Solaris interview questions and asnwers -extended 2

1 www.unix4you.com:/      what is difference between solaris single user mode and multi user mode ?
      2 www.unix4you.com:/      What file controls system wide password aging?
      3 www.unix4you.com:/      How will you add a virtual IP address to a server in Solaris. Given the interface qe0 and IP 10.10.1.150                    
      4 www.unix4you.com:/      What are the different phases in boot process  
      5 www.unix4you.com:/      How do you check the cron jobs of other users, (as a super user)
      6 www.unix4you.com:/      How to find 32 or 64 bit system instances of OS?
      7 www.unix4you.com:/      How can we find RAM size in solaris server ?
      8 www.unix4you.com:/      Explain about the command prof_attr?
      9 www.unix4you.com:/      What file do you put the umask setting in?     
     10 www.unix4you.com:/      what is the command to check the status of the storedges from the server machine?      
     11 www.unix4you.com:/      When user login into solaris 8 it is repeatedly asking for username and password. What could be the reason an        d what files has to be checked to fix this and which log file we have to refer to know more details about the problem.
     12 www.unix4you.com:/      How many different kill signals are there?
     13 www.unix4you.com:/      What is after the VTOC on the root filesystem?
     14 www.unix4you.com:/      Which obp command has a premenent allais?      
     15 www.unix4you.com:/      What is the difference between a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all?
     16 www.unix4you.com:/      How do you check the cron jobs of other users, (as a super user)
     17 www.unix4you.com:/      How to install win xp after installing solaris for dual booting.....
     18 www.unix4you.com:/      Partition sizes can be set manually or from what configuration?
     19 www.unix4you.com:/      Explain about umask?
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Solaris interview questions and asnwers

1. What does the pkgadd command do?
2. How do you create a solaris package?
3. How do you view shared memory statistics?
4. How do you get system diagnostics information?
5. What is OBP and how do you access it?
6. What is LOM and how do you access it?
7. What is VTS?
8. What is an alternative to the “top” command on Solaris?
9. What is /etc/system for?
10. What does ndd do?
11. What does init 5 do?
12. What does init 0 do?
13. How do you boot from CD-ROM?
14. What is jumpstart?
15. How do you boot from a Network with jumpstart?
16. What is JASS?
17. What is the difference between NFS version 2 and NFS version 3?
18. What is RPC? Why do I need it?
19. Are kernel parameters tunable during runtime?
20. What does fmthard do?

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