Oracle ADF Questions

Q : What is Oracle ADF?
A : Oracle ADF is an commercial java/j2ee framework, which is used to build enterprise applications.
It is one of the most comprehensive and advanced framework in market for J2EE

Q : What are the advantages of using ADF?
A : Following are the advantages of using :

• It supports Rapid Application Development.
• It is based on MVC architecture
• Declarative Approach (XML Driven)
• Secure
• Reduces maintenance cost and time
• SOA Enabled

Q : What are various components in ADF?
A : Oracle ADF has following components

• ADF Business Components(Model)
• ADF Faces (View)
• ADF Taskflows(Controller)

Q : What is the return type of Service Methods?
A : Service Methods can return Scalar or Primitive Data types.

Q : Can Service Methods return type Void?
A : Yes, Service Methods can Return type Void

Q : Can Service Methods return Complex Data types?
A : No, service methods can return only primitive/scalar data types.

Q : Which component in ADF BC manages transaction ?
A : Application Module, manages transaction.

Q : Can an entity object be based on two Database Objects(tables/views) or two Webservices ?
A : No entity objects will always have one to one relationship with a database object or web service.

Q : Where is that we write business rules/validations in ADF and why?
A : We should be writing validations at Entity Object level, because they provide highest degree of reuse.

Q : What is Managed Bean?
A : Managed bean is a java class, which is initialized by JSF framework. It is primarily used to hold view and controller logic. It is also used to execute java code to be executed on a user action like Button Click.

Q : What are Backing Bean?
A : Backing beans are those managed beans which have 1:1 mapping with a page. They have getters and setters
for all the components in the related page.

Q : What is difference between managed and backing beans?
A : Backing bean has 1:1 relation with page whereas managed beans can be used in multiple pages.
Backing beans scope is limited to the page whereas managed beans can have other scopes too.

Q : What is a Taskflow?
A : Taskflow is the controller of an ADF application, it provides us an declarative approach to define the control flow.  It is used to define the navigation between pages and various taskflow activites.

Q : What are the different types/categories of Taskflows ?
A :  Taskflows are of two categories : Bounded and UnBounded.

Q : What is the difference between Bounded and UnBounded taskflows?
A : Differences between Bounded and UnBounded taskflows :

• Bounded taskflows can be secured but Unbounded can't.
• Bounded taskflows can accept parameter and return values but unbounded taskflows don't support parameters
• Bounded taskflows has a single entry point or a default activity but unbounded taskflows have multiple entry points.
• Bounded taskflows can be called from other bounded/unbounded taskflows but unbounded cannot be called or reused.
• Bounded taskflows support transactions unbounded don't

Q : What are the various access scopes supported by ADF?
A : ADF Faces supports the following scopes

• Application Scope
• Session Scope
• PageFlow Scope
• Request Scope
• BackingBean Scope.

Q : Describe life cycle of a ADF Page?
A : ADF page is an extension of JSF and has following phases in its lifecycle

1. Initialize Context: In this phase the adf page initializes the LifecycleContext with information that will be used during the Lifecycle.
2. Prepare Model:  In this phase ui model is prepared and initialized. In this phase page parameters are set and methods in the executable section of the page definition of the ADF page are executed.
3. Apply Input Values: This phase handles the request parameters. The values from the HTML are sent to the server  and applied to the page binding in page definitions.
4. Validate Input Values:  This phase validates the values that were built in the Apply input values phase
5. Update Model:  Validated values supplied from user are sent to ADF business components data model
6. Validate Model Updates:  In this phase the business components will validate user supplied values.
7. Invoke Application:  This phase will process the ui events stack built during the life cycle of page and also fire navigational events
8. Prepare Render:  This is the final phase where HTML code is generated from the view tree.

Q : What is PPR and how do you enable Partial Page Rendering(PPR)?
A : PPR is a feature supported by ADF Faces, using which we can render a small portion of a HTML Page, without refreshing the complete page.
It is enabled by.

• Setting AutoSubmit property to true on the triggering element.
• Setting the PartialTriggers property of target component to refer to component id of the triggering element.

