No one answered, so I'll take a crack at it.
Atom Powers <[email protected]> writes >To: Michael Tiernan <[email protected]> > >On May 7, 2013 9:15 AM, "Michael Tiernan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Here's a situation, >> [describe computer version of Kobayashi Maru problem]. >This sounds like fun. What are some of your favorite "unwinnable" problems? Scenario: You are working with a group putting together a a proposal. There are senior engineers and finance people in the group, whose primary role is to create PDFs, word files, and excel spreadsheets - the electronic artifacts of the proposal. You are the IT guy, your mission is to ensure the team gets the artifacts copied into the appropriate directory. You will them create one zip file and transmit to the customer's site. You have the instructions for how to transmit the files, you have the credentials entrusted to you, and you have wisely tested it beforehand so that you are confident it works. The transmit instructions specify that it has to be in one zip file, and no passwords should be required to open the resulting documents when they are unzipped at the customer's end. It's 11pm local time and the deadline for submission is an hour away, but the proposal team is finishing up. The team just told you that in five minutes you will have *all* the final docs in the team folder, and you can start zipping them up and transmitting. You know from past experience it will take approximately 20 minutes to complete a comparable size transmission. The customer has told you that midnight is a hard deadline as they have automated closing off network access. Dilemma: You get a frantic call from the remote Security Operations Center (SOC) on your work mobile phone. A sophisticated attack is under way exfiltrating significant amounts of your company's IP - engineering drawings, pricing information, etc. The Security team had discovered it, was confirming it, but they have suddenly been locked out of the exfiltration servers and the key KVM over IP switch. They found that you were working after hours and literally need a local "boot on the ground" to run over to the East Campus server room, and unplug a specific network cable. If you drive over there now, execute flawlessly and return, you estimate it will take you at *least* 35 minutes. Problem: What do you do? Describe your actions and thoughts - e.g how you prioritize and what your first step is. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
