Behavioral Solaris General Interview Questions & Answers:

1. What is multi homed system?

A system having more than one network connection.

2. Explain the more details of vmstat output?

vmstat is tool used to check current memory utilisation
status.
it reports memory statistics of process,virtual memory,
disk,trap,and CPU activity.
Basic synctax is
vmstat <options> interval count
option include
paging -p , cache -c ,.interrupt -i
if no option specified then it will show info. about
process , memory , paging , disk ,interrupts & cpu
interval- is time between 2 successive output. it will
show / produce next ouput after specified time.
count- indicate how much ouput you want to see.

3. What is the difference between sc> and lom>?

SC is system console.lom is lights out manager.

If you want to go lom,press #. from sc.
lom is diagnostic tool.

4. What is the difference between svm and vxvm?

Re-Sizing is not possible in SVM.
Re-Sizing is possible in VXVM

SVM is platform dependent
VXVM is platform independent

5. How to discover Global zone name from local Zone?

from local zone you can cat /etc/global-zone-name to find
the gloabal zone name

6. How to set the path for core file?

# coreadm -e -f <path of core file>

7. How many types of file system?

There are 3 types of file system -

A] Disk based file system (pcfs, ufs, udfs, hsfc)
B] Distributed file system (nfs, autofs, cachefs)
C] Pseudo files system (virtual file system, memory based
file system, swapfs, procfs, mntfs, dev, & tmpfs)

8. How to mount the FLOPPY & CD-ROM?

for CD-ROM-default mount point is /cdrom/cdrom0, ro for
read only
#mount -F hsfs -o ro <dev name> <mount point>
example:
#mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /cdrom/cdrom0

for DVD-ROM-default mount point is /cdrom/cdrom0, ro for
read only
#mount -F udf -o ro <dev name> <mount point>
example:
#mount -F udf -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /cdrom/cdrom0

for floppy-device name is /dev/diskette0
#mount -f pcfs <dev name> <mount point>
example:
#mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette0 /dir1

9. In Solaris 10 nfs4 version is using ..in that any new daemons are available or not?

nfsd; statd; lockd; mountd; for server
and for clients are statd; and lockd

10. What are the run levels that are used in solaris10?

single-user
multi-user
multi-user-server
network
name-services
sysconfig
devices