Interview Questions

What is the difference between NTFS and FAT NTFS 1)allows access local to w2k,w2k3,XP,win NT4 with SP4 & later may get access for somefile. 2)Maximum size of partition is 2 Terabytes & more. 3)Maximum File size is upto 16TB. 4)File & folder Encryption is possible only in NTFS. FAT 32 1)Fat 32 Allows access to win 95,98,win millenium,win2k,xp on local partition. 2)Maximum size of partition is upto 2 TB. 3)Maximum File size is upto 4 GB. 4)File & folder Encryption is not possible.

2 What is the difrent between p4 and core 2 duo cpu Dual core is simply a generic term referring to any processor package with two physical CPUs in one. The Pentium D is simply two Pentium 4 Prescott cpus inefficiently paired together and ran as dual core. The Core Duo is Intel's first generation dual core processor based upon the Pentium M (a Pentium III-4 hybrid) made mostly for laptops (though a few motherboard manufacturers have released desktop boards supporting the Core Duo CPU), and is much more efficiently than Pentium D. The Core 2 Duo is Intel's second generation (hence, Core 2) processor made for desktops and laptops designed from the ground up to be fast while not consuming nearly as much power as previous CPUs. The Pentium D, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 are all current CPUs that have dual cores in one package.

3) Maximum how many Logical Partitions you can create irrespective of the hard disk space in an Extended Partition? 23 partitions we can create for logical Logically you have the A: B: drive letters fixed, C: is your primary partition,...so you are allowed to make partitions upto Z: from D: 4) WHAT ARE HARD DISK CYLINDERS? Hard disk cylinders is made up of a set of tracks.Tracks are the concentric circles placed on the surface of each platter in which data is recorded.platters have two surface that are used for read and write operations using read write heads. 5) What is difference between Micro controller and Micro processor? Micro processorIt performs various operations. Micro processor contains all components outside to the Chip. Eg:-computers 2. Micro controllerOnce a program is written in it, it works for that program throughout its life. Micro controller contains all components are fabricated inside the Chip. Eg:-Washing Machines,Micro ovens.

What is a SATA hard disk, and what are its functionalities? Often abbreviated SATA or S-ATA, an evolution of the Parallel ATA physical storage interface. Serial ATA is a serial link -- a single cable with a minimum of four wires creates a point-to-point connection between devices. Transfer rates for Serial ATA begin at 150MBps. One of the main design advantages of Serial ATA is that the thinner serial cables facilitate more efficient airflow inside a form factor and also allow for smaller chassis designs. In contrast, IDE cables used in parallel ATA systems are bulkier than Serial ATA cables and can only extend to 40cm long, while Serial ATA cables can extend up to one meter.

HR Questions These are the typical HR questions, i hope some experts wld show a light on these: 1. Why you want to change your job? If the answer is just 'change' what change is that? Are you not happy with your current job? you will get lot of questions bounce back. Have not practiced any job hence i can't give the answer for 2nd part of question but for the 1st part I have got it . We can say that I have the strong feeling that I can work at my best to help organization to increase it's productivity and satisfactorily of the customer also I believe that I can stand firm with the organization. 2. Why should we hire you? 3. What makes you think that we will hire you? 4. In your current job, what are the obstacles you have came across so far and how did you overcome it? 5. Why do you want to work for us? 6. What don't you like about your current position? 7. What are your hobbies? 8. What do you do in your free time? 9. Do you have any questions for us?

How would you develop team spirit among the people that you supervise? Many employees want to be involved in the ongoing development and progress of their company. Plus, they often have insightful ideas that can make a significant difference in the company. It will provide them self repect in company. Celebrate individual and team performance. Catch people doing something right and focus on recognizing excellent performance. Provide positive reinforcement, issue awards, use a corporate newsletter to highlight specific achievements. Send thank-you cards and congratulatory notes, make phone calls, and send emails. Project Manager Skills If I am a supervise of some one company, I will support each and every individual growth of my teammates as well as my company growth. I will take care each and every individual person in my team by assigning some work, because it will yield me some personal growth as a supervise. What sort of serious problems have you experienced, and how have you handled them?

Do you like to work independently or as a team?

I can work as a team member as well as independently.

