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F r i d a y , 1 2 Oc t o b e r 2 0 1 2
Tell me about yourself ?
A) Good morning/Afternoon to everybody. Its my pleasure to introduce Myself
Starting with my name.
My name is SHAHRUKH KHAN I am Currently working as SOFTWARE ENGINEER OR
WAS ADMINISTRATOR in APPREN TECHNOLOGIES from APRIL 2009.
I Started my career as JAVA DEVELOPER in APPREN TECHNOLOGIES Worked as a
period of 6 MONTHS .
Later I got an opprtunity to change my designation to WAS (WEB SPHERE
APPLICATION SERVER)
Coming to my Educational back ground i completed my B.TECH in the year 2008 from
JPNCE from JNTU university.

As a WAS ADMINISTRATOR My Roles and Responsibilities are
-----> Exprience in Deploying EAR , JAR , WAR files.
------> Federated multiple nodes to DMGR
-----> Experience in setting up of nodes , Data Sources , Virtual Hosts
-----> Implemented when using Horizontal and Vertical Clusters.
-----> Configured enabled Global Security system.
-----> Configured Web Sphere resources like JDBC PROVIDERS , JDBC DATA
SOURCES , CONNECTION POOLING.
-----> Responsible for general WAS ADMIN tasks like Starting and Stopping of
Servers.
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WAS INTERVIEW PART-3
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WAS INTERVIEW PART-2
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
VIRTUAL HOSTS IN WAS
CLUSTERING IN WAS
MEMORY LEAKAGE IN WAS
SYNCHRONIZATION
HTTP ERRORS IN WAS
WSADMIN OBJECTS
LIFE CYCLE OF WSADMIN
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A) --->a)Application server monitoring
--->b)Webserver monitoring
----->c) Incident management
------>d) Change Management
------>e) Ticketing tools :It is a software which provides solutions for the tickets
Ex: Maximo ---IBM
BMC Remedy---- It is a ticketing tool in that we will have inform about
------> Whom to assign tickets
------> When to do
------> f) JNDI Connections
-------> g) Websphere Configurations
(or)
1. Change request : scheduled activities like new resources creation, JVM
settings, Configuration of the application and development teams raised tickets
2. Incident request : production support or monitoring like up gradation.
-----> Also Check the health status of Servers or JVM'S
-----> I will go to ticketing tool or I will go through my Assignments.
-----> If any ticket is assigned to me I will go through my Assignments.
-----> Assignments may be : Configuration settings like JDBC , SSL
-----> Later I will update my WORK LOG
-----> After getting confirmation I will close my ticket
-----> If any team call is Scheduled I will join the calls.
About your work environment ?
we have
---> 4 cells with 3 nodes, 10 App servers(2 edge servers)
---> 6 web-servers, 71 Applications deployed
A) Integration environment:
--> Small environment, one cell with 2 nodes
--> Having request coming from client and server
B) Load Testing
C) UAT ( user Acceptance Testing) : 2 webserver, 3 applications
D) Producton----> live servers
E) Pre-production------> Deployment servers

STRENGTH:
1. Positive attitude.
2. Good communication.
3. Quick leaner.
AUTOMATION IN WAS
DEPLOYMENT DESCRIPTOR
BACKGROUND PROCESS
UPDATE COMMAND IN WAS
STALE CONNECTION
ROLLOUT UPDATE AND
ROLLOVER IN WAS
DEPLOYMENT STEPS OF J2EE IN
WAS
JDBC CONNECTION POOLING
JDBC (JAVA DATABASE
CONNECTIVITY)
JMS (JAVA MESSAGING SERVICE)
WAS Interview Question Part - I
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TICKETING TOOL IN WAS
TICKETING TOOL IN WAS Def of
Ticketing Tool : It is a software which
provides solutions for the tickets ----> ...
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Tell me about yourself ? A) Good
morning/Afternoon to everybody. Its my
pleasure to introduce Myself Starting with
my name. My ...
WAS INTERVIEW PART-2 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
WAS INTERVIEW PART-2
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1) what
are the different components in Wily
Introscope ? A) 1) Collecto...
TROUBLE SHOOTING IN WAS
TROUBLE SHOOTING IN WAS -----
> When we got any issue in WAS we
have to trouble shoot that issue ----->
Suppose Page ...
WAS INTERVIEW PART-4 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
WAS INTERVIEW PART-4
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1) What
are logs in IHS (IBM HTTP SERVER) ?
A) Access.log , Error.log 2...
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4. I am very interested to learn new things.
