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Questions - 7 April 2013

The document contains 60 questions related to commands and utilities for system administration tasks in AIX and Linux operating systems. Some of the questions ask how to check process status, file system space usage, user and password information, backup and restore files and file systems. Other questions relate to commands for monitoring system performance and resources, mounting storage devices, managing users and permissions.

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Questions - 7 April 2013

The document contains 60 questions related to commands and utilities for system administration tasks in AIX and Linux operating systems. Some of the questions ask how to check process status, file system space usage, user and password information, backup and restore files and file systems. Other questions relate to commands for monitoring system performance and resources, mounting storage devices, managing users and permissions.

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Kapil Chawla
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Questions - 7 April 2013

Note You can use AIX cheat sheet or book in second attempt Need to mention complete COMMAND - wherever it is required. Otherwise it would be considered as incorret. ========================================================== ======================================== 1. How to check last 50 commands history ?

2. How to check space of any file system eg. /var ?

3. How to reboot the system ?

4. How to check gateway of the server ?

5. Which file contain password information ?

6. How to redirect output of command to particular command ?

7. How can you change password for user john ?

8. How to check process sshd is running or not ?

9. How to check details of a VG eg. rootvg ?

10. How to check space of particular directory ?

11. Do you know vi editor ?

12. What is default runlevel in AIX/Linux ?

13. What is default shell in AIX and Linux ?

14. what is PMR ?

15. How to see last 15 line of /etc/passwd file ?

16. How to see first 10 lines of /etc/shadow file ?

17. How to mount cdrom ?

18. How can we provide root authorization to normal user ?

19. What is fcs card ?

20. How to install APAR ?

21. How to check source of the disk ?

22. How to create a user ?

23. What are the backup tools(commands/utilities) for AIX/Linux

24. What is importance of below commands

-vmstat

-sar

-topas

-netstat

-iostat

25. perfpmr command

26. How to kill a running process ?

27. How to run a process in back ground ?

28. How to change a group of a file?

29. svmon command ?

30. How to list attributes of a user ?

31. What is daemon ?

32. How would be syntax in crontab file If you want to run a script on every monday 12 at night - How will you update the cron file

33. What are the p-searies servers you are familiar with ?

34. How to list crontab entries ?

35. Which file has crontab entries ?

36. What is structure of mksysb file ?

37. How to restore a single file from mksysb image ?

38. How to take mksysb backup ?

39. How to exclude a file or a directory during mksysb backup ?

40. How to configure NFS ?

41. What are the daemons of NFS , on client server and NFS server side ?

42. How to check exported filesystem on server side and client side ?

43. How to check no of copies of LV ?

44. User is not able to login - what are the possible reasons , and How will you resolve the issue ?

45. How to take backup of rootvg ?

46. What is rpm command ?

47. How to check top 10 process - which utilizing memory and CPU ?

48. What is lost+found ?

49. How to resolve a file system issue ?

50. How to check current system dump ?

51 what is snap gc command in AIX ?

52. How to check file permissions of a file ?

53. How to update TL in AIX ?

54. How to recover root password , if it is lost or forgotten ?

55. Which file contain pawword informations of the user ?

56. What 10 informations you can get with the help of #prtconf command ?

57. What is errpt comand in AIX ?

58. What is difference between Normal VG and Big VG ?

59. How to check hard disk size ?

60. what is use of oslevel s command ?

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