232 Exam Questions

1. how you can idetifles lv and free and used pp

lspv –p PVname

2. what command shows configured device configuration

lsdev –CH
3. you adding tape device and m/c power on which command show your configured
device
lsdev –Cc tape
4. which command change user characterisitcs
chuser
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5.your systems perfomance down, u find out cpu bottel neck which command shows cpu
resoures pocesses
Ans: ps aux

6. you want mirred one vg which command done quorum off

Ans: chvg –Qn vgname

7. you have /test file system, you want unmount file system /test but not unmount which
command shows how much process on this file systems
Ans: fuser

8. u wnt your lapr m/c configure which primary require .

Ans: hmc

9. U want install mksysb on client through nim which component requre.

Ans: lppsource, SPOT and mksysb

10. How you identfy your oslevel

Ans: oslevel

11. your system is working ok, but when u restart the system your led show 554 what to do
frist.
Ans: Reboot in Maintenance mode, Access the rootvg before mounting rootvg, then run fsck

12. you have 5.1 mksysb backup. You want to install in another systems which component
require for install mksysb .
Ans:Boot through CDROM

13. You have 5.1 os on your machine u want to upgrade 5.2 which is the fastest method to
revert back
Ans: alt_disk_install

14. you want to upgrade os 5.1 to 5.2 and u want to your old user,lv and all ,which process save
your existing user and user lv

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Ans: Migration installation

15. you have 4mm backup on tape ,and your system have 8 mm tape one more system have
4mm and 8mm tape what command convert 4mm tape in to 8 mm tape
Ans: tcopy

16. you mirrord hdisk0 and hdisk1 hard disk if you want test if your harddisk 0 fail mc boot
from hdisk1.

a) bootlist -mo normal hdisk1

b) bootlist - m normal hdisk0 hdisk1
c) bosboot - ad hdisk1

Ans: b)

17. you install new ethernet card and system reboot while booting you see your ethernet card
was not configured which log file shows error.
Ans: alog –t boot -o

18. you create one filesystem / test and also create one log lv /log00 but when you mount your
test filesystem not mount ,test file system logvolume is /log00 which command use for
mounting a file system /test.
Ans: logform

19 You have rootvg and datavg volume group u want t take backup of datavg which command
use for backup datavg.
Ans: savevg

20. You have 32 bit enable kernal, if you want to run your 64 bit application on machine which
proc. use enable your 64bit kernal.
Ans: ln –sf /usr/lib/boot/unix _64 /unix
Ln –sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /usr/lib/boot/unix
Bosboot –ad /dev/ipldsvice
Shutdown –r

21.You create one user and u want give rights to manage user which group given to that user
for manage other user
Ans: Security

22. your login count finished which command use for counting given again.
Ans: chsec

23. How to start tcpip sub system?

Ans: startsrc –g tcpip

24. How to verify/show the maintenance level?

Ans: oslevel -r
25. How to set the file permission mode to a file in oder to give read, write for user and groups
and read and execute for others?
Ans: chmod u=rw, g=rw, o=rx filename or chmod 665 filename

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26. What containes the proc directory?
Ans: Binary value of processes / current state of kernel

27. How will you list the mounted filesystem?

Ans: mount

28. How will you configure network interface?

Ans: ifconfig

29. How will remove a job fromt the print queue?

Ans: qcan -#, enq –x #, lprm #, cancel #

30. What is the command list the installed device information?

Ans: lsdev –C

31.How to rename existing vg? What is the procudure?

Ans: varyoffvg vgname
Exportvg vgname
Importvg –y newvgname hdiskn

32. What is the default installation of 64-bit architecture?

Ans: It will install both 32 and 64 bit kernel with 64 bit kernel enabled

33. How will you increase the size of a file systems?

Ans: chfs –a size=+2 /tmp

34. where will the time keeping information stored?

Ans: /etc/environment

35. How will list mounted files sytems accross the disks?
Ans: mount

36. Which command will you check the system errlog file?
Ans: errpt –a

37. Where will be the ODM stored?

Ans: /etc/objrepos , /usr/lib/objrepos , /usr/share/lib/objrepos

38. Which command will show the CPU status?

Ans: sar (cpu usage : sar –u)

39. An owner of a pSeries 680 would like to install AIX 5L and use JFS2 for the rootvg file
systems. Which of the following methods are available to perform this task?
ANS: Select the Enable 64-bit Kernel and JFS2 advanced install option at installation time.
40. How to exclude a file while taking mksys backup?
Ans: add entry of files in /etc/exclude.rootvg which are to be exclude and use –e option with
mksysb command

41. How to list all the PCI slots in a systems?

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 Ans: lsslot -c pci –a

42. A system administrator wishes to determine if a newly configured tape drive is correctly
added to the ODM database. Which command would the administrator use?
ANS: odmget

43. for write consistency state which RAID level is to be used?

