☛ What development tools have you used?

☛ What languages have you programmed in?

☛ What source control tools have you used?

☛ What are your technical certifications?

☛ What do you do to maintain your technical certifications?

☛ How did your education help prepare you for this job?

☛ How would you rate your key competencies for this job?

☛ What are your IT strengths and weaknesses?

☛ Tell me about the most recent project you worked on. What were your responsibilities?

☛ From the description of this position, what do you think you will be doing on a day-to-day basis?

☛ What challenges do you think you might expect in this job if you were hired?

☛ How important is it to work directly with your business users?

☛ What elements are necessary for a successful team and why?

☛ Tell me about the project you are most proud of, and what your contribution was.

☛ Describe your production deployment process.

☛ Give an example of where you have applied your technical knowledge in a practical way.

☛ How did you manage source control?

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☛ What did you do to ensure quality in your deliverables?

☛ What percentage of your time do you spend unit testing?

☛ What do you expect in the solution documents you are provided?

☛ Describe a time when you were able to improve upon the design that was originally suggested.

☛ How much reuse do you get out of the code that you develop, and how?

☛ Which do you prefer; service oriented or batch oriented solutions?

☛ When is the last time you downloaded a utility from the internet to make your work more productive, and what was it?

☛ What have you done to ensure consistency across unit, quality, and production environments?

☛ Describe the elements of an in tier architecture and their appropriate use.

☛ Compare and contrast REST and SOAP web services.

☛ Define authentication and authorization and the tools that are used to support them in enterprise deployments.

☛ What is ETL and when should it be used?

☛ You have been asked to research a new business tool. You have come across two solutions. One is an on-premises solution, the other is cloud-based. Assuming they are functionally equivalent, would you recommend one over the other, and why?

☛ What do you do to ensure you provide accurate project estimates?

☛ What technical websites do you follow?

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☛ Have you used Visual Studio?

☛ Have you used Eclipse?

☛ What is a SAN, and how is it used?

☛ What is clustering, and describe its use.

☛ What is the role of the DMZ in network architecture?

☛ How do you enforce relational integrity in database design?

☛ When is it appropriate to denormalize database design?

☛ What is the difference between OLAP and OLTP? When is each used?

☛ You have learned that a business unit is managing a major component of the business using Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. What risks does this present, and what would you recommend be done to mitigate those risks?

☛ What automated-build tools or processes have you used?

☛ What is the role of continuous integration systems in the automated-build process?

☛ Describe the difference between optimistic and pessimistic locking.

☛ In databases, what is the difference between a delete statement and a truncate statement?

☛ What are transaction logs, and how are they used?

☛ What are the most important database performance metrics, and how do you monitor them?

☛ What is the role of SNMP?

☛ What is a cross site scripting attack, and how do you defend against it?

☛ In network security, what is a honey pot, and why is it used?