Are you familiar with the tests systems engineers use to ensure an application’s performance is optimized?

Determining whether an application is properly installed, configured, and is running appropriately can be difficult. Systems engineers have processes to achieve this and a portfolio of tests to ensure the new application is set up correctly. Even though managing applications is not one of the responsibilities of an application analyst, you should be familiar with these, so if an application you recommended isn't performing as specified, you can determine if this is because it wasn't installed properly by discussing these tests with the systems admins. The interviewer will ask you this question to see if you are prepared to do this.