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

Linux AllOther Interview Questions

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What is the difference between an argument and an option/switch?

Wipro,

3 28909

What is the difference between home directory and working directory?

Accenture, Flexi,

10 27285

Which directory is closer to the top of the file system tree, parent directory or current directory?

3 7867

How can you see all mounted drives?

10 58550

tell me some of the Linux HotKeys do you know?

3 8957

What are RPM?s, what do they offer?

2 9864

How does the boot process[init levels] work on Linux? How is it different from Solaris?

3 14924

Who owns the data dictionary?

2 11395

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 8862

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

5 11994

What utility can you use to automate rotation of logs?

2 8761

What command can you use to review boot messages?

6 20757

What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?

30 55193

What is the name and path of the main system log?

3 16120

What text filter can you use to display a binary file in octal numbers?

1 6384

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How to catagories tickets in RHEL, which tickets are belong to PROBLEM, INCIDENT and CHANGE management? please given to me with examples

1761

What are the differences between FTP , NFS , SAMBA servers explain separately.

1218

i installed clustering packages.When i try to run it getting LUCI error...what is it..??

2362

How to Trouble shoot performance issue in RHEL administration ? please give to one example

2040

I want to configure production interface and manage interface, how to configure both interfaces in Linux. please post the answers

2001

What is the difference between ext3 and ext4?

2449

what is the gate of ftp server in redhat linux?

1882

what is difference between TFTP abd FTP?

2143

1. User gaves df -h and the system get hanged. why ? 2. what is the hardlink and softlink mount ? 3. why is portmape should be started ? 4. what is nologin option 5. how to restrict users from accessing nfs ? 6. what is the difference between cpio and tar 7. what are the kernel parameters ? how to find out it ? 8. why we use sysctl.conf ? 9. if we gives init1 from multiuser runlevel, will it affect other users who already logged in to the system ? 10. what will be the available space to use after configuering raid5 with 5 disks each having 5gb spce ?

2757

What is Hard mount and soft Mount?

1770

As a system admin i want to know some things what are the troubleshooting issues we are facing frequently and what are the tickets will be raised.

1541

This question is belong to linux support. "one of my customer told to me, my application is getting slow response". how to resolve the issue. what are the steps you will follow to resolve the issue.

1863

Why is it suggested to disable journalism in ext4 filesystem?

3564

why /etc/shadow file do not have any permission ?

1550

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