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Cisco Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Updated 26 Mar 2025

Top Cisco Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Scenario based BGP questions
  • Q2. OSPF deep tshoot
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Switching based scenario
  • Q2. VPC troubleshooting

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Should have strong basics and conceptual knowledge

Data Center Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is hardware layer, software layer in OSI Layer?
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 6 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Mcqs and 2 dsa questions

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Computer Networks, operating system, dbms,oop, dsa
  • Q2. In depth project questions
Round 4 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Puzzles, CS fundamentals, projects, behavior type questions
Round 5 - Executive 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. In depth project discussion
Round 6 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General hr questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cisco Software Engineer Intern Trainee interview:
  • Computer Networks
  • Projects
  • Operating Systems
  • DSA

Software Engineer Intern Trainee Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. find average salary of employees from given table for each designation where employee age greater than 30
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. DSA Medium Questions on arrays & linkedList
Round 2 - Coding Test 

DSA, Behavioural, os, some networks basics

Software Developer Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Sum of Maximum and Minimum Elements Problem Statement Given an array ARR of size N, your objective is to determine the sum of the largest and smallest elements within the array. Follow Up: Can you achieve the above task using the least numb... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Where do you want to be seen in the next 5 years?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - good job, but work pressure is more

Hardware & Networking Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. When internet is not working on a particular system, what is the first troubleshooting steps to be followed?
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Cisco interview questions for popular designations

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. In a sorted matrix of 0s and 1s, return the row with max 1s
  • Ans. 

    Iterate through each row and count the number of 1s, return the row with the maximum count.

    • Iterate through each row of the matrix

    • Count the number of 1s in each row

    • Track the row with the maximum count of 1s

  • Answered by AI

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Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Check if Two Trees are Mirror Given two arbitrary binary trees, your task is to determine whether these two trees are mirrors of each other. Explanation: Two trees are considered mirror of each other if: The roots of both the trees are the... read more
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Financial Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image NAGARAJA S HEGDE

posted on 28 Jun 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic questions
  • Q2. Experience and othwrs

Financial Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Suppose you have 10000 US dollars with you, out of which you took a loan of 5000 US Dollars. Now suppose you have purchased two assets of 5000 US Dollars each, one through cash and other through bank loan. How would you show this transactio... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

General aptitude and technical multiple choice questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Code Sort question for input data stream
  • Q2. Code Insertion sort and time complexity
  • Ans. 

    Insertion sort is a simple sorting algorithm that builds the final sorted array one item at a time.

    • Iterate through the array starting from the second element

    • Compare each element with the elements before it and insert it in the correct position

    • Time complexity is O(n^2) in the worst case scenario

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How do you proceed in certain scenarios?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Stick to basics. Interviewer helps.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Software Development Engineer Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Say you're dealing with really long integers. They're too long to fit into a regular datatype, so linked lists are used to store them, with each node of the list containing one digit. Now the problem is, given two linked lists, i.e. two rea... read more
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BDM Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 9 May 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Job Portal

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Best interview with you
  • Q2. Withe all products sell now
  • Q3. This interview is the best
  • Q4. The youngest man and boys please join

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - The youngest man and slove this problem

BDM Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How will I sale a product which is higher in price than competition?
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2023. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Netwroking basics ,some c coding questions and genral appitude

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How does internet work?
  • Ans. 

    The internet is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that communicate with each other using standardized protocols.

    • The internet is made up of physical infrastructure such as cables, routers, and servers.

    • Data is transmitted across the internet using standardized protocols such as TCP/IP.

    • The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses.

    • Web browsers such as Chrome a...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Write a code for a palindrome
  • Ans. 

    Code to check if a given string is a palindrome or not.

    • Convert the string to lowercase to ignore case sensitivity.

    • Use two pointers, one at the start and one at the end of the string.

    • Compare the characters at both pointers and move them towards each other until they meet.

    • If all characters match, the string is a palindrome.

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions related to the lift problem
Round 5 - HR 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
  • Q2. Do you know any competitors of cisco
  • Ans. 

    Yes, some of the competitors of Cisco are Juniper Networks, Huawei, and Arista Networks.

    • Juniper Networks is a networking equipment company that provides networking solutions to enterprises and service providers.

    • Huawei is a Chinese multinational technology company that offers networking and telecommunications equipment and services.

    • Arista Networks is a computer networking company that specializes in data center switches

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. What is cisco main business
  • Q4. Why type of a company you want to join an how does cisco aligns with it

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - make sure to learn netwroking basics ,basic coding questions . but the most important is your attitude while answering

Skills evaluated in this interview

Trainee Software Test Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. do you know any competitors of cisco
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Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

They ask us 40 mcqs and 2 coding questions. Mcqs are from networking,OS,DS,Ada and also have questions of general aptitude like direction,blood relation. Coding question are not easy both the questions are from Graph.

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Subnetting, Supernetting,IPv4,Linkedlist,
  • Q2. Find unique character from a string and optimize it
  • Ans. 

    Find unique character from a string and optimize it

    • Use a hash table to store the frequency of each character in the string

    • Iterate through the hash table to find the character with frequency 1

    • If there are multiple characters with frequency 1, return the first one

    • Optimization: Stop iterating through the hash table once a character with frequency 1 is found

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Case Study 

They give me a scenario like you have to go from place A to place B then what should You consider.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on Data Structure and Ada. After coding student must have knowledge of Operating Systems and Networking

Skills evaluated in this interview

SDE (Software Development Engineer) Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. A string is given consisting of lowercase alphabets. Write a function which returns yes if the string has all the lowercase letters appearing in it at least once. O(N) time and without using extra space
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Cisco Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cisco interview for freshers?
Cisco interview process for freshers usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cisco interview process for freshers are Technical, HR and Aptitude Test.
How to prepare for Cisco interview for freshers?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cisco. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cisco expect are Cisco, Python, Computer Networking, Linux Administration and cisco.
What are the top questions asked in Cisco interview for freshers?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cisco interview for freshers -

  1. Can you use a variable in a file using extern which is defined as both static a...read more
  2. If you are not having a sizeof operator in C, how will you get to know the size...read more
  3. When we declare union in C, how is the size of union allocated in the memo...read more
How long is the Cisco interview process?

The duration of Cisco interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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