How to deal with AIX interview questions?
Hi guys Greetings from Howtoaix. I have listed the some set of interview questions below. Please prepare the answer before you gonna attend the interview. Please do share the answers if anyone wish to do it.
Note: will share the advance concept (VIO, NIM, LPAR,DLPAR,HMC) questions in near future.
1. How do
I know if my volume group is normal, big, or scalable?
2. How do
I create a volume group?
3. How can
I change the characteristics of a volume group?
4. How do
I create a logical volume?
5. How do
I increase the size of a logical volume?
6. How do
I display all logical volumes that are part of a volume group (e,g, rootvg)?
7. How do
I list information about logical volumes?
8. How can
I clone the rootvg?
9. How do
I replace a disk?
10. How do
I mirror a logical volume?
11. How
can I display or set values for network parameters?
12. How do
I get the IP address of my machine?
13. How do
I identify the network interfaces on my server?
14. How do
I activate a network interface?
15. How do
I display routing table, interface and protocol information?
16. How
will you create a file if a disk is given to you?
17.
Difference between JFS & JFS2?
18. How
will you find the inode number?
19. How
will you find LTG size?
20. How
will you change LTG size?
21. How
will you find whether a quorum is up or not?
22. How to
copy a LV from one VG to another?
23.
Mirroring concept?
24. How
will you unmirror a VG if a PV gets failed?
25. How
will you change a PP size?
26. T –
Factor?
27. What
is the default PP Size in AIX?
28. How
will you rename a VG?
29. What
is major number?
30. What
will you do if a disk gets failed?
31. How to
enable & disable quorum?
32. What
are the types of error?
33. What
are the error levels severity?
34. What
is the command to see the error log?
35. What
is the command to clear the errorlog?
36. What
is the command to increase the size of error log when it is ful?
37. What
is the command to start , stop, restart and list a demon?
38. When
does error demon start in boot process?
39. Which
file that error daemon stay?
40. Two
states of device availability and explain them?
41. How
will you check whether a device is installed or not?
42. How to
change a 64 bit kernel to 32 bit kernel?
43. How to
change a 32 bit kernel to 64 bit kernel?
44. How
many VGs can be created in a LVM?
45. Types
of VG & explain about them?
46. How to
convert a normal VG to big & scalable VG and also Big to Scalable VG?
47. What
is VGDA, VGSA?
48.
Default dump device?
49.
Default secondary dump device?
50. How
find a system dump?
51. Where
the file does the paging space stay?
52. How
will check whether a fix is installed or not?
53. What
are the two states of installation?
54. How
will you reject a committed fileset?
55. How
will you check whether service pack is installed or not?
56. What
is the latest OS level?
57. How
will you check whether software is installed or not?
58. How do
you find history of a file set?
59. How to
remove a failed package installation?
60. How do
remove the entries of the device in the odm?
61. What
are the types of ODM Database ?
62. ODM
Commands
63. Types
of Installation?
64. Where
does log files resides?
65. How to
unlock user account?
66. How to
lock a user’s account?
67. How do
u take backup of file systems?
68. How
will u restore a file from already take backup using backup?
69. How
will u append a file to a previous archive take by Tar?
70. What
command to take backup other vg’s?
71. What
command to restore backup of non – rootvg?
72. In
which files the installation errors stay?
73. What
are the Error Codes? 201, 221-229, 553, c31, 552,554,556
74. What
is the command to view boot log?
75. what
is the command to configure the devices?
76. what
is the command to list the bootlist?
77. what
is the command to change the boot list order?
78. what
are the fields in /etc/inittab file?
79. What
is the command to find out the kernel bit mode?
80. what
is the difference between mksysb and savevg backup?
81. what
is the command to confirm the mksysb backup is properly taken?
82. What
is the command to list/edit/remove the fields of cronjob?
83. what
file should allow and deny the cron entry?
84. what
command to list out the usage of the paging space?
85. what
command to increase/decrease/remove the paging space?
86. How to
enable and disable the paging space?
87. what
command to remove the installed software?
88. what
command is used to check whether the deamon is running or not?
89. what
is the command to start/stop/refresh the deamon?
90. what
are the areas are managed by ODM?
91. what
command is used to add the IP address?
92. What
is the command to bring down and bring up the network card?
93. what
is the command to create/remove/change the user account?
94. what
is the command to change the password?
95. How to
find out the current run level?
96. How to
find out the speed of the network adapter?
97. can we
able to copy the lv from one vg to another vg? How?
98. what
is the command to perform mirror and unmirror task?
99. How to
find out the broken filesets in aix?
100. How
to find out the FC card details in aix?
101. How
to list out the file with the number on all the lines?
102. How
to come to the last line in the vi editor?
103. what
is the use of R flag in the chmod command?
104. What
is mean by sticky bit and how do you find out?
105. How
to change the prompt in aix?
106. How
to list out last login and log out in aix?
107. How
to scan a particular device in aix?
108. what
is the output of bootinfo with the following options (l,K,r,s,b,p,M,T)?
109. How
to stop and start the error deamon?
110. How
to increase the size of errordeamon?
111. what
is the output of sysdumpdev with the following options (l,e,,Pp,Ps,p,s)?
112. which
file allow and deny the cron?
113. what
is the disadvantage of tar?
114. How
to take tar backup?
115. How
to take a snap shot in aix?
116. What
is the output location of snap? what is the name of the file?
117. what
is the purpose of lppchk command?
118. how
to change the hostname temporarily?
119. How
to change the hostname permanently?
120. What
are all the content of blv?
121. What
is the default kernal location?
122. How
to remove the filesystem info in /etc/filesystems?
123. How
do you list out the filesystems information in vg?
124. What
is the default priority in aix?
125. How
to stop and restart the processs?
126. How
to run a background process in to foreground? (Vice versa)
127. What
are the different directory abbreviation ( )
128. How
to move a directory?
129. How
to rename a file?
130. How
to obtain/monitor the lvm performance?
131. How
to find out the firmware level in aix>
132. How
to confirm the smt is enable or not in the system?
133. How
to list out the top ten users of paging space?
134. How
to list out the top ten users of real memory?
135. How
to find out the available processor in aix>
136. How
to check the system dump is completed successfully?
137. How
to list out the efix?
138. How
to list open files?
139. How
to compress a file in aix?
140. How
to find out the major number of the device?
141. How
to list out the mac address?
142. What
command needs to execute after editing /etc/inittab file?
143. what
is the zoombie or defunct process in aix?
144. Waht
is the purpose of errorlogger?
145. How
to find out the runlevel in aix?
146. How
to find out the file's general information? (What kind of file is this?)
147. what
is the purpose of inutoc?
148. what
is the purpose of savebase command in aix?
149. How
to find out the whether your are working in standalone server or logical
partition?
150. How
to list out the directories and sub-directories of the folder?
