7-Day DevOps Interview Preparation Plan
Your saved questions plus a day-by-day plan. Add questions with Save to → 7-Day Job Prep on any question page.
Day-by-day plan
Day 1Linux and scripting
- Revise permissions, processes, signals and systemd commands
- Practise five troubleshooting scenarios: full disk, high CPU, OOM, SSH, port in use
- Write two bash scripts from memory: disk alert and service check
- Revise networking basics: DNS, TCP ports, curl and ss
Day 2Git and CI/CD
- Practise merge, rebase, reset, revert, stash and reflog in a test repo
- Write a declarative Jenkinsfile and a GitHub Actions workflow without looking
- Revise deployment strategies and secrets handling in pipelines
- Prepare one story about a pipeline you built or improved
Day 3Docker
- Write a multi-stage Dockerfile and a Compose file with a database
- Revise image layers, CMD versus ENTRYPOINT, volumes and networks
- Debug a crashing container using logs, inspect and exec
- List image security practices and size reduction steps
Day 4Kubernetes
- Draw the cluster architecture and explain each component aloud
- Write Deployment, Service, Ingress and ConfigMap YAML from memory
- Revise CrashLoopBackOff, Pending, ImagePullBackOff and service debugging
- Practise rollout, rollback and Helm commands on a local kind or minikube cluster
Day 5Terraform, Ansible and AWS
- Revise Terraform workflow, state, locking, modules and import
- Write a small Ansible playbook with a handler
- Revise VPC design, IAM roles, security groups and NAT
- Prepare answers on cost spikes, high availability and disaster recovery
Day 6Monitoring and SRE
- Write PromQL for request rate, error ratio and p95 latency
- Revise SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets and golden signals
- Practise an incident walkthrough from alert to post-mortem
- Prepare a story about an outage or reliability improvement
Day 7Projects and mock interview
- Polish your resume project: architecture diagram, tools and impact numbers
- Do a timed mock interview covering one question from each topic
- Prepare HR answers: why DevOps, mistakes, conflicts and on-call pressure
- Review the 30 revision points and sleep early
Frequently asked questions
Can I prepare for a DevOps interview in 7 days?
Seven days is enough to revise and sharpen, not to learn from zero. Use the plan to cover each core topic once, practise questions daily and finish with a mock interview.
How do I add questions to the plan?
On any question page choose Save to → 7-Day Job Prep. Saved questions show up at the top of this page.
How many hours a day should I study?
Two to four focused hours a day works for most people: one hour of revision, one to two hours of questions, and the rest on projects or mock answers.
Questions to practise each day
Company-wise DevOps questionsExperience-wise DevOps questionsRole-wise DevOps questionsCity-wise DevOps questionsMost asked DevOps questionsScenario-based questionsPractical / hands-on questionsHR & behavioural questionsDevOps mock interviewOnline assessment questionsTechnical round questionsManagerial round questionsDevOps topic sheets