Google Interview Questions

Do you want to work for Google? Well here are 2 questions that they asked a friend of mine. What would you answer?

1. You have been shrunk down to the size of a nickel and tossed into a blender. You are told that the blender blades will start in 60 seconds.What would you do to save your life?

2. Design and describe a system/application that will most efficiently produce a report of the top 1 million Google search requests.These are the particulars.

* You are given 12 servers to work with. They are all dual-processor machines with 4Gb of RAM, 4x400GB hard drives and networked together.(Basically, nothing more than high-end PC's)

* The log data has already been cleaned for you. It consists of 100 Billion log lines, broken down into 12 320 GB files of 40-byte search terms per line.

* You can use only custom written applications or available free open-source software.

IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions

A bunch of good IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions

How do you isolate and troubleshoot an ASP and / or ASP.NET application?
What is your idea of locking down a server?
How do you feel about having developers or anyone else making changes directly in production? Aka how do you normally handle change management.


Can you run the 1.1 and 2.0 on the same box? What are the limitations.
Can you explain what the '/bin' folder is used for.
Do you know what user instancing is.

What makes the IUSR account unique in IIS7 vs. previous versions.
What are some of the new ways of troubleshooting, Logging in IIS7

read them all here: http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2007/08/09/iis-and-net-2-0-interview-questions.aspx