Top 50 System Administrator Interview Questions and Answers

In this video we show you the Top 50 System Administrator Interview Questions and Answers.

Preparing for your interview with this list of questions and answers will astonish your interviewer, and help you get your System Administrator job.

The following are the questions that are answered in the video:

Networking Questions:

#1 - What is a Firewall?
#2 - Can you explain the difference between HTTP and HTTPS protocols?
#3 - What is a VPN?
#4 - What are two types of IP addresses and what are they used for?
#5 - What is DNS?
#6 - What is a default route?
#7 - What is DHCP and what is it used for?
#8 - What is DoS?

Microsoft Questions:

#1 - What is Active Directory and what is it used for?
#2 - What are GPOs?
#3 - What is Hyper-V?
#4 - What is Office 365?
#5 - What is Office 365 governance?
#6 - What is Microsoft Azure?
#7 - What are the different types of services offered in the Azure cloud?
#8 - Which three billing models are the most common in Azure?

Linux Questions:

#1 - What is BASH?
#2 - What is a root account?
#3 - What three types of permissions are available on a Linux system?
#4 - What is grep command in Linux?
#5 - What is SSH?
#6 - What is a cron job?
#7 - How do you create a new user in Linux based systems?
#8 - What are the commands for creating and removing directories in Linux systems?

Security Questions:

#1 - What is Cryptography?
#2 - What are IDS and IPS and what is their main difference?
#3 - In information security, what does the CIA acronym stand for, and what is it used for?
#4 - What is a Brute Force attack?
#5 - What is a MITM attack?
#6 - What is a Botnet?
#7 - What is MFA and how can it be used?
#8 - What is SQL injection?

AWS Cloud Questions:

#1 - What is auto-scaling?
#2 - Is there any other alternative tool to log into the AWS cloud environment other than AWS console?
#3 - What is the difference between stopping and terminating an EC2 instance?
#4 - What are the different types of EC2 instance pricing models?
#5 - What is RTO and RPO in AWS?
#6 - What are the different types of load balancers in AWS?
#7 - What is an AWS root user account?
#8 - What is AWS IAM and what is it used for?

Soft Skills Questions:

#1 - What can you tell me about yourself?
#2 - Why do you want to work for this Company?
#3 - Why should we hire you?
#4 - What are your greatest strengths?
#5 - What do you consider to be your weaknesses?
#6 - Can you tell me about a time when you had to work with someone you weren’t compatible with?
#7 - Can you tell me about a time when you overcame a significant challenge?
#8 - Can you tell me about a time when things didn’t go according to plan? How did you cope?
#9 - Tell me about a time when you were asked to do something you had never done before. How did you react? What did you learn?
#10 - What are the three things that are most important to you in a job?


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