CGI Group Application Support Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

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Round duration - 40 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

In this round , I was grilled on some fundamental concepts of Linux. The interviewer was however quite friendly and helped me whenever I was stuck on a problem.

Q1. What is LVM and why is it required?
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Q2. What is the '/proc' file system in Linux?
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Q3. How do you check how much space is left in the current drive?
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Q4. Write a command to print the lines that contain the word 'july', while ignoring the case.
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Q5. What does it mean when a file has 644 permissions in Linux?
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Q6. How do you find all the processes that have opened a file in Linux?
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Q7. Can you enlist the basic components of Linux?
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Q8. What are some important Crontab commands used in Linux?
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had questions mainly from Operating System and DBMS. I was also asked some basic SQL queries to execute on my machine.

Q1. What is a pipe in operating systems, and when is it used?
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Q2. Can you explain any 5 essential UNIX commands?
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Q3. How do you find the second highest salary from a table in SQL?
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Q4. What is meant by normalization and denormalization?
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Q5. How do you take a backup of a table in MySQL?
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This is a cultural fitment testing round .HR was very frank and asked standard questions. Then we discussed about my role.

Q1. Why are you looking for a job change?
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Q2. What is something about you that is not included in your resume?
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