1.

Give an example of set of shell commands that will give you the number of files
in a directory
2. How do you tell what process has a TCP port open in Linux
3. On a Red Hat Linux Variant how do you control whether a service starts when the
system boots
4. How do you tell the amount of free disk space left on a volume
5. Give an example of a set of shell commands to tell how many times Ã
¢â‚¬Å“bob†ﾝ has logged on to the system this month
6. Give an example of a recursively copying a directory from one location to
another.
7. How do you modify the IP and Net mask of a system running a Red Hat Variant
of Linux
8. Give an example of a set of shell commands that will give you the number of Ã
¢â‚¬Å“httpd†ﾝ processes running on a Linux box.
9. On CentOS or Fedora based system using the package management application,
how do you tell what package provided the file “libnss_ldap.so†ﾝ
10. What is the difference between VTP client, server, and transparent
11. What is the maximum length of CAT6
12. How does one set up a layer two link to share VLANs
13. How does one implement redundant links at Layer 2
14. What is the difference between a hub, switch, and a router? What are the security
advantages of switch vs. hub?
15. Show an example of using telnet to learn the headers of an http server.
16. In what OSI layer does PPP exist
17. What’s the difference between TCP and UDP
18. Given a DNS server that has just started (with an empty cache) and host
contacting this DNS server (using it’s OS setting) to learn an address for
google.com, list the steps the DNS server will take to learn it with IP addresses
(each step will have multiple possible IP addresses – you need choose
only one per step).
19. Why are layer 2 loops bad, and what protocol was designed to prevent them
20. Given a radius server at 10.0.0.2 and a shared key of ‘abc123′ show the
IOS commands necessary to authenticate switch users against the radius server,
while still allowing the use of local username / password pairs
21. OSPF
1. Describe OSPF in your own words.
2. OSPF areas, the purpose of having each of them
3. Types of OSPF LSA, the purpose of each LSA type
4. What exact LSA type you can see in different areas
5. How OSPF establishes neighboor relation, what the stages are
6. If OSPF router is stucked in each stage what the problem is and how to
troubleshoot it
7. OSPF hierarchy in the single or multi areas. Cool OSPF behavior in
broadcast and nonbroadcast
 8. Draw the diagram of typical OSPF network and explain generally how it
works, DR, BDR, election, ASBR, ABR, route redistribution and
summarization
22. STP
1. How it works and the purpose
2. Diff types (SSTP, MSTP, RSTP) Cisco - PVST/PVST+
3. Root election
4. Diff. port stages and timing for convergence
5. Draw the typical diagram and explain how diff types of STP work
6. What ports are blocking or forwarding
7. How it works if there are topology changes
23. ACLs
1. What are they
2. Diff types
3. Write an example if you want to allow and to deny…
4. Well-known port numbers (DNS - 53 and etc…)
24. QOS
1. What is that
2. What is the diff b/w L2 and L3 QoS
3. How it works
25. Network
1. Draw the typical network diagram you have to deal with
2. Explain how it works
3. What part of it you are responsible
4. firewall, what is that, how it works, how it is diff from ACLs
5. What problems with the network you had had and how you solved it.
6. What are the ways to troubleshoot the network, techniques, commands
7. Network security, ways to achieve it
26. Switching
1. VLANs
2. STP
3. How a L2 switch works with broadcast, unicast, multicast,
known/unknown traffic
4. VRRP, GLBP
5. port monitoring and mirroring
6. L3 switch, how it works
7. PIM sparse and dense modes
27. What sort of cabling is suitable for Fast Ethernet protocols?
28. What do you do to manage your time effectively?
29. What is a Class D IP address?
30. How do I monitor the activity of sockets?
31. Users are complaining of delays when using the network. What would you do?
32. What are some of the problems associated with operating a switched LAN?
33. What are your career goals for 2009?
34. A customer is planning on setting up a new office network. Make a network
diagram and present to the customer everything that is involved.
35. Why should I hire you over anyone else?
36. What would you do if you were asked to do something outside your job
description?