System Administration Self Evaluation Test [ Sun Solaris 1 ]


Instructions
This self evaluation test is designed for junior to mid-level Solaris sysadmin. There are 20 multiple choice questions to be answered. Please read all the choices before clicking on the right one. If a question has more than one right choices then you have to click better of those. Also you must attempt all the questions before clicking on "Test" button at the bottom of the page.

Q 1 Which one of the following statements is FALSE with regards to Solaris operating environment?
   Solaris 8 is the latest release of Solaris 2.x    SunOS 5.7 is same as Solaris 7 operating system
   Solaris 1 is the earliest SVR4 based release by Sun    SunOS 4.1.x is retroactively named as Solaris 1
 
Q 2 Which of the following statements is FALSE with regards to Sun SPARC CPU architecture?
   Current generation of Sun systems are based on HyperSPARC processor    UltraSPARC CPU is the implementation of 64-bit V9 architecture
   The E10000 (Starfire) is the largest of UltraSPARC based servers    The UltraSPARC systems use UPA switch or Gigaplane interconnects instead of VME or Mbus
 
Q 3 How do you modify the kernel tunable parameters on a Solaris 2 system?
   Add them to param.c and conf.c and recompile the kernel    Add them to S99kernel file under /etc/rc3.d directory
   Add them to /etc/system file and reboot the system    Add then to /etc/profile file and reboot the system
 
Q 4 How do you enable telnet/rlogin for root login on a newly installed Solaris system?
   Add 'CONSOLE=/dev/tty' entry under /etc/default/login file    Creat /.rhosts file and add remote system name or IP address
   Comment out CONSOLE entry under /etc/default/login file    Add remote server to the /etc/hosts file
 
Q 5 Which of the following files need to be modified in order to add NFS filesystem on your system?
   /etc/dfs/dfstab    /etc/vfstab
   /etc/exports    /etc/fstab
 
Q 6 Which one of the following statements is FALSE with regards to Service Access Facility (SAF)?
   The Service Access Controller daemon controls ttymon port monitor    Serial line communication is handled by getty and login programs
   The listen port monitor connects incoming print jobs to lp facility    The SAC daemon is started by /etc/inittab entry
 
Q 7 What information is stored in /etc/path_to_inst file?
   The directory path pointing to Solaris installation program    The mapping between physical devices and logical devices
   The directory path pointing to device driver configuration    The mapping between hardware probed and device drivers configured
 
Q 8 Which of the following statements is TRUE with regards to Solaris System Adminitration commands?
   prtconf returns information about printer configuration    /usr/platform/`arch -k`/sbin/prtdiag outputs system configuration
   showrev displays Open Boot PROM version    mpstat is the command to display process information
 
Q 9 What must to be done in order to recognize a newly plugged SCSI disk on already booted system?
   Simply run the format command    Must be booted with boot -r command
   Run fsck command    Run drvconfig; devlinks; disks command
 
Q 10 Which of the following files does not need any modifications with hostname change?
   /etc/resolv.conf    /etc/nodename
   /etc/hostname.{network interface}    /etc/hosts
 
Q 11 Which of the following statements with regards to Solaris networking is FALSE?
   /etc/hostname.hme0:1 is the virtual interface    'hosts: files nis' line in /etc/resolv.conf means DNS is not used
   'ndd -set' command can be used to force full-duplex ethernet adapter    Valid resolv.conf file tells resolver to use DNS
 
Q 12 Which one of the following statements is FALSE with regards to maxusers tuning parameter?
   Its the maximum number of users allowed on a system    Default maxusers is equal to RAM in MB with upper limit of 2048
   Its used in calculating maximum number of processes per user    Its used in calculating the amount of Name lookup cache (ncsize)
 
Q 13 Which one of the following command does not show existing kernel patch revision?
   uname -a    showrev
   cat /etc/issue    prtconf
 
Q 14 Which of the following command is used to uninstall an application package?
   pkgadd -d    pkgrm
   pkgchk    pkginfo -l
 
Q 15 Which one of the following statements is FALSE with regards to Veritas File System (VxFS)?
   VxFS being extent based filesystem performs better with large files    VxFS provides snapshot backup feature
   VxFS breaks a file into 8K blocks and 8K indirect blocks    VxFS is a journaling filesystem and has shorter fsck time
 
Q 16 What is vold daemon?
   Its the veritas volume manager configuration daemon    Its the volume management daemon which manages floppies and CDs
   Its used by NFS automounter to manage network filesystems    Its the Sun Online DiskSuite daemon
 
Q 17 What is the purpose of scripts in /etc/rc0.d directory that start with letter "K"?
   Those are the shutdown scripts which execute with halt command    Those scripts are executed during system startup
   Those are the shutdown scripts executed with shutdown command    Those scripts are executed when system enters single user mode
 
Q 18 Which of the following statements is FALSE with regards to 64 bit Solaris?
   The file 'sparcv9/unix' is the standard 32 bit kernel    The command 'isainfo -kv' tells whether 32 or 64 bit kernel is running
   By default 64 bit kernel is loaded by boot loader if installed    Solaris started supporting 64 bit applications since release 7
 
Q 19 Which one of the following is not the part of standard Solaris operating environment?
   C language compiler    X11R6, CDE and Motif GUI
   Multithreading    Access Control Lists (ACL)
 
Q 20 What is the best course of action if /etc/system file is corrupted or deleted accidently?
   Reboot the system with 'boot disk' command    Reinstall the operating system as recovery is impossible
   Boot the system with 'boot -t' command    Boot the system with 'boot -as' command