Technician

The very fact you’re interviewing face-to-face means you passed the code challenge, the next step is to make sure you’ve come prepared with a rationale for the decisions you made and be ready to talk them through. “Oh, I wrote that? I don’t remember”, could lead to some difficult moments. While it’s unlikely you’ll be expected to write out perfect code on a whiteboard (many developers use IDEs and this is a reasonable mitigation for imperfect syntax), being able to justify your choices and the ability to rationalise and compare alternative solutions is particularly important in agile development teams.

Eloquently communicating your reasons for applying to this particular internship is crucial. You must demonstrate that you are interested and ready to invest your time into such an opportunity. Be specific about your goals and expectations, discuss how you believe your qualifications are in-line with those required of the position, and be ready to explain why you chose this particular company when applying.

Think about the qualities that you possess, but in the context of the internship. Remember those strengths you highlighted earlier? Bring them up again. If you haven’t gotten the strengths question, this is your chance to speak directly to the qualities that make you a strong candidate. A strong, confident answer to this question is key to the interview.

It is a feat in itself to be an expert in your own field, but the ability to pass that knowledge to others effectively is an even greater one. Employers are interested in seeing whether your knowledge can extend to others, given that you will almost always have to collaborate with others in a typical work environment. Being able to give a specific example in which you were able to successfully teach your skills to others reinforces the idea that you are both extremely knowledgeable and that your contributions will not be confined to what you, as one person, contributes to the organization/company, but will also encompass those of others who have learned from you.

If you have a portfolio of your creative work, now's the time to show it. Select a piece that you are particularly proud of, and be prepared to discuss its creation. Simply showing your work is typically not a sufficient response to this question—the emphasis is on your ability to explain the process and methodology that went into creating your piece.

Collaboration and communication skills are invaluable to the productivity and flow of a work environment, so this is a critical example-based question. Employers want to see the potential dynamic between you and your coworkers, and your example will give them an idea of how that interaction will develop. Focus and elaborate on an example that highlights your collaborative skills, your individual role within the greater team, and how you communicated effectively within your team dynamic.

Employers may be interested in knowing whether or not you have connections to the organization/company already, and if they should be particularly aware of these existing relationships, but be advised—they may reflect well on your status as an applicant if they have recommended you for the position, but if you are in the unfortunate circumstance of knowing an employee who you know is not particularly doing well at the organization, the opposite effect may occur. Regardless, it is important to be honest and disclose any relationships. An interviewer may be harmless in posing this question, and could be just curious.

This should be an easy question to answer. You wouldn’t have applied if you didn’t think you were qualified for the position. It’s important to quickly address how you meet the basic requirements for the internship and then expand upon how your strengths and experiences make you ideal for the position. This is a great opportunity for you to stand out from other applicants and make a case for why they should choose you. You’re more than qualified for the position; you’re ideal.

It is a fault tolerance disk driver for Windows NT.

For load-time dynamic linking: Load module to be loaded is read into memory. Any reference to a target external module causes that module to be loaded and the references are updated to a relative address from the start base address of the application module.

With run-time dynamic loading: Some of the linking is postponed until actual reference during execution. Then the correct module is loaded and linked.

We encounter cycle stealing in the context of Direct Memory Access (DMA). Either the DMA controller can use the data bus when the CPU does not need it, or it may force the CPU to temporarily suspend operation. The latter technique is called cycle stealing. Note that cycle stealing can be done only at specific break points in an instruction cycle.

Do your homework before you go to any interview. Whether it's being the VP of marketing or the mailroom clerk, you should know about the company or business you're going to work for. Has this company been in the news lately? Who are the people in the company you should know about? Do the background work, it will make you stand out as someone who comes prepared, and is genuinely interested in the company and the job.

It's not a very fair question is it? We'd all love to get paid a Trump-like salary doing a job we love but that's rare indeed. It's fine to say money is important, but remember that NOTHING is more important to you than the job. Otherwise, you're just someone looking for a bigger paycheck.

Technicians are usually very good at quickly understanding any client, whether scientists or laymen, and being able to effectively communicate whatever the client needs to know about the problem and its solution.

In a cached system, the base addresses of the last few referenced pages is maintained in registers called the TLB that aids in faster lookup. TLB contains those page-table entries that have been most recently used. Normally, each virtual memory reference causes 2 physical memory accesses- one to fetch appropriate page-table entry, and one to fetch the desired data. Using TLB in-between, this is reduced to just one physical memory access in cases of TLB-hit.

With demand paging, a page is brought into memory only when a location on that page is actually referenced during execution. With pre-paging, pages other than the one demanded by a page fault are brought in. The selection of such pages is done based on common access patterns, especially for secondary memory devices.

In Windows NT, executive refers to the operating system code that runs in kernel mode.

Hopefully you’ve done some research and you know the company only has 10 employees or it has a development team of 150. If you’re moving from large to small or vice versa it’s probably good to show that you know what you might be in for. If you like a nice subsidised canteen and powering your machine down at 5:30pm, then a 10 employee company might not be for you. Be prepared to talk about the environment you’re expecting and how environments you’ve experienced in the past have worked. How do you see yourself fitting in? Do you understand how IT projects tend to work in smaller or larger development teams?