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Interview Question Bank
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script to parse a large Nginx access log file, find the top 10 IP addresses with the most 5xx errors, and output them in JSON format.
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Data Structures
#JSON
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a Bash script to find all log files in a directory older than 30 days, archive them into a tarball, upload them to an S3 bucket, and delete the local copies.
#Bash
#Linux Commands
#AWS CLI
#Automation
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python function that interacts with the AWS EC2 API (using Boto3) to find and terminate all instances missing a specific 'Environment: Production' tag.
#Python
#Boto3
#AWS
#Automation
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script to validate if a given JSON file containing infrastructure configurations is well-formed and adheres to a specific schema.
#Python
#JSON
#Validation
#jsonschema
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script to parse an Nginx access log and return the top 5 IP addresses by request count.
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Data Structures
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Bash script to find all files in a directory larger than 500MB and older than 30 days, and archive them to an S3 bucket.
#Bash
#Linux
#AWS CLI
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a Python script to recursively traverse a directory, calculate the MD5 hash of each file, and output a JSON report of duplicate files.
#Python
#File Systems
#Hashing
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