1) Root password has been misplaced.How do you change the root password 2) On a prod system, memory if found to be insufficient and the vendor is delaying the ram shipment.How will you temporarily resolve the issue A: Increase swap space 3) How do you increase the swap space. 4) A disk mount which is used by a running application is found to be corrupt.What are the steps taken to fix it? A: Find the open processes using fuser and the take appropriate actions like unmount , fsck , mount etc. 5) What is the logic to configure a process to run on the last date of every month? 6) Some users of a domain are complaining that they are not receiving email from a particular domain.What steps will you take to identify the issue. A: Identity mx record.check port connectivity to port 25, check mail server logs etc 7) What are the common mail failure errors you encounter? 8) Enumerate the steps required for remote installation of Red HAT on a group of servers which do not have a local media device. 9) How do you mount an NFS mount? 10) Have you worked on vmware? 11) How would you tune an Apache server.What parameters would you tweak? 12) A new software refuses to start and lists some libraries which it could not find.All the libs are in the rite place and have proper permissions.What env variable needs to be fixed? 13) what is the most secure way of sharing files? 14) What are the types of ftp? 15 Have you set up an FTP server? 16) How do you identify if a server is virtual or physical? A:http://serverfault.com/questions/65718/vmware-linux-server-how-can-you-tell-if-you-are-a-vm-or-real-hardware 17) Steps to request and install CSR on apache 18) What is initrd? 1) What does load average signify ? 2) What implementation of NFS was used at your organisation? A: Netapp 3) How would you troubleshoot/recover a heavily loaded server? 4) What tools did you use to monitor system resourses? 5) Have you ever written custom monitor scripts for Nagios? 6) How would you declare a variable and use it in bash? 7) What was you apache tomcat setup like? What did you use to connect Apache to Tomcat?