Maintenance Engineer Interview Questions and Answers – Page 2

How can you determine who has scheduled at jobs?Choose one:a. at -lb. at -qc. at -dd. atwho

What is handle?

What is the difference between Swapping and Paging?

How does the kernel differentiate device files and ordinary files?

Which command is used to delete all files in the current directory and all its sub-directories?

You need to see the last fifteen lines of the files dog, cat and horse. What command should you use?

You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home directories so you issue the command gzip /home/* backup.gz but it fails. The reason that it failed is that gzip will only compress one _______ at a time.

What do you mean by unnamed object?

What is the purpose of Process Handle Table?

You wish to print the file vacations with 60 lines to a page. Which of the following commands will accomplish this?Choose one:a. pr -l60 vacations | lprb. pr -f vacations | lprc. pr -m vacations | lprd. pr -l vacations | lpr

Why the entries in the parent process table and child table are same?

After creating a backup of the users' home directories called backup.cpio you are asked to restore a file called memo.ben. What command should you type?

You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home directories. What utility should you use?

What text filter can you use to display a multi-page file and place numbers at the beginning of each line.

What is the need of process relative handles?

Describe the actions taken by thread library to context switch between user level threads?

What resources are used when a thread created? How do they differ from those when a process is created?

Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel?

You locate a command in the /bin directory but do not know what it does. What command can you use to determine its purpose.

What does reboot mean?

What scheme does the Kernel in Unix System V follow while choosing a swap device among the multiple swap devices?

What is a Map?

What is the big difference between /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk

What is Dispatcher?

How would you find out what version of Solaris is currently running?

Why we use / for mount any filesystem?

You suspect that you have two commands with the same name as the command is not producing the expected results. What command can you use to determine the location of the command being run?

Which tasks is not necessary when creating a new user by editing the /etc/passwd file?

What is the difference between a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all?

What are the entities that are swapped out of the main memory while swapping the process out of the main memory?