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Below I have mentioned a few interview questions for the role of a Senior Software Engineer at Symantec. They were looking for a Senior person with mainly Windows API programming experience. I had 7 rounds of interview including a 'lunch with Manager' and a Director's interview. I have mentioned the questions below. I hope this would help some Developers looking for Symantec Interview Questions. Let me know your comments... C++/ OOPS Questions Rate yourself in C++ The interviewer wrote a  class with 2 members , a char* and a HANDLE  and asked me to complete the class. He was mainly looking for proper assignment operator and copy constructors. What is polymorphism What is abstract class and when to use abstract class How is virtual function implemented What is vptr, is vptr created per class or per object What is strlen_s() call would do? When to throw or catch an exception? Explain a few Design Patterns? Where did you use singleton and Factory patterns? Wh

Please follow the below mentioned steps to write a very simple SNMP4J application using Java and eclipse IDE. First you need to download a copy of SNMP4J.jar. You can get it from http://www.snmp4j.org/html/download.html Then you need to decide how you are going to test your application. Check whether you have access to any real network devices like Cisco routers or Juniper routers or whether you are aware of any SNMP agent running on any of your servers.There is nothing to worry if you cannot find one , you can start SNMP agent on your desktop machine as well. Here I am giving an example of how you can use your Windows machine to test your application by starting the SNMP service on the machine. I am using a Windows XP machine and below are the steps needed to start SNMP agent on the machine. 1. Go to Start->Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Add or Remove Windows Components      Select or Check "Management and Monitoring Tools".     This wil