Unix Administration Interview Questions - 1 | Snaprecruit.com

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Unix Administration interview questions part 1

Unix Administration interview questions part 1

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Total Questions: 20

1. Which command can give disk usage summary?

Correct Answer is : du

2. Following file contains the encrypted password of the users.

Correct Answer is : /etc/shadow

3. Choose the correct from below to search for lines beginning with the pattern using grep.

Correct Answer is : ^pattern

4. How can you execute ‘date’ command staying within vi editor?

Correct Answer is : :!date

5. Identify the command to remove a directory from directory stack.

Correct Answer is : popd

6. The system administrator is also known as _____

Correct Answer is : master and super user

7. Which of the following functionalities is carried by the root user?

Correct Answer is : managing disk space, performing backup, changing attributes of a file

8. What is the login name of system administrator?

Correct Answer is : root

9. What is the prompt for system administrator?

Correct Answer is : #

10. When we log in as root user we are placed in ____

Correct Answer is : /root

11. The PATH for superuser doesn’t include current directory.

Correct Answer is : TRUE

12. Which command is used for acquiring superuser status?

Correct Answer is : su

13. Which of the following is used for creating user’s environment?

Correct Answer is : su –

14. User’s environment mode created using su – is terminated using ____

Correct Answer is : ctrl-d

15. Which command is used by the system administrator to set the date of the system?

Correct Answer is : date

16. ____ command allows superuser to communicate with users.

Correct Answer is : wall

17. ____ command is used for setting limits on file size.

Correct Answer is : ulimit

18. The access to the use of at and batch is restricted and controlled by ___ and ____

Correct Answer is : at.allow, at.deny

19. If both at.allow and at.deny are not present, only the system administrator can access at and batch command.

Correct Answer is : TRUE

20. ____ command is used by the superuser for changing root’s password.

Correct Answer is : pswd

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