Technician

Computer skills and technical skills are indispensable in this contemporary era, and any significant experience you have with software relevant to the position in question will be highly desired. Be sure to tell your interviewer if you do have such skills, and highlight your expertise if possible. In addition, typically any good experience using the two main operating systems, OSX and Windows, as well as general office productivity programs like Microsoft Office, Apple’s iWork suite, and even Google Drive will most likely be useful in any position.

Having interest in new topics and dedicating time and effort into researching to study such things reflects well on your drive as a potential employee. School has most likely provided you with ample opportunities to pursue research in a topic of your choice, so speak intelligently and enthusiastically about an example from one of these experiences. What did your process look like, and what did you learn from your experience? Think about those questions as you give your reply.

While it is a respectable skill to be able to work well under supervision, it is even more admirable when an intern is able to demonstrate their self-discipline and self-sufficiency in a workplace, especially when his/her supervisor is unavailable to dictate what they should work on. Be sure to give your interviewer an example in which you demonstrated these traits, and were successful in accomplishing your main task.

Employers like to see that you are engaged in other activities that are either indirectly or directly related to the skills required for the position you are applying for, but it isn’t a necessity. The most important part of this question is to be able to demonstrate that you have a life outside of work, and are invested in and passionate about experiencing new things.

Interviewers usually pose this question because they may be interested in knowing how serious you are in pursuing a given academic or professional field. Although there is no "right answer" to this question, evaluate your plans for the future and be sure to give an answer that is insightful in that it shows that you have a plan to build upon your professional skills even after your internship. Another solid strategy is to play up the role of the internship opportunity to influence your career goals. Your career goal may simply be to learn as much about ‘x’ as possible in this internship to know if it is something you’d like to pursue a career in.

It is the transfer of sufficient amount of the state of process from one machine to the target machine.

Trapdoor is a secret undocumented entry point into a program used to grant access without normal methods of access authentication. A trap is a software interrupt, usually the result of an error condition.

☛ Mutual Exclusion: Only one process may use a critical resource at a time.

☛ Hold & Wait: A process may be allocated some resources while waiting for others.

☛ No Pre-emption: No resource can be forcible removed from a process holding it.

☛ Circular Wait: A closed chain of processes exist such that each process holds at least one resource needed by another process in the chain.

This reveals whether candidates are staying up on trends. Do they have a sincere interest in IT and keep up on changes in the field and your industry?

Once again, there are a few ways to answer this but they should all be positive. You may work well under pressure, you may thrive under pressure, and you may actually prefer working under pressure. If you say you crumble like aged blue cheese, this is not going to help you get your foot in the door.

This should be directly related to the last question. Any research you've done on the company should have led you to the conclusion that you'd want to work there. After all, you're at the interview, right? Put some thought into this answer before you have your interview, mention your career goals and highlight forward-thinking goals and career plans.

Arrgh! If you fall for this one you shouldn't be hired anyway. The interviewer is testing you to see if you'll speak badly about your previous supervisor. Simply answer this question with extreme tact, diplomacy and if necessary, a big fat loss of memory. In short, you've never had any issues.

Turnaround time is the interval between the submission of a job and its completion. Response time is the interval between submission of a request, and the first response to that request.

Free memory is maintained in linked lists, each of equal sized blocks. Any such block is of size 2^k. When some memory is required by a process, the block size of next higher order is chosen, and broken into two. Note that the two such pieces differ in address only in their kth bit. Such pieces are called buddies. When any used block is freed, the OS checks to see if its buddy is also free. If so, it is rejoined, and put into the original free-block linked-list.

Windows NT uses protection mechanism called rings provides by the process to implement separation between the user mode and kernel mode.

Researching the company or organization you are applying to is an integral part of the application process, and this question is an evaluation of whether or not you have already done such an essential task. Prepare to answer questions regarding the origins of the company/organization, their current activities, and their objectives for the future.

Failing to have any knowledge of the company/organization you are applying for will appear to be indicative of a lack of interest or commitment to the application, and to the position itself, whether or not that was your actual intention.

It may seem appropriate to be modest about your skills when asked this question in an everyday context, but an interview is not the time to underplay your skills—particularly if the position in question emphasizes a necessity for such talents. Be honest about the limits of your skills, but enforce the idea that you are constantly on the quest to improve and hone your skills further, especially if you are given the opportunity (or position) to do so.

When answering, it is also best to include some anecdotal stories or example experiences in which you've been required to utilize and showcase these skills of yours.

When an employer inquires about a situation in which you were at odds with your supervisor, be honest. He/she may be evaluating how you may approach conflicts with your work superiors in the future, so give an example in which you disagreed, but were still able to calmly communicate and compromise in order to resolve the issue you had with that individual.