Basic Linux Interview Questions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A new article in this section (Linux Interview<\/strong>) will be posted on every weekend. The initiative taken by\u00a0Tecmint<\/strong>\u00a0is first of it\u2019s kind among other\u00a0Linux Dedicated<\/strong>\u00a0websites, along with quality and unique articles.<\/p>\n We will start with\u00a0Basic Linux Interview<\/strong>\u00a0Question<\/strong>\u00a0and will go advance article by article, for which your response is highly appreciated, which put us on a higher note.<\/p>\n The remaining Lines of code 1,972,615 is written in C++, Assembly, Perl, Shell Script, Python, Bash Script, HTML, awk, yacc, lex, sed, etc.<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>\u00a0: The Number of Lines of codes varies on daily basis and an average of more than 3,509 lines are being added to Kernel.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now. How much you learned for the above questions? How it helped you in your Interview? We would like to hear all these from you in our comment section. Wait till the next weekend, for new set of questions.<\/p>\n Continuing the\u00a0Interview Series<\/strong>, we are giving\u00a010 Questions<\/strong>\u00a0here, in this article. These questions and the questions in the future articles doesn\u2019t necessarily means they were asked in any interview. We are presenting you an interactive learning platform through these kind of posts, which surely will be helpful.<\/p>\n Basic Linux Interview Questions \u2013 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Upon the analysis of comments in different forums on last article\u00a011 Basic Linux Interview Questions<\/a>\u00a0of this series, it is important to mention here that to bring up a quality article to our readers. We give our time and money, and in return what we expect from you? Nothing. If you can\u2019t praise our work, please don\u2019t demoralize us from your negative comments.<\/p>\n If you find nothing new in a post, don\u2019t forget that for someone it was helpful, and for that he\/she was thankful. We can\u2019t make everyone happy in each of our article. Hope you readers would take pain to understand this.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s record the user\u2019s login session with script command as shown.<\/p>\n The content of log file \u2018my-session-record.txt\u2019 can be views as:<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now. I hope these above questions might be very helpful to you. In our next weekend we again come-up with some new set of questions.<\/p>\n Continuing the\u00a0Interview Questions<\/strong>\u00a0series, with a big thanks for the nice feedback on last two articles of this series, we are here presenting\u00a010 questions<\/strong>\u00a0again for interactive learning.<\/p>\n Linux Interview Questions Part \u2013 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Note<\/strong>:The above error message can be the result of ill configured\u00a0my.cnf<\/strong>\u00a0or mysql\u00a0user permission<\/strong>. If mysql service starting doesn\u2019t help, you need to see into the above said issues.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now. I will be writing on another useful topic soon.<\/p>\n Prior to This Article, three articles has already been published in \u2018Linux Interview<\/a>\u2018 Section and all of them were highly appreciated by our notable readers, however we were receiving feedback to make this interactive learning process, section-wise. From idea to action, we are providing you\u00a015 MySQL Interview Questions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"Basic](\"https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Basic-Interview-Questions.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nQ.1: What is the core of Linux Operating System?<\/h6>\n
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Q.2: What Linus Torvalds Created?<\/h6>\n
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Q.3: Torvalds, Wrote most of the Linux Kernel in C++ programming Language, do you agree?<\/h6>\n
Q.4: Linux initially was developed for intel X86 architecture but has been ported to other hardware platform than any other Operating System. Do you agree?.<\/h6>\n
Q.5: Is it legal to edit Linux Kernel?<\/h6>\n
Q.6: What is the basic difference between UNIX and Linux Operating System.<\/h6>\n
Q. 7: Choose the odd one out.<\/h6>\n
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Q.8: Is Linux Operating system Virus free?<\/h6>\n
Q.9: Linux is which kind of Operating System?<\/h6>\n
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Q.10: Syntax of any Linux command is:<\/h6>\n
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Q.11: Choose the odd one out.<\/h6>\n
