Interview Questions

Explain a situation where you work innovatively ?

Explain a situation where you worked overriding a company procedure ?
Explain a situation where you achieved a Goal and how you would have achieve it
better if you have a chance now ?
Did you ever openly disagree to your manager?
Tell me about time when you had a difficult issue and how you workedit through.

#TCP Questions
How does the TCP work ? Explain Flow control and Windowing in detail ?
What are the TCP flags ? Explain in detail when they are used ?
If one packet is missed during the transfer(From 8,9,10 packet 10 is missed) how
can you get that packet back ?
What is Acknowledgment and Sequencing ? What is the difference ?

#Routing Protocol Questions

You will have to select one of the protocol..Either OSPF or BGP .I chose OSPF.
What are the OSPF states ? What is happening at each state ?
What are the pre-requisite to be OSPF neighbors ?
If a Router is in Ex-Stat State what are the possible cause to stay in that state ?
How does OSPF prevent loops ?
what are the Stubby area ,totally stuby area and NSSA area what are the types of
allowed and blocked at each of the area ?
How does traceroute work ?
Once a link down how does it notified to the rest of the network ?
Why we use areas ?

#Other Questions
What are the steps your PC browsing the Amazon web site ?
How does DNS works ? How does trace route works ?
When PC 1 communicate to PC 2 how it knows the Window size of the Receiver ?
What happens when there is a packet drop in the Network ? How does TCP over come
with it ?
How does MPLS ping and MPLS traceroute works ?
What is a BGP Route reflector ?

- Explain how OSPF decides how to forward traffic.

- What is the difference between iBGP and eBGP and describe the issues with each
- If you have mismatched native vlan on a trunk will the trunk work? Explain what
happens in the protocol that determines its behavior when the native vlan is
mismatched.

Technical questions, some very trivial (arp, traceroute, rtt, ..). On face to face
interviews, it's sometimes related to social stuff (tell me when you didn't agree
with your boss, with your colleagues, what did you do ...), and sometimes to
technical questions (bgp, ospf, tcp, ...). Here it depends on how much you know
about them, and the experience of your interviewer. I could have done many
questions based on my experience that would have probably put them in trouble ...
it is always like this. In any case, if you are not smart, you will probably not
pass it.

How do BGP route-reflector work?

Explain how traceroute works.

Can you provide an example of a time when you had to go against your manager's
will?
Two Phone Interviews that focused on my technical skills particularly my knowledge
of IGP Routing Protocols, TCP/IP and MPLS and a one-day onsite Interview with 5
different interviewers. These were mostly behavioural questions and a few technical
questions.

Have you ever had any conflict in a project and how did you resolve it
Questions on MPLS, IGP routing protocols

How TCP 3 way handshake happened?

How would you design a data centre with 100 cabinets?

Was asked to priovide an example where the use of IP Selective ACK would be used