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Giant list of XML interview questions

1. What is XML?
XML is the Extensible Markup Language. It improves the functionality
of the Web by letting you identify your information in a more accurate,
flexible, and adaptable way. It is extensible because it is not
a fixed format like HTML (which is a single, predefined markup language).
Instead, XML is actually a meta language—a language for [...]

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Implement itoa

Implementing itoa function is a popular interview question. Here’s one implementation from SAP.

char *itoa(int value)
{
int count, /* number of characters in string */
i, [...]

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Write a program that prints out its own source code

Frequently a question of the programs printing out their own output appears in code interviews. The question does not really test a skill of a programmer, as much as general awareness of tricks to do that. The quine page by Gary Thompson provides many examples of such applications in various languages. In case you were [...]

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Generic interview questions to ponder

Tell me about yourself?
Which adjectives would you use to describe yourself?
What is your greatest strength?
What is your greatest weakness?
Why do you want this position?”
Why do you want to leave your current job? (Why did you leave your last job?)
How do you handle stressful situations?
What is the toughest problem you’ve had to face, and [...]

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Interview questions for a sysadmin

Siddharth sent in questions he got for sysadmin interview:

Difference between layer 2 and layer 3 devices?
What is VLAN?
What is the subnet for a class C network?
Are you familiar with automounter?
Have you configured an NIS server/client?
Have your configured a NFS server?
Windows and Linux interoperability how to?
What is RAID 1?

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Business Objects interview question

Explain detail objects? - Sol: Detail objects are attached to dimensions, one cannot drill on details nor link on details when linking multiple data providers. While Customer ID would be a dimension, customer name, address, phone and soon should be details.
What is BOMain.Key? - BoMain.Key file contains the information about the repository site i.e it [...]

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SAP ABAP frequent questions cheatsheet

How do you call SAP script in reports & reports in SAP script?
What is different between SAP script & reports?
What is stack?
What is the defination of ALE RFC?
Why is BAPI required? How about BDC?
What happens if I use control break statement in between select & endselect?
What is lock Object

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Generic interview questions

A reader sent in a set of interview questions:
1. You are looking for a challenging career. Please elaborate in terms of the following:
a) What are the kinds of challenges that you are looking forward in your career?
b) How have you equipped yourself to rise to these challenges?
c) What are the specific aims/ visions that you [...]

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Popular interview questions and answers

Surendra Singh Tomar sent in this excellent set of interview Q&A.

Describe a challenging work issue you had to face, and how you dealt with it? Consider what would be the requirements of the ‘new’ job/organization and find something in your past that highlights a skill, experience or situation that might occur or be needed going [...]

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Some general quickies

How did you first get interested in Computer Science?
What do you like to do best related to computers now (programming, administration, testing, manage projects, etc)? What is it about that area that you specifically enjoy?
What is your strongest programming language (Java, ASP, C, C++, VB, HTML,C#, etc.)?
When is the last time you [...]

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10 bottles of pills

This is a pretty popular brain teaser with many companies.
On the shelf you have 10 identical bottles of identical pills (let’s say there’s a hundred pills in each bottle). However, one of those 10 bottles contains cheap knockoff pills. The only way to differentiate fake pills from real pills is the weight - while real [...]

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Some PC and networking questions

Workers can not print from the printer, there user log on are correct and are allowed to print from that printer in active directory. How would you resolve this issue?
What is the difference between hub and switch?
Your hard drive is partitioned as follows: 8 gigs for OS drive C, 8 gigs for Hot Swappable dirve [...]

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