IITB R.A. Selection procedure - 2013

One of my juniors went through the selection process of IITB R.A for the year 2013. I am narrating the experience he had in his own words.

Selection Procedure

• First round was a written test with the following sections: 
1. General Aptitude
2. Engineering Mathematics
3. C/C++/Programming
4. Other CS subjects 
• About 50 students were selected from over 400 students for about 32 positions available with R.A. 
• This was followed by interviews from the interview panels. 

I appeared for two interview panels of institute RA - Sysdadmin and Application Software Cell (ASC). Here is the experience with each of them:

SysAdmin

• Questions on job experience. 
• Basic and practical questions on networking protocols IP, UDP, TCP etc. For example which protocol is used in which application in practice.
• OS - What are binary and counting Semaphores? 
• Linux - 
• Basic Linux commands
• Simple shell script writing
• Linux file system architecture

 

Application Software Cell (ASC) 

• Questions on job experience. 
• Questions on DBMS Queries (asked to write queries for given scenarios)
•  How web servers work?

Note that selection procedure could be significantly different for subsequent years. This is for your reference only.