Tell me about yourself - WebSphere Application Server Interview Questions - Part -6

A) Good morning/Afternoon to everybody. Its my pleasure to introduce Myself Starting with my name.
     My name is SHAHRUKH KHAN I am Currently working as SOFTWARE ENGINEER OR WAS ADMINISTRATOR in APPREN TECHNOLOGIES from APRIL 2009.

   I Started my career as JAVA DEVELOPER in APPREN TECHNOLOGIES Worked as a period of 6 MONTHS .

   Later I got an opprtunity to change my designation to WAS (WEB SPHERE APPLICATION SERVER) 

 Coming to my Educational back ground i completed my B.TECH in the year 2008 from JPNCE from JNTU university.

  
As a WAS ADMINISTRATOR My Roles and Responsibilities are

  -----> Exprience in Deploying EAR , JAR , WAR files.

------> Federated multiple nodes to DMGR

-----> Experience in setting up of nodes , Data Sources , Virtual Hosts

-----> Implemented when using Horizontal and Vertical Clusters.

-----> Configured enabled Global Security system.

-----> Configured Web Sphere resources like JDBC PROVIDERS , JDBC DATA SOURCES , CONNECTION POOLING.

-----> Responsible for general WAS ADMIN tasks like Starting and Stopping of Servers.




Daily Activities 



A) --->a)Application server monitoring
     --->b)Webserver monitoring
   ----->c) Incident management
  ------>d) Change Management
 ------>e) Ticketing tools :It is a software which provides solutions for the tickets
  Ex: Maximo ---IBM
        BMC Remedy---- It is a ticketing tool in that we will have inform about
------> Whom to assign tickets
------> When to do
------> f) JNDI Connections
-------> g) Websphere Configurations

                (or) 

    1. Change request : scheduled activities like new resources creation, JVM settings, Configuration of the application and development teams raised tickets

   2. Incident request : production support or monitoring like up gradation.

-----> Also Check the health status of Servers or JVM'S

-----> I will go to ticketing tool or I will go through my Assignments.

-----> If any ticket is assigned to me I will go through my Assignments.

-----> Assignments may be : Configuration settings like JDBC , SSL 

-----> Later I will update my WORK LOG 

-----> After getting confirmation I will close my ticket 

-----> If any team call is Scheduled I will join the calls.


About your work environment ?  


     we have
       ---> 4 cells with 3 nodes, 10 App servers(2 edge servers)

      ---> 6 web-servers, 71 Applications deployed

   A) Integration environment:
     --> Small environment, one cell with 2 nodes
     --> Having request coming from client and server
  B) Load Testing
  C) UAT ( user Acceptance Testing) : 2 webserver, 3 applications
  D) Producton----> live servers
  E) Pre-production------> Deployment servers
      

STRENGTH:

1. Positive attitude.
2. Good communication.
3. Quick leaner.
4. I am very interested to learn new things.
5. Be with smiling face always.
6. Easily Adapt myself to new environment.
7. Time Management with my stressful schedule.
8. Helpful.
9. I always plan and schedule the thing before doing.
10. Easy to communicate with other person, if they are known or unknown.

   WEAKNESS:

1. My weakness is that I can't say no to any one who ask me for help. Sometimes it creates overburden. People ask me to help even they can do it their own.
2. Easily believing others.
3. I am so emotional and sensitive. But one thing is that I can get back to free mind with in less time.
4. I don't feel comfortable until finish my work.
5. my weakness is I am too punctual so that it irritates me when I see my friends who is not punctual.
6. I am say always truth. Its my weakness. I am not well in English so please adjust the spelling and grammatical mistakes.

Q) What type of Monitoring tool you are using ?



A) -----> We use Monitoring tool like WILY INTROSCOPE (IBM will use this tool) Consists of Agent and Manager.

    -----> Performance Tuning will be done using this Monitoring tool it will send Alerts when ever there are any issues 

   -----> It contains details like User Name , Password , Port number , Mail ID , Phone no etc....  




3) what version did you use ?

A) ----> Currently using 7.0 version
     -----> I have knowledge on 8.5 and slightly on 9.0


4) what is change management and Incident management in Real-time did you do?



A) Change management-----> Configuration changes
     Incident management------> Issue, Risk, Downtime
     ---> means if issue comes again and again