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Anyone ever got a Lab Interview for a systems admin position at a IT consulting business?
What is it like? Tier 2 job.. I am leaving helpdesk

What should I expect

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Essendon

I've had a few of these. For a sys admin position they may get you to do things like:

- join a computer to the domain
- troubleshoot domain connectivity/DNS issues
- build VM in vCenter/SCVMM etc
- troubleshoot Exchange mail flow issues

I hope you get the drift?

snunez889

I have and it was mostly basic things.
join a PC to a domain.
use a few cmd troubleshooting tools.

anhtran35

It can be help desk PLUS Active Directory work( joining a computer to a domain, creating users and OUs, providing permissions, applying GPOs etc ). I'm a Windows guy so if it's Unix/Linux then it's the same but using their softwares.

kly630

I had a linux/unix based one in my current role. It was a basic test to see how I understood troubleshooting. I was given a rhel5 box where nothing was working and asked to step through my process to get networking up, ssh up, ldap up, etc. They did tricky things like rename the network scripts files or put typos in the sshd config. It's basically the same stuff that will mess you up on the job.

If you're going windows I'd expect the same. Make sure you know how to get network connectivity going, configure dns servers, join a machine to a domain, login over rdp, etc. If you're not familiar with something, hopefully you can figure out how to look it up quickly.