QUESTION 3 OF 25

Give an example of a problem that you faced on any job that you have had and tell me how you went about solving it.

This is a follow-up to 'Have you ever had a situation where you had a number of alternatives to choose from? How did you go about choosing one?'. During an interview, you can anticipate that you will be asked follow-up questions once you have given them an answer. This indicates that they have an interest in the topic or want to explore it in more detail. If you're comfortable with the topic, you can encourage follow-up questions by keeping your answers brief and to the point.

"On a recent project, our network was being infiltrated, but we didn't know where or how they were accessing the network. All of our hardware tests came back negative. I recall reading about a similar incident, and I researched how the security team had solved the problem. My team and I created a scenario to hack our own network while tracking the network packets we inserted. This provided us the information we needed to examine all the network traffic and find the source of the infiltration. We then updated the firewall to prevent this type of hacking."

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Give an example of a problem that you faced on any job that you have had and tell me how you went about solving it.

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