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I was interviewed on skype. The call was from a US based Sys. Eng. and in house interview by Indian Sys. Eng. Some technical questions they asked. 1. How to run tomcat on port 80 ? 2. On which port puppet runs ? 3. What is difference between puppet module and manifest ? 4. Difference in iptables and tcpwrapper 5. How Jenkins works ? 6. Server complains disk full even there is a free disk space available 7. How to setup apache SSL site? 8. How to configure virtual hosts in Tomcat 9. Diff in Apache / Tomcat Development Head and IT Head asked scenario based questions 1. How to troubleshoot LDAP response related issues? 2. How to get notification if Nagios server becomes inaccessible ? 3. How to recover deleted files from server which is managed by puppet ? 4. What type of Nagios check you will use to monitor DB server ? 5. Hardware planning for a DB server Questions asked by CEO 1. Why do you want to leave your current organization? 2. Why do you want to work with us? 3. What is the thing that frustrates you in your current job? 4. How do you overcome your frustration? 5. Current job role.
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Linux Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Virtela Technology Services

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Dec 3, 2015

I was interviewed on skype. The call was from a US based Sys. Eng. and in house interview by Indian Sys. Eng. Some technical questions they asked. 1. How to run tomcat on port 80 ? 2. On which port puppet runs ? 3. What is difference between puppet module and manifest ? 4. Difference in iptables and tcpwrapper 5. How Jenkins works ? 6. Server complains disk full even there is a free disk space available 7. How to setup apache SSL site? 8. How to configure virtual hosts in Tomcat 9. Diff in Apache / Tomcat Development Head and IT Head asked scenario based questions 1. How to troubleshoot LDAP response related issues? 2. How to get notification if Nagios server becomes inaccessible ? 3. How to recover deleted files from server which is managed by puppet ? 4. What type of Nagios check you will use to monitor DB server ? 5. Hardware planning for a DB server Questions asked by CEO 1. Why do you want to leave your current organization? 2. Why do you want to work with us? 3. What is the thing that frustrates you in your current job? 4. How do you overcome your frustration? 5. Current job role.

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