Software Testing Interview Tips : How stuff works...

• How Web Server works ?

If you are a software engineer you should know the basics of "how a web server works?". If you type in a URL http://www.blogger.com in the browser and click the Go button what really happens. Will you be able to explain this in TCP/IP stack level. Then you are good.

• How Internet Search Engines works?
  
• How Google works
• What is an internet cookie?
• How do large Web sites handle the load of millions of visitors a day?
• How RSS works?
• How chat rooms work?
• How Web 2.0 works ?
  
• How Semantic Web Works?
• How Domain Name Servers Work?
• How Search Engine Optimization Works?
• How web advertising works?
• Computer Viruses
• How do viruses and worms spread in e-mail?
• Firewalls
• How do digital signatures work?
• What is the Year 2038 problem?