Interview Questions

In the light of competition, it may be seen that competitors may initiate price changes. If the cutting off on prices does not affect the company, then the current pricing strategy itself can be continued to maintain the profitability of the company. However if the price change on one firm is affecting the other, then it can:

a.reduce the product price at par with competitors’ price or below competitors’ price

or

b. Provide added advantage to the existing product like better quality, or ‘a buy one get one free’ offer.

or

c.Provide better quality of the product at a higher price thereby not being at par with the competitors.

Kano analysis is a systems analysis tool used to identify its impact on customer’s satisfaction based on 3 key areas: unexpected delighters, performance attributes and must have attributes.

WDM is conceptually the same as FDM, except that the multiplexing and demultiplexing  involve light signals transmitted through fiber optics channel.

Bank Rate is the interest rate at which the RBI allows finance to commercial banks. By Bank Rate, we mean bank can regulate the level of economic activity.

The following are the ways of initiating a CICS transaction.

1. By entering Transaction Id

2. By Start command

3. By Return Trans Id (as in pseudo - conversation)

4. By Registering Tran ID in plt so that it will be automaticaly dusring CICS start

5. By ATI (Automatic task initiation)

6.PF & PA keys as defined in PCT

The Asynchronous Transfer Mode or ATM is a connection technology that works by transmitting data into organized 53 bytes (small) packages through a physical environment with a high efficiency. Packing data into small cells reduces transportation delay so the speeds reached by this technology are very high; it can reach even 10 Gb per second.

We use SQLPASSTHROUGH options when we need applications to access data both in the front-end and back-end data servers with a single connection. SQL statements that cannot be executed in the solidDB front-end server are passed over to the back end. 

SQLPASSTHROUGH mode can be set as per session or per transaction. The connection between the front end and back end is made with a back-end compatible ODBC driver which is loaded dynamically in solidDB server.

LINQ stands for " Language Integrated Query " and it is pronounced as "LINK".
LINQ was introduced in with .NET framework 3.5 including VS2008. It enables you to query the data from various data source like SQL, XML document, ADO .NET data source, web services and any other objects such as Collection, Generics etc...