7.4 References

7.5 Quiz

  1. A system administrator is using installp to install the software for a new SSA adapter that was just added to an F50. The install seems to hang for an unusually long time and the LED display reads 0c9. What is most likely happening?
    A.
    The system has crashed and is dumping.
    B.
    The system is committing the SSA lpps.
    C.
    The system is running cfgmgr to add the device.
    D.
    The system is running diagnostics on the SSA subsystem.

  2. Customer XYZ has been running with AIX V4 for several months with no problems. The system just crashed and they need assistance with determining what happened. By pressing the yellow reset button, they found that the crash codes displayed on the LEDs were: 888-102-700-0c0. These LED codes indicate that:
    A.
    It was a software problem and there is a partial dump for analysis.
    B.
    It was a hardware problem and there is a partial dump for analysis.
    C.
    It was a software problem and there is a complete dump for analysis.
    D.
    It was a hardware problem and there is a complete dump for analysis.

  3. Analyzing the following error report listing, how would a system specialist find out detailed information on why the system shutdown? 
    
IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP  T C RESOURCE_NAME  DESCRIPTION
2A9F5252   1119151898 P H tok0           WIRE FAULT
2BFA76F6   1117101698 T S SYSPROC        SYSTEM SHUTDOWN BY USER
9DBCFDEE   1117101998 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED ON
192AC071   1117101598 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED OFF
AA8AB241   1116181498 T O CMDCRASH_EXIT  OPERATOR NOTIFICATION
AA8AB241   1116181498 T O CMDCRASH_ENTRY OPERATOR NOTIFICATION
2BFA76F6   1116173598 T S SYSPROC        SYSTEM SHUTDOWN BY USER
9DBCFDEE   1116174198 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED ON
192AC071   1116173498 T O errdemon       ERROR LOGGING TURNED OFF
2BFA76F6   1116164698 T S SYSPROC        SYSTEM SHUTDOWN BY USER
    A.
    errpt 2BFA76F6
    B.
    errpt -j 2BFA76F6
    C.
    errpt -a -j 2BFA76F6
    D.
    errpt -a -j 2BFA76F6

  4. ABC Company has an employee time tracking application which has randomly stopped running several times over the last few months. The system administrator has written a script that monitors the status of the application. If the application is not running, the script restarts the application and adds an entry to the system error log reporting the time of the failure. What command is used in the monitor script to add the failure message to the system error log?
    A.
    errpt
    B.
    errsave
    C.
    errorlog
    D.
    errlogger

7.5.1 Answers

1.
A
2.
C
3.
C
4.
D

7.6 Exercises