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Last active April 9, 2024 00:02
Sysadmin Interview Questions

Top Questions for Sysadmin Interview:

Disclaimer: These questions and answers aren't at all mine. These were scavanged around in the web. I hope it helps.

Basic:
  1. What is Linux and also explain the basic components of Linux?

    Answer: Linux is the most commonly used operating system that is open source and free. For any computer, the operating system acts as the backbone, and it is most important software that is required for any computer.

Questions are not from any actual exam!!!
Q: Create a job that calculates pi to 2000 decimal points using the container with the image named perl
and the following commands issued to the container: ["perl", "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"]
Once the job has completed, check the logs to and export the result to pi-result.txt.
Solution:
@ameenkhan07
ameenkhan07 / FB-PE-InterviewTips.md
Last active April 11, 2024 17:02
Facebook Production Engineering Interview

What to Expect and Tips

• 45-minute systems interview, focus on responding to real world problems with an unhealthy service, such as a web server or database. The interview will start off at a high level troubleshooting a likely scenario, dig deeper to find the cause and some possible solutions for it. The goal is to probe your knowledge of systems at scale and under load, so keep in mind the challenges of the Facebook environment.
• Focus on things such as tooling, memory management and unix process lifecycle.

Systems

More specifically, linux troubleshooting and debugging. Understanding things like memory, io, cpu, shell, memory etc. would be pretty helpful. Knowing how to actually write a unix shell would also be a good idea. What tools might you use to debug something? On another note, this interview will likely push your boundaries of what you know (and how to implement it).

Design/Architecture 

Interview is all about taking an ambiguous question of how you might build a system and letting

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@leonardofed
leonardofed / README.md
Last active May 3, 2024 01:24
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications


A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.


@voxxit
voxxit / RUNBOOK.md
Created April 29, 2016 14:26
Example of a solid run book/operations manual

Run Book / Operations Manual

  1. Table of Contents
  2. System Overview
    • Service Overview
    • Contributing Applications, Daemons, and Windows Services
    • Hours of Operation
    • Execution Design
    • Infrastructure and Network Design
    • Resilience, Fault Tolerance and High-Availability
@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active May 4, 2024 16:39
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@KWMalik
KWMalik / interviewitems.MD
Created September 16, 2012 22:04 — forked from amaxwell01/interviewitems.MD
My answers to over 100 Google interview questions

##Google Interview Questions: Product Marketing Manager

  • Why do you want to join Google? -- Because I want to create tools for others to learn, for free. I didn't have a lot of money when growing up so I didn't get access to the same books, computers and resources that others had which caused money, I want to help ensure that others can learn on the same playing field regardless of their families wealth status or location.
  • What do you know about Google’s product and technology? -- A lot actually, I am a beta tester for numerous products, I use most of the Google tools such as: Search, Gmaill, Drive, Reader, Calendar, G+, YouTube, Web Master Tools, Keyword tools, Analytics etc.
  • If you are Product Manager for Google’s Adwords, how do you plan to market this?
  • What would you say during an AdWords or AdSense product seminar?
  • Who are Google’s competitors, and how does Google compete with them? -- Google competes on numerous fields: --- Search: Baidu, Bing, Duck Duck Go