System Admin Questions 6

Q: - What is network bonding in Linux and steps to configure network bonding ?
 Network interface card (NIC) bonding (also referred to as NIC teaming) is the bonding together of two or more physical NICs so that they appear as one logical device. This allows for improvement in network performance by increasing the link speed beyond the limits of one single NIC and increasing the redundancy for higher availability. For example, you can use two 1-gigabit NICs bonded together to establish a 2-gigabit connection to a central file server.

When bonded together, two or more physical NICs can be assigned one IP address. And they will represent the same MAC address. If one of the NICs fails, the IP address remains accessible because it is bound to the local NIC rather than to a single physical NIC.
Steps to configure :

Step #1: Create a bond0 configuration file

Red Hat Linux stores network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. First, you need to create bond0 config file:

# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

Append following lines to it:

DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=192.168.1.20
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes

Replace above IP address with your actual IP address. Save file and exit to shell prompt.

Step #2: Modify eth0 and eth1 config files:

Open both configuration using vi text editor and make sure file read as follows for eth0 interface
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Modify/append directive as follows:
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

Open eth1 configuration file using vi text editor:

# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1Make sure file read as follows for eth1 interface:

DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

Save file and exit to shell prompt.

Step # 3: Load bond driver/module

Make sure bonding module is loaded when the channel-bonding interface (bond0) is brought up. You need to modify kernel modules configuration file:

# vi /etc/modprobe.conf
Append following two lines:

alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=balance-alb miimon=100

Step # 4: Test configuration

First, load the bonding module:
# modprobe bonding
Restart networking service in order to bring up bond0 interface:
# service network restart

Verify everything is working:
# less /proc/net/bonding/bond0Output:

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)

 MII Status: up

 MII Polling Interval (ms): 0

 Up Delay (ms): 0

 Down Delay (ms): 0

 Slave Interface: eth0

 MII Status: up

 Link Failure Count: 0

 Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:c6:be:59

 Slave Interface: eth1

 MII Status: up

 Link Failure Count: 0

 Permanent HW addr: 00:0c:29:c6:be:63

Q: - What is the difference between LILO and GRUB ?

1) LILO has no interactive command interface, whereas GRUB does.
2) LILO does not support booting from a network, whereas GRUB does.
3) LILO stores information regarding the location of the operating systems it can to load physically on the MBR.

If you change your LILO config file, you have to rewrite the LILO stage one boot loader to the MBR. Compared with GRUB, this is a much more risky option since a misconfigured MBR could leave the system unbootable. With GRUB, if the configuration file is configured incorrectly, it will simply default to the GRUB command-line interface.

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System Admin Questions 1

Q: - Tell me name of Linux File systems?
Ext2
Ext3

Q: - What is the difference between ext2 and ext3 file systems?
The ext3 file system is an enhanced version of the ext2 file system.

The most important difference between Ext2 and Ext3 is that Ext3 supports journaling.
After an unexpected power failure or system crash (also called an unclean system shutdown), each mounted ext2 file system on the machine must be checked for consistency by the e2fsck program. This is a time-consuming process and during this time, any data on the volumes is unreachable.
The journaling provided by the ext3 file system means that this sort of file system check is no longer necessary after an unclean system shutdown. The only time a consistency check occurs using ext3 is in certain rare hardware failure cases, such as hard drive failures. The time to recover an ext3 file system after an unclean system shutdown does not depend on the size of the file system or the number of files; rather, it depends on the size of the journal used to maintain consistency. The default journal size takes about a second to recover, depending on the speed of the hardware.

Q: - Any idea about ext4 file system?
The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system developed as the successor to ext3. Ext4 filesystem released as a functionally complete and stable filesystem in Linux with kernel version 2.6.28.

Features of ext4 file system:-

1. Currently, Ext3 supports 16 TB of maximum file system size and 2 TB of maximum file size. Ext4 have 1 EB of maximum file system size and 16 TB of maximum file size.

[An EB or exabyte is 1018 bytes or 1,048,576 TB]
2. Fast fsck check than ext3
3 In Ext4 the journaling feature can be disabled, which provides a small performance improvement.
4. Online defragmentation.
5. Delayed allocation
Ext4 uses a filesystem performance technique called allocate-on-flush, also known as delayed allocation. It consists of delaying block allocation until the data is going to be written to the disk, unlike some other file systems, which may allocate the necessary blocks before that step.

Q: - How we create ext3 file system on /dev/sda7 disk?
# mkfs –j /dev/sda7

Q: - Can we convert ext2 filesystem to ext3 file system?
Yes, we can convert ext2 to ext3 file system by tune2fs command.

   tune2fs –j   /dev/      

Q: - Is there any data lose during conversion of ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem?
No

Q: - How we will create ext4 file system?
# mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/DEV

Q: - Explain /proc filesystem?
/proc is a virtual filesystem that provides detailed information about Linux kernel, hardware’s and running processes. Files under /proc directory named as Virtual files. Because /proc contains virtual files that’s why it is called virtual file system.
These virtual files have unique qualities. Most of them are listed as zero bytes in size. Virtual files such as /proc/interrupts, /proc/meminfo, /proc/mounts, and /proc/partitions provide an up-to-the-moment glimpse of the system's hardware. Others, like the /proc/filesystems file and the /proc/sys/ directory provide system configuration information and interfaces.

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System Admin Questions 2

Q: - Can we change files parameters placed under /proc directory?
Yes
To change the value of a virtual file, use the echo command and a greater than symbol (>) to redirect the new value to the file. For example, to change the hostname on the fly, type:

echo www.linuxexpertise.blogspot.com > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

Q: - What is the use of sysctl command?
The /sbin/sysctl command is used to view, set, and automate kernel settings in the /proc/sys/ directory.

Q: - /proc/ directory contains a number of directories with numerical names. What is that?
These directories are called process directories, as they are named after a program's process ID and contain information specific to that process.

Q: - What is RAID?
RAID, stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAID is a method by which same data or information is spread across several disks, using techniques such as disk striping (RAID Level 0), disk mirroring (RAID Level 1), and disk striping with parity (RAID Level 5) to achieve redundancy, lower latency, increased bandwidth, and maximized ability to recover from hard disk crashes.

Q: - Why should we use RAID?
System Administrators and others who manage large amounts of data would benefit from using RAID technology.

Following are the reasons to use RAID
-   Enhances speed
-   Increases storage capacity using a single virtual disk
-   Minimizes disk failure

Q: - What is the difference between hardware RAID and Software RAID?
The hardware-based RAID is independent from the host. A Hardware RAID device connects to the SCSI controller and presents the RAID arrays as a single SCSI drive. An external RAID system moves all RAID handling "intelligence" into a controller located in the external disk subsystem. The whole subsystem is connected to the host via a normal SCSI controller and appears to the host as a single disk.

Software RAID is implemented under OS Kernel level. The Linux kernel contains an MD driver that allows the RAID solution to be completely hardware independent. The performance of a software-based array depends on the server CPU performance and load.

Q: - What are the commonly used RAID types?
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5

Q: - Explain RAID 0?
RAID level 0 works on “striping” technique. In RAID 0 the array is broken down into strips and data is written into strips. RAID 0 allows high I/O performance but provides no redundancy. RAID 0 Array Size is equal to sum of disks in array. If one drive fails then all data in the array is lost.

Q: - Explain RAID 1?
RAID Level 1 is based on Mirroring technique. Level 1 provides redundancy by writing identical data to each member disk of the array. The storage capacity of the level 1 array is equal to the capacity of one of the mirrored hard disks in a Hardware RAID or one of the mirrored partitions in a Software RAID. RAID 1 provides redundancy means good protection against disk failure. In RAID 1 write speed is slow but read speed is good.

Q: - Explain RAID 5?
RAID Level 5 is based on rotating parity with striping technique. RAID-5 stores parity information but not redundant data (but parity information can be used to reconstruct data). The storage capacity of Software RAID level 5 is equal to the capacity of the member partitions, minus the size of one of the partitions if they are of equal size. The performance of RAID 5 is based on parity calculation process but with modern CPUs that usually is not a very big problem. In RAID 5 read and write speeds are good.

Q: - Which kernel module is required for Software RAID?
“md” module

Q: - which utility or command is used for creating software RAID’s for RHEL5?
mdadm

Q: - Can we create software RAID during Linux installation?
Yes, we can create Software RAID during Linux Installation by “Disk Druid”

Q: - What is the role of chunk size for software RAID?
Chunk size is very important parameter on which RAID performance based.
We know stripes go across disk drives. But how big are the pieces of the stripe on each disk? The pieces a stripe is broken into are called chunks. To get good performance you must have a reasonable chunk size.

