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1. [Other Great References](#references)


####[[]](#toc) <a name='contributors'>Contributors:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='contributors'>Contributors:</a>

* [moregeek](https://github.com/moregeek)
* [typhonius](https://github.com/typhonius)
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* [bharatnc](https://github.com/bharatnc)


####[[]](#toc) <a name='general'>General Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='general'>General Questions:</a>

* What did you learn yesterday/this week?
* Talk about your preferred development/administration environment. (OS, Editor, Browsers, Tools etc.)
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* Describe the general file system hierarchy of a Linux system.


####[[]](#toc) <a name='simple'>Simple Linux Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='simple'>Simple Linux Questions:</a>

* What is the name and the UID of the administrator user?
* How to list all files, including hidden ones, in a directory?
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* Walk me through the steps in booting into single user mode to troubleshoot a problem.
* Walk me through the steps you'd take to troubleshoot a 404 error on a web application you administer.

####[[]](#toc) <a name='medium'>Medium Linux Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='medium'>Medium Linux Questions:</a>

* What do the following commands do and how would you use them?
* ```tee```
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* How can you determine which package is better: openssh-server-5.3p1-118.1.el6_8.x86_64 or openssh-server-6.6p1-1.el6.x86_64 ?
* Can you explain to me the difference between block based, and object based storage?

####[[]](#toc) <a name='hard'>Hard Linux Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='hard'>Hard Linux Questions:</a>

* What is a tunnel and how you can bypass a http proxy?
* What is the difference between IDS and IPS?
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* What are run-levels in Linux?


####[[]](#toc) <a name='expert'>Expert Linux Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='expert'>Expert Linux Questions:</a>

* A running process gets ```EAGAIN: Resource temporarily unavailable``` on reading a socket. How can you close this bad socket/file descriptor without killing the process?


####[[]](#toc) <a name='network'>Networking Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='network'>Networking Questions:</a>

* What is localhost and why would ```ping localhost``` fail?
* What is the similarity between "ping" & "traceroute" ? How is traceroute able to find the hops.
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####[[]](#toc) <a name='mysql'>MySQL questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='mysql'>MySQL questions:</a>

* How do you create a user?
* How do you provide privileges to a user?
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* How do you check which jobs are running?
* How would you take a backup of a MySQL database?

####[[]](#toc) <a name='devop'>DevOps Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='devop'>DevOps Questions:</a>

* Can you describe your workflow when you create a script?
* What is GIT?
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* What are the important aspects of a system of continuous integration and deployment?
* How would you enable network file sharing within AWS that would allow EC2 instances in multiple availability zones to share data?

####[[]](#toc) <a name='fun'>Fun Questions:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='fun'>Fun Questions:</a>

* A careless sysadmin executes the following command: ```chmod 444 /bin/chmod ``` - what do you do to fix this?
* I've lost my root password, what can I do?
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* How to reboot server when reboot command is not responding?


####[[]](#toc) <a name='demo'>Demo Time:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='demo'>Demo Time:</a>

* Unpack test.tar.gz without man pages or google.
* Remove all "*.pyc" files from testdir recursively?
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* In a log file with contents as ```<TIME> : [MESSAGE] : [ERROR_NO] - Human readable text``` display summary/count of specific error numbers that occurred every hour or a specific hour.


####[[]](#toc) <a name='references'>Other Great References:</a>
#### [[]](#toc) <a name='references'>Other Great References:</a>

Some questions are 'borrowed' from other great references like: