Here are some Solaris interview questions you should be able to answer.
NOTE: All answers are left as an exercise to the reader.
- You can ping servers on the subnet your workstation is on, but not other subnets. What is wrong?
- If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it, what could be the problem?
- If a user logs in to UNIX, it displays the desktop and then immediately logs you back out, what could be wrong?
- If you mistype a password, how do you clear it out to retype the password again.
- When would you want to reconfigure the kernel and how would you do it?
- Which is your favorite editor, shell, programming shell and why?
- Why should you never have '.' in root's path?
- If fsck is running, what is the one thing you shouldn't do?
- What are the 3 or 4 major flavors of UNIX and what are their SA tools?
- What kind of PC - UNIX connectivity programs are you familiar with?
- What are: UFS, NFS, SaMBa, LDAP, NIS, DNS, Veritas
- If you send an e-mail to someone and it comes back "Message Undeliverable", what could be wrong.
- How do you give a user access to an application or program that needs to run as root without giving them the root password?
- When you "ping server" and "ping server.domainname", you get different results. Why?
- Someone pings a server from another location and gets a different result than if you ping the same server onsite. What is going on?
- You know the reason the server won't boot is because of ODS, but the root partition isn't on ODS. How do you go about fixing it?
- How would you truncate a log file that is growing too large if you don't have space to compress it or to move it somewhere else? How would you do it "hot"?
- When the key is in the lock position on a Sun Enterprise server, can you do a Stop-A? Explain.
- What does "boot -a" do?
- What is uadmin and what does it do?
- What does "ypwhich servername" do? Why would you use it?
- If you have multiple ethernet interfaces, how do you keep it from routing between them?
- Can you add HDD's to a Sun server and not have to do a reconfiguration reboot? Explain.
- You can receive e-mail, but can't send any. What is wrong?
- If you have forgotten the root password for a server, how do you get back in?
- What makes NIS+ more secure than NIS?
- After displaying the banner page, it says: Clock TOD does not match TOD on any IO boards
How do you go about fixing this and what is it telling you?
- What are the differences between Solaris 2.6 and lower and 7 and higher?
- How can you search for commands at the boot prompt if you only know part of the command?
- What are the two settings you can change to make a system boot faster?
- What are the differences between Sun OS and Solaris?
- What do soft partitions buy you with Solaris Volume Manager?
- How can you set EEPROM settings from Solaris?