For big I/Os we required small chunks and for small I/Os we required big chunks.

Q: - What is SWAP Space?
Swap space in Linux is used when the amount of physical memory (RAM) is full. If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space. While swap space can help machines with a small amount of RAM, it should not be considered a replacement for more RAM. Swap space is located on hard drives, which have a slower access time than physical memory.

Q: - What are the steps to create SWAP files or Partition?
- Create swap partition or file
- Write special signature using “mkswap”
- Activate swap space by “swapon –a” command
- Add swap entry into /etc/fstab file

Q: - How you will create swap file of size 4 GB and explain swap file entry in /etc/fstab file?
Use “dd” command to create swap file.

dd if=/dev/zero  of=/SWAPFILE  bs=1024  count=4

mkswap /SWAPFILE

swapon –a

Entry into /etc/fstab file.

/SWAPFILE   swap   swap   defaults   0   0

Q: - Tell me the steps to remove the swap file?
Firstly disable the swap file by “swapoff” command.
Remove Swap file entry from /etc/fstab file.
Now remove the swap file by “rm” command.

Q: - What can we do with “parted” command or utility?
- View the existing partition table
- Add partitions from free space or additional hard drives
- Change the size of existing partitions

Q: - How we will check free space on drive /dev/sda with parted command?
#parted /dev/sda
print

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System Admin Questions 3

Q: - Can we resize the size of a partition?
Yes, we can resize the size of partition by “parted” command.
#parted /dev/sda

print

To resize the partition, use the resize command followed by the minor number for the partition, the starting place in megabytes, and the end place in megabytes. For example:

resize 3 1024 2048

After resizing the partition, use the print command to confirm that the partition has been resized correctly, is the correct partition type, and is the correct file system type.

Q: - What is LVM?
LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager. LVM, is a storage management solution that allows administrators to divide hard drive space into physical volumes (PV), which can then be combined into logical volume groups (VG), which are then divided into logical volumes (LV) on which the filesystem and mount point are created.  

Q: - What are the steps to create LVM?
- Create physical volumes by “pvcreate” command

#pvcreate /dev/sda2
- Add physical volume to volume group by “vgcreate” command

#vgcreate VLG0 /dev/sda2
- Create logical volume from volume group by “lvcreate” command.

#lvcreate -L 1G -n LVM1 VLG0
Now create file system on /dev/sda2 partition by “mke2fs” command.

#mke2fs -j /dev/VLG0/LVM1

Q: - What is the difference between LVM and RAID?
RAID provides redundancy but LVM doesn’t provide Redundancy.

Q: - What are LVM1 and LVM2?
LVM1 and LVM2 are the versions of LVM.
LVM2 uses device mapper driver contained in 2.6 kernel version.
LVM 1 was included in the 2.4 series kernels.

Q: - What is Volume group (VG)?
The Volume Group is the highest level abstraction used within the LVM. It gathers together a collection of Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes into one administrative unit.

Q: - What is physical extent (PE)?
Each physical volume is divided chunks of data, known as physical extents; these extents have the same size as the logical extents for the volume group.

Q: - What is logical extent (LE)?
Each logical volume is split into chunks of data, known as logical extents. The extent size is the same for all logical volumes in the volume group.

Q: - Explain LVM snapshot?
LVM snapshots allow the administrator to create a new block device which presents an exact copy of a logical volume, frozen at some point in time.

Q: - How you will check on Your server or system device-mapper is installed or not?
Check the following file.
#cat /proc/misc

if this file contains "device-mapper" term it means device mapper is installed on your system.

Q: - How are snapshots in LVM2 different from LVM1?
In LVM2 snapshots are read/write by default, whereas in LVM1, snapshots were read only.

Q: - What is the maximum size of a single LV?
For 2.4 based kernels, the maximum LV size is 2TB.
For 32-bit CPUs on 2.6 kernels, the maximum LV size is 16TB.
For 64-bit CPUs on 2.6 kernels, the maximum LV size is 8EB.

Q: - If a volume group named as VG0 already exists but i need to extend this volume group up to 4GB.Explain all steps?
Firstly create Physical volume (/dev/sda7) of size 4GB.

