Senior Unix Systems Administrator Interview Questions in San Jose, CA

18

Senior Unix Systems Administrator interview questions shared by candidates

Top Interview Questions

Sort: Relevance|Popular|Date
SingularLogic
Senior Systems Administrator (Unix) was asked...February 24, 2016

Please give a sort description of your work experience

1 Answers

History Sep 2013 - still in - IT/Electronics project manager (Qatar) –H.E.Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani  Work on project management for private household in the position of It-electronics manager responsible for all electronics and IT equipment in the house, Cisco network and DNS services  Responsible / Consulting for the installations and services of network switches in accordance to manufacture instructions Technician and operator at all audio visual equipment of server Kaleidescape and audio visual matrix through network  Technician and operator of all security and CCTV cameras systems powered by marine guard and RFS security corporation Feb 2012- September 2016- IT/Electronics manager –Private yacht management  Work on 133, motor yacht in the position of It- electronics manager responsible for all navigation electronics and IT equipment on board  Responsible for the installation and service in accordance to manufacture instructions for the VDR-ECDIS- RADAR-GMDSS MINI M, FLEEET 33-77 and the navigation equipment of Kongsberg Comp and Funa Gmbh  Technician and operator at all audio visual equipment of 4 server kaleidoscope and 54 kaleidoscope units also for the satellite receivers and audio visual matrix through network  Technician and operator of all security and CCTV cameras systems powered by marine guard and RFS security corporation  Administrator of 3 window server 2003 and exchange server 2007, active directory, roaming profiles, DNS services, Cisco networks, Mimecast Operation Mail Console  Managing V-sat services for the internet connections and Optimizer5W great circle systems NAS3000 and Blue Coat for the inbound and outbound network Traffic  Responsible for the refitting of the boat and the New Deck construction for the all the electronics, safety, navigation, Audio Visual and I.T.equipments in the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Germany. Less

Dell Technologies

describe processes like how to troubleshoot a performance problem or describe how to assign more disk , create user accounts, etc

1 Answers

We can check the status of the physical memory (free) and virtual memory (vmstat). Check the status of the processes with "ps -eaf" and kill the necessary one. We can increase the configuration for SWAP memory. We can assign more disk online with LVM (Logical Volume Manager) using the steps to create a new logical volume. We can create an user account with the command " useradd -m 'username' " and add the password with the command " passwd 'username' " . Less

What would you do if you were told to do something and you knew there was a better way?

1 Answers

Make a suggestion of the better way, but do what was I was told if my suggestion was declined. Less

SITA

Mainly on System Administrator for UNIX (Solaris and Redhat) Operating System and the difference between Both

1 Answers

Sun Solaris (UNIX) have many Options and future Linux Redhat did have it like Supported Sun SPARC Hardware, ZFS file and Zoning Visualization, Less

What qualifies you to hold this position.

1 Answers

35 years experience

IBM

1.Linux core level 2.VMware questions

1 Answers

1.why sticky bit is enabled on /etc/shadow file

CBTS

Questions were specific to my Unix experience as I was being interviewed for a specific customer with specific needs.

1 Answers

I actually had to correct the person asking the question, either on purpose or by accident, the statement he was making was incorrect. Once I answered there were inaudible whispers. Two days later I had a job offer in writing. Less

Serco Group

All questions regarding to UNIX/SAN/STORAGE/Virtualizacion/Scripting and Networking solutions.

IBM

- Standard UNIX questions, like how to navigate files, starting service, boot process, etc... - Clustering question, including many technologies, like the standard Linux cluster stack but also the proprietary clustering solution from IBM and HP. - Questions about distributed file system from IBM (GPFS)

Viewing 1 - 10 of 18 interview questions

See Interview Questions for Similar Jobs

lead systems engineersenior systems administratorunix system administratorunix solaris administratorunix administrator

Glassdoor has 18 interview questions and reports from Senior unix systems administrator interviews in San Jose, CA. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.