Site Reliability Interview Questions

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Questions are mostly as per your skill set. But they will cover everything as per requirement. In my case it varied from Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Cloud, Kubernetes and basic SRE problems. There may be whiteboard problems as well for nearly all areas. But they also respect your skill sets and ask from your expertise area as well.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Zoom Communications

3.6
Jul 29, 2022

Questions are mostly as per your skill set. But they will cover everything as per requirement. In my case it varied from Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Cloud, Kubernetes and basic SRE problems. There may be whiteboard problems as well for nearly all areas. But they also respect your skill sets and ask from your expertise area as well.

AWS: 1. Permissions that need to be set on a private key generated by AWS for EC2 2. Are NACL stateful or stateless 3. Types of storage that one can attach while creating an ec2 instance 4. What does a load balancer do when an instance stops 5. Administrator wants to see the security already in place in your AWS account. What all components will you show him 6. Will public IP remain if an instance is rebooted or does it get released
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Coupa Software Inc

3.5
Feb 9, 2021

AWS: 1. Permissions that need to be set on a private key generated by AWS for EC2 2. Are NACL stateful or stateless 3. Types of storage that one can attach while creating an ec2 instance 4. What does a load balancer do when an instance stops 5. Administrator wants to see the security already in place in your AWS account. What all components will you show him 6. Will public IP remain if an instance is rebooted or does it get released

Linux: 1. Command to get inodes 2. Command to know which process is using a file 3. How to ensure a user gets prompted for confirmation before a file gets deleted 4. Which bit indicates sticky bit is set 5. Need to keep a file in some temp directory where it won't get deleted on a reboot. Which dir would fit the requirement 6. Command to give space of a mountpoint
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Coupa Software Inc

3.5
Feb 9, 2021

Linux: 1. Command to get inodes 2. Command to know which process is using a file 3. How to ensure a user gets prompted for confirmation before a file gets deleted 4. Which bit indicates sticky bit is set 5. Need to keep a file in some temp directory where it won't get deleted on a reboot. Which dir would fit the requirement 6. Command to give space of a mountpoint

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