5. Be with smiling face always.
6. Easily Adapt myself to new environment.
7. Time Management with my stressful schedule.
8. Helpful.
9. I always plan and schedule the thing before doing.
10. Easy to communicate with other person, if they are known or unknown.
WEAKNESS:
1. My weakness is that I can't say no to any one who ask me for help. Sometimes it
creates overburden. People ask me to help even they can do it their own.
2. Easily believing others.
3. I am so emotional and sensitive. But one thing is that I can get back to free mind
with in less time.
4. I don't feel comfortable until finish my work.
5. my weakness is I am too punctual so that it irritates me when I see my friends who
is not punctual.
6. I am say always truth. Its my weakness. I am not well in English so please adjust
the spelling and grammatical mistakes.
Q) What type of Monitoring tool you are using ?
A) -----> We use Monitoring tool like WILY INTROSCOPE (IBM will use this tool)
Consists of Agent and Manager.
-----> Performance Tuning will be done using this Monitoring tool it will send
Alerts when ever there are any issues
-----> It contains details like User Name , Password , Port number , Mail ID , Phone
no etc....
3) what version did you use ?
A) ----> Currently using 6.1 version
-----> I have knowledge on 6.0 and slightly on 7.0
4) what is change management and Incident management in Real-time did you do?
A) Change management-----> Configuration changes
Incident management------> Issue, Risk, Downtime
---> means if issue comes again and again

6) What is Default Admin port number in WAS ?
COGNIZANT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
COGNIZANT INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS 1) Tell me about Yourself
? 2) What is JDBC ? How you can
configure JDBC ? 3) What is SSL...
WAS INTERVIEW PART-3 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
WAS INTERVIEW PART-3
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1) What is
the default admin console port number in
websphere? A) WebSphere Appl...
REAL TIME ISSUES IN WAS
REAL TIME ISSUES IN WAS
forgot web-sphere admin
console password ----> When you
enable the security on WebSpher...
SYNCHRONIZATION
SYNCHRONIZATION Q) What are
the different types of synchronizations
available ? Explain which type if better
and any disadva...
SSL (SECURED SOCKET LAYER)
SSL (SECURED SOCKET LAYER) ---
-> It is a Protocol to provide Secured
communication. ----> Protocol means
follow rules an...
Ab o u t me
KA RI M ULLA
VI EW MY COMPLETE
PROFI LE
We b S e r v V s
Ap p S e r v
The main responsibility of Webserver is
to serve static requestwhile Appserver is
used for dynamic request.Moreover,
Webserver handle http requests and
also acts like a load balancer while
Appserver has large area of works like
security, performances, clustering,
support for various
files(.ear,.war)deployments etc
We b S p h e r e
F o l l o we r s
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A) 9060
7) What is Data source? why do we need it?
A) Data source is a handle to which database you want to connect.
means without data source we cant establish the connection between client to
any database
(or) It is a mediator between client and database
8) What is LDAP port no (default) ?
A) 389
9) What is LDAP secure port no ?
A) 636
10) Command in Linux for CPU utilization ?
A) TOP
11) IHS (IBM Http Server) default port no ?
A) 80
12) How many ways can we deploy Applications ?
A) There are 2 ways of Deployments in was
a) using Admin console (front end)
b) using WSAdmin Scripting (Jython/Jacl) (back end)
13) What is Clustering? How many types are there?
A) Grouping of App servers under a single application/Name
Using Clustering we can create a scope, and we can achieve through WORK
LOAD MANAGEMENT, FAILOVER and can achieve through clustering
Clustering are set of App servers having same applications installed,grouped
locally for work load mgmt.
There are 2 types of Clustering
1) Vertical Clustering
2) Horizontal Clustering
1) Vertical Clustering : we can Deployed the application on same machine/Local
machine/same box
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Wh a t i s
We b S p h e r e
It is provides run-time url for the end-
user. It is easier for client to build,
deploy,manage dynamic website WAS
provides Authentication and
authorization to secure applications
Ab o u t
We b s p h e r e
WebSphere is a middle ware
technologies, It's more Secure and
Reliable. Developed by pure J2EE
applications
Cr i c k e t L i v e
S c o r e
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In this clustering machine failover is not possible
means if one server will fails the other server or other machine will handles the
request but if Machine will fails it cannot take back and handles that request.
