Thursday, April 1, 2010

WAS Admin interview questions

ICE-BREAKER QUESTIONS

1. Brief me about your profile (Academics, Current Company – Designation – Role
and Websphere activities)
2. Which Versions of WAS you have worked on?? Expect some more questions on
enhancements from WAS V5 to V6 to V7
3. Which versions of WAS you have in your current organization? What are latest
Refresh Pack and Fix Packs available for V6.0/6.1/7.0?
4. How many (physical) WAS servers and how many application/environments you
are currently supporting?
5. WAS architecture/topology in current org??
6. List out internal components of WAS
7. Production Support?? L1/L2/L3?? Which ticketing tool is being used?
8. How do you escalate?
WAS Questions
9. How do you install WAS?
10. How do you upgrade WAS (Refresh Pack and Fix Pack installation)?
11. What’s a profile? Different types of profiles?
12. How do you know the version of WAS?
13. versionInfo.sh Vs historyInfo.sh
14. Whats a managed Node?
15. How do you federate a Node to DMGR?
16. What’s default SOAP Port of DMGR?
17. How to start/stop DMGR/Nodeagent/Instance?
18. What’s the ideal order to start/stop DMGR/Nodeagent/Instances? Are there any
dependencies among them?
19. How do you deploy Applications?
20. Important steps in Application Deployment
21. Define EAR/WAR
22. What’s ContextRoot and Deployment Descriptor?
23. What’s Plugin and how do you install?
24. What are the contents of plugin-cfg.xml?
25. What’s VirtualHost?
26. List out various logs available in WAS environment
27. How do you enable trace?
28. In how many ways you can administer/configure/operate WAS?
29. List out the objects available in wsadmin
30. What’s Sync and FullSync? How do you Sync a Node?
31. What’s Garbage Collection?
32. What’s classloader? Modes? Policies?
33. What’s session management? Session Persistence? Session Affinity?
34. JDBC Provider? Driver Types?
35. Connection Pool settings: Max, Min, Connection TimeOut, Aged time, unused
time, Reap time, Purge Policy
36. How do you configure Global Security?
37. List out user registries supported by WAS
38. Minimum details required to configure Global Security with LDAP
39. Vertical Clustering Vs Horizantal Clustering
40. How do you create Clusters
41. Core Dump/Thread Dump?? Heap Dump?
42. What will be your approach when an application hangs?
IHS Questions
43. How do you install IHS?
44. How to start/stop IHS instance?
45. How to check the syntax of httpd.conf?
46. How do you configure SSL for IHS?
47. Browser Error codes – 200, 300, 400?
48. What’s a DMZ?



UNIX/LINUX Questions

49. Command to list out all running JAVA processes
50. How do you terminate/kill a process listed above
51. How to copy plugin-cfg.xml from WAS machine to IHS machine
52. How to list all the ports in use and their status
53. How to find the process to which a port is bound to
54. How to mount/unmount?
55. Which tools do you use to connect to remote Unix/Linux/Windows servers
56. How to remove a directory and its subfolders?
57. How to change ownership and access permissions
58. How to find differences between two text files?
59. How to find Filesystem space?
60. How to find the usage details or folder sizes?
61. How do you search a file?
62. How do you rename a file?
63. How do you view last few lines of a text file (for ex. SystemOut.log)
64. How do you compress/uncompress?
65. VI editor: Quit? Save Quit? Quit without save? Search a keyword? Substitute a
word?

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