Linux Systems Engineer Interview Questions

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1. What does the command “free” do? 2. What does the command “top” do? 3. What does “vi” do? 4. How would you set permissions to read-write-execute for the file owner, and nothing for anyone else? 5. What command lists the contacts of the current directory? 6. What character means “current user’s home directory? During the phone interview, the tech person asked: what is the key difference between puppet and ansible?
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Linux Systems Engineer

Interviewed at PRGX Global

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Jul 30, 2018

1. What does the command “free” do? 2. What does the command “top” do? 3. What does “vi” do? 4. How would you set permissions to read-write-execute for the file owner, and nothing for anyone else? 5. What command lists the contacts of the current directory? 6. What character means “current user’s home directory? During the phone interview, the tech person asked: what is the key difference between puppet and ansible?

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