1.what is an APAR ?

2.Is APAR is a tested fix?

2.How will you see installed patches on your machine?
3.How will you removed installed APAR
4.What is the process to install an APAR. Where do you get the APAR.
5.What is the Change Systems that you follow in your company while
installing software.
6.What is alt_disk_install?
7.What is Base Operating System ?
8.What types of installation methods.
9.What is PTF and how it differs from APAR ?
10.Have you heard about TCB. What it is ?
11.If you want to upgrade AIX 5.2 to AIX 5.3 What are the
requiredments?
12.What is ML and how it differs from APAR ?
13.When you install an APAkR does your AIX requires reboot ?
14.AIX System initialization process ?
15.How will you recover from non-responsive boot process?
16.What are the run levels you have in AIX ?
17.System data managed by the ODM includes?
18.ODM information is divided in three parts in order to support
diskless or dataless
systems. Give the names of these three directories?
19.what is the demon that is repsonsible for logging errors in you AIX
machine?. what is the path of that? What is the location of the errlog
file?
20.When intittab file willbe processed.
21.AIX boot process?
22.what OD Consists of ?
23.How will you make the device to difined State ?
How will you make the device to available state ?
How will you delete the device from customized database ?
24.How will you see the maintenance level of your sever ?
25.how do you fix the booting problem of your server ?
26.How will you check the bootlist of your server ?
27.How will you overwrite the boot record ?
27.Can you do the bos boot for the disk which is other than the rootvg?
28.How will you clear the boot record ?
29.What is RAID? What Raid Levels you have ?
30.How many minimum disks you should have to make raid5 ?
31.Incase you lost the disks in Raid5, How many Maximum disks lost can
be in RAID5 to get back the data ?
32.How will see you ipaddress details in your AIX machine ?
33.How will you check the interace detail such as FRU number Serial
number etc .,
35.How will you see the configuration of your server ?
36.How will you see the mac address of your interface ?
37.How will you check/change your interface speed ?
38.Where do you configure you dns server details in your AIX server ?
39.Waht is Major Number and minor number?