1)tell me about yourself

2)can u tell about your was experience?

3)can you tell about your roles and responsibilties of your project?

4)can you tell about your project architecture?

5)what is your daily roles and responsibilties?

6)which ticketing tool you are using?

IHS
1)Which webserver you are using?

2)how to find out which version you are using?

3)Differences between embedded http server and external http server?

4)Default port number of Http server?

5)What is the command to start and stop Httpserver?

6)How can you check if your Http server (or) Web server is running or not?

7)Default port number of IHS admin server?

8) What is the most important config file located in IHS http server and where it is
located?

9)what are the parameters in httpd.conf file?

10)How to enable SSL for webserver?

11)What are all the Config changes we have to do to enable virtual host for webserver?

12)How many plugins are required by Http server?

13)How do Http server Know if it is a static request (or) Dynamic Request?

14)How can we know how many requests are in Queue?

15)What are all the log files inside the HTTP server?

16)How Can we Know Http Server is properly installed or not?

17)What are all the different modes available to install IBM Http server?

18)What are the Parameter’s available in IHS Server’s Response file?

APPLICATION SERVER
1)Which version of application server you are using?

2)Differences beyween 5.0,5.1,6.0,6.1?

3)What is the latest version of WAS?

4)Which Version Of java is being used by WAS 5.0,5.1,6.0,6.1?

5)Is it possible to change Java Version?

6)How you are going to install WAS?How do you know installation is successful?

7)If you get a problem before creating a log’s directory, at that time where you can check
status of installation?

8)What are the Pre-Requisties for WAS installation?

9)How can you verify the version of WAS?

10)What is the latest Refresh pack?

PROFILES
1)What is a profile?

2)What is a cell?

3)what is a node?
4)what is a server?

5)what is a application?

6)what is a nodeagent?

7)what is a managed node and unmanaged node?

8)What is Web application and Enterprise Application

9.What are the components available in WAR and EAR files?

10.How to create a profile and what are all the ways?

11.How to federate a profile?

12.What is the DMGR SOAP connecting port?

13What are the different kinds of profiles?What is the use of each profile?

14.How can we know how many profiles are available?

15.Default admin console port number?

16.Complete command for federation?

17.what is the admion cosole port number if security is enabled?

18.What is meant by federation?What you have understood about federation?

19.What happenes if a profile is federated to DMGR at that time when it is stopped?What

happens to the applications under the servers?

20.What happens to applications if node agent is not running?

21.How can you change port number ?In which XML file all the port numbers are
available?

22.What is the default location of serverindex.xml file?

23.What is the default SOAP connector port of application server profile?

24.How to take back up without stopping server?

25.What is boot strap port number?

26.IS it possible to communicate between two cells?

GLOBAL SECURITY
1.What is the necessasity of global security?

2.What are the different types of user registries available?

3.Which user registry you are using?

4.Which LDAP version you are using?

5.Tell me the steps how to configurev LDAP registry?

6.What is single signon?

7.What is the port number for LDAP server with SSL and without SSL?

8.What is the difference between base distinguished name and bind distinguished name?

9.What are the advantages and disadvantages of Local OS,Custom and LDAP user
registries?

10.How to enable Global security by using Custom registry and local OS registrty?

11.how to disable security?

12.What are the different kinds of roles available and explain about each role?

13.How to provide security for application users?

DATABASES
1.On which database server you have worked so far?

2.Which version of oracle and DB@ you are using?

3.How to check the status of database?

4.do you have any knowledge on database?

5.Tell me the confi steps to create JDBC providers?

6.What is the difference between JDBC provider and data source?

7.What is the difference between connection pool data source and XA data source?

8.Types of JDBC drivers?

9) Differences between Type 2 And type 4 driver?

10)What are the JAR files necessary to configure DB2 database?

11) What are the JAR files necessary to configure Oracle database?

12)What is the default user name of DB2 and Oracle?

13) What is the default port number name of DB2 database and Oracle database?

14)Explain the mechanism of connection pooling?What is the advantages of connection

pooling?

