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    Linux Administration Interview Questions

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    This document contains a list of 21 Linux administration interview questions covering topics such as: listing and viewing hidden files; running commands in the background; setting default file permissions; directory permissions; the difference between soft and hard links; displaying disk space usage; monitoring tools like iostat, vmstat, and netstat; using vi to search and replace; Linux kernel parameters that affect Oracle installations; installing Oracle software; Linux distributions the interviewee has experience with; partitioning schemes; and common Linux directories and their purposes.

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    This document contains a list of 21 Linux administration interview questions covering topics such as: listing and viewing hidden files; running commands in the background; setting default file permissions; directory permissions; the difference between soft and hard links; displaying disk space usage; monitoring tools like iostat, vmstat, and netstat; using vi to search and replace; Linux kernel parameters that affect Oracle installations; installing Oracle software; Linux distributions the interviewee has experience with; partitioning schemes; and common Linux directories and their purposes.

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    This document contains a list of 21 Linux administration interview questions covering topics such as: listing and viewing hidden files; running commands in the background; setting default file permissions; directory permissions; the difference between soft and hard links; displaying disk space usage; monitoring tools like iostat, vmstat, and netstat; using vi to search and replace; Linux kernel parameters that affect Oracle installations; installing Oracle software; Linux distributions the interviewee has experience with; partitioning schemes; and common Linux directories and their purposes.

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    Linux administration interview questions

    Linux administration interview questions


    1. How do you list the files in an UNIX directory while also showing hidden files? ls -ltra
    2. How do you execute a UNIX command in the background? Use the &.
    3. What UNIX command will control the default file permissions when files are created?
    umask
    4. Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX directory. Read allows you to
    see and list the directory contents.
    5. Write allows you to create, edit and delete files and subdirectories in the directory. Execute
    gives you the permissions to run programs or shells from the directory.
    6. What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link? A symbolic (soft) linked file and
    the targeted file can be located on the same or different file system while for a hard link they
    must be located on the same file system.
    7. Give the command to display space usage on the UNIX file system. df -lk
    8. Explain iostat, vmstat and netstat. iostat reports on terminal, disk and tape I/O activity.
    vmstat reports on virtual memory statistics for processes, disk, tape and CPU activity. netstat
    reports on the contents of network data structures.
    9. How would you change all occurrences of a value using VI? %s/(old value)/(new value)/g
    10. Give two UNIX kernel parameters that effect an Oracle install. SHMMAX & SHMMNI
    11. Briefly, how do you install Oracle software on UNIX? Basically, set up disks, kernel
    parameters, and run orainst.

    12. Which Linux distros do you have experience with?


    13. Which distro you prefer? Why?
    14. Which tool would you use to update Debian / Slackware / RedHat / Mandrake / SuSE ?
    15. Youre asked to write an Apache module. What would you do?
    16. Which tool do you prefer for Apache log reports?
    17. Your portfolio. (even a PHP guest book may work well)
    18. What does route command do?
    19. Differences between ipchains and iptables.
    20. Whats eth0, ppp0, wlan0, ttyS0, etc.
    21. What are different directories in / for?
    22. Partitioning scheme for new webserver. Why?

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