Indeed, those are pretty basic tasks. We will have 3 levels of difficulty and the examples mentioned are in the easiest category. In a early phase of a recruitment process, an experienced sysadmin would solve in less than 3 minutes and this is helping screening process when you have a huge number of applicants. But for latest stages of recruitment process, we will have more advanced scenarios for the tests.

Definitely your suggestions are great and we will discuss having tests in this area.

Cheers!

> an experienced sysadmin would solve in less than 3 minutes

Why do you think so? And, I'm hopping you don't rely on timing on this level.

An experienced sysadmin would have little experience with basic tasks, since he solves them around once or twice per job. And you never know the environments they tried it before, that may be completely different from what you are presenting them right now.

I'd say "installing X" is a test for encyclopedic knowledge, and a very unreliable test for expertize. That's the kind of test that gave bad names to IT certification at the early 2000's.

What scenarios would you suggest to have?

No idea, but the certificates that focused on those things became enduring jokes.