IT Job Interview

Archive for August, 2006

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Tell a Short Story about Yourself When Answering Interview Questions

Have you heard this old marketing tip: “Facts tell but stories sell.”
In fact, a job interview is nothing but a market where you can sell yourself.  By practicing this tip in responding to interview questions, you should always expand on your answer and offer specific examples wherever possible.  When preparing interview, you need to craft […]

Senior Information System Analyst Second Interview Questions

A government agency funded a 3-year project for data integration/consolidation among several agencies. A couple of Information System Analyst positions were planned to be filled for this project. After the initial interview, selected candidates scheduled for the second interview. The following questions were asked in the second interview.
Rate your skills on a 1 to […]

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Experience

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. […]

Keep the Interviewer’s Perspective in Mind

Many career experts would tell you the same strategy: keep the interviewer’s perspective in mind, which means you must try your best to answer interviewer’s “what’s in it for Me?” question.
While many questions asked during job interviews appear to focus on your past accomplishments, here’s an important tip: they may be asking about what […]

Senior Information Systems Analyst Interview

A government agency funded a 3-year project for data integration/consolidation among several agencies. A couple of Information System Analyst positions were planned to be filled for this project. The interview process is outlined below. At start of the interview, a written description of the position and the project was given to the […]

What is Your Experience of Configuring and Using SQL Trace and Autotrace in Oracle?

This is a technical interview question to getting your insight of detailed skill sets as an Oracle DBA or developer. Your answer could tell what level of experience in database server and SQL query performance tuning. Your answer could be:
“In my past job I’ve configured SQL Trace and Autotrace in our Oracle production […]

How Would You Handle a Team Member Who Is Not Performing?

This is a common interview question for project managers, team leaders, or supervisors. This is a very good opportunity for you to insure the interviews that you have skills and experience to handling difficult management situations. The best way to answer is to give an example from your previous experience for how you […]

What Type of Methodology, Tools, and Techniques Have You Used to Assist Project Management?

This question is often asked to project manager candidates in order for interviewers to learn how a candidate can use project management tools effectively in project management process. If you have little idea for this question, here is a suggested answer.
“I believe adapting a structured methodology is very important to the project success. […]

Why Your Network May Get Denial-of-Service Attacks, and How Can You Recover from the Attack?

This question is asked to network administrators and security officers in order to test insight of the candidates’ overall knowledge of the various attacks that may affect the organization. You’d better have some real life network security experience to giving a perfect answer. However, if you never dealt with denial-of-service attack and recovery, […]

What Is Polymorphism and How It Is Implemented in Java?

This is fundamental question about object oriented design and programming. To answer correctly, you must be clear about the concept of overload and override. To make a perfect answer, you may give an example of how overload and override are used in Java. The following is a sample answer:
“Polymorphism refers to overload […]

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