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Solaris interview questions

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  1. How would you find out what kernel parameter SHMMAX is set to by one command?

  2. Which NFS daemons are found on the NFS server?

  3. What are the main differences between solaris 10 and 9?

  4. What is sticky bit?

  5. What is difference between solaris single user mode and multi user mode ?

  6. You logged into the system using telnet.As a system administrator, how would you figure out the system transaction is slow between the system you logged into and from the system you did telnet login?

  7. Which obp command has a premenent allais?

  8. What does reboot ?r do?

  9. What command will display the VTOC for disk c0t0d0s0?

  10. What is after the VTOC on the root filesystem?

  11. Which of the following commands can tell you whether packets are being delayed or dropped on your network?

  12. When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for username and password.What could be the reason and what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem.

  14. How we can configure remote desktop(i mean how we can see windows system present working desktop*as well as another os like linux )

  15. What is diffrence between Process and Daemon?

  16. What file controls system wide password aging?

  17. Partition sizes can be set manually or from what configuration?

  18. How do you replace a failed boot disk under meta in solaris? Step by step explanation?

  19. What is VTS?

  20. How many types of file system?

  21. Difference b/w crash dump and core dump files..?

  22. I want to know how to Sechudle job using at and crontab soplease give the explain with example please do the needfulRegardsVisva

  23. What r the files need to edit for DNS configuration..?

  24. How to view the kernel (shmmax)paramiter value in solaris 10?

  25. How do we know how many LAN cards we have in server?

  27. If plex is failed then how can you recover it?

  28. Can you explain about the vxencap command in veritas volumemanager?

  29. How will you execute backup and restore using the tarcommand in a single command

  30. If NIC card is failed how can troubleshoot it?

  31. In a E6800 server,how can you loginto domain shell and system Console?

  32. How to use disk quotas in solaris (command mode) ? what is the procedure for checking disk space of the particular user in command mode?

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