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Database

228 questions · SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, normalization, transactions and more.

SQLDBMSNormalization
23 easy · 147 medium · 58 hard

Data Structures & Algorithms

234 questions · Arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, sorting, searching and more.

DSAAlgorithmsProblem Solving
35 easy · 122 medium · 77 hard

Object Oriented Programming

226 questions · OOP concepts, Java, C++, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation and more.

OOPsJavaC++
39 easy · 152 medium · 35 hard

HR & Behavioral

236 questions · HR interview, communication, leadership, strengths, weaknesses and more.

HRBehavioralCommunication
24 easy · 141 medium · 71 hard

Aptitude

225 questions · Quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning, data interpretation and more.

QuantReasoningDI
37 easy · 153 medium · 35 hard

Operating Systems

234 questions · Processes, threads, scheduling, deadlocks, memory management and more.

OSProcessesMemory
28 easy · 157 medium · 49 hard

Computer Networks

234 questions · OSI model, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, routing and networking concepts.

NetworkingTCP/IPOSI
56 easy · 142 medium · 36 hard

System Design

231 questions · Scalability, load balancing, caching, microservices and more.

ScalabilityMicroservicesDesign
10 easy · 114 medium · 107 hard

Web Development

224 questions · REST APIs, HTTP, authentication, CORS and web fundamentals.

RESTHTTPAuth
37 easy · 159 medium · 28 hard

DevOps

232 questions · CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and automation.

CI/CDDockerKubernetes
33 easy · 165 medium · 34 hard

React

74 questions · React components, hooks, state, props, virtual DOM, routing and performance.

ReactHooksFrontend
21 easy · 40 medium · 13 hard

JavaScript

61 questions · Closures, hoisting, the event loop, promises, async/await, prototypes and ES6+.

JavaScriptES6Async
16 easy · 29 medium · 16 hard

Python

61 questions · Data structures, decorators, generators, the GIL, OOP, scope and memory management.

PythonOOPData Structures
24 easy · 20 medium · 17 hard

Java

61 questions · OOP, collections, multithreading, JVM internals, exceptions, generics and Java 8 streams.

JavaOOPCollections
11 easy · 28 medium · 22 hard

Node.js

61 questions · The event loop, streams, Express, EventEmitter, clustering, worker threads and REST APIs.

Node.jsExpressBackend
13 easy · 21 medium · 27 hard

TypeScript

61 questions · Types vs interfaces, generics, utility & mapped types, type guards, and advanced type inference.

TypeScriptTypesGenerics
11 easy · 26 medium · 24 hard

C++

61 questions · Pointers, references, OOP, virtual functions, templates, the STL, RAII and smart pointers.

C++OOPMemory
11 easy · 27 medium · 23 hard

SQL

61 questions · Joins, GROUP BY, subqueries, window functions, CTEs and classic query-writing problems.

SQLQueriesJoins
16 easy · 20 medium · 25 hard

Machine Learning

61 questions · Supervised vs unsupervised learning, overfitting, bias-variance, model evaluation and core ML algorithms.

Machine LearningModelsEvaluation
14 easy · 27 medium · 20 hard

AWS

61 questions · EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, load balancing, auto scaling and core AWS cloud services.

AWSCloudDevOps
10 easy · 33 medium · 18 hard

HTML & CSS

61 questions · Box model, Flexbox, Grid, specificity, positioning, semantic HTML, responsive design and accessibility.

HTMLCSSFrontend
15 easy · 29 medium · 17 hard

Docker

61 questions · Containers vs VMs, images, Dockerfiles, layers, volumes, networking, multi-stage builds, Compose and container security.

DockerContainersDevOps
10 easy · 30 medium · 21 hard

Kubernetes

61 questions · Pods, Deployments, Services, scaling, ConfigMaps/Secrets, probes, scheduling, storage, Ingress, RBAC and cluster architecture.

KubernetesOrchestrationDevOps
8 easy · 24 medium · 29 hard

Git

61 questions · Version control, merge vs rebase, staging, reset/revert, branching, conflicts, stash, reflog, cherry-pick, tags and internals.

GitVersion ControlWorkflow
15 easy · 30 medium · 16 hard

MongoDB

61 questions · Documents & collections, BSON, indexing, aggregation pipeline, data modeling, sharding, replica sets, transactions and consistency.

MongoDBNoSQLDatabase
11 easy · 30 medium · 20 hard

GraphQL

61 questions · Schema & SDL, queries/mutations/subscriptions, resolvers, the N+1 problem, fragments, types, caching, federation and API security.

GraphQLAPIBackend
7 easy · 20 medium · 34 hard

Angular

61 questions · Components, data binding, dependency injection, directives, RxJS observables, change detection, routing, forms, signals and performance.

