Linux Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Which Linux distros do you have experience with?

1 5083

Why have you choosen such a combination of products?

2 5091

Which distro you prefer? Why?

IBM,

3 8395

Which tool would you use to update Debian / Slackware / RedHat / Mandrake / SuSE ?

2 8253

What does ?route? command do?

IBM,

7 20388

Display the Disk Usage of file sizes under each directory in currentDirectory ?

8 15958

Set the Display automatically for the current new user ?

3 11169

How shared memory are accessed if we have two processors trying to acquire the same region.

NetApp,

3 17668

Why do we have serial and parallel interface, which one was faster and why and when we should go for this interface.

NetApp,

4 14882

Say we have three threads T1, T2 and T3 which perform sequentially one after another is their any benefit of using thread over here rather than having a single process.

NetApp,

11 22509

What is the use of thread over process?

NetApp,

11 29432

What are the signals we have in Linux

HCL, NetApp,

3 13288

what is segmentation fault?

AdTel, NetApp,

11 39368

what is bus trap.

NetApp,

1 10868

What is the use of proc structure?

NetApp,

2 13211

Un-Answered Questions { Linux }

Why is threading bad for you?

857

How you will create new folder / directories and how to remove file and folder in linux?

966

How to Choose a Socket Type?

1344

Does android studio run faster on linux?

931

How many types of dos commands are there?

1187

You wish to print a file ‘draft’ with 60 lines to a page. What command would you use?

1013

How many goroutines are in a thread?

851

How do I change directories in linux command line?

996

How to write the output of a command to a file?

1129

How does grep work in linux?

980

How do you list contents of tar.gz and extract only one file?

964

Are there viruses for linux?

861

What is the path of network (ethx) configuration files

1016

What linux hotkeys do you know?

986

What does mkdir mean in linux?

1183

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