Re: Solaris Interview Question.....!

Sachin wrote:

Please if any one has Solaris Interview Question's. Please send it to
me...........!

For UNIX interviews I use a print-out of the SAGE scale to ask
at least one question for each level Junior, Intermediate/Advanced
and Senior. These end up being generic to UNIX so they work
fine. Command line stuff for Junior, inode stuff for Intermediate,
application integration stuff for Senior. I don't bother with Novice.
The goal here is to peg the candidates general level. Will you
be discussing command line stuff or will you get into serious
performance analysis discussions or where in between?
The goal is to ask a question the candidate can answer.

Then I start with the resume. Pick the first item.

Know enough about it to ask a reasonable question ("Rate
yourself in X" is not to me reasonable, "Tell me about the most
interesting problem who've had installing X" is). Ask about it.
Lather rinse repeat for each buzzword in the skills section of
the resume, skipping the ones you don't know. The goal here
is to know what's solid and what's fluff on the resume.

Then progress to the ones you don't know. "I have read the
book Netscape Enterprise web server but so far I've mostly
used Apache. Could you please explain to me the general
steps in configuring a Netscape Enterprise server. If you
can compare with Apache that would work really well." Draw
from your closest equivalent strength and make it a lesson.
Already knowing what's solid and what's fluff, the goal here
is to see the candidate in action as a teacher. If you have
to pretend you don't know DNS or whatever. What you'll
learn is the candidate's consulting skills, much needed even
for internal slots.

Then ask about the candidate's favorite development project.
Shell scripting, C coding, heck even Visual Basic stuff at
home doesn't matter. What matters is a good sysadmin needs
to have automation as an unending goal and so a good
candidate needs to show some sort of history of automation.

Then ask the candidate about a time a project got okayed.
Sales counts even for internal hires. Given the choice between
a candidate who talked management into getting sent to a
course and one who punted on the request and read the book,
the answer depends entirely on what skills you need but
being able to convince people rocks.

Solaris specific? Shrug. Stuff about /dev and /devices. Where
to look to tell how major and minor device numbers work.
Where to look for kernel config and driver config files but it's
rarely that being able to rattle off content matters. In general
if the candidate does okay on UNIX in general I'm not going to
care all that much about Solaris specific stuff unless it's a
very specialized position.

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