I enjoy working with friendly co-workers who can share a laugh while working hard and overachieving
Which is more important to you, your salary or your job? Money is very important to lead the life, but here job is very very important to earn the money and be a dignified in society as well as gaining some knowledge. The money will come automatically, when we show our ability and capability towards in our job. so my self job is very important to me. What is your definition of success? 1. 2. 3. 4. Success can be in two sense one is in which a person thinks he is successfull and other is in which his surrounding think him to be successful. As far as the first one is concerned a person can think himself successfull whenever he thinks he has reached his desired level of satisfaction from his life. Your stimulus or surrounding thinks you successful only when you have crossed a pre-defined limit kept by the stimulus,surroundings or your society. Zenith of success is achieved only when you and your surroundings both think you to be successful

Being a good person by improving the quality of the lives of others, whether it be through work, doing sweet things, improving the environment/community, taking care of one's family, etc. Superficially, I tend to measure success by level of education and abilities within one's career; however, I try to remind myself of the things that are more important

What are your strengths? What have you found to be the biggest source of motivation in your life?

Taking advantage of my strengths so that they are not wasted. Since nobody is lucky enough to be strong in every area, I think it is important to make good use of one's strengths

Tell me about a recent situation with a customer that really tested your patience." "Tell me about a time you experienced conflicting work demands, how did you respond?" "Describe a situation when you had to deal with an unpleasant customer who was making unreasonable demands." "What do you see as being the greatest challenges today in the customer service industry?" "What do you regard as being the most positive aspects of dealing with customers?"

What type of rewards both monetary and non-monetary rewards are most meaningful to you?

 What have you done in the last year with your own time and money that would make you more valuable to our company?

Overall Job Performance 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. How do you typically handle yourself in a fast-pacedenvironment? How would you describe your work pace: fast,moderate, slow, or if it varies and under what circumstances? What are your strengths? Why? What are your weaknesses? Why? How do you handle a heavy workload with manydeadlines? In all jobs there are heavy periods and lightperiods. What do you do in such cases? You are given several rush projects to be completedin a short period of time. How would you establish priorities? Why? How would you describe your organizational abilities? How would you describe your attendance and punctuality habits?How wouldyou describe your work habits?How would you describe your own performance standards?

Initiative/Creativity/Innovation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. What ideas did you contribute to your department?What were the results? Give an example of something you recommended that wasadopted. What have you done to make your job easier or moreinteresting? Give an example of a project you were responsible forstarting. What did you do? How did it work out? How much information do you need to get started on a new project or assignment? When have you had to produce results, without sufficient guidelines or information? What did you do? What is the most creative thing you have done in apast job? How did it occur? In the last year, what innovative ideas have you had at work? Were youable to implement them? How were they innovative?

Ability to Learn 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Give an example of a situation at your previousemployer when you have had to keep up with changes in technology, terminology,and information specific to your field? How quickly have you learned new processes for a job?What did you have to learn? How soon could you learn this job well enough tobecome productive? If time did not permit a training period on a newjob, how would you go about learning the things expected or required of you? Give three examples of your adaptability. Describe the most recent formal learning experienceyou?ve had. What are your long-term professional goals? How dothe duties and responsibilities in this position relate to that goal? What do you consider to be important attributes of asupervisor? What kind of supervisor do you enjoy working for most? Least?

Decision Making/Problem Solving/Analytical Skills

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Describe a specific time on any job that you?ve heldwhen you were faced with issues that tested your problem-solving skills. Whatdid you do? Give an example of a time when you had to keep fromspeaking or not finish a task because you did not have enough information tocome to a good decision. Be specific. Give an example of a time when you had to make aquick decision. Give an example of a time when you had to use yourfact-finding skills to get information to solve a problem- then describe howyou analyzed the information to come to a decision. Give an example of a problem you faced on a job anddescribe how you solved it. Describe your most stressful work-related situationand how you handled it. How do you typically handle yourself under pressureor stress? Describe a difficult situation you encountered with a supervisor orco-worker and how you handled it. What are some examples of important types ofdecisions or recommendations you are called upon to make in your past/presentposition? Most of us can think of an important decision we?dmake quite differently if we could do it over. Any examples from yourexperience?

10. Give an example of a difficult decision you had tomake at your last job. How did you solve it? Follow-up: Why did you choosethat method instead of another solution? 11. What has been a stubborn or recurring problem areayou would have liked to solve in your cur-rent job, but haven?t yet? 12. What process do you follow in solving problems? 13. What methods do you use to make decisions? Pleasegive an example of your approach. 14. What kinds of decisions did you have authority over?Which ones did you have to check with your manager before making? 15. What information or technical support has helped yousucceed on the job? 16. Have you ever had to make a decision before you had all the data youwanted? Give an example. What did you do? Interpersonal Communication Skills/Dealing with Conflict 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is effective communication? Tell me about a job experience when you had to speakup in order to be sure that others knew what you thought or felt. Describe how you would endeavor to convince your bossto grant you additional funds for a purpose you have-in-mind. Describe some projects you worked on that requiredstrong writing skills. What was the level of your responsibility? Who was theprimary audience? How would you characterize your written and oralcommunication-skills? What do you require from a supervisor? Would you rather work on a team or on your own? Describe what a "team" environment means to you. What experience have you had working as a member of a team? What are theadvantages?

