Amazon

1. Differences between TCP and UDP

2. What do you know about Wireshark
3. What are the different troubleshooting tools
4. TCP 3way handshake
5. Handshake while closing TCP session
6. If you want to write an application which protocol will you prefer? TCP or UDP
7. Experience with Linux and Windows
8. Difference between Ubuntu and Fedora
9. What is IPSec and how does it work
10. What do you know about VPN tunnels
11. Tell me different DNS records
12. How do you troubleshoot if website is slow
13. What are the steps for DNS resolution
14. What happens between user entering amazon.com and opening webpage
15. Difference between RIP and RIP2
16. Which routing protocol do you prefer and why?
17. How OSPF choses best bath?
18. What the different OSPF timers
19. Difference between OSPF and BGP
20. BGP message types
21. What is NSSSA in BGP
22. How does MPLS work
23. Difference between MPLS and BGP
24. How do u configure MPLS
25. Tell me one important difference between IGRP and EIGRP
26. How BGP neighbors are formed?
27. What are the different fields in VLAN tag
28. What do u know about native VLAN

Electronic Arts
1. Explain about Educational background
2. Explain networking experience
3. Why did you choose networking
4. What made you to apply for EA
5. Why do you want to do this job
6. Explain about projects you did
7. Where do you see yourself in next 3-5 years?
8. What are you expecting from this role?
9. Do u know any network troubleshooting tools or network analyzers.
10. Explain background process after you enter URL in browser
11. Two PCs are connected to each other but they cannot communicate. What can be the
reasons?
12. What are the flags in TCP header
13. Tell me something about L4-L7 load balancers.
14. Do u know anything about VIP and Pool? Can u explain?
15. How is OSPF configured?
16. After u configure OSPF how do u check whether if U have configured properly?
17. What is VTP?

18. What are the different modes in VTP. What is the default VTP mode?
19. Is Area 0 mandatory in OSPF? Can we configure without any area in OSPF?
20. What are the states in STP?
21. What is time for convergence in STP?
22. Difference between STP and RSTP?
23. What is forward delay in STP?
24. What the different load balancing algorithms?
25. What is the use of PSH in TCP header

ViaSat
1. How does traceroute works
2. What is source learning
3. What is the protocol used for ping
4. Difference between distance vector and link state
5. What happens after you configure OSPF
6. Which routing protocol do u like and why
7. Difference between RIP and OSPF
8. What is feasible successor in EIGRP and how it is chosen
9. What are the different tables in BGP
10. Why is BGP used and explain process of BGP peer formation
11. What happens if any BGP peer is down. How long does a neighbor peer wait?
12. What is seq number in TCP header
13. Why TTL is reduced only at routers
14. What is the default TTL value
15. What is offset?
16. Difference between broadcast and multicast
17. What is header size of UDP
18. ICMP is which layer protocol
19. Can u walk me through the tcp/IP stack
20. UDP runs on which port?

Palo Alto Networks

1. Difference between TCP and UDP
2. Why TCP is reliable?
3. What is TCP header size?
4. What is man in the middle attack
5. Explain public key and private key
6. How does private key process work
7. What is SSL and how it works
8. What is active FTP and Passive FTP
9. What are the two channels in FTP
10. Given IP address and asked for broadcast address
11. What is the traceroute logic
12. What is area 0 in OSPF
13. How does ARP work?
14. Explain VPN process
15. How does DNS work

16. What is DPI

17. What are different DHCP messages
18. Troubleshooting steps: a user is unable to access office email from home. Conditions:
a. VPN is connected
b. Able to access other office websites
c. Able to access email from office and only disconnects at home
d. Tried with other home router also - same problem
e. Username and password is correct
19. What is loopback address
20. Can u explain how NAT works?
21. Why do we use VTP ?
22. Can we assign interfaces with VTP?
23. If we want to communicate between two VLANs, how can we do it?

