Build and Release Engineer Interview Questions

Build and Release Engineer Interview Questions

Hi All,,

Here I would like to give some Interview Questions that I have faced in Telephonic and Face to Face Interview

The Basic Questions you need to be Prepared:-
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1. Tell about yourself?
2. What are your current Roles and Responsibilities?
3. How Much experience do you have?
4. What was the flow of Software development?
5. What tools are you aware of?
6. Have you worked on LINUX?
7. Make an overview of tools that will be used in Build and Release?
8. List out Version control commands?
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Technical Questions:-
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1. What are the version controls you have used?
2. Have you worked on any Continuous Integration Tools?
3. Do you have any experience with scripting languages?
4. Do you know shell scripting?
5. What software do you use for Installers?
6. Have you written any build files using ANT/NANT?
7. Linux Commands-->cp,df,du,ps,umount,awk,time,ls,grep,top,head
8. How to create new user in LINUX?
9. How to Configure SVN on Linux?
10. Questions on SQL?
11. Windows platforms?
12. Questions on IIS?
13. How to create a branch in SVN?
14. When you will create a branch?
15. What is the structure of branches in the repo?
16. How to create backups of the repository?
17. Commands to create New User, New branch, and code Merging?
18. How you will release products to the client?
19. Do you know about Batch files?
20. Do you know about NSIS/Installshield/WIX Installer?
21. What are the tasks you will do in daily routine?
22. What will do for repeated tasks?
23. What do you know about SVN/CVS/TFS/GIT?
24. How to migrate from SVN to GIT?
25. Questions on JOINS, HAVING, GROUP BY, Alias in SQL?
26. Difference between DROP, DELETE, Truncate?
27. Difference between branch, tag, trunk?
28. Write a shell script to find the largest of 3 numbers, while given as input from the shell command line?
29. What is the difference between export and update in SVN?
30. What is the difference between update and commit in SVN?
31. What are the basic svn commands frequently used?
32. How to revert to a specific revision in svn without loosing the local changes?
33. What happens if a directory is deleted from server suddenly? How will you get the directory back?
34. What is the difference between  checkout and export in SVN?
35. How to tag a branch?
36. Salve config
37. How to create backup in SVN?
38. Commands for grep, Find, dr, du?
39. How to copy error logs > Dev/Null?
40. What are Jenkins plugins?
41. What are different Jenkins jobs?
42. Mail command?
43. How to post build in Jenkins?
44. Msbuild
45. Explain P4 commands
46. What is difference between $*, $@ , $_and $0?
47.  Explain p4 client command.
48. How to find files under sub directories?
49. How to get first column values?
50. Which port is free?
51. What is process on back ground? how to get it foreground?
52. How to get last column on ls-l?
53. What you need to login onto p4 client?
54. Which is the default p4 port?
55. What are installsheild conditions?
56. What are different multilanguages in IS?
57. How to create upgrade Installer?
58. What are the registry entry values?
59. How to know which services are running?
60. How to differentiate between Service and process?
61. How to create symbolic link?
62. Explain nslookup command.
63. How to configure UAC settings?
64. What are different SVN commands?
65. How to set up cron job in Jenkins?
66. How to grep only filenames that match?
67. Explain Teamcity.
68. What are file properties in SVN?
69. How to get started with SVN externals?
70. Explain relocate and switch in SVN.
71. What are the different backup types in SVN?
72. What is the maximum revision SVN will support?
73. What are the 4 ways of executing a shell script in Unix/Linux?
74. How to create jobs in Jenkins?
75. What are the plugins used?
76. What is the difference between target and task?
77. How you setup slave?
78. How you launch slave?
79. How to run slave as specific user?
80. How to run a specific job on slave?
81. What is the connection between master and slave?
82. What are the environment variables you set on slave?
83. Explain about view map.
84. How to create p4 client spec ?
85. How you exclude some files from using view map?
86. Explain p4 branch spec .
87.What are different types of views?Explain the difference.
88. What is default spec?
89. What is the command to edit config spec?
90. How to set view using script?
91. Explain clearcase spec.
92. Explain  extended view path in clearcase.

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