Category: Performance and Scenario Based Interview Questions

Your supervisor is very busy and asks you to log into the HR Server using her user-ID and password to retrieve some reports. What should you do? A: It’s your boss, so it’s okay to do this. B: Ignore the request and hope she forgets. C: Decline the request and remind your supervisor that it […]

Why Should I Hire You? Why is there a Gap in your Work History? Tell Me One Thing You Would Change About Your Last Job (A safe scapegoat? Outdated technology.) Tell Me About Yourself Explain A Complex Database To Your Eight-Year-Old Nephew What Would The Person Who Likes You Least In The World Say About […]

Behavioral Interviews Behavioral interviews ask you to describe stories in your past that exhibit the behaviors the interviewer is discussing. For example: Describe a time where you had to make a critical decision. Describe a time you disagreed with a supervisor. Describe your biggest professional mistake. All of these ask you about situations in your […]

Performance Based Interviewing (PBI) is a method to increase the effectiveness of the interviewing process in selecting and promoting quality staff. With PBI, the interviewer carefully defines the skills needed for the job and structures the interview process to elicit behavioral examples of past performance.

The only correct way to answer this question is to present yourself as a person who can handle criticism without becoming angry, defensive, vengeful or arrogant, yet, not let others intimidate or blame you when you don’t deserve it.  Example: “There was a time when I was deeply hurt when a supervisor pointed out a […]

Resource: http://www.va.gov/PBI/questions.asp Level, Type, & PBI I Creative Thinking Tell me about two suggestions you have made to your supervisor in the past year. How did you come up with the ideas? What happened? How do you feel about the way things went? I Creative Thinking Tell me about a specific time when you made […]

To perform testing of open ports using a port scanner, you will need Nmap port scanner installed on your system. Although you want to close any unnecessary ports, ports are opened to provide a benefit to users.  Enabling the Windows Firewall and closing  ports will reduce the utility of a system, and many potentially desirable […]

There are two methods to doing this:  qualitative and quantitative.  Qualitative does not assign dollar values to components of the risk analysis. A quantitative assessment process involves these three steps: Estimate potential losses – Single Loss Expectancy (SLE) = Asset Value x Exposure Factor. Conduct a threat analysis – the goal is to estame the […]

What is a Hash? What is Encryption? What is Salting? What are Rainbow Tables? What is CIA? What is the difference between a vulnerability, a risk and a threat? What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test? What websites do I use to learn about Info Sec news events:  Kaspersky Labs […]