AngularTypeScriptFrontend
8 easy · 27 medium · 26 hard

Go (Golang)

73 questions · Goroutines, channels, select, slices & maps, interfaces, structs, error handling, defer/panic/recover, the scheduler, generics, context and concurrency.

GoGolangConcurrency
5 easy · 30 medium · 38 hard

C#

61 questions · The CLR & .NET, value vs reference types, delegates & events, LINQ, async/await, generics, records, pattern matching, garbage collection and DI.

C#.NETOOP
3 easy · 34 medium · 24 hard

Spring Boot

61 questions · Auto-configuration, starters, IoC & dependency injection, stereotypes, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, transactions, AOP, Actuator, Security and testing.

Spring BootJavaBackend
7 easy · 29 medium · 25 hard

Data Science

61 questions · Statistics, hypothesis testing, the bias-variance tradeoff, feature engineering, model evaluation, regularization, PCA, A/B testing and experiment design.

Data ScienceStatisticsMachine Learning
16 easy · 34 medium · 11 hard

Rust

61 questions · Ownership & borrowing, lifetimes, the borrow checker, traits, Option/Result, pattern matching, smart pointers, fearless concurrency and zero-cost abstractions.

RustSystems ProgrammingMemory Safety
6 easy · 31 medium · 24 hard

Vue.js

61 questions · Reactivity, Options vs Composition API, ref & reactive, computed & watchers, directives, components, slots, lifecycle hooks, Vue Router and Pinia state.

Vue.jsFrontendJavaScript
10 easy · 31 medium · 20 hard

Linux

61 questions · Processes & threads, file permissions, links, pipes & redirection, signals, the boot process, the filesystem hierarchy, cron, users and shell fundamentals.

LinuxShellSysAdmin
18 easy · 22 medium · 21 hard

Redis

61 questions · Core data types, RDB & AOF persistence, key expiration & eviction, sorted sets, pub/sub, pipelining, transactions, Cluster & Sentinel, distributed locks, streams and caching patterns.

RedisCachingIn-Memory
2 easy · 29 medium · 30 hard

Apache Kafka

61 questions · Topics & partitions, brokers & clusters, producers & consumer groups, offsets, replication & ISR, delivery semantics, log compaction, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams and exactly-once processing.

KafkaStreamingMessaging
1 easy · 25 medium · 35 hard

Elasticsearch

61 questions · Inverted indexes, documents, indices & shards, primary vs replica, analyzers & mappings, the query DSL, relevance scoring with BM25, aggregations, the ELK stack and cluster health & scaling.

ElasticsearchSearchELK
3 easy · 23 medium · 35 hard

Terraform

61 questions · Infrastructure as code, the state file & remote backends, state locking, the init/plan/apply workflow, providers, resources & modules, variables & outputs, count vs for_each, workspaces and drift management.

TerraformIaCDevOps
6 easy · 30 medium · 25 hard

Django

61 questions · The MTV architecture, the ORM & migrations, models & QuerySets, function vs class-based views, templates, forms & validation, authentication, middleware, Django REST Framework and web security defaults.

DjangoPythonWeb
6 easy · 30 medium · 25 hard

Nginx

61 questions · Reverse proxying & load balancing, the event-driven master/worker architecture, server & location blocks, static file serving, proxy caching, SSL/TLS termination, rate limiting, upstreams and performance tuning.

NginxWebServerDevOps
6 easy · 23 medium · 32 hard

CI/CD

61 questions · Continuous integration & delivery pipelines, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, build artifacts & caching, blue-green/canary/rolling deployments, automated testing, quality gates, rollbacks, secrets management and pipeline security.

CICDDevOpsAutomation
7 easy · 23 medium · 31 hard

Microservices

61 questions · Service decomposition & bounded contexts, inter-service communication, API gateways & service discovery, the Saga, CQRS and event-sourcing patterns, service meshes, resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead), distributed tracing and contract testing.

MicroservicesArchitectureDistributedSystems
1 easy · 28 medium · 32 hard

REST API

61 questions · REST principles & statelessness, HTTP methods and status codes, idempotency, resource URI design, HATEOAS and the Richardson Maturity Model, versioning, pagination, authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0), CORS, rate limiting, caching and OpenAPI documentation.

RESTAPIWebServicesBackend
7 easy · 28 medium · 26 hard

gRPC

61 questions · High-performance RPC with Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2, the four streaming modes (unary, server, client, bidirectional), stubs & code generation, deadlines, interceptors, metadata, TLS auth, load balancing, gRPC-Web and schema compatibility.

gRPCRPCBackend
5 easy · 26 medium · 30 hard

WebSockets

61 questions · Full-duplex real-time communication, the handshake & protocol upgrade, frames and message framing, WebSockets vs HTTP/SSE/long polling, scaling across servers, heartbeats & reconnection, WSS/TLS security, Socket.IO, rooms and sticky sessions.

