Linux System Administrator Assessment Test

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Linux system administrator assessment test helps employers to evaluate basic knowledge of candidates for data storage, networking, operating system, system software to hire as system administrator. System Administrator skills assessment is useful for hiring various job roles like Linux System Administrator, Network Administrator, Associate System Administrator, SysOps Administrator, Linux Admin. Our test helps you build winning tech team quickly by Increasing interview-to-selection ratio by 62% and reducing hiring time by 45%.

Test Summary

Linux administration test helps to screen the candidates who possess traits as follows:

1. Ability to install and configure software and hardware
2. Experience in handling all Linux Bash commands
3. Knowledge of Linux/Unix Administration
4. Good knowledge of networking fundamentals and cloud computing fundamentals
5. Ability to monitor system performance and capacity planning
6. Good understanding of creating and modifying scripts or applications to perform tasks
7. Experience in customer service

Use our Linux system administrator assessment test to test practical skills of Linux system admin. You will get the detailed test reports instantly. This intelligent reporting system gives you sub-sectional scores that help you to analyze the skill related strengths and weaknesses of the candidate, thereby assisting you in making better hiring decisions.

Linux administration test may contain MCQ's (Multiple Choice Questions), MAQ's (Multiple Answer Questions), Fill in the Blanks, Descriptive, Whiteboard Questions, Audio / Video Questions, AI-LogicBox (Pseudo-Coding Platform), Coding Simulations, True or False Questions, etc.

Linux admin test is designed considering EEOC guidelines, it will help you assess & hire diverse talent without any bias.

Test Duration: 45 minutes

No. of Questions: 21

Level of Expertise: Entry/Mid/Senior

Useful for hiring

Linux System Administrator
Network Administrator
Associate System Administrator
SysOps Administrator
Linux Admin

Topics Covered

Linux Bash

iMocha’s Linux System Administrator Assessment Test helps recruiters, HRs and Hiring Managers to evaluate candidate’s ability of working with Linux Bash which is a command line interpreter provides command line interface

Linux/Unix Administration

This test evaluates candidate’s knowledge about Unix System Administration which insures installation, configuration and maintenance of system

Networking Fundamentals

Our system administrator skills assessment test evaluates candidate’s understanding about TCP/IP networking fundamentals for Linux system

Cloud Computing Fundamentals

This test evaluates a candidate’s knowledge about cloud computing in which workloads run within clouds

Sample Questions

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Question types:

Multiple Option

Topic:

Native Commands

Difficulty:

Hard

Q 1. You have a log file, ‘entries.log', with timestamps included for each log entry. You need a file that includes the log entries without the timestamps using Bash, noting that this is a sample for the log entry: 2018-01-01 12:56:42 status unpacked dpkg:amd64 1.18.4ubuntu1.3. Which option can you use for this requirement?

awk '{ print substr(index($0, ($0,$3)) }' entries.log

awk '{ print substr($0, index($0,$3)) }' entries.log

awk '{ print substr($0, index($1,$3)) }' entries.log

awk '{ print substr($1, index($0,$3)) }' entries.log

Question types:

Multiple Option

Topic:

IPv6 static routing

Difficulty:

Hard

Q 2. You want to send all your IPv6 traffic to ISP (next hop). They have IPv6 address 2001:0DB8:C21A::1. How can you set a static default route?

ipv6 route 2001:0DB8:C21A::0::1/128 ::/0

ipv6 route 2001:0DB8:C21A::1 ::/0

ipv6 route 2001:0DB8:C21A::1 :/0

ipv6 route 2001:0DB8:C21A::1/128 ::/0

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