Interview

poz · 09-21-2006, 09:31 AM

I am going to attend an interview for a Solaris admin position. What questions should I expect to be asked?

Thank regards
Poz

jlliagre · 09-21-2006, 09:57 AM

Every interviewer has probably its own set.

Of course you'll be asked for your experience, skills, availability, references ...

Technical questions may or may not take a large part of the interview, that depends a lot on who is asking the questions.

poz · 09-21-2006, 10:58 AM

Thanks, but I was interested to know what technical solaris oriented questions you would ask.

Thanks reagards
Poz

Blinker_Fluid · 09-21-2006, 11:21 AM

Huge variation in questions depending on where it is.
I would expect questions like:
How do you jumpstart a server?
vi commands
simple scripting
adding/modifying services
openboot/init level questions
hardware troubleshooting
shell commands

jlliagre · 09-21-2006, 12:06 PM

Yep, I would add also questions about:
networking, routing, how to low level configure a network interface, firewalls,
storage, disks, mirroring, NAS,
remote management LOM, RSC,
Sun Rays,
Commands to monitor a system,
Solaris 10 features (Zones, Resource management, Dtrace, SMF, RBAC, ZFS).

And a killer question: "Which one do you think is the best O/S, Solaris or Linux ?"

mdhmi · 09-22-2006, 10:03 AM

It really depends on the position.

When I interview someone I usually ask general troubleshooting questions like - "A box is running slow what do you do?"