WebSocketsRealTimeBackend
2 easy · 27 medium · 32 hard

RabbitMQ

61 questions · Message brokering with AMQP, exchange types (direct, fanout, topic, headers), queues & bindings, acknowledgements, dead letter exchanges, durability & persistence, prefetch/QoS, work queues, pub/sub and RPC patterns, clustering and high-availability queues.

RabbitMQMessageQueueBackend
8 easy · 27 medium · 26 hard

Prometheus & Monitoring

61 questions · Metrics-based monitoring & observability, the pull model, metric types (counter, gauge, histogram, summary), PromQL, labels & cardinality, exporters, Alertmanager, recording & alerting rules, Grafana, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets and long-term storage.

PrometheusMonitoringObservability
7 easy · 29 medium · 25 hard

Apache Cassandra

61 questions · Distributed wide-column NoSQL database: data modeling & partition/clustering keys, ring architecture & consistent hashing, replication factor & strategies, tunable consistency, the write path (commit log, memtable, SSTables), compaction & tombstones, read repair, hinted handoffs, CQL, gossip, multi-datacenter deployments and anti-patterns.

CassandraNoSQLDistributed Databases
5 easy · 28 medium · 28 hard

Ansible

61 questions · Agentless configuration management & automation: inventories (static & dynamic), playbooks, plays, tasks & modules, idempotency, roles & Ansible Galaxy, variables & precedence, facts, handlers, Jinja2 templates, Vault for secrets, conditionals, loops, tags, blocks, privilege escalation, ad-hoc commands, Tower/AWX and cloud orchestration.

AnsibleConfiguration ManagementAutomation
10 easy · 24 medium · 27 hard

Amazon DynamoDB

61 questions · Fully managed NoSQL on AWS: partition & sort keys, single-table design, GSIs vs LSIs, provisioned vs on-demand capacity, consistency models, Query vs Scan, DynamoDB Streams, DAX caching, transactions, hot partitions, global tables and auto scaling.

