Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:58:19 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko) Cc: pechter@lakewood.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysadmin levels today? Message-ID: <199708010028.JAA07936@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970730235932.19785S-100000@alive.znep.com> from Marc Slemko at "Jul 31, 97 00:10:06 am"
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Marc Slemko writes: > On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Bill Pechter wrote: > >>> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Branson Matheson wrote: >>> >>>> ( http://www.ferginc.com/~branson/phone.questions.html ) >>> >>> Ooooh weee! I think I need a review... Thanks for posting this, it was >>> very informative... >>> >>> Charles >> >> You and me both... Just took the sysadmin test at: >> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/test/ > > Too bad some of the questions are... ermm... very trick questions. I don't think they're so much trick questions. I think the ones you're talking about fall into two main categories: 1. Incorrect questions. Here's one I had: > 17. [M33] What is the maximum number of devices the SCSI > standard permits, including the controller? > > 9 > 7 > 10 > * 8 It told me this was the wrong answer. 2. Questions requiring local knowledge. These are most of yours: > Normally that's fine, but not when you can only select one choice and > can't elaborate. > > examples: > > 27. [E46] Which of the following two transport mechanism is used by NFS? > > UDP > TCP > > (the correct answer is "yes".) I suspect that the NFS they use can handle only UDP. > 35. [M75] Only one License Manager may be installed on a server. > > True > False > > (the correct answer is "perhaps", but you could argue the general answer > is false) Doesn't this depend on the licence manager? This requires local knowledge. > 39. [E65] Shell scripts that run SUID or SGID can be sufficiently secure. > > True > False. > > (the correct answer is that nothing is secure.) OK. I'll give you a 'trick question' for this one. I decided "True", since I reserve the right to define "sufficient" :-) It didn't agree with me. > 43. [M93] Which "traditional" TCP/IP service is often the most problematic > for microcomputers to provide? > > Remote printing. > File transfer protocol (FTP). > Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). > Computer mail. > > (the correct answer is huh? Use FreeBSD.) Precisely. Local knowledge? > 52. [H20] The commands necessary to communicate with a peripheral devices > are only known by the device driver subroutines. > > False > True > > (the correct answer is of course not, someone had to know them to program > it; you know that isn't what they want though...) This is either a trick or poorly formulated. Still, I liked the questionnaire. It's a pity they didn't say what they thought were the correct answers. Greg
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