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Technical Writer Interview Questions and Answers

A technical write handles many responsibilities and all of which associated with writing that include editing, documentation, writing user guides, product descriptions and other things. Mainly, a technical writer simplifies the technical terms and difficult concept in a user friendly manner. People, who have passion in writing, are eager to apply for the post, but that need knowledge to satisfy the recruiter as per his/her expectation. To go through the interview process successfully, here some questions and answers are given that can be asked for the technical writer interview.

1 Q. What are the skills of technical writer?

A: a technical writer needs to convert the technical terms in a simple and easy way so that he/she should have a very good command over the technical language. Communication is an important thing as one needs to discuss the subject topic with the team member and gather information accordingly. Unique writing and interest in researching new things is also part of the content writer skills. Graphical designing and blogging are other skills that a technical writer needs to have.

2 Q. How a technical writer completes the research work?

A: internet is the source of knowledge and one has to be net savvy to write any technical topic in a simplified manner. The writer should go the relevant websites to make the idea about the topic and if possible, one can consult with an SME (Subject-Matter Expert) for a specific subject. SME acquires knowledge in a particular field of interest, whereas a technical writer needs idea over all the matters.

3 Q. What are guidelines of writing a pamphlet?

A: writing a pamphlet is nothing but presenting the product’s description in a simple and attractive way. The writer should identify the target audience of the product according which the documentation should be made. The purpose of the product should explain in a clear way without any ambiguity so that it can make an interest in the market.

4 Q. What are the criteria of an effective technical writing?

A:   the more the content will be simple, the more it will be effective – it is the main thing for a technical writer, so whatever the subject is, the writer should make it user friendly. Apart from that, identifying the target audience is also a major factor in writing technical content. Confusing words and phrases should be avoided as it lessens the quality of the content. The other criteria of writing are having a good source of information and all that makes the content effective according to its purpose.

5 Q. What are the different types of technical writing?

A: the field of technical writing is wide and there are many types of writing that is written as per an organization’s rules. Some of them are writing reports, executing summery, abstract writing, proposal, product description, user manuals and other things. So, the job responsibility of a technical writer deals with many issues.

6. Q. How to write a user manual?

A:   a technical writer should have a clear notion about the subject or the product on which he/she is writing a user manual. One needs to evaluate the reason of writing a user manual and go through the audience analysis accordingly. After analyzing the initial things, a writer should prepare tables of contents, index and figures as per the subject stated.

7. Q. Explain the audience analysis in writing?

A: an audience analysis helps in understanding the expectation of the target audience regarding a particular thing. It involves a direct interaction with the user to know their opinion about a product. On the basis of the analysis, documentation should be prepared that helps in writing a user manual or a summary in a perfect way.

8 Q. What are tools help you in writing technical content on various topics?

A:   the tools which give you the technical knowledge in various topics are template design tool, multimedia tool, screen recording tools, publishing tools image editor tools. These things help you to add many technical words and phrases into your dictionary. Darwin Information Architecture Tools (DITA) are a great source of writing technical write up that explains the writing of definition, structure, domain and benefits.

9 Q. Why you choose the technical writing as a profession?

It should be explained according to the one’s perception. Technical writing is an emerging field that increases the employment among the job seekers. It involves various types of writing and anyone who loves writing content; it can be a great opportunity.

10 Q. Explains the job responsibility of a technical writer.

A: a technical writer should write the brochures, pamphlets, giving online support and troubleshooting, so he/she must possess the patience in solving any problems. A writer is responsible to create the content with using understandable language so that the reader has the clear idea about the content.

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Posted by Hrformats - October 8, 2014 at 10:36 AM

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Oracle Apps Technical Consultant Interview Questions and Answers

Oracle Apps Technical Consultant understand the coding standards prescribed by Oracle and have a deep understanding of the entire Oracle implementation life cycle. Technical consultants are expected to work on development activities and managing custom application development projects, customization and extension of Oracle Applications. They are often required to act as a trusted technical consultant for customers to select, prepare and support products within their organizations along with technical problem resolution. Following are some frequently asked Oracle Apps Technical Consultant interview questions and answers for your reference. However, you should be prepared with other questions as well.

1 Q: What is ERP?

A: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate many back office functions related to technology, services and human resources.

2 Q: What is FSG? What are its uses?

A: FSG stands for Financial Statement Generator. It is a powerful report building tool for Oracle. The uses of FSG are – it generates financial reports, defines reports with reusable report objects, design custom financial report to meet specific business needs, print as many reports as needed simultaneously etc.

