Senior Service Engineer Interview Questions

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What is Vlan, trunk. What ports used for common protocols as ssh, ldap. what is GPO and how to update those from Win workstation. How to change unix password, how to recover root password on Nix machine. difference between TCP/UDP, TCP negotiation steps.
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Senior Security Services Engineer

Interviewed at CyberArk

4.2
Apr 9, 2019

What is Vlan, trunk. What ports used for common protocols as ssh, ldap. what is GPO and how to update those from Win workstation. How to change unix password, how to recover root password on Nix machine. difference between TCP/UDP, TCP negotiation steps.

Lot of SQL questions related to case statements, counts, averages, percentages, windowing functions, row number. Your ability to use aggregate functions in 1 query and through case statements will be tested
Jun 8, 2018

Lot of SQL questions related to case statements, counts, averages, percentages, windowing functions, row number. Your ability to use aggregate functions in 1 query and through case statements will be tested

One of the questions that stood out was when they asked how I would approach scaling IT processes. It wasn’t just about fixing problems in the moment, but how I’d think ahead and build solutions that could handle more people, more devices, and more complexity over time.
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Senior Infrastructure Services Engineer

Interviewed at SecurityScorecard

3.5
Sep 22, 2025

One of the questions that stood out was when they asked how I would approach scaling IT processes. It wasn’t just about fixing problems in the moment, but how I’d think ahead and build solutions that could handle more people, more devices, and more complexity over time.

Majorly on my professional experience , tools technologies, latest technologies. Data structures , typical questions - Write your own Data structure implementation. Emphasis was on real-time support bugs/resolutions.Tools that will help the support/debug issues. My suggestion for the service engineer roles is to not get too carried away with data structures, algorithms ( these are necessary for the software developer role), instead concentrate on overall application , support, scenarios to debug large scale apps, tools and technologies, DevOp and Design.
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Senior Service Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Oct 6, 2015

Majorly on my professional experience , tools technologies, latest technologies. Data structures , typical questions - Write your own Data structure implementation. Emphasis was on real-time support bugs/resolutions.Tools that will help the support/debug issues. My suggestion for the service engineer roles is to not get too carried away with data structures, algorithms ( these are necessary for the software developer role), instead concentrate on overall application , support, scenarios to debug large scale apps, tools and technologies, DevOp and Design.

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