Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz...
by bob_george33 on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:02AM
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Not sysadmin specifically, but when I was working as a computer technician, questions we would ask to scope out the skills of people were along the lines of:
Q: "Something you have no experience with has broken and won't do a basic function, how will you go about fixing it?"
A: Research, ask someone else etc.
Q: "X is missing their password for a system we have no admin rights on. How are you going to fix this?"
A: Recovery Tools. Format device and set it up again. Use JS/Developer tools to get it in plain text from the browser.
Q: "Something you have no experience with has broken and won't do a basic function, how will you go about fixing it?" A: Research, ask someone else etc.
Q: "X is missing their password for a system we have no admin rights on. How are you going to fix this?" A: Recovery Tools. Format device and set it up again. Use JS/Developer tools to get it in plain text from the browser.