2) Horizontal Clustering : Grouping of App servers in which one App server should
be on one node and Another App server should be on Another node
means we can deployed the applications on different machines or remote machine
Ex: One App server Machine 1 should be in India and Other App server Machine 2
should be in US at a particular point of time if we want to deployed the application
on Machine 1 in India through US we have to know about the IP address of the
Machine 1 then only it is possible to deploy the application in case that machine 1
will fails another machine2 will takes care and handles the request in this clustering
Machine failover is possible.
14) What is Session Affinity? what is the use?
A) whenever one request comes from the same client it should routed back to that
particular server (or) same server.
Maintaining the state till the session closes .
Affinity means it happens repeatedly again and again
(or)
Server ID is appended to session ID when HTTP Session is created its ID is passed
back to browser as part of cookie or Url encoding .
When browser makes further request the cookie will be sent back to webserver.
The webserver plug-in examines HTTP Session ID, Extracts Unique ID of cluster
member handling Session and forwards the request
With out Session Affinity :
Plug-in is responsible to send requests based on weights
Maximum weights is 20
Request Server1 Server2
1 4 1
2 3 1
3 3 0
4 2 0
5 1 0
6 0 0
7 4 1
With Session Affinity :
Ebay site having a link if we click link it is like a new request This request is coming
from 1 server
Request Server1 Server2
0 4 1
1 3 1
2 2 1
3 2 0
4 2 0
5 2 -1
6 1 -1
7 0 -2
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15) WAS Repositories ?
A) Repository means location for storage where we can store the files
16) What is FFDC ? what is the use?
A) FFDC ( First Failure Data Capture) It is generated at the first time failure of your
system. It will be deleted automatically. It is useful for diagnosis. All WAS issues
comes to FFDC
17) If u do any changes to plug-in file do we need to Restart?
A) IF we do any changes in plug-in file we need not to restart the plug-in again just
save the file it will reflected to automatically to master repository
18) What is CoreGroup?
A) It contains singleton service it checks all on backend
Cell is responsible for making failover successful
By default coregroup will be created
It contains HighAvailability Service
19) WAS Prerequisites?
A) Base (6.1 version) Network Deployment(ND)
Ram - 2 GB To create cluster minimum
requirements
1 GB for repository ND software
1 GB for secondary hard disk High end server with
atleast 2 GB Ram
1.8 MHZ processor Main memory 2 GB
J2ee 1.4 Dmgr - 256 MB
Max Heapsize - 256 MB Node Agent - 256 MB
2 App servers 1 GB
Dmgr+Appserver
Morethan 1.5 GHZ processor
20) What is the use of Horizontal Clustering ?
A) Grouping of App servers under single name in which 1 App server should be on
one node and Another App server should be on another node
we can deployed the applications in multiple hosts or physical boxes
If one host gets crashes another will take the responsibility to handle the
request
If one application is not running on server1 we can deploy that application on
server 2 in virtual host
it supports Failover mechanism
Multiple Appserver instances are created
21) Do you know scripting language ?
A) yes I know scripting language but Developers use the scripting language to write
the code but we use it to deploy the applications
22) What version did you install IHS?
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A) Apache 2.2 in Linux
23) page cannot be displayed ? How will u troubleshoot?
A) It is Http 404 error. If you get this error we need to check the logs for application
server status. The page expecting by the request is not finding that means request
is reaching the server but it is not available at the expected location
Logs System.out.log
24) Do we create any profile while installing IHS?
A) No
25) How can you change port number ?
A) using ServerIndex.xml is used to change the port number
whenever we change the port number and we have to restart server it will be
updated in "Portdef.Props"
26) Did you work on LDAP ?
A) I just know how to configure LDAP, i was not in LDAP team.
27) How many cells did you use ? what if we use only one cell ? what is cell ?
A) we can configure one node in one cell only . So we cannot configure the same
node in another cell
Cell : It is a collection of nodes and holds configuration repository for entire
management domain is called cell
In was cell is on the top of hierarchy called cell
Hierarchy of Network Deployment :
Cell ----> (Collection of Nodes)
|
Node Agent ----> Communicator (between node and Cell)
|
Node ----> Collection of Servers
|
Server ---->(JVM /Machine)
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9 comments:
shravan reddy said...
thanks bhaii it helps me a lot......
but plzz be regular on posting the updates....
30 October 2012 19:36
kranthi kumar said...
Thank you bhaiyaa. Really the information you have provided is very helpful.
31 July 2013 06:28
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31 August 2013 01:47
sai kumar said...
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13 December 2013 04:44
Koti Ande said...
thank you very much karim
its really very helpful. thanks again
MAY GOD BLESS YOU entire you career
6 January 2014 02:11
sai chandra said...
very useful ...thanks
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