Technical Skills Graphic Design/Desktop Publishing 1. 2. 3. 4. What experience have you had with graphic design anddesktop publishing? Please provide samples. What are some basic principles of working withcolors? What sort of consideration goes into designing abrochure? What do you look for in a blueline?

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What information and materials would you provide to a service bureau ifyou had to produce a brochure?

Web Design 1. 2. 3. 4. If money were not a concern, what platform would youchoose for an Intemet information server, and why? When creating Web documents, what tools do you use?What kind of experience do you have with HTML editors? Plain text editors? Website management tools? What does it mean for a program to be called a OGI?What is your experience with OGI programming? What are the top 5 or 10 characteristics of a goodWeb site? Please illustrate by describing a good Web site that you recentlyproduced. How did you plan and design the Web site? How do you decide when andhow to revise or enhance a Web site? What, in your opinion, are the basic characteristicsof a bad Web site? How would you proceed if you were asked to re-design a lessthan adequate departmental Web site? If you were given an assignment to put an existingprint publication on the Web, how would you proceed? Why? Have you ever connected Web forms to a backenddatabase? Discuss your experience with such forms. How do you stay current with developments in communications, graphicdesign, and Web publishing?

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Communication 1. 2. 3. 4. How would you define effective communication? Whatskills do you have that make you a good communicator? How do you choose which medium/media to use to reachyour various audiences? What are the strengths and weaknesses associated witheach medium? What are some of the strategies you have used tocommunicate technical information to a wide variety of people with differinglevels of expertise? How often in your professional experience have you encountered conflictbetween yourself and the subject of your story? Describe one such example.

Management Attitude/Style

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How would you describe your management philosophy andstyle? Have you ever had to initiate corrective action foran employee? If so, what steps did you take to implement this action? In what ways might you want to modify your approachto dealing with subordinates? Some managers keep a very close check on theirorganization. Others use a loose rein. What patterns do you follow? How has it changed during the last few years? How would you describe your standards of performance? What would your staff say? What would your supervisor say? How would you deal with an employee who was not doing his or her job properly? What philosophy and techniques do you use in motivating your staff and energizing them? How would you deal with an employee who does not appear to measure up to increasing demands of a job? How do you think your staff would describe your delegation style?

10. How do you get your employees (or others) to follow you? 11. How do you use your power or authority to achieve your goals?

12. Give an example of how you delegated responsibility for a recent assignment; for instance, how you delegated an assignment, and 13. What you did to monitor it. General Knowledge 1. 2. 3. Can you give us an overview of how an academic department functions in the University? What is your commitment to and understanding of Affirmative Action as it relates to students, staff, faculty and recruitment? What about retention, staff development or promotion? Describe the type of relationship you think should exist between staff and students on this campus.

Administration 1. 2. 3. 4. How do you make sure that your employees are accountable? What do you typically do when you hear of a problem in your area? How useful have you found written procedures and guidelines in helping you manage your area? Do you believe that the chain of command is important? Why? When do youthink it might inhibit organizational effectiveness?

Financial Management 1. 2. 3. 4. What responsibility do you have for budgeting? What budgeting method do you use? How do you go about estimating expenses and budgets? What recent decision have you made that had an impacton finances? How did you assess its impact? What experience have you had with long and short-term budget projections?Please explain.

Tell me how you have dealt with a hostile caller. What was the outcome?" "Describe a highly stressful interaction you've had with an internal/external customer. How did your react?" "How did you respond when you received negative feedback from a caller about you personally?" How would you handle a technical issue that you're unfamiliar with?: If a customer calls saying his computer won't boot, how will you troubleshoot it?: How would you rate your problem solving skills?: How do you deal with criticism?: How would you deal with an extremely irate customer or co-worker?: Are you a team player?: How would you handle a caller who refuses to calm down?: y y y y y
Whats the biggest mistake youve made? How many people were affected by it? How did you find out about it? How did you recover and what did you learn? Tell me about the most difficult IT problem you ever faced and how you handled it. In retrospect, would you handle it the same way now? How do you stay informed about your profession? (This answer should go beyond daily duties. Do you say you have a test network at home? Do you read publications or visit IT Web sites?) Tell me about your relationship with your current end users? (Are you a people person? How do you interact with others?) Tell me about a time when you were working alone and needed to motivate yourself. What were the circumstances, and how did you do it?