Couple of IT interview questions..

You'd be surprised just how common really old arch's are in so many industries, it's crazy not supporting them! To put it in perspective Intel only stopped manufacturing 486's at the end of 2007 about 2 years ago.
 
dangerstat said:
You'd be surprised just how common really old arch's are in so many industries, it's crazy not supporting them! To put it in perspective Intel only stopped manufacturing 486's at the end of 2007 about 2 years ago.
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Hang on. Are you saying that Intel are still manufacturing VERY old CPUs today?

I was under the impression that anything over say 2-3yrs old is no longer manufactured. For example, if you tried to buy a P4 1.4ghz, brand new, you couldn't as it isnt manufactured anymore.
 
kayone said:
'Superdome' Some sort of building? :p
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Ah, but how many of your average Wintel Sysadmins are going to know what one is or how to administer it?

dangerstat said:
:D sometimes I think they about as user friendly as a brick wall though, HPUX:o

rz30, to be honest I guess your just a bit young and not really had a proper job in IT before. In a way I understand what your saying, I guess you think you've fiddled with windows before managed to set up a little home network with windows nice wizards and perhaps that means your qualified to do IT support?

In reality it just means your a competent home PC user.


EDIT for extended funnies can we get Fox to actually apply for a database admin job and see if his interview goes better than rz30's?
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HP-UX is easy though ... yes you don't have all the wizards you may have in your average Windows system but it's logical and straight forward. That's not to say you can't screw up badly if you are a moron ... the guy who took over support a few months ago of the Superdome I have been looking after for the last couple of years is getting a shock on Monday when he returns from leave as we've found several screw ups (one quite major) that he has made on the system, with no change control ... I wasn't particularly happy having to write a plan on how to fix one of them when I have other work I should be doing in my new job ...

I agree with your point though about people who have set up a home network thinking they can do IT Support, particularly at the enterprise level ... whilst they may be able to get by in a small office with some PC's and possibly a fileserver, when they start needing to consider resiliency, DR and even in some cases proper backups things get left out and problems occur down the line. Hell, of the last six IT graduates I have dealt with four of them were useless and couldn't comprehend even the basics of what they should be doing (even after training), had abysmal timekeeping and poor attitudes ... and of the six only three are still with the company, one in a service management role, one in a technical role and one being useless in another department (apparently).
 
sunama said:
Surely manufacturing very old hardware is a loss making process? I mean, who on Earth would pay full price for such an old piece of hardware?
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Somebody who has an antique system running a mission critical service. HP make a killing out of their spares, selling P3 1GHz processors for over a grand because they know anybody buying it must be desperate. If you're a financial institute with a bunch of old servers and one goes down, you'll happy throw £1k at it if it saves you losing hundreds of thousands plus per day.
 
After reading this thread I would really love to meet some of the people face to face, you can tell straight away who know their stuff and who doesn't and who is up their own butt hole.

Just because you can't answer a question doesn't mean your not going to get the job, however it's no good been stuck up your own bum hole thinking things are just there on a plate for them. I.T is one of the most complex jobs out there because I.T has many many sub sections as stated in this thread, which is where the main complexity comes from.
 
optitech-uk said:
After reading this thread I would really love to meet some of the people face to face, you can tell straight away who know their stuff and who doesn't and who is up their own butt hole.

Just because you can't answer a question doesn't mean your not going to get the job, however it's no good been stuck up your own bum hole thinking things are just there on a plate for them. I.T is one of the most complex jobs out there because I.T has many many sub sections as stated in this thread, which is where the main complexity comes from.
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Wouldn't IT be an occupation rather than a job ? I doubt anyone would have their job title as 'IT'
 
sunama said:
Hang on. Are you saying that Intel are still manufacturing VERY old CPUs today?

I was under the impression that anything over say 2-3yrs old is no longer manufactured. For example, if you tried to buy a P4 1.4ghz, brand new, you couldn't as it isnt manufactured anymore.
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Yes. And I doubt it's loss making. You've got to remember things like aircraft will have legacy parts in them, scary when you think of the idea of something your flying on running on having critical systems running on 486 era hardware.

memyselfandi said:
Ah, but how many of your average Wintel Sysadmins are going to know what one is or how to administer it?

HP-UX is easy though ... yes you don't have all the wizards you may have in your average Windows system but it's logical and straight forward. That's not to say you can't screw up badly if you are a moron ... the guy who took over support a few months ago of the Superdome I have been looking after for the last couple of years is getting a shock on Monday when he returns from leave as we've found several screw ups (one quite major) that he has made on the system, with no change control ... I wasn't particularly happy having to write a plan on how to fix one of them when I have other work I should be doing in my new job ...

I agree with your point though about people who have set up a home network thinking they can do IT Support, particularly at the enterprise level ... whilst they may be able to get by in a small office with some PC's and possibly a fileserver, when they start needing to consider resiliency, DR and even in some cases proper backups things get left out and problems occur down the line. Hell, of the last six IT graduates I have dealt with four of them were useless and couldn't comprehend even the basics of what they should be doing (even after training), had abysmal timekeeping and poor attitudes ... and of the six only three are still with the company, one in a service management role, one in a technical role and one being useless in another department (apparently).
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Oh dear I sense someone is going to get a ballaching on Monday.
 
update: (i am sure you are really bothered!)

Biggest job yet. Setup a business multi server senario. And i do now acknowledge that you have to know what you are talking about and there is a lot to learn, there is no middle ground, very easy to screw things up and you very often have to have a complete understanding or server/network artictecture to put it back together again, server-side, client-side, printer-side, and then the plethora of software that has to be configured both on the server and client.

I am basically in charge of a medium business' server-client needs and it has been quite a learning curve but have solved everything that has been thrown at me so far.

:p
 
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