DevOps Intern practice interview
Linux fundamentals, deployment automation, containers, monitoring and safe support for development teams. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Entry
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A DevOps intern supports the tools and routines that move code from a developer's machine into a working environment. The panel is checking your foundations in Linux, version control, pipelines, containers and cloud services. They also want safe judgement, a methodical response to failures and an eagerness to learn from review.
How to prepare
- Revise Linux processes, permissions, logs, environment variables and basic network checks.
- Build a small pipeline that tests and packages a simple application from a Git repository.
- Practise explaining the difference between a container image, a running container and a virtual machine.
- Review how secrets should be stored and supplied without committing them to source control.
- Prepare a troubleshooting story that shows your checks, evidence and final verification.
Common mistakes
- Naming tools without explaining what problem each one solves.
- Changing several settings at once and losing track of the cause.
- Treating a successful deployment as proof that the application is healthy.
- Putting credentials in code, screenshots or repository history.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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