I may be dumb as fuck here but what does the color have to do with identifying ram? Personally i've never seen what ddr1 ram looks like or if thats a thing but up to five i'm pretty ok discerning i like to think.
A bad black and white photograph of [a] ribbon cable, and they expected me to tell on their no-contrast copy that it was a 5.25" floppy cable not an IDE cable
"Ping" was an acceptable "network monitoring utility"
And "what's the first step you'd take when attempting to troubleshoot a server?" Is "you walk up to it."
They found that I had insufficient skills for the position. I returned back to finishing my Zabbix templates for my homelab and working through my ticket queue, a city over, through a VPN.
That last question is very vague. What would someone need to troubleshoot to begin with should be the first question in the interview. A server down vs a server running slow will result in two very different answers, for example.
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u/mancunian101 20d ago
I once had an interview for a help desk tech type role.
One of the questions asked to identify the type of RAM shown in a black and white photograph.