Lotus Notes Administration Interview Questions 

 Are you fast learner?  If so, specify an on-the-job situation in which you had to learn something
quickly.
 Do you like to learn on your own or prefer to be mentored?
 Do you like to set your own schedule (due dates and deadlines) or do you prefer to receive
schedule from project manager, technical lead, etc.?
 Do you prefer maintaining an existing script/system or starting script/system from scratch?
 Do you prefer programming from specifications or client-interaction/interviews?
 Do you prefer to work on one assignment at time or juggle multiple tasks?
 For agents that execute from Web application, why would you check “Run agent as Web user” for
one agent and not another?
 Front-End vs. Back-End?
 Have you ever used transaction logging and in what context?  What is it?
 Have you used any of exposed methods/properties of object classes for applets listed in above
question?
 How can you get attachments from users on Web?
 What do you think about consulting?
 What do you think about customer/client interaction in general?
 How to incorporate ODBC?  ANS: ‘Uselsx “*LSXODBC” (loads an LS extension file containing
public definitions)
 How to incorporate script library into an object?  ANS: Use statement in Options Public event of
Globals
 How to make variable “global” to every event on form?
 How to pass and retrieve variable using URL ([Link])?  ANS:  approaches may differ,
including CGI Query_String field, JS parsing, formula parsing, etc. — look for “&” designation
 How to validate deletes from both view and form levels?           ANS: Database event
QueryDocumentDelete
 How would you go about recreating names field pop-up-address-box functionality on Web? 
ANS:  look for pop-up form with references back to opener form
 How would you incorporate CSS into form’s design?
 How would you incorporate an “external” JavaScript file into form’s design?  Why would you?
 If person is in ACL as both an individual and in group, which takes precedence?
 If person is in ACL in 2 groups, which takes precedence, group with higher or lower access?
 If you had to, pick only 1 preference:  easily maintained code (more readable but might require
more CPU time) vs. high-performance code (more difficult to read but uses less resources)
 If you had to, pick only 1 preference:  work on team or work on your own.
 If you have button with LotusScript (with no UI classes), how can you easily make it work on
Web?
 If you save scheduled agent and it says you don’t have execution privileges on target server,
what do you do to ensure it runs?
 In formula/list for radio button field, How to designate one set of values to show user and another
set to actually store in field?
 JS is case sensitive?
 LS is case sensitive?
 LS vs. formula benefits?
 List functionality of any applets/servlets you’ve created from scratch.
 Name 3 different places (2 in LotusScript) you can put validations?  ANS: 1) InputValidation  2)
field Exiting event  3) QuerySave   EXTRA CREDIT:  JavaScript onBlur or onSubmit, etc.
 Name few differences between Java and JavaScript?
 Name way to turn off view title on Web?  ANS: create $$ViewTemplateDefault form
 The JavaScript equivalent to [Link](0) in
LotusScript is (not in frame)?  ANS: [Link][0].[Link]
 Using dot notation, How to reference field on form in frameset?  ANS:  look for parent and frame
reference
 What are 3 JS pop-up message methods?  ANS: Alert, Confirm, Prompt
 What are 4 applets that come with R5?  ANS:  view, outline, editor, action bar
 What are CGI variables?  ANS: user name, browser, IP address, etc.
 What are JSHeader and HTML Head Content “events” for?
 What are onLoad and onSubmit events used for?
 What does “use applet in browser” do for view?
 Difference :  @Commands and general @functions?
 Difference :  @DbColumn and @DbLookup?
 Difference :  onBlur and onChange?
 Difference :  onClick, onKeyDown and onKeyPress?
 Difference :  reader, author, editor and manager access levels?
 What is frameset, frame, page, outline, …?
 What is role?
 Why and/or why not use shared fields?
 Why and/or why not use subform?
 Why create authors and readers fields on forms?
 Why use script libraries?
What's the maximum length of an environment variable value?
255 characters

What's the maximum amount of storage that can be used for strings in a LotusScript
module?
2 GB or available memory.
What is the maximum number of users to have authorized passwords on a multiple
password ID?
8 users