews do ask questions that are not obviously illegal but indeed inappropriate:
Tell us about your personal life?
Are you married?
Do you have children?
Does your wife work?
What does your husband do?
Of cause they have no right to know your personal life but sometime they just want to know more about what kind of person you are, […]

Really Silly Interview Questions

From time to time interviewers ask really silly questions that you have to give a make-sense answer. Take a look of these questions:
If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
If you were a tree, what tree would you be?
What color you think could represent you best?
Questions like this do not make much […]

What is Your Knowledge or Experience for Data Warehousing Lifecycle?

Can you describe data warehousing lifecycle?
Tell us what you know about data warehousing lifecycle?
What are the processes and phases in data warehousing lifecycle?
These are fundamental questions to test your knowledge of data warehousing. To answer the questions, just briefly explain each phase of the lifecycle:
1. Data acquisition processes—extract, transform, load (ETL)
The processes include sourcing, […]

Enterprise Service Bus Experience

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, […]

Interoperability Experience

Interoperability is a hot topic today.  It is the first and the only thing that Sun and Microsoft get together to work for.  A knowledge and experience in interoperability could become ever more valuable.
Interoperability enables communication, data exchange, or program exceution among various systems in a way that requires the user to have little or […]

Web Services Experience

Web services are self-contained, modular applications that are able to wrok 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.
Since web services have become mature technology in the past […]

UML Experience

UML skills and experience are expected for software engineers, application developers, software designers, and enterprise architects.
UML stands for Unified Modeling Language.  The UML provides a language-neutral, tool-supported, well-documented standard for modeling systems such as web applications.  It enables system requirements, structure, and behavior to be succinctly captured and effectively communicated.
As explained by Duncan Jack in […]

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