Now run following command.
vgextend VG0 /dev/sda7

Q: - If a volume group VG0 have 3 PV's (/dev/sda6, /dev/sda7, /dev/sda8) but i want to remove /dev/sda7 pv from this VG0?
vgreduce VG0 /dev/sda7

Q: - Which command is used to extend a logical volume?
lvextend --size + /dev//

resize2fs /dev//

Q: - Tell me all steps to remove a LVM?
To remove a logical volume from a volume group, first unmount it with the umount command:

umount /dev//

and then use the lvremove command:

lvremove /dev/

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System Admin Questions 4

Q: - Explain architectures required for RPMs?
noarch Architecture-independent, can run on any architecture

i386   Generic build for a 32-bit x86 system

i586   Sometimes used when building kernels for older x86 processors
Intel® Pentium ® II, Intel Pentium III, Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, and

i686   AMD Duron systems (Most RPMs for these architectures are built using the i386 architecture, with the kernel for these architectures being built with the
i686 for optimal performance.)

x86_64 64-bit processors such as AMD Athlon64, AMD Opteron, and Intel EM64T

ia64   Intel® Itanium

ppc    32-bit IBM® POWER, IBM eServer„ pSeries®, and IBM eServer iSeries

s390x  64-bit IBM eServer System z

Q: - How to install Linux software’s by RPM?
rpm -ivh test-1.0-1.i386.rpm

test  ######################### [100%]

Q: - If a file associated with test-1.0-1.i386.rpm deleted, than How we will recover that file?
We can reinstall this rpm again.

Q: - If you are getting error "package is already installed" but you have to install package any how. what option you will use?
rpm -ivh test-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package test-1.0-1 is already installed

In this case you can use "--replacepkgs" option.

rpm -ivh –replacepkgs   test-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Q: - Which options are required to upgrade a RPM?
Upgrading a package is similar to installing one. Type the following command at a shell prompt:

rpm -Uvh test-2.0-1.i386.rpm

Q: - In which directory RPM database stored?
/var/lib/rpm

Q: - Explain the command "rpm -qa"?
It will queries all currently installed packages.

Q: - Explain the command "rpm -qf "?
it queries the RPM database for which package owns . When specifying a file, specify the absolute path of the file.

Q: - How to verify all installed packages?
rpm –Va

Q: - How to verify the signature of an rpm?
rpm -K test-1.0-1.i386.rpm

Q: - How to list PCI Devices on your server or System?
use "lspci" command.

Q: - What is the role of "Kudzu"?
Kudzu is used to Detect new Hardware

Q: - What happens when you add a new device after installation?
The Kudzu program runs each time the system boots and performs a hardware probe. If new hardware is found, Kudzu attempts to map it to a kernel module. If successful, the information is saved, and the device is configured.

Q: - How to Enable ACLs for /home partition?
Add following entry in /etc/fstab

LABEL=/home    /home       ext3        acl      1  2

Now remount /home partition with acl option.

mount -t ext3 -o acl /dev/sda3  /home

Q: - How to View ACLs for a file(test_file)?
getfacl test_file

Q: - How to remove an ACL?
setfacl --remove-all

Q: - What is the difference between pop3 and imap protocols ?
POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is the most commonly used internet mail protocol.It works on 110 port. It is easy to configure and use. With a POP account you download the mail to your local computer and keep it there. Most of the time it gets deleted off of the mail server after being downloaded. One disadvantage of POP is that once you download it to your computer you won't be able to check your mail from a different computer since it will already be downloaded onto your own computer. It tends to be slower than IMAP as well.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) uses a method where all the mailboxes and messages are maintained on the server. Therefore you can access your e-mail from any location with an internet connection. IMAP is faster than POP because the mail client reads all of the message headers without having to download the entire message. IMAP is also supported in a variety of clients just like POP. One thing to keep in mind is the amount of disk space allocated to your mail on the server may not be enough to hold all of your mail.IMAP supports the folder synchronization option e.g if you create any folder  on the client m/c in outlook(mail client) then that folder will automatically created on the mailserver for the account

POP works best when you are using only a single computer, since you don’t have to worry about checking your e-mail from multiple locations. Plus it is faster as well.

