Site Reliability Engineer Mock Interview

Master 30 SRE interview questions covering incident response, system design, and on-call scenarios.

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SWANSEN
QUESTION 11 OF 30

Can you define the term 'Inode'?

When interviewing for a site reliability job, you may be asked a broad range of technical questions. These can involve operating systems, programming languages, networking protocols, and other items you may encounter in this role. While it is impossible to be familiar with all of these, you should try to be up to date on the ones you typically use and the technologies the company currently employs. Reviewing these technologies before the interview will enable you to answer the interviewer's questions quickly and proficiently.

"The term inode refers to a data structure used in Unix. Inode contains Metadata about the file it references. Some of the information an inode provides includes the size of the file, its owner, the mode, and time stamps including atime, ctime, and mtime."

William Swansen
30 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS · SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
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