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I know what your mean, and my question library is 99% scenarios - here's the problem, symptoms, how would you go about troubleshooting it? What tools would you use? What sources of information are you looking at? - but people can't answer those either.I think things like "What does DHCP do?" Or "What does DNS do?" are absolutely fair game for anyone above level 0 (to clarify, imo level 0 is phone jockey and info gathering, level 1 should have a mental library of basic tools like ping and nslookup at the barest of minimums). So maybe not specific definitions but FFS you should know DHCP is dynamic IP addresses and hopefully that it provides config like the DNS and gateway (57)

Honestly these boiled up to the top questions because if I can't get reasonable answers out of someone for them I probably wont get reasonable answers for the rest of my questions and I can save the hour interview. (-59)

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I wouldn't say that these are "insanely hard" as much as they are just plain ...irrelevant.I've designed, deployed, and managed DNS and DHCP for 4,000+ endpoint environments and even I don't remember off the top of my head what DHCP stands for. Something something protocol (?) More importantly, why does it matter. There's no practical benefit to knowing what DHCP stands for, so why bother asking? Do you know what it does and how to configure it? That's the question. It's like asking what the word LASER stands for. It doesn't matter. Everyone calls it a laser.A better question would be to ask the candidate to give an example of when they would set DHCP Option 66, or something like that. Something concrete, where you could measure experience. Knowing the answer to most of these questions just doesn't correlate in the way you think it does with experience.Likewise, DNS = domain name services, good question. That's relatively common knowledge. What does DNS do? Also a good q... (349)

Just to be clear these aren't the only thing I ask, just the first things. I don't particularly care if they know the acronym perfectly but knowing its for configuration and not just IP is important to me. Number 6 is for troubleshooting. The basic steps a query makes are important to be able to check where something resolving fails.I do appreciate the feedback though and I will likely alter some of the questions due to it. (-40)

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meanwhile Job Postings can't answer these questions....1) what is the pay range?2) why is this position open?3) tell me about the team, how many staff, how long have they been here?4) user/client submits a ticket afterhours, how is that handled?5) what is the SLA for responding to issues during business hours?6) tell me about the benefits you offer outside of pay? (61)

They do. During an interview. (-27)

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1) wtf kind of company is this, asking L1 questions for a $100k job? Don't get me wrong, I'd take $100k to do L1 work all day long; where can I sign up? I don't even see "what does DHCP stand for" as an unreasonable question for an L1 position, but more of a "let me gauge your reaction to an IT 101 question". If you can't answer it, then maybe you need to ask ITT Tech or University of Phoenix for a refund. 2) SO many people claiming decades of alleged experience, but still can't answer some or all of these simple questions? You people are the bane of my existence. Pretenders, imposters, monkey-see monkey-do all the while not truly understanding WTF you're doing and making life harder for everyone else. "Imposter syndrome" really isn't a "syndrome" in these cases, but the actuality of it instead. I deal with this shit EVERY DARN DAY; assclowns who mostly know what to click when X or Y happens, but have no grasp of the base underlying concepts. So instead of doing everything I need t... (3)

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Maybe I've lived in networking for to long but the sheer number of people in here saying "I don't know what DHCP stands for" is god darn frightening. And no... I get it. Being able to recall any/all IT acronyms at the drop of a hate (especially in an interview setting/high pressure) is hard. There are plenty of acronyms I can't recall but DHCP is foundational for how ever machine works and in turn the whole internet. But FFS I think I'm with OP when if someone can only tell me what it does and not what it stands for I would be concerned. Not necessarily end the interview but I would start asking a lot more probing questions around their knowledge. (3)

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Since there are multiple ways to tackle a technical issue, I'm less concerned about the "right answer" (aka how I would handle it, which isn't always the best way). I'm more interested in someone's thought process. I tend to throw them a scenario where something is broken, and ask them what steps they would go through to troubleshoot. There could be multiple right answers, so I want to confirm their brain actually functions.I hate being in the receiving end of gotcha questions, so I don't ask them. Having it more open ended sometimes sparks a deeper conversation in to something, so then I really get to see if there is a subject the candidate is excited about. You can tell when people get fired up about something and want to talk about it. It could be bragging that they fixed some really wacky thing, or complaining about some stupid butt feature on a random platform, like, oh I hate that function on that firewall. The GUI doesn't work! You have to command line it every darn ti... (1)

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It's a great /r/sysadmin thread. OP says something mostly right and 100% neurodivergent. The leddit "sysadmins" cry and object while OP doubles down and welcomes the downvotes.

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They must have.

An old boss asked me to take CompTIA+ cert because I knew internet slang therefore I must be a leet haxxor.

I listened to an r-slur say letters for a week. I told the boss I wasn't going to take the test because I'm not an IT professional and he said "oh yeah oops."

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frick that a+ test, and frick comptia with it. :marseytrollcrazy::marseytrollcrazy::marseytrollcrazy:

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Don't you have to pay like ...900 shekels every few years to renew your license?

I dunno man, seems kinda (((sus))) to me.

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