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1. Are you currently employed? 2. Can you tell us about a time when you initially failed to solve an issue? 3. What is the difference between LDAP and Active Directory? 4. What techniques would you choose to motivate disengaged employees? 5. What advice would you give to a new team member? 6. What’s the best way to onboard a new hire? 7. How would you negotiate a bigger budget for your team? 8. What experience do you have with hardware components? 9. What do you feel is important to make sure the work gets done efficiently? 10. Walk me through your portfolio. Which pieces are you most proud of, and why? 11. Tell me about yourself and your last/current job/class? 12. Why would you not restore a DC that was last backed up eight months ago? 13. What's the most frustrating support issue you've been called to resolve? 14. How much will you request per hour if you are hired?
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Junior Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Source 1 Solutions

3.6★
Apr 12, 2023

1. Are you currently employed? 2. Can you tell us about a time when you initially failed to solve an issue? 3. What is the difference between LDAP and Active Directory? 4. What techniques would you choose to motivate disengaged employees? 5. What advice would you give to a new team member? 6. What’s the best way to onboard a new hire? 7. How would you negotiate a bigger budget for your team? 8. What experience do you have with hardware components? 9. What do you feel is important to make sure the work gets done efficiently? 10. Walk me through your portfolio. Which pieces are you most proud of, and why? 11. Tell me about yourself and your last/current job/class? 12. Why would you not restore a DC that was last backed up eight months ago? 13. What's the most frustrating support issue you've been called to resolve? 14. How much will you request per hour if you are hired?

Behavioral Questions : Introduce yourself What interests you about this role? What are your strengths and weaknesses? How do you work under stress? Describe a situation where you worked with an angry customer/client. Have you worked on multiple projects before? How do you prioritize? Or prioritize service tickets Technical Questions : 1. Adding Two Numbers in Bash language 2. Join Last Three Elements in Bash language 3. Replace Word in Bash language 4. Linux Access Log Filtering, SSH into a server and create a script that will selectively pull status codes and specific IP addresses 5. Linux Archive Alteraction - eliminate all empty files after extracting a .tar file and append the .log extension all remaining files, then re-tarring the files into an archive in a specific directory. Extra Credit Question which was added for fun - done in any language (Java, Python, etc)
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Junior Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Ocrolus

3.8★
Apr 18, 2021

Behavioral Questions : Introduce yourself What interests you about this role? What are your strengths and weaknesses? How do you work under stress? Describe a situation where you worked with an angry customer/client. Have you worked on multiple projects before? How do you prioritize? Or prioritize service tickets Technical Questions : 1. Adding Two Numbers in Bash language 2. Join Last Three Elements in Bash language 3. Replace Word in Bash language 4. Linux Access Log Filtering, SSH into a server and create a script that will selectively pull status codes and specific IP addresses 5. Linux Archive Alteraction - eliminate all empty files after extracting a .tar file and append the .log extension all remaining files, then re-tarring the files into an archive in a specific directory. Extra Credit Question which was added for fun - done in any language (Java, Python, etc)

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