Fresher Interview Questions

Some Important Unix Shell Questions

There can be multiple Kernels and shells running on your system. True or False?
Why shell is called Command Interpreter?
Two UNIX systems may or may not use the same system calls. True or False?
To obtain help on any feature of the system, what are the possible help sources available?
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Which will be faster out of these two queries - one with OR or one with IN?
Where does MyISAM cache table records?
Which will be faster out of queries with explicit INNER JOIN and implicit one?
Is InnoDB faster/better than MyISAM?
Is CHAR faster than VARCHAR?
Is VARCHAR(80) faster than VARCHAR(255)?
Are there performance [...]

Explain the difference between a static library and a dynamic library? - Static library is linked into the executable, while a dynamic library (or shared object) is loaded while the executable has started.
How do you create a static library? - If you have a collection of object (.o) files, you can do it by running [...]

C Interview Questions
1: swap(int x,y)
{
int temp;
temp=x;
x=y;
y=temp;
}
main()
{
int x=2;y=3;
swap(x,y);
}
after calling swap ,what are the values x&y?

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To Tar Files of a directory and sub directories recursively:
tar cvzf foo.tgz freshershome
Will tar the directory freshershome (and its files/subdirectories) into a tar file named foo.tgz.
To extract gzip-1.2.4.tar and compile the sources on Unix systems, do:
tar xvf freshershome.tar
Or
tar -xzvf freshershome.tar.gz
Above will extract freshershome.tar.gz:
Will work on .tar.gz (or .tgz). Take out the ‘z’ for a plain [...]

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