just came up with a list just to keep the mind sharp…. if anyone wants to add more questions please do so..
General Interview Questions
·        What are your responsibilities in your present job?
·        What has been your biggest contribution at your most recent job?
·        Which of your jobs have you enjoyed the most?
·        What type of management style do you work best for?
·        If you could change one thing in your current job, what would it be?
·        What would your manager say are your strengths?
·        What might your manager say as a criticism?
·        How do you keep up with the changes in technology?
·        Tell me about a time when you were not satisfied with your performance.
·        How would your co-workers describe you?
·        What did you like best about working at your most recent job?
·        What did you like least?
·        In your last job, when did you feel pressured? Why? How do you handle the pressure?
·        Why did you choose this profession? What rewards does it give you?
·        How do you know when you're doing a good job? (internal or external standards?)
·        Where do you see your career headed? What would you like to be doing in five years?
·        What is your reason for wanting to leave your present job?
·        What are you looking for in a job that you haven't had before?
·        What would make you want to stay in a job?
·        Salary requirements?
 Technical Questions for UNIX Admins
- What commercial tools have you used for backup and archive?
- What UID does root have across an NFS mount by default?
- What file contains the mounted file systems in Solaris? Linux?
- What command identifies the
NIS server you are bound to? - What is the name of the administrative tool for Sun?
- How can you tell what is attached to the SCSI chain on a Sun system?
- What command will tell you how much memory a system has in Solaris? Linux?
- Where are system messages logged in Solaris? Linux?
- How would you “break†an NFS mount on a system that has users on it ?
- Explain how you could stop and start a process without rebooting?
- What command will tell you how long a system has been running?
- What is LVM?
- What is FSCK?
- What is Jxfs or Vxfs?
- How do you get Sun system to a single user mode?
- What file control basic hostname and network information in Solaris(3files) Linux(1file)
- What command will provide status of your filesystems on Sun? Linux?
- What file do you edit to permit non-console login of root on a Solaris system
- What command provides information on the health and performance of NFS?
- What command provides information on your network connection?
- What command can you use to find the path to an application?
- What command shows disk partitions in Solaris? Linux?
- What is the tar commands to display the contents of an archive?
- What command tells you who is logged into a file system?
- What is the command to shutdown and halt a Sun system?
- How do you mount a filesystem?
- What command can you use to identify a hostname or ip address?
- What character is used to launch an application and run it in the background?
- What command lists the current running jobs?
- How do you kill a running job?
- What are setuid/setgid in relation to file permissions?
- What is an inode?
- What does init do ? what does inetd do ?
- What do you do when the newly built kernel does not boot?
- What is chroot?
- How do you find out whats your shell?
- How do you list only the directories inside directory?
- How to recover a system with lost root password?
- How do you put a job in background and bring it to foreground?
- How do you view shared memory statics?
- How do you get system diagnostic information ?
- What is an alternative to the top command on Solaris?
- What is /etc/system for ?
- What does ndd do ?
- What does init 0 do ?
- How do you boot from CD-ROM?
- What is the difference between NFS v2 and NFS v3
- What is RPC and Why do you need it ?
- What does fmthard do ?
- Write a command to find all of the files which have been accessed within the last 30 days : find / -type f –atime -30 > files.txt
- How do you get to the end of file on vi ?
