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I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company will
give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and show i
have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for pseries
systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you describe ( if asked
in an interview) what AIX is???

matthew 865 wrote:
> I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company will
> give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and show i
> have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for pseries
> systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you describe ( if asked
> in an interview) what AIX is???

Do everyone involved a favor and cancel the interview.

> matthew 865 wrote:
>
>> I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company
>> will give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and
>> show i have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for
>> pseries systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you
>> describe ( if asked in an interview) what AIX is???
>

Tell your interviewers that AIX stands for Advanced Interactive
eXecutive and they should be humbled by your profound insight.

[posted and mailed]

On 15 Oct 2005, you wrote in comp.unix.aix:

> matthew 865 wrote:
>> I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company
>> will give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and
>> show i have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for
>> pseries systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you
>> describe ( if asked in an interview) what AIX is???
>
> Do everyone involved a favor and cancel the interview.

I suppose you came into the world with the full AIX expertise ! Everyone
has to start somewhere,I have read enough about it from different
sources and having a small amount of UNIX experiance should get me
through the interview just thought that a place full of experianced
users/administrators/developers might be able to give me the leading
edge over any competitors. I dont know what pseries is as I have never
had to work on pseries servers or systems (cant afford them at home) and
thers not much about them on IBM's web site.

matthew 865 <matthew865@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> [posted and mailed]
>
> On 15 Oct 2005, you wrote in comp.unix.aix:
>
>> matthew 865 wrote:
>>> I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company
>>> will give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and
>>> show i have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for
>>> pseries systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you
>>> describe ( if asked in an interview) what AIX is???
>>
>> Do everyone involved a favor and cancel the interview.
>
> I suppose you came into the world with the full AIX expertise ! Everyone
> has to start somewhere,I have read enough about it from different
> sources and having a small amount of UNIX experiance should get me
> through the interview just thought that a place full of experianced
> users/administrators/developers might be able to give me the leading
> edge over any competitors. I dont know what pseries is as I have never
> had to work on pseries servers or systems (cant afford them at home) and
> thers not much about them on IBM's web site.

IBM has one of the best websites out there, period.

goto ibm.com
find the seach box
type in "pseries"
the first link will tell you what pseries is.

Here's a free piece of advice (take it or ignore it, I don't care):
DON'T try to "snow" the interviewer. Tell him/her straight up that you
have no practical AIX experience, but you have experience with X flavor
of Unix, and talk about what you know. If you have experience with one
or more Linux distros, be sure to mention that, as there are PowerPC
builds of Linux, and some shops run both AIX and Linux.

Of course, if the job opening says specifically that "n" months or
years of AIX experience are a prerequisite, then you should not be
going to the interview unless the hiring firm knows *in advance* that
you don't have the experience.

If the interviewer is going to test your AIX experience level, they'll
throw an AIX-specific problem in your lap and ask you how you would try
to solve it. A good interviewer will spot an "AIX phony" in just a few
minutes, and you'll be giving your company a "black eye" as well as
making a fool of yourself. There is no "magic handshake" that anyone
here could give you that would give you a "leg up" on another candidate
who has actual AIX administration experience.

In closing, I'll give you one more free "tip": "pSeries" is a brand, a
marketing term. It has equal meaning with "zSeries" (IBM mainframes)
and "iSeries" (The Line Who Used To Be Called "AS/400").

Rick Ekblaw

On 15 Oct 2005, you wrote in comp.unix.aix:

> Rick Ekblaw

Thanks, This is the kind of information im after, As it happens the job
requires no AIX experiance (though obviosly somebody with, will get the job
over me) The company will give comprehensive training to the succesful
candidate as the system is on a class A network and there not going to let
anyone loose on their systems.
I know only to well that I wont be able to blag what I know about AIX but I
do want to show that I have been trying to gain some insite into the job,
Cheers

matthew 865 wrote:
> [posted and mailed]
>
> On 15 Oct 2005, you wrote in comp.unix.aix:
>
>
>>matthew 865 wrote:
>>
>>>I have an interview in 1 day time for an AIX adminstrator. My Company
>>>will give me full training but I have to Blag the interview first and
>>>show i have an idea what AIX is. I know AIX is an intergrated OS for
>>>pseries systems but what is 'pseries systems' and how would you
>>>describe ( if asked in an interview) what AIX is???
>>
>>Do everyone involved a favor and cancel the interview.
>
>
> I suppose you came into the world with the full AIX expertise !

Obvious statement, but I'm not the one trying to fake my way through
an interview.

RickE <ekblaw@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

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> In closing, I'll give you one more free "tip": "pSeries" is a brand, a
> marketing term. It has equal meaning with "zSeries" (IBM mainframes)
> and "iSeries" (The Line Who Used To Be Called "AS/400").

It's more than a "brand" it's an entire family of machines, the modern
version of the RS/6000s. They run AIX, some linux.

Nathan wrote:
> > matthew 865 wrote:
> >
[snip]
>
> Tell your interviewers that AIX stands for Advanced Interactive
> eXecutive and they should be humbled by your profound insight.

No -it stands for "it Ain't unIX".

regards
-kamal
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