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Many. Generally, they test your knowledge by asking you questions until they get an "I don't know" answer. This lets them know where your skills rest, and then they will ask you to take an educated guess to the "I don't know" based upon what you do know.
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Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.5★
Jan 17, 2014

Many. Generally, they test your knowledge by asking you questions until they get an "I don't know" answer. This lets them know where your skills rest, and then they will ask you to take an educated guess to the "I don't know" based upon what you do know.

Couple of questions on Linux Core basics, like booting, rescue mode, etc Have you worked on cPanel, Plesk, Virtuzzo, openvz etc Deep questions on DNS resolutions, iterative and recursive resolution Differentiate different virtualization technique How do they work, pros and cons Scripting basics Logs and how to interepret them Exim headers Spams how to handle them System load and memory issues
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Senior Linux Administrator

Interviewed at Carmatec

2.6★
Jun 23, 2017

Couple of questions on Linux Core basics, like booting, rescue mode, etc Have you worked on cPanel, Plesk, Virtuzzo, openvz etc Deep questions on DNS resolutions, iterative and recursive resolution Differentiate different virtualization technique How do they work, pros and cons Scripting basics Logs and how to interepret them Exim headers Spams how to handle them System load and memory issues

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