Thursday, December 10, 2009

Topics for Linux admin Job

 

If you are preparing for interviews for linux admin jobs you should be familiar with below concepts.

1) Port number of different servers {cat /etc/services}

2) Linux Installation(through FTP,HTTP,NFS)

3) Boot process

4) Diff b/w ext3 and ext2

5) RAID LEVELS and Selection of raid

6) backup methods

7) Package management such as Yum server

8) Kernel Tuning

9) IPTABLES

10) TCP WRAPPERS

11) DIFFERENT RUN LEVELS

12) USER AND GROUP MANAGEMENT

13) QUOTA SETTING(user and group)

14) DIFF B/W CRON AND AT

15) BASIC SHELL SCRIPTING

16) Troubleshooting different issues.

17) Tell me why we should hire you?

18) DAILY ACTIVITES IN YOUR CURRENT COMPANY

19) RECENTLY SOLVED CRITICAL ISSUE

20) LVM (Very Imp)

21) vertias Volume manager

22) cluster basic like HAD , GAB , LLT , HEARTBEAT , CONFIGFILES ,RESOURSE , SERVICE GROUPS etc

23 ) kernel panic troubleshooting

24) Process management

25)Configuration part of NFS , NIS , Samba , DHCP , DNS,Apache, Sendmail etc.

26)Remote administration experience.

And many more depending on your job profile. You should know each topics what you mentioned in your resume . If you are not sure about anything , don’t mention in your resume and your resume should reflect your skills.

 
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