From: Robin Marquis (Robin.Marquis@swift.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 06:34:09 EST
The answer to 23 is USERS - do I get a prize ?
Ronelle Van Niekerk wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Thanks for all the input on this. I have finally come up with a feew
> questions (that will go longside a more indepth technical test - by
> computer) to find out if the person has a general knowledge of Unix
> systems:
>
> 1. How do you list files in a directory?
>
> 2. How do you list the processes running on a machine?
>
> 3. What command/s can be used to determine available disk
> space?
>
> 4. How would you find out which files or directories are
> taking up a lot of space?
>
> 5. What command or tool would you use to create a Unix
> user?
>
> 6. What three commands are used to modify file ownership
> and permissions?
>
> 7. What command/s can you use to determine the hostname of
> a machine?
>
> 8. What are the limitations on a user login name in
> /etc/passwd?
>
> 9. What command would you use to repair a filesystem?
>
> 10. How do you kill a process gracefully? And if it doesn't
> die?
>
> 11. If a user has forgotten his or her password, how can the
> system administrator safely and securely allow the user to log in?
>
> 12. What is the command for rebooting a server immediately?
>
> 13. Why should systems be shut down rather than just powered
> off?
>
> 14. What system utilities might be use to diagnose an
> Ethernet problem?
>
> 15. What should root's umask be set to?
>
> 16. /var is reporting itself as full. How would you go about
> clearing space?
>
> 17. You've just finished a wonderful whizbang utility, and
> you want everyone to have access to it. What do you do?
>
> 18. A user calls and complains that response is slow. How
> would you investigate?
>
> 19. Consider the following shell script:
> #!bin/sh x=date echo hello $x
> How can you fix this script so it works?
>
> 20. Please explain how you would define a global variable in
> such a way that it can be initialized and is available to more than one
> source file.
>
> 21. What is your opinion on root access? How would you limit
> the number of people who have root permission?
>
> These next questions are just to get a better idea about the person:
>
> 22. How do you feel about bleeding-edge technology? Are you
> in favor of moving to the newest version as soon as possible, or would
> you rather wait a while, and let someone else work most of the bugs out?
>
> 23. Which part of sys admin work do you like the most and
> the least?
>
> There is only one correct answer to the second part of question 23!
>
> Regards
> - Ronelle van Niekerk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronelle Van Niekerk
> > Sent: 05 November 2002 11:16
> > To: HP (E-mail)
> > Subject: Technical test for interview
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I have to do the technical part of the interview for my replacement.
> > They only need a basic knowledge of Unix, I will train them on the
> > rest, and the job is not the most challenging one around.
> >
> > Do any of you have some basic questions set up that I could ask?
> >
> > TIA
> > Ronelle
> >
> > Infrastructure Support Team
> > 10th Floor
> > ext. 7189
> >
>
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