Linux interview:

---------------1) How to check default route and routing table?

2) How to scan newly assigned LUNs on Linux box without rebooting?
3) How to inscrease/reduce the size of LVM partition?
4) What is the command to check all the open ports of your machine?
5) What is the command to check all the listening ports and services of your mac
hine?
6) How to disable ping to avoid network/ICMP flood
7) How to setup password less remote login/ssh?

Monitoring:
----------1) What are the parameters that you will immediately verify if a web server foun
d to be slow/ having performance problem? Which tools you will use/generally con
figure for monitoring?
2) What are the parameters that you will immediately verify if App server for ex
ample tomcat is found to be slow/having performance problems? Which tools you wi
ll use/generally configure for monitoring?
3) What are the parameters that you will immediately verify if a Database server
is found to be slow/having performance problem? Which tools you will use/genera
lly configure for monitoring?
4) What are the parameters of Cloudera Hadoop should be monitored to understand
health issues?
5) MYSQL Server preformance is poor - What all are the parameters that needs to
be verified (apart from CPU, Memory, Disk)
Hadoop & Hadoop Administration:
------------------------------1) Why NoSQL is popular in Hadoop setup?
2) Whar is the difference between HBASE and HDFS in Hadoop?
3) Is HDFS the only storage solution compatible with the HADOOP ecosystem?
4) What is a job tracker & MapReduce in Hadoop?
5) What are the Core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml and mapred-site.xml?
6) How do you verify the status of Namenode, datanode, task tracker and job trac
ker?
7) What will be impact if Namenode is down? And if the Namenode has no data?
8) How to resolve issues: jobs doesn't run and Task Tracker fails to create a lo
cal mapred
9) How many nodes are supported by Hadoop cluster? And maximum number of process
or, memory, storage scalability supported?
10) What all are the platforms supported by Hadoop? Which is the more recommende
d platform to run Hadoop?
11) How to add/remove nodes from Hadoop cluster?
12) What is namemode, metadata, datanode, jobtracker in Hadoop setup?
13) If you are setting up a cluster and someone mentions TOR, What is meant by t
his?
14) What is a job Tracker in Hadoop? How many instances of job Tracker can run i
n a Hadoop Cluster?
15) What is the difference between HDFS and NAS?
16) Web-UI shows that a datanodes is decommissioned. What does that mean? Is it
safe to remove this node from the network?
17) What does the Hadoop administrator have to do after adding new datanodes to
the Hadoop Cluster?
18) Map Reduce jobs take too long. What can be done to improve the performance o
f the cluster?
19) What happens if we upgrade our hadoop version in which default block size is

higher than the current hadoop version default block size. Suppose 128 MB(Hadoo
p 0.20.0) to 256 MB (Hadoop 2.4.0)
20) What is a good process t backup Hadoop, what key areas should be focused on?
21) What is the role of application master in YARN Architecture?
22) What are the main Components of JOB Flow in YARN Architecture?
23) Which of the following is most important when selecting hardware for our new
hadoop cluster
. The number of CPU cores and their speed
. The amount of physical memory
. The amount of storage
. The speed of the storage