DynamoDBAWSNoSQL
3 easy · 25 medium · 33 hard

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Where can I practice technical interview questions for free in India?
SkillVeris offers a free interview questions section with readiness scoring, so you can practice technical interview questions at no cost from anywhere in India or worldwide. Questions span AI/ML, programming, web development, DevOps, cloud and security. Combine them with Code Lab for hands-on coding practice and the AI Mentor for instant explanations whenever an answer confuses you.
How do I prepare for a coding interview if I am a complete beginner?
Start by learning one language well, then practice small problems daily before attempting interview questions. On SkillVeris you can take a free structured programming course with 24–40 lessons, write code in the in-browser Code Lab across 6 languages, and then move to the interview questions bank with readiness scoring to measure how prepared you actually are.
What is interview readiness scoring and how does it work?
Interview readiness scoring measures how prepared you are for a technical interview based on your performance across practice questions. On SkillVeris, as you answer interview questions, your readiness score updates so you can see weak topics before the real interview. It turns vague confidence into a concrete signal, telling you which areas need more revision and which are already strong.
How long does it take to get interview ready for a developer job?
Most beginners need a few months of consistent practice to feel interview ready, though timelines vary with background and daily study time. A practical route is finishing a structured SkillVeris course, which includes 24–40 lessons, module assessments and a final exam at an 80 percent pass mark, then drilling the free interview questions until your readiness score is consistently strong.
What are the most common technical interview topics for freshers?
Freshers are commonly tested on programming fundamentals, data structures, problem solving, databases, and basics of the role's stack such as web development or cloud. SkillVeris covers these through 37 free courses, a glossary of around 2,000 terms for quick definitions, cheat sheets for revision, and interview questions with readiness scoring so you can practise exactly what interviewers usually ask.
Can I practice coding interview prep without installing anything?
Yes, SkillVeris Code Lab runs entirely in your browser, so you can practice coding interview prep without installing compilers or editors. It supports 6 languages across 15 categories of exercises. Pair Code Lab sessions with the interview questions bank and readiness scoring, and you have a complete free preparation setup that works on any machine with an internet connection.
How do I explain technical concepts clearly in an interview?
Practice explaining each concept through a simple analogy first, then add the technical detail, because interviewers value clarity over jargon. SkillVeris teaches with its Learn Through Hobbies method, explaining concepts through cricket, music, gaming, cooking and eight more domains. Learning a topic through an analogy gives you a ready-made, memorable way to explain it when an interviewer asks.
Are there free mock interview resources for software engineers?
SkillVeris provides free interview questions with readiness scoring, which works like a self-paced mock interview you can repeat any time. You answer real-style technical questions, get scored, and see where you stand. The AI Mentor is available 24/7 to explain any answer at Quick, Detailed or Deep-dive depth, acting like an always-available interviewer who never gets tired.
How should I prepare for an AI or machine learning interview?
Cover ML fundamentals, Python, and modern topics like LLMs and RAG, then practise explaining projects clearly. SkillVeris has free AI/ML courses including Python for AI and ML, Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, each with 24–40 lessons and assessments. After finishing, use the interview questions bank and readiness scoring to confirm you can answer under pressure.
What should I revise the night before a technical interview?
Revise concise summaries rather than learning anything new: core definitions, common patterns, and your own project stories. SkillVeris cheat sheets and study notes are built exactly for this kind of quick revision, and the glossary of around 2,000 terms lets you verify any definition fast. A short readiness-score check on the interview questions bank confirms nothing critical is shaky.
How do I prepare for a DevOps interview with no work experience?
Build demonstrable knowledge through structured learning and hands-on practice, since you cannot point to job experience. SkillVeris offers free DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes related courses within its 37-course catalog and a DevOps Engineer learning path. Complete the courses, earn certificates by passing the final exams, then use the interview questions section to rehearse common DevOps scenarios.
Do certificates help in clearing technical interviews?
Certificates alone do not clear interviews, but they signal structured learning and give interviewers a starting point for questions. SkillVeris awards certificates when you pass a course final exam at 80 percent, after 24–40 lessons and module assessments, so the certificate reflects genuine effort. Pair it with practised interview answers and Code Lab projects to make a stronger impression.
How can I improve my problem solving speed for coding interviews?
Speed comes from repetition on progressively harder problems, not from rushing. Practise daily in SkillVeris Code Lab, which offers in-browser coding in 6 languages across 15 categories, and time yourself on interview questions. Review every mistake with the AI Mentor, which explains solutions 24/7 at Quick, Detailed or Deep-dive depth, so each session genuinely improves your pattern recognition.
What questions are asked in a Python technical interview?
Python interviews typically cover data types, functions, comprehensions, OOP, error handling and libraries relevant to the role, such as ML packages for AI positions. SkillVeris interview questions include Python topics, and its free Python for AI and ML course builds the underlying knowledge across 24–40 lessons. Readiness scoring then shows whether your Python answers are interview grade.
How do I handle interview questions I don't know the answer to?
Say what you do know, reason aloud toward an approach, and be honest about the gap, because interviewers value thinking over bluffing. Reduce how often this happens by broadening fundamentals: SkillVeris study notes, cheat sheets and the roughly 2,000-term glossary fill knowledge gaps quickly, and readiness scoring highlights weak areas before an interviewer ever finds them.
Is there a free way to check my interview readiness before applying for jobs?
Yes, SkillVeris interview questions come with readiness scoring, all completely free, so you can measure preparation before applying. Once your score looks solid, browse the SkillVeris Jobs page, which aggregates live roles across India, UK, USA, Germany and Remote with salary and experience filters, and apply knowing your technical preparation has been objectively tested.
How do I prepare for web developer interview questions?
Focus on JavaScript fundamentals, your framework of choice, HTTP basics, and building things you can discuss. SkillVeris offers free web development courses among its 37-course catalog, plus a Full Stack Java Developer learning path. After the courses, drill the interview questions bank, practise coding tasks in Code Lab, and use readiness scoring to verify you cover typical frontend and backend topics.
Can the AI Mentor help me practice interview answers?
Yes, the SkillVeris AI Mentor answers questions 24/7 and can explain any concept at Quick, Detailed or Deep-dive depth, which makes it useful for rehearsing interview explanations. Ask it to clarify a topic, then try explaining it back in your own words. Combined with the interview questions bank and readiness scoring, it becomes a free, always-available practice partner.
What is the best free platform for technical interview prep in 2026?
SkillVeris is a strong free option because it combines structured learning with dedicated interview preparation in one place. You get 37 free courses, interview questions with readiness scoring, an in-browser Code Lab for hands-on practice, cheat sheets and study notes for revision, and a 24/7 AI Mentor. Everything is free, which matters for learners in India and worldwide.
How do I stay calm and confident during a technical interview?
Confidence comes from evidence of preparation, so build that evidence deliberately. Complete a SkillVeris course, pass its final exam at the 80 percent bar, and watch your readiness score climb on the interview questions bank. Knowing you have explained concepts through analogies, coded in Code Lab, and scored well on practice questions gives you genuine, grounded calm on the day.

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