Linux \ Solaris Interview Question - 9

Question 201) What is the contents in /etc/skel ?
a template of shell scripts.
b default login scripts.
c kernel system files.
d host's name information.

Ans: a

Question 202) Which 2 commands should be used to acquire online information about the /etc/vfstab file?
a man -s4 vfstab
b man vfstab
c man vfstab(5)
d man /etc/vfstab

Ans a,c

Question 203) What is the command to display the file system information in Kbytes?
a ls -l
b df -k
c df -l

Ans: b

Question 204) Which of the following commands can be used to create a UFS file system?
a mkfs
b mkfs -F ufs
c mkfs_ufs
d newfs

Ans: a,b,c,d

Question 205) What does the term CURRENT DIRECTORY refer to?
a The directory in which you are currently working.
b The hierarchy of files and directories.
c parent directory.

Ans: a 

Question 206) You want to prevent the password for the guest account from being changed frequently. Which field of the Admintool Modify User window do you use?
a Password
b Min Change
c Max Change
d Max Inactive

Ans: b

Question 207) Which ls command option would you use to verify the owner of a file?
a -l
b -a
c -s

Ans: a

Question 207) Under format menu which command is used to find the current label
a partition
b print
c label
d current

Ans: c

Question 208) Which of the following can be used to specify the printer to be used?
a The LPDEST shell variable
b The lpadmin command
c The lp command
d The PRINTER shell variable

Ans: a,b,c,d

Question 209) Which of the following can be used to remove multiple patches?
a patchrm -M /var/spool/patch 104567-03 106583-10 103276-04
b Use patchrm to remove each patch separately
c patchrm -M /var/spool/patch patchlist

Ans: b

Question 210) What is the pwd command used for?
a To display your default printer.
b To display your parent directory.
c To display your current directory.

Ans: c

Question 211) A tree of directories and files is called
a a file system
b a cluster
c a hard drive

Ans: a

Question 212) What does one period (.) represent.
a The current parent directory.
b The current working directory.
c The current sub-directory.

Ans: b

Question 213) What does the -a option do in the ls command
a list files in long format
b list hidden files
c This is not a valid option for the ls command

Ans: b

Question 214) What command displays the NVRAM parameters?
a setenv
b env
c printenv

Ans: c

Question 215) What command changes the NVRAM parameters?
a setenv
b env
c chmodenv

Ans: a

Question 216) What does the -r option do in the rm command
a removes all empty sub-directories.
b removes a directory that is not empty.
c removes all files.

Ans: b

Question 217) Which command are legal ?
a ls filename -l
b head -10
c head -20 /dev/filename
d mv -i *

Ans: c

Question 218) What does the cat command do?
a Gives a listing of all files in a directory.
b Displays short files.
c Displays your current working directory.

Ans: b

Question 219) Which 2 commands or utilities can be used to display a list of active process?
a prstat
b ps
c sdtprocess
d ps -a

Ans a,c

Question 220) How is the error message processed if the print daemon encounter a problem when a user sends a file to the printer ?
a display the message on the console or mail the message to administrator.
b display the message on the console and mail the message to the user sending the job
c display the message on console only.
d mail the message to the user only.

Ans: c

Question 221) When receiving an encoded mail, how to read it ?
a nothing. Save it to a file will be readable automatically.
b save it to a file, then uncompress it.
c save to a file, then uudecode the file
d save to a file, then crypt the file

Ans: c

Question 222) Which function is not performed by /etc/group file ?
a assign secondary groups for users
b assign a name to primary groups
c provide a special group for super user privilege

Ans: b

Question 223) Which command(s) does not integrate incremental backup feature?
a Tar
b cpio
c ufsdump
d dd

Ans: a,b

Question 224) What does the more command do?
a Displays the contents of a file to the screen more than once
b Displays the contents of a file
c Displays the contents of a file to the screen one screenful at a time

Ans: c

Question 225) To list current mounted file system.
a mountall
b mount
c umount
d umountall

Ans: b