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Technical Interview (Knock Out Round): This round was a combination of a presentation as well a technical interview. I was first asked to present my idea. after that, the interviewer started cross-questioning. The question were like: How did you get the approach to find the solution? Is it possible to implement it in the real world scenarios? Is there any other tool or technology that can be used? Be ready to face a lot of questions related to the tech stack used. After the PPT, the interviewer asked to start with the technical round, in my case the majority of questions were from networking and CCNA as I had selected Advanced Networking. Tell me about yourself Questions related to Projects, I have mentioned Three Projects in my resume from which one project is related to Cryptography and Network Security. The questions were heavily asked on that particular project (It means your project should be unique and interesting as well). Difference between TCP and UDP. How DNS works. Difference between Collision Domain and Broadcast domain. What is VLAN? What is the Difference between EIRGP and OSPF? Explain any Routing algorithm in detail (I explained Link State Routing) Lastly, there was a troubleshooting question, The interviewer showed me a diagram consisting of two networks connected through routers and switches, I was asked that a particular computer in one was not able to communicate with a computer in other network, How will you troubleshoot the network?
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Consulting Engineer

Interviewed at Cisco

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Nov 12, 2023

Technical Interview (Knock Out Round): This round was a combination of a presentation as well a technical interview. I was first asked to present my idea. after that, the interviewer started cross-questioning. The question were like: How did you get the approach to find the solution? Is it possible to implement it in the real world scenarios? Is there any other tool or technology that can be used? Be ready to face a lot of questions related to the tech stack used. After the PPT, the interviewer asked to start with the technical round, in my case the majority of questions were from networking and CCNA as I had selected Advanced Networking. Tell me about yourself Questions related to Projects, I have mentioned Three Projects in my resume from which one project is related to Cryptography and Network Security. The questions were heavily asked on that particular project (It means your project should be unique and interesting as well). Difference between TCP and UDP. How DNS works. Difference between Collision Domain and Broadcast domain. What is VLAN? What is the Difference between EIRGP and OSPF? Explain any Routing algorithm in detail (I explained Link State Routing) Lastly, there was a troubleshooting question, The interviewer showed me a diagram consisting of two networks connected through routers and switches, I was asked that a particular computer in one was not able to communicate with a computer in other network, How will you troubleshoot the network?

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