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Skill / Hiring Test One
Unix System Administrator
Skills Questionnaire
SECTION I:
Listed below are conditions you will be expected to accept as a
Unix System Administrator. Please answer YES or NO for each item
listed below.
1. Are you willing and able to work within the rules and
regulations of a State institution?
2. Are you willing and able to work on short notice, flexible
hours and work schedules and overtime, if necessary?
3. Are you willing and able to communicate and work
effectively with staff, students, faculty, supervisors,
administrators and the public?
4. Are you willing and able to do some heavy lifting on an
occasional basis; i.e., 50 lbs or more carrying computer
monitors or other heavy equipment?
5. Are you willing and able to work within the safety
standards, rules, and regulations of the Computer
Science Department?
6. Are you willing and able to work alone and set your
own standards and priorities?
7. Are you willing to perform some basic clerical/
bookkeeping types of tasks necessary in this job such
as filling out log sheets, checking out equipment,
maintaining supply inventory, etc?
8. Are you willing and able to direct, schedule, and train
student employees during an academic year?
9. Are you willing to gain more responsibility and
assist in supervisory and management tasks?
SECTION II:
Please rate your experience and/or training in the following
activities using the number guide below. Respond with the number
from the number guide that best describes your abilities or knowledge.
If you do not resond to an activity, we will assume that you are
rating yourself "0" for that area. Respond with only one rating
per activity. Please be aware that any misrepresentation on this
form may serve as grounds for dismissal from employment should you
be appointed to a position. Prior to hiring, an appointing authority
may ask you to demonstrate your abilities and may also contact
previous employers and/or reference to verify your statements.
NUMBER GUIDE FOR RATING EXPERIENCE AND/OR TRAINING
(4) I have trained others to perform this work or activity.
(3) I have enough experience and/or training to perform this
work or activity without training or supervision and could train
others.
(2) I have had some experience and/or training performing this
work or activity and could do it with supervision or training.
(1) I have no experience and/or training in this work or activity
but have observed others performing this work.
(0) I have no experience and/or training with this work or
activity and have not observed it being performed by others.
NOTE: The term Unix refers to any implementation of Unix proper.
It does NOT refer to system administration utilities built on top
of Unix such as SMIT, SAM, Tivoli, or other such tools.
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TYPE OF ACTIVITY RATING
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1. Creating Unix accounts for new users
2. Assisting users with the Unix C Shell environment
3. Assisting Unix users with the X.V11R5 environment
4. Assisting users with Unix UCB electronic mail
5. Assisting users with Unix C programming environment
6. Assisting users with a Unix NFS environment
7. Assisting users with Unix RQS environment
8. Assisting users with Unix lpd-based printing
9. Assisting users with Unix rlogin, rsh, rcp, and ftp
10. Assisting users with Unix filesystem permissions
11. Configuring VME backplane jumpers
12. Isolating hardware failures to board level components
13. Configuring SCSI ID jumpers
14. Configuring SCSI termination
15. Installing and configuring new SIMMs in Unix systems
16. Connecting physical coax Ethernet networks
17. Connecting physical twisted pair Ethernet networks
18. Configuring SCSI peripherals on a Unix system
19. Formatting hard disk drives for Unix systems
20. Repairing bad hard drive sectors
21. Diagnosing hard drive problems under Unix
22. Creating Unix filesystems with mkfs
23. Repairing Unix filesystems with fsck
24. Tuning Unix filesystems with tyfs
25. Installing internal peripheral components, e.g. drives
26. Configuring Unix disk partition tables
27. Troubleshooting persistent Unix filesystem problems
28. Configuring Unix lpd to access serial PostScript printers
29. Configuring Unix lpd to access remote printers
30. Configuring Transcript
31. Troubleshooting Unix lpd printing problems
32. Installing Unix kernel patches
33. Installing Unix bobs drivers
34. Reconfiguring Unix kernel options
35. Customizing Unix system boot initialization process
36. Using Unix OS source code to debug system problems
37. Customizing Unix OS source code
38. Configuring Unix system hostname
39. Configuring Unix system P zone data
40. Configuring Unix systems using TCP/IP networks
41. Configuring IP subnetworking on Unix systems
42. Debugging TCP/IP network connectivity problems
43. Configuring SLIP on Unix systems
44. Configuring FDDI on Unix systems
45. Configuring UUCP on Unix systems
46. Installing and configuring high-speed modems for use
with SLIP or UUCP on Unix systems
47. Configuring Unix for serial port login terminal access
48. Debugging Unix serial port bus connections
