Few Good Interview Questions
1) What file do you modify to change the mail aliases (Provide the full
path) ?
2) What command do you run after modifying the aliases file make the
changes active?
3) How do you enable logging on a UFS file system?
4) What commands can you use to dynamically add scsi disks to a sun
system?
5) How do you install package to a specific directory? e.g like to
install wget in /home/vin/wget rather than the default one "/usr". ----
This was not answered by me.
6) What command shows what modules are loaded into the Kernel?
7) What command increases the priority of a process and all sub
processes on a solaris system?
8) What command in Solaris, do you use to setup aliases for devices?
9) How do you watch network traffic on interface qfe3?
10 ) What command shows TCP/IP parameter settings?
11) How do you set Network cards to 100 full interactively &
permanently?
12) What tools in Solaris help you diagnose harware failures?
13) How do you determine by how much a Veritas Volume can be expanded?
14) How do you grow a Veritas VXVM volume?
15) Where is the dump from a system crash normally kept? Can we
customize it?
16) How do you determine Volume Status in Veritas VxVM?
17) Why would you deport a diskgroup in VxVM?
18) How do you create additional state databases in solaris volume
manager? -- This was the tough one..!!
19) Does Solaris Volume Manager have soft partitioning?
20) How do you clear volume information from a solaris volume manager
disk?
21) How do you shutdown a Veritas Cluster Server, leaving the
applications running from the command line?
22) How do you speed up processing of a process and All it's child
processes? -- This was quite tricky..!!
1. You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but not other subnets. What is wrong?
2. If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it, what could be the problem?
3. If a user logs in to UNIX, it displays the desktop and then immediately logs you back out, what could be wrong?
4. If you mistype a password, how do you clear it out to retype the password again.
5. When would you want to reconfigure the kernel and how would you do it?
6. Which is your favorite editor, shell, programming shell and why?
7. Why should you never have '.' in root's path?
8. If fsck is running, what is the one thing you shouldn't do?
9. What are the 3 or 4 major flavors of UNIX and what are their SA tools?
10. What kind of PC - UNIX connectivity programs are you familiar with?
11. What are: UFS, NFS, SaMBa, LDAP, NIS, DNS, Veritas
12. If you send an e-mail to someone and it comes back "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong.
13. How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password?
14. When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why?
15. Someone pings a server from another location and gets a different result than if you ping the same server onsite. What is going on?
16. You know the reason the server won't boot is because of ODS, but the root partition isn't on ODS. How do you go about fixing it?
17. How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it "hot"?
18. When the key is in the lock position on a Sun Enterprise server, can you do a Stop-A? Explain.
19. What does "boot -a" do?
20. What is uadmin and what does it do?
21. What does "ypwhich servername" do? Why would you use it?
22. If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them?
23. Can you add HDD's to a Sun server and not have to do a reconfiguration reboot? Explain.
24. You can receive e-mail, but can't send any. What is wrong?
25. If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?
26. What makes NIS+ more secure than NIS?
27. After displaying the banner page, it says: Clock TOD does not match TOD on any IO boards
How do you go about fixing this and what is it telling you?
28. What are the differences between Solaris 2.6 and lower and 7 and higher?
29. How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command?
30. What are the two settings you can change to make a system boot faster?
31. What are the differences between Sun OS and Solaris?
32. What do soft partitions buy you with Solaris Volume Manager?
33. How can you set EEPROM settings from Solaris?
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