sysadmin interview questions


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  1. general

    • What is your technical background?
    • What’s your background in operating systems and services?
    • How do you handle support for users and endpoint systems?
    • How do you handle backups and restoration in your current role?
    • What Are Main Email Servers And Which Are Their Ports?
    • Where Do You Get Updates On Security?

  2. windows

    • Where Is The Ad Database Stored? C:\Windows\NTDS\NTDS.DIT
    • What Is The Sysvol Folder?
    • How Do You Backup Ad?
      • W2k3: Ntbackup W2k8: wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:e:
    • Give An Example Of Systems You Have Been Working With As An Administrator?
    • Differentiate Between Ntfs & Fat?

  3. network

    • What Is Loop Back?
    • What Is Proxy Server?
    • What do you mean by DNS?
    • What Is The Range Of Addresses In The Classes Of Internet Addresses?
      • Class A 0.0.0.0 - 127.255.255.255
      • Class B 128.0.0.0 - 191.255.255.255
      • Class C 192.0.0.0 - 223.255.255.255
      • Class D 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255
      • Class E 240.0.0.0 - 247.255.255.255.
    • Why Do We Use Dhcp?

  4. linux

    • What Is Anonymous Ftp And Why Would You Use It?
    • What are inode and process id?
    • How would you schedule a task in Linux?
    • Why LVM is required ?
    • How to check default route and routing table ?
    • How to check which ports are listening in my Linux Server ?
    • How to enable a service at a particular run level ?
    • What is load average in Linux ?
    • How to stop/start Apache Web Server?
    • What is a swap space?
    • How can you find out how much memory Linux is using?
    • What are symbolic links?
    • How do you change permissions under Linux?
    • What are hard links?
    • What is grep command?
    • How do you terminate an ongoing process?
    • Explain how you can find a file using Terminal?
    • How to know if a web server is running?
    • How to test apache config?
    • How to install patches?
    • How to use tar utility?
    • How would you recognize a process that is hogging resources?
    • What is umask? How to set it permanently for a user?

  5. firewall

    • What is the difference between gateway and firewall?
    • Can you explain the concept of demilitarized zone?
    • What is Policy NAT?
    • What is VPN?
    • What is symmetric and asymmetric encryption?
    • Two primary methods of Remote Access VPN.
      • IPSec & SSL vpn

  6. svn

    • What is the difference between GIT and SVN repository?
    • List out the common subversion commands?
    • What is the difference between commit and update?
    • What is the command to view the difference between the local version and repository version?
    • Mention what is the function of Revert in subversion?
    • Explain how you can revert to a previous version?
    • List out what is the best practices for SVN?
    • How to take backup of repository ?
      • svnadmin dump pathToRepo | gzip -9 repoDump.gz