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Amiseq and Olacabs Interview Insights

The document outlines a series of interview questions for technical roles at Amiseq and Olacabs, focusing on self-introduction, project details, cluster management, and specific technologies like Cassandra and AWS. Key topics include responsibilities, consistency settings, node management, and troubleshooting challenges. The questions aim to assess the candidate's technical knowledge and practical experience in database management and related technologies.

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Amiseq and Olacabs Interview Insights

The document outlines a series of interview questions for technical roles at Amiseq and Olacabs, focusing on self-introduction, project details, cluster management, and specific technologies like Cassandra and AWS. Key topics include responsibilities, consistency settings, node management, and troubleshooting challenges. The questions aim to assess the candidate's technical knowledge and practical experience in database management and related technologies.

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Amiseq (Telephonic round)

1. Self introduction
2. What is your current project, and how big is your team?
3. What is the size of the cluster you manage?
4. What is the configuration of nodes in your cluster?
5. Why is NoSql used?
6. What version of Cassandra do you use at your company?
7. What are your daily responsibilities?
8. Do you have any knowledge of other technologies?
9. What monitoring software do you use?
10. Do you have any experience with the SQL language?

Amiseq (1st video technical round)


1. Self introduction.
2. What are the responsibilities and roles?
3. What is the current project that you're working on?
4. What is the difference between quorum and local quorum?
5. Is it possible to set the quorum for remote DC?
6. What do you do if a node goes down?
7. What is a bootstrap?
8. What is repair?
9. How can you get to know if the repair is currently in progress or not?
10. Why is it needed to set consistency?
11. Configuration of nodes.
12. Which repair will you perform if a node goes down?

Olacabs (1st video technical round)

1. Introduce yourself.
2. Where are you working and what is your current project?
3. What is the size of the cluster?
4. Why do we need to set consistency?
5. What is the cap theorem?
6. What are the daily tasks?
7. What are the major issues you have faced in your career which are challenging for you?
8. How do you add a new node to a cluster?
9. How can a node in an existing cluster be replaced?
10. What will you do if you are replacing a node while it is up/running, and what will you do if
that node is down?
11. Give some basic shell scripting examples.
12. Do you have any experience with AWS products?
13. How to handle high tombstones issues?
14. Why did you face latency issues in your recent work and how did you handle that
situation?
15. What is the replication factor you have set in your company, and why do we set the
replication factor?
16. What is the partition key and what is the function of the partition key?
17. How is the hash function useful in cassandra?
18. Why does the cassandra have a ring structure?
19. What is Cassandra's architecture?
20. What level of consistency have you set ?
21. How can data be moved from one environment to another?
22. How do you backup and restore your data?
23. If a node fails and you haven't backed up your data. Is it possible to recover data in that
node? If it is then, how?
24. Why do we need repairs?
25. What parameters do you need to change in [Link] file when you're in the middle of the
bootstrap process? And why are we changing all those parameters?
26. How do you handle errors caused by insufficient disc space?
27. How to tune the cassandra database?

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