Describe linux boot process in detail.
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The functional details of signal processing in differential SCSI.
What is the biggest challenge you've encountered professionally?
Troubleshoot process of a faulty application.
On the whole interview questions are live scenarios. I personally feel, such will help then identify the resource's core knowledge and not just theory.
None of the questions were particularly out of the ordinary for systems administration work, except for one. And quite honestly, if I spoiled it here, it would ruin its usefulness. If you interview for this team, you'll run into it, and how you answer it is just as important as the technical knowledge you show while answering it.
Apple technical people are sharp and they understand their stuff or the market products very well. One of the interviewers actually asked why my company's (at that time) product is designed in that way. The question is pretty open-ended and I had given it a hard thought and explained in the technical way. At last, I asked back what did he (the interviewer) think and he said that he wasn't sure as well but it seemed my answer technically makes sense.
This was my first interview with an engineering team within IS&T at Apple and felt like the 3 interviewers were overly harsh. Don't be surprised if they say "write a shell script on the board", or ask subnetting questions (e.g. IP address to binary) or get heavy into networking questions for a Systems Admin job. I was surprised, and didn't really find a lot of the questions fair for the job classification. I was not impressed that I was left alone and forgotten.
Basic networking and system admin concepts
They test your knowledge on hardware and ask a lot of questions on virtualization technologies like Hyper-V and XenServer.
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