From: Adams, John (John.Adams@molex.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 10:26:28 EST
Fortunately, I don't have much to do with users or low-wattage managers these days.
My answer to 23 is "New hardware and the sales drones who think they understand it". The hardware itself is very interesting, but some of the sales presentations I've suffered through...ouch!
For instance, the (large fibre switch vendor) who was told explicitly "do not bring a powerpoint presentation, bring an engineer and a working device", and then brought only powerpoint. And they wonder why we're looking at (other large fibre switch vendor)...
Good quiz. Very useful.
J
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From: Timothy Cook [mailto:TCOOK@joy.com]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:13 AM
To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Subject: [HPADM] Re: SUMMARY: Technical test for interview
Sorry Robin, but I disagree, the answer to 23 is NOT Users. The answer to the second part of 23 is "managers/bosses who learned everything they need to know from vendors"
I have enough to do without explaining everything to my boss!
Ronelle -- Not a bad quiz!
>>> Robin Marquis <Robin.Marquis@swift.com> 11/15/02 06:34AM >>>
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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