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galena
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I have a sysadmin interview tomorrow. Anything specific i should know?

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  • 10
    Don't forget, the computer is under the table. On top is just the monitor.

    Oh, and if there is fire, just put it to the other fire.
  • 4
    backups, HA/HP clustering, DR, security, hardening, edge, automation, patching, scripting, UNIX vs linux (assuming a *nix admin role), network stack, tunnelling/IPSec, monitoring/alerting, vendor cases, pixie-boot for parallel provisioning, virtualization (vs containerization), hypervisors, resource mgmt, swap vs ram, performance troubleshooting, SAN, NAS and their implementations (examples), use cases, how different, replication in DC / across DC, network routing, A-A vs A-P clusters, firewall/NAT configuration, network protocols (IP, UDP, ARP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, ICMP, SNMP), how traceroute works,...

    just refresh your memory on those few topics and you should be good IMO.
  • 4
    Try turning it off and on again. If that fails, try turning the things it talks to off and on again.
  • 3
    Give the devs access to everything, otherwise they will go digging around and you will have more problems in the long run.
  • 2
    If they ask a question you don't know, simply respond ..."Pffft...that's a stupid question. Next."

    Just hope the interviewer didn't use the same tactic when they got hired. :)

    Joking aside...good luck and respond with how the interview went.
  • 0
    SRE is still all the rage be prepared to answer something about that.
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