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Q1. What is the difference between a router, switch, and bridge? Q2. How would you count the lines in a file that contain the following pattern: 1) the pattern must be in { }, within the { } there can only be alphabets and spaces, 3) there should be at least 1 character within the { }. (This question was later simplified to finding a pattern such as "abc") Q3. There is an internal network behind a firewall using NAT. A host from the internal network sends out a request using UDP to an external server and waits for 10 seconds. The external server takes 7 seconds to send a response which never reaches the internal host. Why doesn't the response reach the internal host? Q4 There is an internal network with 2 hosts behind a firewall using NAT. An internal host 1 sends out UDP requests to an external server. How does the server know to respond to host 1 and not host 2 if the internal IP addresses are not shown due to NAT? Q5. There is a clock. The hour hand takes 24 hours to do 1 full circle while the minute hand takes 60 minutes to do 1 full circle. The time is 10:20. What is the angle between the 2 hands precisely. Q6. If Wireshark was not installed on a host, what other tools would you use for packet capturing?
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Software Dev QA Engineer

Interviewed at Fortinet

3.9
Mar 27, 2019

Q1. What is the difference between a router, switch, and bridge? Q2. How would you count the lines in a file that contain the following pattern: 1) the pattern must be in { }, within the { } there can only be alphabets and spaces, 3) there should be at least 1 character within the { }. (This question was later simplified to finding a pattern such as "abc") Q3. There is an internal network behind a firewall using NAT. A host from the internal network sends out a request using UDP to an external server and waits for 10 seconds. The external server takes 7 seconds to send a response which never reaches the internal host. Why doesn't the response reach the internal host? Q4 There is an internal network with 2 hosts behind a firewall using NAT. An internal host 1 sends out UDP requests to an external server. How does the server know to respond to host 1 and not host 2 if the internal IP addresses are not shown due to NAT? Q5. There is a clock. The hour hand takes 24 hours to do 1 full circle while the minute hand takes 60 minutes to do 1 full circle. The time is 10:20. What is the angle between the 2 hands precisely. Q6. If Wireshark was not installed on a host, what other tools would you use for packet capturing?

TCP vs UDP, NTP, ARP, MAC Address, IP address, HTTP, REST, Linux stack execution, Automation, Container vs VM, Linux distribution, SDN, Testing Process, CI/CD, and every possible thing u can think of Netwoking, Linux and Python.
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Linux Network - Software Engineer QA

Interviewed at IONOS

3.3
May 13, 2021

TCP vs UDP, NTP, ARP, MAC Address, IP address, HTTP, REST, Linux stack execution, Automation, Container vs VM, Linux distribution, SDN, Testing Process, CI/CD, and every possible thing u can think of Netwoking, Linux and Python.

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