Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Linux VMware (and General) Interview Questions and Answers

Non-technical:

Questions to Interviewee


Questions to Interviewer

Technical:
RAID Level Difference:
0/1/5
Read:High/high/high
Write: High/medium/low

tcpdump: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/tcpdump-command-examples/

File Types: Normal Files, Two Special Directories (. & ..), Device Files, Links, Sockets, First In First Out

Kernel Upgrade Procedure: rpm -U or i?
Note: Which one is safer and recommended if it fails.

Performance Monitoring Built-in Tools:
Sysstat (iostat, mpstat, sar)