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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2012, 03:32:59 PM »
https://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/linux-admin-iq-test-066

16 out of 20. (If Neil McAllister isn't wrong about the number of lines in the kernel source, but I have to check up on that.)

Edit: Darn it - the question was not about the number of lines in the Linux kernel source but about the number of C++ lines. So McAllister is certainly right. Linus reportedly hates C++. I hate trick questions.
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2012, 03:39:08 PM »
O well, there go's my chance for a Linux admin job, I only got 5 out of 20 right. ::)
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2012, 03:40:21 PM »
I managed to guess 7 out of 20.  ;D
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2012, 03:44:42 PM »
18 of 20.

https://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/linux-admin-iq-test-066?quizkey=37f65f5ffdfab86714a287f0dac5a1ba

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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2012, 03:50:09 PM »
18 of 20.

https://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/linux-admin-iq-test-066?quizkey=37f65f5ffdfab86714a287f0dac5a1ba

Question 14: Of the following, which is the most widely used GUI windowing system among major enterprise Linux distributions? I would have answered KDE but that would have been biased so I opted for Gnome. ;)  I didn't consider the rest of the answers or I would have selected Xorg and got another one correct.  ;D

Ha ha! I realized that was a trick question.  :D
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2012, 03:53:04 PM »
i got less than i would have liked and more than i expected.  forgotten much i have.
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 04:01:48 PM »
https://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/linux-admin-iq-test-066

16 out of 20. (If Neil McAllister isn't wrong about the number of lines in the kernel source, but I have to check up on that.)

Edit: Darn it - the question was not about the number of lines in the Linux kernel source but about the number of C++ lines. So McAllister is certainly right. Linus reportedly hates C++. I hate trick questions.


That is absolute fact ... Linus detest C++. I read somewhere that the current kernel has something like 15 million SLOCs so I realized that the question was only re the C++ SLOC.
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2012, 04:06:06 PM »
 ;D You can see why I ask so many questions. I only got 10 out of 20.  ;D


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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2012, 04:13:30 PM »
i got 9 out of 20 but i should have 11, i had doubts with two that i changed :S

there was 2 or 3 i had no idea at all  :-\
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2012, 04:24:30 PM »
Wow, I am not as dumb as I thought I was  :o :o




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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2012, 04:41:44 PM »
17, but I missed the trick question ......  :(   .....  not that I think the questionnaire and its answers has anything to do with Linux admin capabilities.

I most definitely am not capable of having anything to do with a 'Linux Admin' position!

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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2012, 04:51:05 PM »
15 out of 20 on Round 2. Got nos. 4, 13, 15, 19 and 20 wrong.
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2012, 07:45:40 PM »
Not as dumb as I thought, but, not that smart either.....sigh, I miss my memory,, I think!  :-[ ;D
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Re: Linux admin IQ test
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2012, 08:01:41 PM »
if you don't remember, how do you miss it?

did we do this test in the past?

then i miss my memory too  ;D
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