Avaya VOIP technical questions during interview?

[strupar007]

Hello people,

I am new on tek tips and I was wondering if you could help me. Sorry If I am not posting at the right place. I have a technical interview with a company dealing with Avaya IP phones soon and I will have to do a technical test. My background isnt a VOIP one (I am a CCNA/CCNP) and I have a basic knowledge of VOIP. I still know how they work, what SIP and H323 are etc but I dont know much about Avaya. I told them about it but they said they were interested in my networking background.

Any idea what kind of questions they will ask me in the technical test (they told me it would be avaya general knowledge, nothing too complicated)? It is all about Avaya IP phones, list trace, MST trace and what they do, how to check a server is up etc. I will spend the next few days learning as much as I can but any tips would be nice.

Thanks!

Strupar

 

[intrigrant]

If they know you are not Avaya trained but they do know you are Cisco CCNA/CCNP then my guess is they will ask you general IP stuff like what QoS Diffserve is, how does LLCP-MED works, what are VLAN's and common VoIP related things.
If I had to interview you I would not ask Avaya specific configuration questions because I know you cannot know that, it would be stupid and embarrasing for both.
Reading can't hurt but my advise : don't worrie to much, if they needed a Avaya skilled engineer they never asked you for a interview.

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[Westi]

I agree with intrigrant, you have knowledge of the basics (and then some) so the specifics are easily obtained by you rather than trying to get someone without any networking knowledge to pick up all they would need to know.


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