Reader Vinay Solanki faced these questions from Microsoft recruiter, who apparently was hiring straight out of college.
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 [...]
What is DHCP? How we configure DHCP?
What are the ways to configure DNS & Zones?
What are the types of backup? Explain each?
What are kernel objects? - - Several types of kernel objects, such as access token objects, event objects, file objects, file-mapping objects, I/O completion port objects, job objects, mailslot objects, mutex objects, pipe objects, process objects, semaphore objects, thread objects, and waitable timer objects.
What is a kernel object? - Each kernel object is simply a [...]
What is a level 0 backup?
What is an incremental backup?
What steps are required to perform a bare-metal recovery?
Name key files or directories on a UNIX system that should always be backed up.
Name key files or directories on a Windows system that should always be backed up.
What is load testing? - Load testing is to test that if the application works fine with the loads that result from large number of simultaneous users, transactions and to determine weather it can handle peak usage periods.
What is Performance testing? - Timing for both read and update transactions should be gathered to determine whether [...]
How you used WinRunner in your project? - Yes, I have been using WinRunner for creating automated scripts for GUI, functional and regression testing of the AUT.
Explain WinRunner testing process? - WinRunner testing process involves six main stages
Create GUI Map File so that WinRunner can recognize the GUI objects in the application being tested
Create test [...]
Describe the process of planning a test in WinRunner?
How do you record a new script? Can you e-mail a WinRunner script? How can a person run a previously saved WinRunner script?
How can you synchronize WinRunner scripts?
What is a GUI map? How does it work?
How can you verify application behavior?
This one always gets asked. For a while the database interview questions were limited to Oracle and generic database design questions. This is a set of more than a hundred Microsoft SQL Server interview questions. Some questions are open-ended, and some do not have answers.
What is normalization? - Well a relational database is basically [...]
How do you read transaction logs?
How do you reset or reseed the IDENTITY column?
Describe how the DHCP lease is obtained. It’s a four-step process consisting of (a) IP request, (b) IP offer, © IP selection and (d) acknowledgement.
Chris Sells writes about the set of tester questions his friend got when being interviewed for Software Development Engineer in Test position at Microsoft Corp.
How would you deal with changes being made a week or so before the ship date?
How would you deal with a bug that no one wants to fix? Both the SDE [...]
