DXC Technology

American multinational B2B IT services provider.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium

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All Roles Backend Engineer 35 Cloud Engineer 35 Data Engineer 35 Data Scientist 35 DevOps Engineer 35 Frontend Engineer 35 Full Stack Engineer 35 Machine Learning Engineer 35 Product Manager 35 Software Engineer 35

All Topics Container Orchestration 4 Infrastructure as Code 3 Cloud Computing 3 System Design 3 CI/CD 3 Networking 2 Operating Systems 2 Security 2

DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to migrate a legacy monolithic application to a containerized microservices architecture. What challenges did you face?

#Migration #Microservices #Docker #Problem Solving

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DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a situation where a production deployment failed during a critical client release. How did you handle the rollback and communication?

#Incident Management #Communication #Rollbacks

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DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • hard

DXC works with many clients who have strict change management processes. How do you balance the need for agile DevOps practices with ITIL/ITSM compliance?

#ITIL #Agile #Change Management #Enterprise

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DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • easy

Tell me about a time you had to learn a new technology quickly to meet a client's project deadline.

#Learning #Time Management #Consulting

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • hard

Write an Ansible playbook snippet to patch a fleet of RHEL servers and reboot them only if the kernel was updated.

#Ansible #Linux #Patch Management

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Python script using Boto3 to find and delete all unattached EBS volumes older than 30 days to optimize client cloud costs.

#Python #AWS #Boto3 #Cost Optimization

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Python function to check the health endpoint of a list of URLs and send an alert to a Slack webhook if any return a non-200 status code.

#Python #Monitoring #Automation

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Bash script to parse an Nginx access log and output the top 10 IP addresses making the most requests.

#Bash #Linux #Log Parsing

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a highly available, multi-region CI/CD architecture for a global banking client that requires strict compliance and zero downtime deployments.

#High Availability #CI/CD #Architecture #Compliance

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a disaster recovery strategy for a stateful application hosted on AWS, ensuring an RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour.

#Disaster Recovery #AWS #Architecture

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

A client wants to migrate their on-premise data center to Azure. Walk me through the steps and tools you would use to assess and migrate their VMs and databases.

#Cloud Migration #Azure #Architecture

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

You encounter a 'state lock' error in Terraform. What causes this and how do you safely resolve it?

#Terraform #Troubleshooting

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you handle secrets management in Jenkins pipelines for enterprise clients with strict compliance requirements?

#Jenkins #Security #Secrets Management

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain how you would troubleshoot a CrashLoopBackOff error in a Kubernetes pod deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

#Kubernetes #AKS #Troubleshooting

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you manage Terraform state files securely when working with multiple DevOps engineers on a large DXC client project?

#Terraform #State Management #AWS S3 #Azure Blob Storage

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • easy

Explain the difference between git merge and git rebase. When would you use one over the other in a shared team repository?

#Git #Collaboration

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you optimize a Dockerfile to reduce the image size and improve build times for a Java Spring Boot application?

#Docker #Optimization #Java

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How would you set up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the JVM metrics of a client's legacy application?

#Prometheus #Grafana #Observability

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

A Linux server is experiencing high load average but low CPU utilization. How do you troubleshoot this?

#Linux #Troubleshooting #Performance Tuning

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in AWS. When would you use an NLB?

#AWS #Networking #Load Balancing

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

How do you implement a Blue-Green deployment strategy using Jenkins and AWS ECS?

#AWS ECS #Jenkins #Deployment Strategies

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

What are Terraform modules, and how do you version control them for reuse across different client environments?

#Terraform #Modularity #Version Control

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between a Deployment and a StatefulSet in Kubernetes? Give a use case for each.

#Kubernetes #Architecture

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you integrate security scanning (DevSecOps) into a GitLab CI pipeline?

#GitLab CI #DevSecOps #SAST/DAST

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain how a VPC peering connection works. Can you route traffic through a peered VPC to the internet?

#AWS #VPC #Networking

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the concept of Ansible roles and how you use Ansible Galaxy in an enterprise environment.

#Ansible #Automation

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • easy

How do you find which process is listening on a specific port in Linux?

#Linux #Networking

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain how Ingress controllers work in Kubernetes and how you would secure an Ingress with TLS certificates.

#Kubernetes #Networking #Security

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • easy

What is the difference between IAM Roles and IAM Policies? How do you assign permissions to an EC2 instance securely?

#AWS #IAM #Security

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you share workspace data between different stages in a Jenkins declarative pipeline?

#Jenkins #Pipelines

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • easy

What is the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in a Dockerfile?

#Docker

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you centralize logs from multiple Docker containers running across different EC2 instances using the ELK stack?

#Logging #ELK #Docker

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

You accidentally committed a file containing an AWS secret key to a public repository. What are your immediate next steps?

#Git #AWS #Incident Response

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you configure resource requests and limits in Kubernetes, and what happens if a container exceeds its memory limit?

#Kubernetes #Resource Management

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the DNS resolution process when a user types a URL into their browser until the IP address is resolved.

#DNS #Networking

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