Category Archives: Unix/Linux

Apache interview questions and answers

On a fresh install, why does Apache have three config files - srm.conf, access.conf and httpd.conf? - The first two are remnants from the NCSA times, and generally you should be ok if you delete the first two, and stick with httpd.conf.
What’s the command to stop Apache? - kill the specific process that httpd is [...]

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Topics for a Unix sysadmin interview

Job Scheduling; mainly crontab, at, batch command
Backup stetegy; incremental, full system back up; diff between tar & ufsdump
diff between hard link & softlink
How to list only the directories inside a directory (Ans. ls -l|grep "^d")
RAID levels; pros & cons of diffrent levels; what is RAID 1+0

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Oracle on Linux/Unix questions

How many memory layers are in the shared pool?
How do you find out from the RMAN catalog if a particular archive log has been backed-up?
How can you tell how much space is left on a given file system and how much space each of the file system’s subdirectories take-up?
Define the SGA and how you would [...]

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PHP interview questions and answers

What does a special set of tags <?= and ?> do in PHP? - The output is displayed directly to the browser.
What’s the difference between include and require? - It’s how they handle failures. If the file is not found by require(), it will cause a fatal error and halt the execution of the script. [...]

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OS interview questions

What is MUTEX ?
What isthe difference between a ‘thread’ and a ‘process’?
What is INODE?
Explain the working of Virtual Memory.
How does Windows NT supports Multitasking?

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Sysadmin interview questions

What is a level 0 backup?
What is an incremental backup?
What steps are required to perform a bare-metal recovery?
Name key files or directories on a UNIX system that should always be backed up.
Name key files or directories on a Windows system that should always be backed up.

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Network developer interview questions

What ports does FTP traffic travel over?
What ports does mail traffic utilize?
What ports do HTTP and HTTPS use?
Why is NTP required in an NFS network?

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MySQL and general database interview questions

What is MySQL?
What is Postgres?
What are the basic steps in setting up an Oracle system?
What is a stored procedure, and which databases support it?
What is RMAN?

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Network administrator interview questions

What is the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 in the OSI model?
What is the difference between a hub, switch, and router?
What is a VLAN?
What is the difference between TCP and UDP?

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Solaris interview questions

What does the pkgadd command do?
How do you create a solaris package?
How do you view shared memory statistics?
How do you get system diagnostics information?

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General UNIX interview questions

What are the main differences between Apache 1.x and 2.x?
What does the “route” command do?
What are the read/write/execute bits on a directory mean?
What does iostat do?

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Interview questions for Web developer position

What’s the difference between primary key and unique key?
The Perl script on the site is working slow. What’s your plan of attack?
Name several reasons why a Web site would not work entirely.

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