IMAP would suit you better if you need to check your e-mail from multiple locations if you travel a lot. To use IMAP your ISP/mail provider must offer that type of account.

Q: - How to Disable a User Account in Linux ?
#   passwd -l

   This might be useful in the situation where you don’t want to permanently remove the user, but you just want it disabled and no longer able to use the system. The user will still receive emails for example, but he will not be able to login and check them out.

To re-enable the account ,just use below command

# passwd -u

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System Admin Questions 5

Q: - How to detect CPU architecture/bitmode (32-bit or 64-bit) for Linux ?
# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags

you will find one of them with name "tm(transparent mode)" or
"rm(real mode)" or "lm(long mode)"

1. rm tells ,it is a 16 bit processor
2. tm tells, it is a 32 bit processor
3. lm tells, it is a 64 bit processor

Q: - What is the difference between SSH and Telnet ?

The Primary difference between SSH and Telnet is of security i.e in ssh data transfer between the systems is in encrypted form so it is difficult for the hackers to understand what is going on network.

 In Telnet data transfer between the systems is in plain text. 

SSH uses a public key for authentication while Telnet does not use any authentication.

Due to the security measures that were necessary for SSH to be used in public networks, each packet contains less data to make room for the data of the security mechanisms. In order to transmit the same amount of data, you would need to take-up a lot more bandwidth. This is called overhead..

SSH adds a bit more overhead to the bandwidth compared to Telnet.

Q: - What is difference between AT and CRON?

Cron command is used to schedule the task daily at the same time repeatedly ,

at command is used to schedule the task only once i.e to run only one time.   

Q: - Which command is used to create LVM Snapshot?
vcreate --size -s -n

The lvcreate command is used to create a new logical volume, meaning there must be
free physical extents in the logical volume group to create a snapshot. The -s option
means that the LV is a snapshot, is the name of the new LV created, and
is the name of the LV from which to create the snapshot.

Q: - Is there any relation between modprobe.conf file and network devices?
Yes, This file assigns a kernel module to each network device.

For Example :-
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 b44

Here b44 is the kernel module for network device eth0.

We can Confirm by following command (This module “b44” is present or not).

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod |grep b44

b44                    29005    0

Q: - What is the location of "network" file and what does this contains?
location :-  /etc/sysconfig/network

This file contains following fields

NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

Q: - What is the role of /etc/resolv.conf file?
In this file we sets the DNS servers (using their IP addresses) and the search domain. The values of the DNS servers are often added when the network is activated because the data can be provided by DHCP or a similar service.

Q: - Which deamon is required to start Network services?
network

/etc/init.d/network start

Q: - What "neat" command will do?
neat command provides Graphical interface to change network settings for network devices.

Q: - Which protocol is required to allow local printing and print sharing?
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is required to allow local printing and print sharing.

Q: - What is CUPS?
CUPS stands for "Common UNIX Printing System". CUPS is a open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to allow local printing and print sharing.

Q: -What is the location of log files for CUPS?
The log files for the CUPS printing system are located in the /var/log/cups/ directory.

Q: - What is YUM?
YUM stands for Yellow dog Updater, Modified because it is based on YUP, the Yellow dog Updater. Where does the name Yellow dog come from? Yellow Dog is a version of Linux for the Power Architecture hardware and is RPM-based, just like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. YUP, and later YUM, were written by the Linux community as a way to maintain an RPM-based system.

Q: - What are the advantages of YUM?
- Automatic resolution of software dependencies.
- Multiple software locations at one time.
- Ability to specify particular software versions or architectures.

Q: - How you will install software by YUM?
yum install

Q: - Which option is required to assume the answer "yes" to any questions asked during installation of package dependencies for YUM?
The "-y" option is used to assume the answer "yes".

For Example

yum -y install squid

Q: - How to remove a software by YUM?
yum remove

Q: - How Many Run Levels present in Linux?
There are 7 run levels, with each having its own properties.

-   0: Halt the system
-   1: Single-user mode
-   2: Not used
-   3: Multi-user mode with text login
-   4: Not used
-   5: Multi-user mode with graphical login
-   6: Reboot

Q: - Which configuration file is required to change the Run Level of Server or system?
/etc/inittab

To change the default run level, modify this line.

id:5:initdefault:  

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