Database system was provided on computer and questions explaining the schema, relationships, and overall design of the database were asked. Questions about possibly improvements or interactions with other development programs was also inquired.
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Explain the challenges and advantages of using a clustered environment.
It depends of seniority
Starts with high level briefing of what you have been doing over the past several years. Then dwells more in technical questions specific to DBA work/responsibilities. Good understanding of database admin and production support including backup and restore and DR / high availability approaches. It gets to some deep dive questions on the db technology itself.
Tell me about yourself? Where do you see your self in 5 years
Asked to discuss at a high level how one would design a document storage system for customer access including how one would partition it out horizontally.
Out of box, doing some mathematic questions, something like common sense questions other than technical question
What is your thought process in determining incident and request priorities?
What was the project I was most proud of and why
What can you bring that others cannot?
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