Ans: RAID –0

44. How to copy lv's from the failed disk? Assume that the hdisk is failed.
Ans: cplv –-v myvg –-y newlv oldlv

45.How to increase the size of the logical volume?

Ans: chlv and extendlv lvname no.ofpps

46. How to start resource monitoring control

Ans: rmcctrl –s , while booting inittab

47. How to save kernel changes

Ans: /etc/tunables/nextboot

48. How to list process signal handlers

Ans: pstart or sigaction

49. How to change a default printer for a user

Ans: LPDEST and smitty qdefault

50. Oc31 error , what to check

Ans: Display

51. How to list errors while taking backup

Ans:

52. How to check the tape backup is taken in backup foramt

Ans: restore

53. Difference between mklv + fs and crjfs

Ans: Placement of LV

54. How to check if a cdrom is bootable

Ans: bosinfo -B

55.A user is not able to cd to the /tmp/application dir what could be the problem
drw_r__r__ 4 root system /tmp/application.
Ans. Executable rights to the dir are not their.

56.How to restore a mksysb to a different system

Ans: restore

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57.In which file u will start miscellaneous applications during system boot.
Ans: rc.local

58.Where to see console errors came during booting.

Ans: alog –t boot –o

59.How to check that software is loaded for a device.

Ans: lscfg or cfgmgr

60.A Logical vol is increased and how to know how many blocks to be added to increase the
FS.
Ans: lslv lvname

61.Which file will show kernel parameter changes done during last reboot.
Ans. /etc/tunables/lastboot

62.How to enable processor multithreading.

Ans: bosdebug –H on and Reboot

63.System is switching betwn 223-229 how to solve this problem

Ans: Invalid Boot list
Access rootvg in maintenance mode, lslv –m hd5, bosboot –a –d /dev/hdiskn and restart
the system

64.To verify that all filesets have all required requisites and are completely
installed.
Ans: lppchk –v

65. How to copy packages from cd to working directory

Ans: bffcreate

66. How to enable striping on the LV

Ans: chlv –e

67. In iostat report how you will know that the System is i/o bound
Ans: %iowait > 25% or %tm_act > 70%

68. How to set system to automatically reboot after a crash

Ans: smit chgsys OR chdev –l sys0 –a autostart=true

69: How to lists specific hardware information e.g. EC level,FRUno. Port no.
Ans: lscfg -v

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70. How to see the information about all of the PVs within the Volume group
Ans: lsvg –p rootvg ( for logical volumes information use –l)

71.command to listing all LVs by volume group

Ans: lsvg –o | lsvg –i –l

72. Give the command used to redistribute the PPs of the LVs in Volume group according to
their preferred allocation ploicies
Ans: reorgvg vgname OR reorgvg vgname lvname1 lvname 2..
73: Command to list all the LVs on a PV including number of LPs, PPs and distribution on
the disk
Ans: lspv –l hdiskn

74.Command to list all the LVs on a disk and the PP to which its LPs are mapped .It is listed in
PP order and shows what partitions are free and which are used, as well as the location.
Ans: lspv –p hdiskn

75. Command to move the contents of the Physical Volume OR to move LVs from one PV to
another
Ans: migratepv –l lvname sourcehdiskn targethdiskn

76. After making changes in /etc/tunables/nextboot, what is the next step to save it?
Ans: savetune

77. Where will be the freewares like zip, gunip etc will reside. (It was asking for path)
Ans. Please check it might be /opt/freeware

78. shell 1
VAR1=’dog’
VAR2=’cat’
Export VAR1
Export VAR2

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 VAR1=’mouse’

Shell2
#!usr/bin/ksh
VAR2=’fish’
Print $VAR1 & $VAR2“
What is the result
Ans: fish mouse

79. Where you will enter the scripts to be run at the boot time
Ans: rc.boot

80.How you will do the entry in /etc/inittab

Ans: mkitab

81.What is meant by filter in printing

Ans: Taking data from standard input processing and to give result in standard output

82. There are 5 harddisks of 80GB and data is 300 GB, How you will provide fault tolerance as
well as data storage.
Ans: RAID-5

83.What is different Operating system can be installed in LPAR

Ans: linux

84. How to set default printer for user

Ans: export PRINTER=PRINTER_B in users $HOME/.profile file
85. You have taken mksysb backup on rspc machine and you have to do migration installation
on chpc machine what else is required.
Ans: AIX installable media