Operations

All interview questions related to Operations

3 Questions

1 Categories

2 Beginner1 Intermediate

Overlapping Cron Jobs Causing Backlog

Beginner

Nightly maintenance jobs overlap and create resource contention and backlog. Explain your triage and prevention.

5 min•Scenario

Inode Exhaustion on Filesystem

Intermediate

Disk usage looks low, but new files cannot be created and services fail with ENOSPC. How do you confirm inode exhaustion and fix it?

10 min•Scenario

Health Check Misconfiguration Causing Flapping

Beginner

Instances are flapping in and out of load balancers due to aggressive health checks. How do you detect and fix this without masking real failures?

5 min•Scenario