Solaris Interview Experience

Hi Friends this is Khamruddin….I am sharing my experience with you…

Recently I attended an interview in Motorola on rolls of Kelly Services for Solaris System Support….In the interview panel 2 Hr people are there,they are friendly nature and they started the discuss with a sentence " Ok Lets have a friendly chat with you" and ask me several questions and the interview was around 1 hour…

1) What are you expecting from Motorola?
2) What are your roles & responsibilities?
3) How u backup & restore?
4) What is the Model No. of your backup machine? Is the Machine is connected to the servers?
5) Explain about Backup types?
6) What is a Switch?
7) Can you write the command to disable/enable telnet service?
8) How to see the telnet service status?
9) How to see the detail description of any service (eg:snmp,telnet etc)?
10) What is this ifconfig?
11) What is NIC?
12) What is this sfe0, le0, hme0, pcn0? Why the NIC cards have different naming convenstions?
13) You have mention in the resume @ roles & responibilities that Partitioned the disks, created new file systems, mounted them and changed the /etc/vfstab entries.(Where and When u use this)?
14) What is df –k and df –h? What is k, h refers?
15) What description will it give when u type #ifconfig command?
16) When did u complete your Sun Certification exam?
17) When is Ur graduate passout?
18) You are working at Gcentric Technologies right? Where it is located.
19) What project they handle and can u explain where they use Solaris in there project?
20) Explain about /etc/syslog.conf. What is the use of it? Can u write the configuration of this file?
21) How You Schedule the events? Write it on the paper?
22) Questions on Process Management?
23) How to format any type of file system?
24) Where will u check to solve any hardware problem or etc?
25) What is SVM?
26) Can u explain the RAID Concept? Use the White Board and explain?
27) Can mirroring is possible with 2 disks?
28) How to check the status of Meta devices?
29) Although u have SVM, then Wat is the need of VERITAS Volume Manager?
30) VxVm comes with Solaris isn't?
31) What are the daily activities you do in your company on Solaris machines?
32) What is flash archive? What is the purpose of that?
33) You have 1+ year's exp on Solaris? With in 1 year of Experience what are the problems you faced? Can u list all the problems? (The interviewer noting all the problems what I told)?
34) What is nfs? Explain the configuration of nfs?
35) Do you install packages in Solaris? If so how many times u installed the package?
36) How to mount CD/ROM or any external hard drives?
37) What are zones?
38) Do u installed VERITAS s/w at any time? Is your company using VERITAS?
39) Did you open the sparc PC's and saw any time? Like assembling & dissembling of Sparc PC's?
40) What is ISCSI?
41) How to see what type of SCSI devices/controllers we have?
42) What is SMF?
43) Suppose if you got any problem in PCs? How will you handle it?
44) How many servers are there in your company? What is the model and type of server it is?
45) Did u any time opened the Sun Servers and see how many hardisk are there/how many processers etc.Did you check any time?
46) What workstations you people use in your company?
47) How many web developers are there in your company?
48) What is the size of Ur team?
49) Where the .conf files resides?
50) Do you got any hardware problems/errors at any time?
51) What is crashdumps? What is the location of crashdumps file?
52) You got a problem in your sparc system. Where will search for the information?
53) Do you heared about solve.com website?
54) Do you heared about OMC?

And then he explain the roles and responsibilities of the job position?

and here the interview was ended?


After 2 days I got a call that I was selected for Motorola…

All the Best see you soon @ Motorola…