Software Installation Engineer interview questions

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  1. What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing? Once it detects thrashing, what can the system do to eliminate this problem?

  2. Under what circumstances do page faults occur? Describe the actions taken by the operating system when a page fault occurs?

  3. Difference Between Grep and Find command ?

  4. What is the complete name of the default configuration file for LILO?

  5. What is diff between grep and find

  6. Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?

  7. What are threads (user/kernel)?

  8. If a=2/3b , b=2/3c, and c=2/3d what part of d is b/(a) 8/27(b) 4/9(c) 2/3(d) 75%(e) 4/3

  9. What is process spawning?

  10. What is the difference between a variable and value?

  11. How to Swap 30 & 40 in IP address 192.30.40.1 using TCL script?

  12. Which operating system is suitable for distributed computing and requirement?

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  14. What is the number of the masked code ee@?

  15. Create your own shell that completes the following problem: Ask the user their name, Compare it to your name and Give a reply that their response is either your name too or it is a nice name too ?

  16. What are permissions in UNIX?

  17. A man shows his friend a woman sitting in a park and says that she the daughter of my grandmother's only son. What is the relation between the two

  18. What is Kernel parameters?

  19. How do we take the backup of the mailbox for the single user.

  20. How do I ring the terminal bell during a shell script?

  21. Compare the no. of bytes in unix and Dos for long, char, short, int.

  22. Tel me step By Step while accessing the webmail and outlookfor all the user's it is asking the user name and passwordfrequently ?

  23. What are the three main forms of enabling debugging in a shell script?

  24. Is there any way I can see the data of a Unix HDD from the windows OS? I installed the HDD In my windows PC and I can see the disk from Diskmanager but I can not access the HDD content.

  25. Write a script to reverse a string without using Perl'sbuilt in function

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  27. Can any1 tell me suppose u r doing manual testing on unixplatform with Shell Script, then how it is done?How u r implementing it & what is the use of Shell scriptingon Manual Testing?

  28. What are the common problems with threads?

  29. What is the purpose and function of an operating system?

  30. What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable?

  31. Can Linux Access Amiga File Systems?

  32. What is the Difference between 'su' and 'su-' ?

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