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Solaris Interview Question.....!
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| Sachin 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| Hi All,
Please if any one has Solaris Interview Question's. Please send it to
me...........!
Thank you & Best regards
Sachin
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| Dave Hinz 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| On 6 Jun 2006 06:00:54 -0700, Sachin <sachinsharma10@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Please if any one has Solaris Interview Question's. Please send it to
> me...........!
What is the role you play, and what type of "interview" is this?
And, when you say "send it to me", does that mean you're not reading the
group here?
All that aside, here are a few interview questions, I guess:
- "How does it feel to be installed on x86 hardware? Do you find the
experience a bit jarring?"
- "The whole name change thing - first you were SunOS, now it's
pronounced "Solaris". Then the whole 5.x turning into x thing,
and the fact that you still refer to yourself as "SunOS 5.10" instead
of "Solaris 10" - are the name changes giving you a hard time? What's
the real story behind all that?
- "How do you really feel about Java, which seems quite indiscriminate
in who it, shall we say, interfaces with?"
That's all I can come up with for now. Does this help?
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| Uli Wachowitz 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| On 2006-06-06, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
> That's all I can come up with for now. Does this help?
I don't know if it will do the OP any good, but you definitevely saved
_my_ day. LOL
thx
Uli
--
"Those who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
--Benjamin Franklin
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| Dave Hinz 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:59:28 +0000 (UTC), Uli Wachowitz <uli@wach-o-witz.de> wrote:
> On 2006-06-06, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
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> I don't know if it will do the OP any good, but you definitevely saved
> _my_ day. LOL
I've been having one of _those_ days for, well, about a month now. Huge
project, running into problems out of my control at EVERY POSSIBLE
POINT. Even some impossible points. I've put so many workarounds in
place to get done what I need to get done that I'm tripping over them.
So a bit of stress relief was needed, for sure. Wonder if he'll be
back.
Anyone else have any interview questions for Solaris?
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| Lew Pitcher 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
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Dave Hinz wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2006 06:00:54 -0700, Sachin <sachinsharma10@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the role you play, and what type of "interview" is this?
> And, when you say "send it to me", does that mean you're not reading the
> group here?
>
> All that aside, here are a few interview questions, I guess:
>
> - "How does it feel to be installed on x86 hardware? Do you find the
> experience a bit jarring?"
>
> - "The whole name change thing - first you were SunOS, now it's
> pronounced "Solaris". Then the whole 5.x turning into x thing,
> and the fact that you still refer to yourself as "SunOS 5.10" instead
> of "Solaris 10" - are the name changes giving you a hard time? What's
> the real story behind all that?
>
> - "How do you really feel about Java, which seems quite indiscriminate
> in who it, shall we say, interfaces with?"
>
> That's all I can come up with for now. Does this help?
>
One further interview question:
- "How do you feel about Hollywood misappropriating your name for a
poorly-received science fiction movie that starred George Clooney?"
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/)
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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Corporate Technology Solutions,
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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| Dave Hinz 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:14:49 -0400, Lew Pitcher <Lew.Pitcher@tdsecurities.com> wrote:
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> One further interview question:
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> - "How do you feel about Hollywood misappropriating your name for a
> poorly-received science fiction movie that starred George Clooney?"
> (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/)
I've got that on VHS right ---> there. If someone asks to borrow my
Solaris media that's the first thing they get.
(and since I lost my copy of Solaris 9 9/05 that way, it's all I'll
consider loaning out anymore).
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| Mark Meenan 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| Dave Hinz wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:14:49 -0400, Lew Pitcher <Lew.Pitcher@tdsecurities.com> wrote:
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> I've got that on VHS right ---> there. If someone asks to borrow my
> Solaris media that's the first thing they get.
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> (and since I lost my copy of Solaris 9 9/05 that way, it's all I'll
> consider loaning out anymore).
>
Given that the George Clooney movie was a remake of the 1972 film
Solyaris or Solaris then the misappropriation goes the other way!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/
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| Doug Freyburger 2006-06-06, 1:23 pm |
| Sachin wrote:
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> 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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| Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner 2006-06-09, 1:24 pm |
| Mark Meenan <mjmNOSPAM@dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Given that the George Clooney movie was a remake of the 1972 film
> Solyaris or Solaris then the misappropriation goes the other way!
And _that_ was an adaptation of a 1961 book by the late, great
Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem! I always wondered if the
naming was a conscious tribute on Sun's part.
--
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression
and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me
anymore.
-- William Cowper
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| Ville Jorma 2006-06-13, 1:23 pm |
| On 2006-06-06, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:59:28 +0000 (UTC), Uli Wachowitz <uli@wach-o-witz.de> wrote:
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> Anyone else have any interview questions for Solaris?
How does it feel when someone invokes "grep Microsoft /bin/clear" on you?
Ville
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