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Database administrators specialise in ensuring the safety of the client's data. Candidates should be well versed in database design, security and backup. Expect a technical-based interview that will test your ability to restore or find a file, manage databases and increase the efficiency of a backup. Excellent organisational and communication skills will show that you are the right fit for maintaining the company's database.

Top Database Administrator Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question No. 1: Tell me about your experience with AI.

How to answer
How to answer: Artificial intelligence is becoming more important in database administration. The hiring manager is assessing your skills in this area. Talk about data administration projects in which you used machine learning, developed an AI infrastructure and deployed AI algorithms. If you have no on-the-job experience, talk about an industry event or a project you worked on independently that involved the use of AI.
Question 2

Question No. 2: A senior colleague disagrees with you. How do you handle this?

How to answer
How to answer: A database administrator must collaborate with IT professionals, such as data analysts and senior managers, to administer the database and ensure data accessibility. With your answer, show the hiring manager that you can work effectively in a team, resolve conflicts and communicate persuasively. Provide a strategy involving a series of behavioural steps. Develop your strategy in advance, ask a professional contact for feedback on it and revise it, if necessary, before your interview.
Question 3

Question No. 3: Tell me about your experience of managing cloud data.

How to answer
How to answer: More companies are migrating their on-site databases to the cloud, and the hiring manager will want to know whether you have the skills to operate a cloud-based database. Provide expertise examples in this area. For example, talk about working with specific cloud storage systems, such as AWS; transitioning on-site company data to enterprise cloud; managing and securing cloud data; and improving how data interacts with distributed apps.

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Why you are leaving your current job? Why you want to join HCL Infosystems Ltd? A very practical database recovery scenario which normally don't happen at frequent intervals, were among other questions which made me to think twice before answering them.
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Interviewed at HCL Infosystems

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Aug 10, 2013

Why you are leaving your current job? Why you want to join HCL Infosystems Ltd? A very practical database recovery scenario which normally don't happen at frequent intervals, were among other questions which made me to think twice before answering them.

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