Hello Ram, I appreciate your attempt to be 'proactive' in preparation for your interview, but the approach you selected, would perhaps be the worst way you prepare for an interview - preparing a bullet list of expected technical questions and mailing it to the most popular and well known forum in the industry. What are the chances that the interviewer might have seen your post here? Around or maybe higher than 50%??
Technical questions will be asked - no doubt about that, but preparing a cheat sheet and asking around for help on answering them is no way of preparing for an interview and still be completely honest about yourself and what you know. That would perhaps be the most dishonest approach to it, and you might have already lost half your chance of succeeding at your interview, if your interviewer has seen or heard of this post. If you were preparing this sheet from your own knowledge and past experiences and then composing the answers yourself so that you do not fumble at the interview on things you already know, that's another thing, although I don't see why someone who already knows his stuff would need to do that - maybe someone who has a slight language problem.. But even then, a smart interviewer can easily see the difference between someone who has a language problem and someone who does or does not know his stuff.. Most smart technical interviewers cross question.. What is the difference between an AL and Filter.. You already got a few answers to that.. having answered that cross questions could be why an AL why not a Filter or vice versa.. Or where are filters stored. How are If and Else actions stored? How is an AL or a Filter related to its schema? How would you pull a list of all the AL's or Filters attached to a form if you were asked to query the database for that list... These are just a crude example of a cross questions I might ask as a tech interviewer on just your first question, progressing a little from a simple cross question to more complicated ones... How well would you do at them?? And I am not even a professional interviewer - done it just a few times.. I'm not discouraging you from your interview but encouraging you to be more honest with yourself, learn while you work with the product, gain that knowledge through experience and not a cheat sheet.. This is a very small industry where everyone knows everyone and you do not want to tarnish your reputation by misrepresenting yourself and attempt to be someone that you are not.. Having said all this, good luck with your interview, prepare yourself with what you got to say about yourself, your past projects, your past milestones, achievements, and why hiring you would be the best business decision of the hour that interview might have made for that company... Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of Ram Rudra Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:16 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Past 2 years. I am just looking for the answers of those questions. Thanks & Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:22 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Ram, How long have you been working with Remedy? -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ram Rudra Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 5:37 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help I am going to face an interview Joe. Thanks & Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:20 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Ram, Have you been assigned the task of interviewing a Remedy resource? Or are you going to face an interview yourself? Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org]on Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help I'm not gonna answer any for the reasons posted by others....but the only questions I couldn't answer for myself were the ITSM specific ones :) -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ram Rudra Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Interview Questions - Please help Hi All, In an interview point of view, I have gathered the below questions and looking for answers. Please help. 1) What is the difference between and Active Link and a Filter? 2) What is a .def file used for? 3) What is a .arx file? 4) Who is Doug Mueller? 5) What is a use for an Active Link Guide? 6) What type of field is the "Worklog" field? 7) Name two DBMSs in which Remedy ARS can run on top of? 8) What does ARS stand for? 9) What are the core fields? 10) What does $MENU$ do? 11) What is the function of DDE-Poke? 12) What are ar.ini and ar.conf files used for? 13) Describe the features that are available by comparing ARS Ver. 6.3, 7.1 and 7.5 majorly? 14) Why ardiff utility is used for? 15) How do you deploy your application on web? 16) When and in what situation you use workflow log, arerror.log, arfilter.log, aresc.log? 17) Explain the actions available in active link which are not in Filters. Explain why it is not. 18) Why ardiff utility is used for? 19) What is the primary table in the AR System data dictionary? 20) How does the AR System manage the data you see in Remedy Forms? 21) Without using DSO or EIE, what are your thoughts for providing a 'STANDARDIZED' methodology for interfacing/integrating with Remedy applications. This customer was actually looking to use C.I.M. or some other open standard solution to interface with Remedy.... what you say? 22) How do you troubleshoot AR System server outages to restore access to the system? 23) How does mid-tier work and where does it fit in the client server architecture? 24) Describe how filters work? They were actually looking how filters work in different phases... which led to the next question. 25) Can you force a filter to fire all actions in the first phase? 26) List all of the possible uses for guides. They were looking for walking tables? 27) What is walking tables? 28) when you use CMDBDriver.exe command line utility? 29) When you use arreload.exe command line utility? 30) how you reset the application administrator / demo password if you forget it? 31) When you use arsignal command line utility? 32) When you use runmacro command line utility? 33) When you use archgid command line utility? 34) How many table types are available in ARSystem Database and explain them? Thanks & Regards, Ram Rudra _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
