Linux administrator interview for 2-3 exp.

Linux administrator interview for 2-3 exp.

First thing to keep in mind before conducting interview is that you should keep in mind what is the actual experience of that person. Let's say he has a 2 years’ experience but that is only equal to a full time professional with 6 months experience. This means that the person you are having interview with should be dealt smoothly rather rapidly. So here are a number of mixed questions which will guide you in making a decision of whether to employ that person or not.

Entry level questions:

• Default windows manager in Linux.
• Define Login Shell.
• Define UID.
• Define seLinux.
• Define parity bit.

Commands:

• Command for showing directory listing.
• Command for showing few files with top most size in a directory.

Procedural Questions:  

• How to add new hard disk to unix/linux/linux lvm.
• De  scribe the method how to disable root login on SSH

Logical Questions:

• What is the purpose of ntsysv/chkconfig command.
• Can Linux be able to host two apache servers differently.
• Difference b/w regular and journal file system.
• Major difference b/w LILO and Grub.