Well, the purpose of the original post was to list a set of questions
that, while admittedly "academic" in that they involve facts, cross 1) a
broad cross-section of what a sysadmin might be asked to do and 2) range
from easy to difficult.
The point is not to know the answer to every question,
Yeah, wellummm...yeah, okay - that was dumb of me. Here they are:
1) What is an inode?
Answer: An inode is an on-disk data structure that contains information
about a file. Useful things it includes are size, modification time,
and number of links that point to it (among other things)
Bonus
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> you forgot to list the answers :)
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> Waleed
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Having been a past sys admin, it was difficult to resist the temptation to
respond to the initial post. But, since at least one person appears to have
taken it as an indication of what kind of sys admin a candidat
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> question #1: Do you realize
day, July 15, 2003 1:44 PM> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L> Subject: RE: Interview Questions for a Unix Solaris System Admin> > > question #1: Do you realize that your DBA is a God, and you > will obey his/her edicts without question?> > question #2: Are you a
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> These are nice questions. I'm not sure how I would identify if they are
> technical enough to handle the job though.
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> question #1: Do you realize that your DBA is a
food/beer required tokeep in your God's (DBA's) good graces?etc...Scott ShaferSan Antonio, TX210.581.6217> -Original Message-> From: M.Godlewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:30 PM> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L> Subject: Intervie
> food/beer required to keep in your God's (DBA's) good graces?
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> etc...
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> Scott Shafer
> San Antonio, TX
> 210.581.6217
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I've been in the same situation, I had to interview
the company's sysadmin, though I am not one. Here you
have a few points to start your list.
Regards
Gabriel
The candidate must provide knolwedge about (how to's):
1. Start and stop a solaris system, including several
levels of boot (1,2,3, etc)
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> I've been asked to interview a system admin candidate
I've been asked to interview a system admin candidate for our Solaris shop. I've search Google and altavista, but haven't come up with any after 1999 interview questions. Does anyone have a list of interview question or a link to some?
tia
M
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