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Technically focused on C, Linux system programming, and Linux kernel concepts. C - bitwise operators, DS, arrays, etc coding programs Linux system programming - threads and synchronization concept and coding examples Linux kernel - synchronization and locking, etc
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Senior Engineer Linux Kernel Driver

Interviewed at Marvell Technology

4.3★
May 20, 2021

Technically focused on C, Linux system programming, and Linux kernel concepts. C - bitwise operators, DS, arrays, etc coding programs Linux system programming - threads and synchronization concept and coding examples Linux kernel - synchronization and locking, etc

What is the boot process of Linux? What do you do when your system performance is slowing down? How to check performance, memory and disk usage? What do you do when a core process is using most of the memory and you can't afford to kill it? Questions about NFS, bash scripts. What is written in the first line of a bash script and what does it tell the system? Explain where you had to do something when nobody else wanted. An experience when a customer asked you something of which you knew that there was something else better. Pick a Linux topic and tell me anything about it.
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Cloud Support Engineer(Linux)

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
May 23, 2019

What is the boot process of Linux? What do you do when your system performance is slowing down? How to check performance, memory and disk usage? What do you do when a core process is using most of the memory and you can't afford to kill it? Questions about NFS, bash scripts. What is written in the first line of a bash script and what does it tell the system? Explain where you had to do something when nobody else wanted. An experience when a customer asked you something of which you knew that there was something else better. Pick a Linux topic and tell me anything about it.

What are inodes? How do you troubleshoot a slow LAMP server? How do you add a disk on a Linux VM? What command can you use to see a new disk on linux? lsblk Perfomance questions: top, htop, vmstat, sar, etc. ? A client reports that they cant log in to a Linux server, how do you troubleshoot?
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Cloud Support Engineer Linux

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 31, 2021

What are inodes? How do you troubleshoot a slow LAMP server? How do you add a disk on a Linux VM? What command can you use to see a new disk on linux? lsblk Perfomance questions: top, htop, vmstat, sar, etc. ? A client reports that they cant log in to a Linux server, how do you troubleshoot?

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