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Basic Linux Interview Questions and Answers \u2013 Part II<\/h1>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nQ.1: Which command is used to record a user login session in a file?<\/h6>\n
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[root@tecmint ~]# script my-session-record.txt\r\n\r\nScript started, file is my-session-record.txt<\/pre>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# nano my-session-record.txt\r\n\r\nscript started on Friday 22 November 2013 08:19:01 PM IST\r\n[root@tecmint ~]# ls\r\n^[[0m^[[01;34mBinary^[[0m ^[[01;34mDocuments^[[0m ^[[01;34mMusic^[[0m $\r\n^[[01;34mDesktop^[[0m ^[[01;34mDownloads^[[0m my-session-record.txt ^[[01;34$<\/pre>\n
Q.2: The kernel log message can be viewed using which of the following command?<\/h6>\n
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[root@tecmint ~]# dmesg\r\n\r\nInitializing cgroup subsys cpuset\r\nInitializing cgroup subsys cpu\r\nLinux version 2.6.32-279.el6.i686 (mockbuild@c6b9.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 10:59:55 UTC 2012\r\nKERNEL supported cpus:\r\n Intel GenuineIntel\r\n AMD AuthenticAMD\r\n NSC Geode by NSC\r\n Cyrix CyrixInstead\r\n Centaur CentaurHauls\r\n Transmeta GenuineTMx86\r\n Transmeta TransmetaCPU\r\n UMC UMC UMC UMC\r\nDisabled fast string operations\r\nBIOS-provided physical RAM map:\r\n...<\/pre>\n
Q.3: Which command is used to display the release of Linux Kernel?<\/h6>\n
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[root@tecmint ~]# uname -r\r\n\r\n2.6.32-279.el6.i686<\/pre>\n
Q.4: Which command is used to identify the types of file?<\/h6>\n
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[root@tecmint ~]# file wtop\r\n\r\nwtop: POSIX shell script text executable<\/pre>\n
Q.5: Which command locate the binary, source and man page of a command?<\/h6>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# whereis \/usr\/bin\/ftp\r\n\r\nftp: \/usr\/bin\/ftp \/usr\/share\/man\/man1\/ftp.1.gz<\/pre>\n
Q.6: When a user login, which files are called for user profile, by default??<\/h6>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# ls -al\r\n-rw-r--r--. 1 tecmint tecmint 176 May 11 2012 .bash_profile\r\n-rw-r--r--. 1 tecmint tecmint 124 May 11 2012 .bashrc<\/pre>\n
Q.7: The \u2018resolv.conf\u2019 file is a configuration file for?<\/h6>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# cat \/etc\/resolv.conf\r\n\r\nnameserver 172.16.16.94<\/pre>\n
Q.8: Which command is used to create soft link of a file?<\/h6>\n
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[root@tecmint ~]# ln -s \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf httpd.original.conf<\/pre>\n
Q.9: The command \u2018pwd\u2019 is an alias of command \u2018passwd\u2019 in Linux?<\/h6>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# pwd\r\n\r\n\/home\/tecmint<\/pre>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# passwd\r\nChanging password for user root.\r\nNew password:\r\nRetype new password:<\/pre>\n
Q.10: How will you check pci devices vendor and version on a Linux?<\/h6>\n
[root@tecmint ~]# lspci\r\n\r\n00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev b1)\r\n00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 2-3 (rev b1)\r\n00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 4-5 (rev b1)\r\n00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 6-7 (rev b1)\r\n00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine (rev b1)\r\n...<\/pre>\n
10 Linux Interview Questions and Answers for Linux Beginners \u2013 Part 3<\/h1>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n1. How will you add a new user (say, tux) to your system.?<\/h6>\n
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2. How many primary partition is possible on one drive?<\/h6>\n
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3. The default port for Apache\/Http is?<\/h6>\n
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4. What does GNU stand for?<\/h6>\n
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5. You typed at shell prompt \u201cmysql\u201d and what you got in return was \u201ccan\u2019t connect to local MySQL server through socket \u2018\/var\/mysql\/mysql.sock\u2019\u201d, what would you check first.<\/h6>\n
6. How to Mount a windows ntfs partition on Linux?<\/h6>\n
7. From the following which is not an RPM based OS.?<\/h6>\n
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8. Which command can be used to rename a file in Linux.?<\/h6>\n
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9. Which command is used to create and display file in Linux?<\/h6>\n
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10. What layer protocol is responsible for user and the application program support such as passwords, resource sharing, file transfer and network management?<\/h6>\n
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15 Basic MySQL Interview Questions for Database Administrators<\/h1>\n