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From: Don jessup (djessup72, yahoo dot com)
Date: 2002.03.18 - 13.01 MST
First, I'm not fond of giving test to people your going to
interview. Although, I do understand the purpose of testing
their Linux/Unix knowledge. If your going to give a test, I suggest
making the test easier and a little broader. I would keep
the test on same difficulty level as questions 1 and 2 of your
test. I
would also ask some basic administration questions.
Here is a few sample questions to show you what I mean.
A. What file would you use to associate the ip address 192.168.0.1
with the hostname Kong ?
B. How would you find out how many processes are running on a linux
box?
C. How would you grant read only access to the world for a file
you own called info.txt .
Actually question B might be a little on the difficult side.
--- Jay Miller <jnmiller, cryptofreak dot org> wrote:
> Hi guys - when it came to interviewing time, I wanted to have a
> little
> quiz ready to hand to applicants to test their Unix/Linux knowledge..
> I'm hoping you guys will beta test this sucker.. give it a shot and
> lemme know what you think, if you have time. Thanks!
>
> ***
>
> Linux Quiz
> This quiz consists of five questions, each slightly harder than the
> last. The answers should all be command lines that anyone could
> enter
> (choice of shell notwithstanding). They may include piping and
> redirection, but not a ';' in the shell context (ie. you shouldn't
> need multiple inputs, loops, subshells, etc.). If you aren't sure
> exactly, try to get close - they're meant to get pretty tough.
>
> 1. Q: Find help for the command write(2).
>
> $
>
>
> 2. Q: Uncompress and untar the archive foo-4.2.tar.gz into the
> current
> directory. (Bonus: pretend tar(1)'s '-z' switch doesn't exist, as in
> SunOS.)
>
> $
>
>
> 3. Q: Send a hangup signal to the system's sendmail daemon. (Bonus:
> pretend killall(1) command doesn't exist, as in OpenBSD.)
>
> $
>
>
> 4. Q: Search all directories beneath and including ~/src for C source
> and header files containing the case insensitive text 'todo'. Append
> the filenames and matching text to ~/TODO. (Bonus: append filenames
> only.)
>
> $
>
>
> 5. Q: Move all files in the /tmp directory with a .html extension to
> a
> .php extension instead.
>
> $
>
>
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>
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