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IBM Cloud Specialist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 16 May 2024

IBM Cloud Specialist Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain HA in Vmware
  • Ans. 

    HA in Vmware stands for High Availability, ensuring continuous operation of virtual machines in case of hardware or software failures.

    • HA in Vmware automatically restarts virtual machines on other available hosts if the host they are running on fails.

    • It monitors the health of hosts and virtual machines, and can detect failures and initiate failover.

    • HA can be configured to restart virtual machines on different hosts base...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Explain DRS in vmware
  • Ans. 

    DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) in VMware is a feature that automatically balances computing workloads across a cluster of servers.

    • DRS monitors resource usage and automatically migrates virtual machines to ensure optimal performance.

    • It helps prevent resource contention and improves overall efficiency.

    • DRS can be set to manual, partially automated, or fully automated mode.

    • Example: If one host in a cluster is experie...

  • Answered by AI

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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Hr

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should be true to what you are putting before the interviewer . Try to put your ideas Add something you did well in your career like in projects /research which you know very well and versed in concepts about it for open interview so that interviewer can get bandwidth where he can ask questions from. This is simply a key .

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Spring container and beans
  • Q2. Annotations used in Springboot
  • Ans. 

    Annotations are used in Springboot to simplify configuration and reduce boilerplate code.

    • Annotations are used to define the behavior of Spring components

    • They can be used to define the scope of a bean, inject dependencies, and handle exceptions

    • Some commonly used annotations include @Component, @Autowired, and @ExceptionHandler

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Java 8 New Features and explanation
  • Ans. 

    Java 8 introduced several new features including lambda expressions, streams, and default methods.

    • Lambda expressions allow for functional programming and simplify code.

    • Streams provide a way to process collections of data in a functional style.

    • Default methods allow for adding new methods to interfaces without breaking existing implementations.

    • Other features include the Optional class, Date and Time API, and Nashorn Java

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is your expected package

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare the topics thoroughly with working examples. Theoretical knowledge is not enough to really grasp the concepts.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I appeared for an interview before Jun 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an mcq + coding round. There were aptitude and ouput based question in mcq. And coding questions were easy

  • Q1. 

    Find the Duplicate Number Problem Statement

    Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' containing numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number appears at least once, and there is one number that appears twice. Yo...

  • Ans. 

    Find the duplicate number in an array of integers from 0 to (N-2).

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the frequency of each number using a hashmap.

    • Return the number with a frequency greater than 1 as the duplicate number.

    • Time complexity can be optimized to O(N) using Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Reverse String Operations Problem Statement

    You are provided with a string S and an array of integers A of size M. Your task is to perform M operations on the string as specified by the indices in array A...

  • Ans. 

    Given a string and an array of indices, reverse substrings based on the indices to obtain the final string.

    • Iterate through the array of indices and reverse the substrings accordingly

    • Ensure the range specified by each index is non-empty

    • Return the final string after all operations are completed

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Video Call 

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was technical + hr round. there were 2 people as interviewer. They stated from intro and asked some basic puzzles and hr questions. After that they asked about my projects, technologies and some ds algo and dbms questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criterianaAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice aptitude
Tip 2 : Focus on practicing coding
Tip 3 : Learn from mistakes

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention some projects that you have done
Tip 2 : Try to have skills that are required for the role

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Feb 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on Salesforce Basics. One can learn all great features in Salesforce.com but we must know the basic admin functionalities and features in Saleforce.
Round 2 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The questions will be on your career, Resume. They will look for story telling skills, can you be a team player and individual player, etc. Can be technical as well.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - First know the basics of Saleforce.com for functional role then you dive into all great features in Salesforce.

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There were 2 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 

Easy DSA questions and some questions on resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't join if you are a fresher and want to grow as a developer. I had resigned that time I am writing this review

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Mar 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. How do you get the second to last element from a SQL table?
  • Ans. 

    To get the second to last element from a SQL table, use the OFFSET-FETCH clause.

    • Use the ORDER BY clause to sort the table in descending order.

    • Use the OFFSET-FETCH clause to skip the last row and fetch the second to last row.

    • Example: SELECT column_name FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name DESC OFFSET 1 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice by building a simple full stack web application.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questionnaire 

6 Questions

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