Adara Networks
1. Explain about each layer in TCP / IP stack
2. What is the difference between Layer 2 and Layer 3
3. How does ARP work?
4. How does traceroute work?
5. What are the message types in traceroute?
6. Explain STP and it's working
7. Difference between STP and RSTP
8. What is route poisoning and split horizon - explain
9. What are algorithms in load balancing
10. What are port channels
11. What are virtual port channels
12. What is VTP
13. Explain different states in STP
14. Draw the typical data center model ( core, distribution, access)
15. What is VRF and why?
16. VTP default mode?
17. Explain tcp 3way handshake
18. Difference between TCP and UDP
19. What is windowing in TCP
20. What are different port states in RSTP
21. How does DNS resolution takes place
22. How does routes shown in route table
23. What are the routes in route table other than directly connected?
24. What is source learning
25. What is VIP
26. Difference between broadcast and multicast domains.
27. Given a topology - determine broadcast domain and Collision domain
28. What do you know about OpenFlow
29. What is proxy ARP
30. During ARP for google.com, do we get MAC address of google.com server?

Alcatel Lucent

1. Can you tell about OpenFlow in one minute

2. What's the difference between control plane and data plane
3. Do you what are the changes from OpenFlow 1.3 to OpenFlow 1.4
4. Do u know how mininet works?
5. What is Rest API
6. Can we run OSPF and BGP on floodlight controller?
7. Tell me about netstat
8. What are the OpenFlow messages between switch and controller
9. What is para virtualization
10. Do u know how VMware allocates physical resources to virtual resources
11. The MAC address generated by VMware for a VM interface in unique globally?
12. Can we configure switches and routers without logging into each of them individually?
13. How do test which OpenFlow version the machine is running
14. How do check if controller is connected to OVS or not?
15. What is a bridge in OVS?
16. What are the messages exchanged for the first time when controller is connected to OVS
17. How does iPerf work?
18. Which protocol does ping use
19. Why do we need ARP
20. How does trace route works
21. What is flow control in TCP
22. What is fragmentation in TCP
23. What is RTO in TCP
24. What is MTU and how it is handled
25. What happens when you enter a URL in browser and hit enter.
26. What are DNS records
27. What are iterative and recursive messages in DNS
28. What is gratuitous ARP
29. What are the DHCP messages between host and server
30. What happens when I please time is expired.
31. What is the use of offset in TCP
32. What is the use of URG and PSH in TCP.
33. What happens if ACK packet is lost in TCP. How long does client wait?
34. What is the Ack number set by client in TCP header when packet is sending for the first time
35. What if the packet 5 is lost out of 10 packets in TCP. What will be the ack for this.
36. What does client do with the packet received multiple times
37. What is flow table and group table in OpenFlow
38. What happens to a packet which is received on OVS - explain step by step
39. What is a table miss in OpenFlow.
40. What do you have in flow mod messages
41. Does switch send the packet to controller if action is already set?
42. What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 hypervisor
43. What is the difference between KVM and Xen
44. What is round robin algorithm?
45. Solve Dijkstra algorithm for a topology
46. Why do we need seq number for LSAs in OSPF
47. Explain selection method of DR and BDR in OSPF
48. What are the different LSAs in OSPF
49. Explain TCP state machine
50. What is the difference between transit area and stub area
51. What is the function of ASBR.

52. Difference between ASBR and ABR

53. Why do we need area 0 in OSPF
54. Write logic for Fibonacci series
55. Write logic for factorial of a number
56. What are the test cases to test factorial program
57. What are the test cases to check if OpenFlow is installed properly
58. Explain peering process in OSPF
59. What are the 3 tables does BGP keep?
60. What are the attributes in BGP
61. How does peering form in BGP
62. How does OSPF chose shortest path
63. Write test cases for ASBR in OSPF.
64. Draw typical data center model
65. What protocol does keep alive use in port channel
66. What is the difference between Port Channel and virtual port channel
67. How feasible successor is chosen in EIGRP
68. Why do we need virtual links in OSPF
69. Tell me what are the fields in VLAN tag.
70. What is the difference between native VLAN and default VLAN
71. Do u know anything about L3 VLANs
72. What is the IP of multicast in ripv2
73. What is the Destination Mac in arp packet
74. Explain timers in OSPF.
75. Explain STP states.
76. How priority is given to switch and explain process of root bridge ID
77. Given a topology - Explain convergence in STP and RSTP
78. What are the different testing methods