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Questions quickly deviated from expected Unix/Linux topics, into experience with their partcular and obscure setup and questions about database management and operations (You have two registers with numbers in them and no scratch space or temporary storage. You need to exchange the two numbers and be able to reverse the operation). No DB management/operations requirements were listed on the job description.
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Junior Linux/Unix Systems Administrative

Interviewed at Modspace

3.2★
Feb 10, 2015

Questions quickly deviated from expected Unix/Linux topics, into experience with their partcular and obscure setup and questions about database management and operations (You have two registers with numbers in them and no scratch space or temporary storage. You need to exchange the two numbers and be able to reverse the operation). No DB management/operations requirements were listed on the job description.

1. Tell me about yourself. 2. How to run script in background? 3. How to create files in different ways? 4. How to substitute one word? 5. How to schedule cron job? 6. How to create new file system? 7. What parameters shows are in top command?
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Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.1★
Mar 20, 2021

1. Tell me about yourself. 2. How to run script in background? 3. How to create files in different ways? 4. How to substitute one word? 5. How to schedule cron job? 6. How to create new file system? 7. What parameters shows are in top command?

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