Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Which Linux distros do you have experience with?

1 5018

Why have you choosen such a combination of products?

2 4987

Which distro you prefer? Why?

IBM,

3 8281

Which tool would you use to update Debian / Slackware / RedHat / Mandrake / SuSE ?

2 8138

What does ?route? command do?

IBM,

7 20193

Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ?

8 15710

Set the Display automatically for the current new user ?

3 11080

How shared memory are accessed if we have two processors trying to acquire the same region.

NetApp,

3 17570

Why do we have serial and parallel interface, which one was faster and why and when we should go for this interface.

NetApp,

4 14725

Say we have three threads T1, T2 and T3 which perform sequentially one after another is their any benefit of using thread over here rather than having a single process.

NetApp,

11 22180

What is the use of thread over process?

NetApp,

11 29081

What are the signals we have in Linux

HCL, NetApp,

3 13160

what is segmentation fault?

AdTel, NetApp,

11 39044

what is bus trap.

NetApp,

1 10776

What is the use of proc structure?

NetApp,

2 13111

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

How can we see the boot messages?

947

Which is the required command for checking the file system?

1077

What is ipc 610 620?

1086

Why was linux created?

937

What is the setservent(3) Function?

1521

How to Write a UDP Datagram Server?

1314

What are the features of linux os over other operating systems etc?

939

Compare linux credit based algorithm with other scheduling algorithms?

976

Explain Communication Between Parent and Child Processes?

1787

What is s in permission linux?

1068

What is a thread os?

858

how you will block porn sites using squid proxy in linux operating system?

909

How do you terminate an ongoing process?

1196

What does wget do in linux?

911

What do you mean by ldconfig in linux?

821

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