Linux Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers & Experienced

Here is a listing of Linux / Unix Technical Interview Questions & Answers for experienced IT professionals as well as fresh engineering graduates. These questions can be attempted by anyone focusing on Linux Development and Systems programming.

1. Which is true regarding pipes?
a) half duplex
b) full duplex
c) message boundaries are preserved
d) unordered data
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

2. The persistancy of a FIFO is
a) process
b) kernel
c) file system
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.

3. Advantage of FIFO over pipe is
a) related processes can communicate
b) unrelated processes can communicate
c) all of the mentioned
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.

4. What mkfifo() creats?
a) pipe
b) unnamed pipe
c) named pipe
d) msg queue
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.

5. System V IPC common attributes are
a) key
b) id
c) owner
d) all of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: None.

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6. Which one of the following is not system V IPC ?
a) Shared Memory
b) Semaphores
c) FIFO
d) Message Queues
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.

7. Which system call is used to create Sys V message Queue.
a) msgget
b) shemget
c) semget
d) msgctl
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.

8. Which is not the correct option for removing a message queue
a) ipcrm -Q
b) ipcrm -q
c) ipcrm -m
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.

9. Message queues are created in
a) userspace
b) kernelspace
c) userspace & kernelspace
d) none of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.

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