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 ?