15)What is meant by minimum connections and maximum connections?Who will give all
the details?

16)What is unused timeout?

17) What is aged timeout?

18) What is reap timeout?

19)What is purge policy?

20)When you will get Stale connection exception?

21) When you will get connection time out exception?

PLUGINS
1)Importance of plugins?

2)Where you are going to install plugins?

3. what are all pre requisites to install a plugins?

4. which config file is necessary at the time of installing plugins?

5. what is web server definition ?

6. what information is available in plugin cfg. Xml file?

7. What are the different log files in plugins?

8. How the web server knows plugin cfg.xml file is available in a particular
location?

9. Is it possible to communicate from web server to application server without

plugin?

10. How to enable ssl for plugins?

11. How to generate and propagate plugin cfg.xml file?

12. DEfalult location of plugin Cfg.Xml file/

13. Difference between local plugin and remote plugin?

CLUSTERS

1. Tell me the architecture of WAS?

2. . What is the responsibilities of Web container , EJB container and JNDI ?

3. Explain the request flow of your Environment?
4. What is High availability?
5. What is work load management?
6. What are the differences between load balancing and work load management?
7. What is the default work load management policy?
8. What is cluster ? Why we need a Cluster ?
9. What are the different types of Clusters available?
10. Use of Horinzontal and vertical Clusters? Which better performance among
these?
11. How to assign weights to Cluster members?
 12. How to deploy an application in one Cluster member out of four Cluster
members?
13. What is replication domain?

VIRTUAL HOST
1. What is virtual host?
2. How to configure Virtual host?
3. What are the different Virtual hosts available in WAS?
4. What are all the Port numbers available in default Host and admin Host?
5. Which XML file , if I change the fort name or add a fort number to a particular
Host will get updated?
6. How to configure Virtual Host for WAS?
7. Is it possible to change Virtual Host name after deployment of an application? If it
is how can we do that?
8. Is it possible to a server to listen to multiple fort numbers?

SSL
1.Tell me in detail how you are going to enable SSL for Web server, Plugins and
application server?
2.Difference between Trust file and key file?
3.What is a CSR?
4.How you are going to get a certificate from certificate authority?
5. What are the different ways to deploy an application?
6. What is the necessity of a context root?
7. Why we have to specify context root for War files but not for EAR file?
8. What is the context root available for EAR files ? What is the file name?
9. What is the Deployment descriptor?

FIX PACKS
1. Difference between refresh packs, fix packs, internal fixes?
2. How we are going to install a Fix pack explain all the steps?
3. What are the difference between update and roll out update?
GENERAL
1. What is a garbage colleter?
2. What is Heap memory?
3. What is Heap dump?
4. What is a thread dump, Java core dump?
5. What is a default heap size?
6. What are the different types of syncroziations available?
7. How to generate thread dump and heap dump?
8. Do you chance to analyze both of them?
9. what are the different types of logging utilities or trouble shooting utilities?
10. How many JVM’s will there for each server?
11. IN which log file garbage Colletctor information will be available?
12. What are the different kinds of log files in WAS?
13. How log analyzer works internally?
14. What is the use of collector pool?
15. Difference between node group and core group?
16. Difference between node group and cell?
17. What are shared libraries and how to configure them?
18. What is generic server ?
19. Use of service integration logs?
20. What are all the disadvantages in memory to memory replication?
21. What is PMI?how to enable PMI?
22. How to check all the servers in multiple notes are running or not?
23. How to increase a heap size through command line and explain the perameters?
24. What is a dynamic cache?
25. What is a cache monitor?
26. What are the different types of caching mechanisms we have?
27. How to tune the performance?
28. How to enable log rotation in HTTP server?
29. How to configure JMS?
30. What is a Queue connection factory?
31. what happens when you use Syncnode.sh?
32. which problem management tool you are using?
33. what is session persistence?
34. Difference between one way SSL and two way SSL?
35. What is the use of activation specification in JMS?
How to configure message resource?
36. What are the performance tuning metric’s?
37. How to verify session failover in memory to memory replication?
38. What is hung process?
39. what is tunneling?
40. What is session affinity?
 41. What is the difference between Session ID and Clone ID?
What are the dis-advantages of memory to memory replication?
42. How can we check how many users are using admin console?
43. How can we check how many users are accessing the log files?
44. what is session failover?
45. How can we send 100 requets to server1,50 requests to server2,40 requests to
server3?
46. What is federated Repository?
47. How round robin algorithm works?
48. How to access HTML files from application server even though you have web
server?
49. what is the maximum heap size and how you are going to set maximum heap
size?
50. If we increase heap size in which XML file it will get updated?
51. Tell me the full syntax of syncnode.sh?

