Support Unix Interview Questions

Unix Systems Administrator

Interviewed at AT&T

3.4★

May 17, 2009

A UNIX fie system has been reported at 100% full. You log in and clear what appears to be the offending file. However, the file system still reports to be 100% full. What could cause this?>

Senior Unix/C++ Developer - Tradebook

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★

May 3, 2011

Sequence of numbers in random order and 1 of them is missing how to find that out...

Unix Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

Mar 25, 2013

What are your weaknesses?

Unix Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Tyro Payments

2.9★

Nov 2, 2017

What is different about authentication vs authorization?

UNIX/LINUX Administrator

Interviewed at Barclays

4★

Aug 23, 2009

What is the most popular open source high availability cluster software?

Unix Systems Administrative

Interviewed at CGI

3.7★

Aug 28, 2013

Tell us a mistake you made at work

Senior UNIX Administrator

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1★

Jun 7, 2012

What is: some say 0 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29

Unix Technical Support Professional

Interviewed at IBM

3.9★

Jan 6, 2014

Q: C++ debugger: how to troubleshoot segfault? How to view stack information? A: Use back-traces and frames : bt, frames. Q: Crashed process - how to start troubleshooting? A: System log - syslog. Application logs are not that helpful due to abrupt exit. Q: how to check files opened by process? A: iostat and lsof Q: how to check netowrk ports being used? A: netstat Q: difference between stripped and non-stripped binary? A: non-stripped binary has debugging info built-in. Stripped does not. Q: How would you install new programs on Unix? A: RPM commands Q: How to detect frozen/stuck process, and how to debug it? Q: What are UNC paths in windows

Unix Technical Support

Interviewed at InterSystems

3.8★

Jan 14, 2010

The were long winded, vague, poorly designed. Leading to misinterpretation

UNIX Administrator

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.1★

Nov 26, 2020

They gave me situation based question on troubleshooting of servers(depending on my technology) Few questions were from regular technical activities I perform in my office like lvm,user management,disk management etc.