Solaris Developer Center Weekly Quiz

2007

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October  
 
Which Solaris technology gives a Solaris admin more fine-grained access control than sudo?  
 
Which technology of (Open)Solaris would you use to run a Linux binary in Solaris?  
 
September  
 
What is the term used to describe the latest security behaviour added to (Open)Solaris network services?  
 
What is the overhead of running zones on your systems (approx)?  
 
What are the non-global different type of Zones supported on Solaris?  
 
August  
 
Which was the first Solaris 10 component to be publicly released under the open source CDDL license?  
 
For which security level is Solaris under evaluation?  
 
Which Sun superstar worked on/authored the BSD project at Berkeley?  
 
July  
 
Expand DDI.  
 
Why does du(1) provide different output on UFS and ZFS?  
 
Where are the service logs located?  
 
June  
 
How can you take a snapshot of a process in execution non-destructively?  
 
What does this one liner do?
#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -wqs proc:::signal-send { printf("%d was sent to %s by ", args[2], args[1]->pr_fname); system("getent passwd %d | cut -d: -f5", uid); }  
 
In what ways can you collect data from target code using Sun Studio?  
 
May  
 
What is the equivalent of STOP-A for Solaris x86?  
 
Can I trace global kernel variables using dtrace?  
 
What is the maximum number of probes that you can create with DTrace?  
 
Which of the following standard C library APIs is not locale sensitive?  
 
April  
 
Which utility lists the dynamic dependencies of executable files or shared objects?  
 
Which of the following commands is used to see a process's memory map?  
 
Which one is a Solaris debugging tool?  
 
Is the binary code compiled by GCC compatible with code compiled with Sun Studio compilers?  
 
March  
 
How many C++ compiler options are available in Sun Studio 11?  
 
Which of the following is an XML reference file?  
 
Which of the following provides a means of creating virtualized operating system environments within an instance of Solaris?  
 
Which of the following is true about a manifest?  
 
February  
 
Prior to Solaris10 and DTrace, ________ was the widely used tool for tracing system calls, library calls etc.  
 
Which of the following is the master restarter in the service framework?  
 
Can you upgrade to Solaris 10 from Solaris 2.6 using the Solaris 10 image?  
 
What is the term for an easily transportable version of the Solaris operating system that can be used for the rapid installation of Solaris on a large number of machines?  
 
January  
 
Which of the following could be useful in finding memory leaks?  
 
Milestone in SMF is similar to ________ in UNIX.  
 
What does GRUB stand for?  
 
What are the main advantages of Live Upgrade over standard upgrade?  
 
Which version was the first 64-bit version of Solaris?  
 

2006

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December  
 
What command allows you to add entries to the syslog from the command line?  
 
What tool can be used to find out the dependent libraries of a process at run-time?  
 
November  
 
Which language does "D" resemble the most?  
 
Dtrace doesn't support control flow statements. How do I work around it?  
 
Which command is a debugging tool?  
 
Which of the following provides a means of creating virtualized operating system environments within an instance of Solaris?  
 
It is possible to run an unmodified _________ binary on Solaris10?  
 
October  
 
Which one of the following is not a process management tool?  
 
Solaris can be installed on which of the following systems?