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####[[]](#toc) <a name='contributors'>Contributors:</a>
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* [@moregeek](http://github.com/moregeek)
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* [@moregeek](https://github.com/moregeek)
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* [@typhonius](https://github.com/typhonius)
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* martin
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The majority of the questions were collected from:
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* What did you learn yesterday/this week?
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* Talk about your preferred development/administration environment. (OS, Editor, Browsers, Tools etc.)
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* What function does DNS play on a network?
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* What is a proxy and how does it work?
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* What is HTTP?
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* What is SMTP? Give the basic scenario of how a mail message is delivered via SMTP?
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* What is an HTTP proxy and how does it work?
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* What is SMTP? Give the basic scenario of how a mail message is delivered via SMTP!
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* What is RAID? What is RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10?
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* What is a level 0 backup? What is an incremental backup?
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* Describe the general file system hierarchy of a Linux system.
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* What is the name and the UID of the administrator user?
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* How to list all files, including hidden one, in a directory?
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* What is the Unix/Linux command to remove a directory and its contents?
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* What command will show you free/used memory? Does free memory exists on linux?
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* Which command will show you free/used memory? Does free memory exist on Linux?
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* How to search for the string "my konfi is the best" in files of a directory recursively?
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* How to connect to a remote server or what is SSH?
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* How to get all environment variables and how can you use them?
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* I get "command not found" for ```ifconfig -a```. What can be wrong?
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* What happens if I type TAB-TAB?
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* What command will show the available disk space on the Unix/Linux system?
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* What command is used to lookup DNS records?
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* What Unix/Linux commands will alter a file's ownership, file's permissions?
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* What Unix/Linux commands will alter a files ownership, files permissions?
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* What does the permission 0750 on a file mean?
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* What does the permission 0750 on a directory mean?
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* How to add a new system user without login permissions?
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* What does a ```&``` after a command do?
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* What is a packet filter and how does it work?
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* What is swap and what is it used for?
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* What is an A record, a NS record, a PTR record, a CNAME record, a MX record?
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* What is an A record, an NS record, a PTR record, a CNAME record, an MX record?
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* What is the sticky bit?
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* What is the difference between hardlink and symlink? What happens when you remove the source to a symlink/hardlink?
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* What is the difference between hardlinks and symlinks? What happens when you remove the source to a symlink/hardlink?
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* Howto force/trigger a file system check on next reboot?
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* What is a tunnel and how you can bypass a http proxy?
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* What is the difference between IDS and IPS?
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* What shortcuts do you use on a regular basis?
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* What is the linux standard base?
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* What is the Linux Standard Base?
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* What is an atomic operation?
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* Your fresh configured http server is not running after a restart, what can you do?
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* What kind of keys are in ssh/authorized_keys and what it is used for?
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* Your freshly configured http server is not running after a restart, what can you do?
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* What kind of keys are in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and what it is this file used for?
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* I've added my public ssh key into authorized_keys but I'm still getting a password prompt, what can be wrong?
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* Did you ever create RPM's, DEB's or solaris pkg's?
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* Can you describe your workflow when you create a script?
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* What is GIT?
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* What is a dynamically/statically linked file?
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* What is "configure && make && make install"
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* What is "configure && make && make install"?
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* What is puppet/chef/ansible used for?
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* How do you create a new mysql user?
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* How do you create a new postgres user?
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* A careless sysadmin executes the following command: ```chmod 444 chmod ``` - what do you do to fix this?
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* A careless sysadmin executes the following command: ```chmod 444 /bin/chmod ``` - what do you do to fix this?
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* I've lost my root password, what can I do?
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* I've rebooted a remote server but after 10 minutes I'm still not able to ssh into it, what can be wrong?
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* Search for "my konfu is the best" in all *.py files.
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* Replace the occurrence of "my konfu is the best" with "I'm a linux jedi master" in all *.txt files.
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* :interrobang: more on files ... cut, tr, awk ...
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* Test port 443 on a machine with IP address X.X.X.X is reachable.
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* Test if port 443 on a machine with IP address X.X.X.X is reachable.
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* Get http://myinternal.webserver.local/test.html via telnet.
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* How to send an email without a mail client, just on the command line?
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* Write a get_prim python/perl/bash/pseudo script.

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