Solaris Interview Questions

Some Sola ris interv ie w questions: You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but
not other subnets. What is wrong? If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it, what could be the problem? If a user logs in to UNIX, it displays the desktop and then immediately logs you back out, what could be wrong? If you mistype a password, how do you clear it out to retype the password again. When would you want to reconfigure the kernel and how would you do it? Which is your favorite editor, shell, programming shell and why? Why should you never have '.' in root's path? If fsck is running, what is the one thing you shouldn't do? What are the 3 or 4 major flavors of UNIX and what are their SA tools? What kind of PC - UNIX connectivity programs are you familiar w ith? What are: UFS, NFS, SaMBa, LDAP, NIS, DNS, Veritas If you send an e-mail to someone and it comes back "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong. How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password? When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why? Someone pings a server from another location and gets a different result than if you ping the same server onsite. What is going on? You know the reason the server won't boot is because of ODS, but the root partition isn't on ODS. How do you go about fixing it? How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it "hot "? When the key is in the lock position on a Sun Enterprise server, can you do a Stop-A? Explain. What does "boot -a" do? What is uadmin and what does it do? What does "ypwhich servername" do? Why would you use it? If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them? Can you add HDD's to a Sun server and not have to do a reconfiguration reboot? Explain. You can receive e-mail, but can't send any. What is wrong? If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in? What makes NIS+ more secure than NIS? After displaying the banner page, it says: Clock TOD does not match TOD on any IO boards How do you go about fixing this and what is it telling you? What are the differences between Solaris 2.6 and lower and 7 and higher? How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command? What are the two settings you can change to make a system boot faster? What are the differences between Sun OS and Solaris? What do soft partitions buy you with Solaris Volume Manager? How can you set EEPROM settings from Solaris? Re: Solaris L1/L2 interview questions 1. How do you replace a failed boot disk under meta in solaris? Step by s tep explanation? 2. How do you remove meta only for the root slice? remaining slices should run under meta? 3. what you would do if you want to replace a slice using metareplace option? 4. what is the significance of 51% state database replicas in SVM? 5. what are the common errors you find in Solaris Volume manager? 6. You have a boot disk under svm, the machine fails to boot and remains in ok prompt? what could be the possible reason? 7. metastat -p shows a metavolume needs replacement. Metavolume is a single way mirror only. Actually you find disk and metavolumes are ok and I/O is happening to the filesystems how will you remove the metareplace message that comes out of metastat. 8. How to create a shared disk group in VxVM? 9. What is the difference between private and public regions in Veritas Volume manager? 10. what would you do if the private region of a particular disk group is full? What are the design considerations for the size of private region in Vxvm disk group? 11. How to replace a corrupt private region? in vxvm 3.5 and greater versions 12. How would you convert a volume from gen to fsgen? why should you do that? 13. How can you unencapsulate a boot disk in VxVM? 14. How to identify multiple paths for a disk. 15. What is the difference between Vxdmp and EMC powerpath? 16. vxdisk - o alldgs list o/p shows some disk groups in braces What does that signify? 17. what are the various layouts that are available in VxVM?
18.What is a layered volume? how to create it using vxmake? 19.How to quickly mirror a volume, if the volume is empty? 20. How to grow a volume? 21. What is the difference between failing and failed disks? 22. How to replace a failed disk in Veritas? 23. Plex is in a disabled state. How will you recover? what are the steps to follow? 24.what is the difference between detached and disassociate state of plexes? 25. Whats the boot process of VxVM? 26. Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your clients? why? 27.What are the various clusters you have worked on? 28. Which cluster is better VCS or Sun cluster? 29. Compare and contrast VCS and Sun Cluster. 30.how will you start VCS service? What are the configuration files in VCS? 31. How would switch a service group? 32. How would you freeze a service group ? 33. What is a Split brain scenario ?

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