Linux Administrator Interview Questions

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Tell me about yourself What are you looking for in this new role What motivates you Are you familiar with ServiceNow Current job responsibilities and questions about the role Scripting experience Were you involved in the setup process for the processes in your job Why are you looking to leave your current role? Describe a project that you’ve worked on Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision being made A "triva game" to test your knowledge
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Staff Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at ServiceNow

4.1
Jun 15, 2022

Tell me about yourself What are you looking for in this new role What motivates you Are you familiar with ServiceNow Current job responsibilities and questions about the role Scripting experience Were you involved in the setup process for the processes in your job Why are you looking to leave your current role? Describe a project that you’ve worked on Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision being made A "triva game" to test your knowledge

Be prepared with your profile ,technical why do use dns ,if ram size is 500GB then wht shd be the swap space)thumb rule says twice of the ram size but it should be 250GB Lvm concept how to reduce a lvm ,how do you check if a server is physical or virtual how do you secure a server how to perform filesystem check e2fsck,xfs_repair how to avoid filesystem check during boot how do you check or create system logs (rsyslog and journalctl) what is load average(average sum of nos of process waiting in the run queue and no of process currently executing over the period of 1,5 and 15 mins use top and uptime to check it) ,how to calculate load average wht can u derive from it Hope this is helpful
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Linux Administrator

Interviewed at Genpact

3.7
Mar 1, 2018

Be prepared with your profile ,technical why do use dns ,if ram size is 500GB then wht shd be the swap space)thumb rule says twice of the ram size but it should be 250GB Lvm concept how to reduce a lvm ,how do you check if a server is physical or virtual how do you secure a server how to perform filesystem check e2fsck,xfs_repair how to avoid filesystem check during boot how do you check or create system logs (rsyslog and journalctl) what is load average(average sum of nos of process waiting in the run queue and no of process currently executing over the period of 1,5 and 15 mins use top and uptime to check it) ,how to calculate load average wht can u derive from it Hope this is helpful

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