WEB SERVER ADMIN.

1.What are the different types of WS admin. We have?
2.Explain in detail what is the purpose of each WS Admin object?
3.What are the different types of scripting mechanism’s available in websphere?
4.What are the differences between JACL and JYTHON?
5.Which scripting you are using?
6.How to configure log rotations for webserver?
7.What is compiler optimization?
8.What is the use of class loader’s?
9.Tell me the mechanism of class loader?
10.What are the difference between Java2 security and J@EE security?
11.What is ULimit?
12.What are the properties we have to configure to generate heap dump once you
generate a thread dump?Where you have to configure the properties?
13.How to generate a Thread dump?
14.What is the default location of a Thread dump and what is the format?
15.How to generate a heap dump and what is the default location of heap dump and what
is the format?
16.What are the differences between thread dump and heap dump?
17.What is PMI?what is the use of PMI?
18.How can we check the performance of the application server without external
monitoring tool’s?
19. What is the difference between JVM and JRE?
20.In which log file garbage collector information will be recorded?How to enable
Garbage collector?
21.What is a generic server?
SHARED LIBRARIES
1.Use of shared libraries?How to configure them?
2.What is the difference between System out..log file and trace.log file?

ISSUES
1.How you are going to troubleshoot if you are getting403,404,500 error?Explain?
2.What is the reason for out of memory exception?

3.If we get page cannot be displayed then how you are going to troubleshoot the issue?

4.What is the difference between page not found and HTTP 404 error?

5.What are the general issues you are facing normally in the production environment?
6.When you will get class loader exception?

7.What is the most challenging experience you have faced in your WAS experience?

1.What is the difference between Symmetric keyexception and Asymmetric key

exception?

2.How does SSL works?

3.What are the different types of log levels you have?

4.If we give heap size value min=max at that time what are the advantages and dis-
advantages?

5What are FFDC logs? What is the use of that?

6.In how many ways we can deploy the application? And what is the command to
deploy the application?
7.What are the differences between WAR, EAR and JAR files?
8.Purpose of JNDI?
9.What are WAS resources?
10.What is EAR Expander?
11. What is Ripple start?
12. How do you check Heap is used by JVM?
UNIX COMMANDS
1. What is the command to find the running processes?
2. What is the command to find the disk space?
3.. What is the command to find the CPU utilization?
4. Command to kill a process?
5. How to generate thread dump and Heap dump?
6. How to change privileges to a file or folder?
7. How to change Ownership to a file or folder?
8. Command to list the files?
9. How to JAR the files?
10. How to schedule the Jobs?
11. How to check IP address?
12. How to check process ID ?
13. How to check Java ID?
14. How can you know NIC cards are enable or not?
15. How to find out CPU utilization for singal process?
16. What is the purpose of symbolic link files?
17. In which location password file is located?
18. How to change a password?
19. Purpose of GREP command?
20 How to copy a file from one Unix machine to another Unix machine?
21. What is SSH?
22. What is Secure copy?
23. How we are going to connect to your Unix boxes?
24. Which Flavor of Unix your using?
25. Which version of are RHEL your using?
26. How can you find a string in a file?
27. How can you replace a text with a particular string?
28. Tell me the full syntax of SCP command?
29. How can you know fort is running or listening or not?
30. Tell me VI editor commands? How to open, Edit, Save and close a file?