3 Q:. What are user exits in oracle reports?

A: A User Exit is an API, which provides a way to pass control from Reports Builder to a 3GL program that performs some function, and then returns control to Reports Builder. Using these we can integrate Oracle reports with Oracle apps AOL, and run them as concurrent programs. Following are the user exits available in Oracle reports that make the AOL integration:

FND SRWINIT

FND SRWEXIT

FND FORMAT_CURRENCY

FND FLEXIDVAL

FND FLEXSQL

4 Q: What is the significance of profile option “Node Trust Level” in Oracle Apps?

A: If this profile option is set to a value of external against a server, then it signifies that the specific mid tier is external i.e. it will be exposed to the www. In other words this server is not within the firewall of your client. The idea behind this profile option is to flag such middle tier so that special restrictions can be applied against its security, which means a very restricted set of responsibilities will be available from such middle tier.

5 Q: Does Oracle support partitioning of tables in Oracle Apps?

A: Yes, Oracle does support partitioning of tables in Oracle Applications. There are several implementations that partition on GL_BALANCES. However, your client must buy licenses to if they desire to partition tables. To avoid the cost of licensing you may suggest the clients may decide to permanently close their older GL periods, such that historical records can be archived.

6 Q: What is the difference between Form, function and menu?

A: A menu is a hierarchical arrangement of functions and menus. Each responsibility has a menu assigned to it. A function is a part of an application that is registered under a unique name for the purpose of assigning it to be including it from a menu.

7 Q:. What is TCA (Trading Community Architecture)?

A: Oracle Trading Community Architecture is a data model that allows you to manage complex information about the parties, or customers, who belong to your commercial community, including organizations, locations, and the network of hierarchical relationships among them. This information is maintained in the TCA Registry, which is the single source of trading community information for Oracle E-Business Suite applications.

8 Q:. How do we enable tracing for the document managers?

A: This can be done by setting profile option “Initialization SQL Statement- Custom” against your username before reproducing the issue. The value of this profile will be set so as to enable trace using event 10046, level 12.

9 Q:. What is SYSTEM tablespace and when is it created?

A: Every Oracle database contains a tablespace named SYSTEM, which is automatically created when the database is created. The SYSTEM tablespace always contains the data dictionary tables for the entire database.

10 Q: What is an Oracle View?

A: A view is a virtual table. Every view has a query attached to it. The query is a SELECT statement that identifies the columns and rows of the table the view uses.

11 Q: What are Schema Objects?

A: Schema objects are the logical structures that directly refer to the database’s data. Schema objects include tables, view, sequences, synonyms, indexes, clusters, database triggers, procedures, functions packages and database links.

12 Q: How to define Data Block size?

A: A data block size is specified for each ORACLE database when the database is created. A database users and allocated free database space in ORACLE data blocks. Bock size is specified in INIT.ORA file and can’t be changed latter.

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Posted by Hrformats - September 19, 2014 at 12:56 PM

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Tips to Conduct Technical Interviews with Frequently Asked Questions

Tips to Conduct Technical Interviews with Frequently Asked Questions

Technical interviews are conducted with strict role specificity.  Interviewers normally ask question related to the position applied for such as brain teaser and/or numerical reasoning questions to understand the suitability of the applicant. Technical questions help access candidates or graduates in sectors like IT, Engineering and Science on their efficiency. Such interviews are also conducted for less specialist yet highly competitive roles as in the investment sector in banks.

Following are a few tips to help you conduct a productive technical interview:

  • While preparing for the job description, make sure your technical team includes entities such as work experience, technical knowledge based on the necessity.
  • New software launch every now and then. Keep yourselves updated on the latest technology and understand its utility knowhow.
  • Prepare your FAQ sheet in collaboration with your Software Team members. The questionnaire should be based on latest technology. The answers for them should be at hand too.
  • Ask the candidates about their understanding on technology and review their answer with a calmer approach.

 

Most Asked FAQ’s in Technical Interview

Here is a list of the top 25 most asked questions by recruiters in technical interviews. These will help you prepare your questions better.

1. What technical certifications have you achieved and how do you achieve those?

2. Which development tools are you familiar with?

3. What is your languages specialty?

4. What do you know about authentication and authorization? What are the tools to support the same in enterprise deployments?

5. What measures do you take to ensure accurate project estimates?

6. Which technical website do you follow?

7. What do you know about SAN? Explain it briefly.

8. What is your take on clustering?

9. How will you enforce relational integrity in database design?

10. Which are the automated-build tools or processes you have used till date?

11. What do you know about optimistic and pessimistic locking?

12. What is delete statement and truncate statement in database?

13. What is database performance metrics and how do you monitor them?

14. What is a honey pot in network security?

15. How role does your education play in preparing you for the job?

16. What are your key competencies for this job?

17. Give an account of your IT strengths and weaknesses.

18. What was the last project you worked on and what was your role in that?

19. How will you justify that working with business users is fruitful?

20. What was your biggest achievement in your previous job?

21. Give instances where you have practically applied your technical knowledge.

22. Have you ever come up with productive suggestions to improve an existing design? What was it?

23. How much reuse have you ever got out of your self developed code?

24. Service oriented or batch oriented solutions: What is your pick?

25. Do you download utility from the internet to make your work more productive? Which one?

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