49. Configuring system static IP network routing tables
50. Configuring system to use RIP dynamic routing
51. Configuring system to generate RIP dynamic routing data
with gated
52. Troubleshooting IP routing problems
53. Configuring Unix filesystem exports
54. Configuring Unix network filesystem mount tables
55. Debugging Unix network filesystem access problems
56. Troubleshooting network filesystem performance problems
57. Configuring Unix NFS automounters
58. Troubleshooting NFS automounter configuration errors
59. Configuring AMD maps
60. Installing GNU gcc from distribution
61. Installing MIT X from distribution
62. Writing rdist distribution files
63. Troubleshooting rdist problems
64. Configuring Domain Name Service clients
65. Configuring Domain Name Service servers
66. Configuring tertiary DNS servers
67. Writing DNS data files
68. Troubleshooting DNS data file errors
69. Using tar to backup filesystem data to tape
70. Using NFS to backup filesystem data
71. Using dump to backup fileystem data to tape
72. Restoring entire bootable system from dump tape
73. Restoring user files from dump tape backups
74. Performing Unix filesystem backups to remote
network tape devices
75. Identifying Unix system security vulnerabilities
76. Monitoring Unix systems for security violations
77. Recovering from a Unix security violation event
78. Customizing Unix vnode addressing
79. Customizing BSD syslog configuration
80. Customizing sendmail configuration files
81. Writing sendmail configuration parsing rules
82. Writing complex sendmail aliases (includes, pipes, files)
83. Testing sendmail configuration with test mode
84. Debugging sendmail parsing rules
85. Installing and configuring new network service daemons
to use inetd
86. Configuring periodic system jobs with cron
87. Compiling and installing public domain software
88. Installing vendor supported third-party software
89. Writing and debugging PERL programs
90. Writing and debugging OPAL programs
91. Writing and debugging C Shell programs
92. Writing and debugging Bourne shell programs
93. Writing and debugging C programs
94. Coordinating teams
95. Training other system administrators
96. Developing training courses or programs
97. Using Rand MH
98. Using Elm
99. Using Emacs
100. Using the GNU set of development tools
Please supply names of persons who can verify the information given
in Section II, e.g., previous employers.
Names Address and Phone Number
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SECTION III:
Please rate your experience and/or training in in the configuration,
operation and maintenance of the following equipment using the
number guide below. Respond with the number which best describes
your training and/or experience. If you do not respond to an item,
we will assume that you are rating yourself "0" for that area.
Circle only one number for each item. Please be aware that any
misrepresentation on this form may serve as grounds for dismissal
from employment should you be appointed to a position. Prior to
hiring, an appointing authority may ask you to demonstrate your
abilities and may also contact previous employers and/or reference
to verify your statements.
NUMBER GUIDE FOR RATING EXPERIENCE AND/OR TRAINING
(4) I have trained others in the configuration, maintenance,
and operation of this equipment.
(3) I have enough experience and/or training with the configuration,
maintenance, and operation of this equipment to perform it without
training or supervision and could train others.
(2) I have had some experience and/or training with the
configuration, maintenance, and operation of this equipment and
could do it with supervision or training.
(1) I have no experience and/or training with the configuration,
maintenance, and operation of this equipment but have observed
others performing this work.
(0) I have no experience and/or training with the configuration,
maintenance, and operation of this equipment and have not observed
it being performed by others.
NOTE: References to a vendor implementation of Unix, e.g. SunOS,
implies the operating system proper. It does NOT refer to system
administration utilities built on top of the operating system such
as SMIT, SAM, Tivoli, or other such tools.
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TYPE OF EQUIPMENT RATING
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101. Sun Sparc systems running SunOS
102. Sun Sparc systems running Solaris
103. DEC stations running ULTRIX
104. DEC stations running OSF/1
105. HP workstations running HPUX
106. Systems running NeXTSTEP
107. Systems running BSDI, BSD43, BSD44, or Linux
108. Systems with more than 8 cpus
109. NCD X terminals
110. Sun 4 and Sun 3 VME based systems
111. Solbourne systems
112. SGI workstations running IRIX
113. Macintosh systems
114. IBM RS6000 systems running AIX
115. Symbolics
116. Telebit Netblazer terminal server
117. Xylogics or Sun terminal server
118. Livingston Portmaster terminal server
119. Telebit modems
120. Cisco Systems routers
Please supply names of persons who can verify the information given
in Section III e.g., previous employers.
Names Address and Phone Number
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