Linux Review

Front 1

Open Source Software (OSS) is freely developed and continuously improved by a large community of software development

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True

Front 2

Linux is merely one product of open source development

Back 2

True

Front 3

The term hacker refers to someone who illegally uses computers for personal benefit or to cause damage

Back 3

True

Front 4

Software that consist of a series of software components used to control the hardware of your computer is known as application software

Back 4

False

Front 5

Services that are used on the local computer are referred to as server serviecs

Back 5

False

Front 6

A(n) __________ is a piece of software that tells the operating system how to use a specific hardware device.

Back 6

Device driver

Front 7

The _________ stipulates that the source code of any software published under its license must be freely available.

Back 7

GNU General Public License

Front 8

Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are all ______ of Unix.

Back 8

Flavors

Front 9

A _____ is merely a compressed archive of files that usually contain scripts that install the software contents to the correct location of the system.

Back 9

tarball

Front 10

A production kernel refers to a kernel whose:

Back 10

minor number is even

Front 11

Many types of software are available today. Which type of software does Linux represent?

Back 11

Open Source Software

Front 12

It is important to ensure that a computer meets the maximum hardware requirements before performing an installation

Back 12

False

Front 13

System Rescue can be use to repair a Linux system that cannot be started.

Back 13

True

Front 14

A swap partition contains a file system

Back 14

False

Front 15

In Linux, the administrator account is called top

Back 15

false

Front 16

Linux requires a minimum of three partitions to be created

Back 16

False

Front 17

During Linux installation, you need to configure a minimum of ____ user account

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two

Front 18

Hard disks can contain a maximum of _____ major partitions

Back 18

4

Front 19

The ____ file system is compatible with Windows FAT file system

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VFAT

Front 20

The shell that is used by default in Linux is the _____ shell.

Back 20

BASH

Front 21

______ are specific letters that start with a dash ("-")

Back 21

Options

Front 22

Can you have more than four SCSI hard disks within a system.

Back 22

Yes

Front 23

Do all commands have either man pages or info pages?

Back 23

No

Front 24

What equivalent to the man command generally provides an easier-to-read description of the queried command and also contains links to other related information?

Back 24

info

Front 25

What command can use to safely shut down the Linux system immediately?

Back 25

halt

Front 26

How can you protect a metacharacter (such as the $ character) from shell interpretation?

Back 26

Preccede is with a \.

Front 27

Which prompt does the root user receive when logged in to the system?

Back 27

#

Front 28

Linux uses a logical directory tree to organize files into different folders.

Back 28

True

Front 29

It is acceptable to use shell metacharacters when naming files.

Back 29

False

Front 30

Files names can include up to 200 characters.

Back 30

False

Front 31

The Three characters following a period in a file name are referred to as the file extension

Back 31

True

Front 32

When you first open the vi editor, you are placed in edit mode.

Back 32

False

Front 33

The _____ command will confirm the system directory that you are currently in.

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pwd

Front 34

the ____ metacharacte can also be used to refer to the current user's home directort

Back 34

~

Front 35

To move from the /home/jot/test/ data to the /home/joe directory, use the ____ command

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cd ../..

Front 36

The ____ command can be used to provide a long listing for each file in a certain directory.

Back 36

ls -l

Front 37

Using wildcard metacharacters, how can one indicate a number is either 1,2,3, or 4

Back 37

[1-4]

Front 38

Which of the following is an absolute pathname?

Back 38

/home/resume

Front 39

If a user's current directory is /home/mary/project1, which command could she use to move to the etc directory under the root

Back 39

cd /etc

Front 40

After typing the ls -F command, you notice a filename that ends with an * asterisk character? What does it mean.

Back 40

It is an executable file

Front 41

You can use wildcard metacharacters with the find command.

Back 41

True

Front 42

The SGID allows regular users to execute a binary compiled program and become a member of a group that is attached to the file.

Back 42

True

Front 43

In the FHS, the ____ directory contains most system commands and utilities.

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/bin

Front 44

The ____ command takes a list of arguments specifying the absolute or relative pathnames of files to remove.

Back 44

rm

Front 45

The ____ section of a file system is the section that contains information about the file system in general.

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Superblock

Front 46

To create a hard link, you must use the _____ command

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ln

Front 47

When using the chmod command for a specific file, the ____ argument would add read permission and remove write permission for the group permissions.

Back 47

g+r-w

Front 48

Do symbolic links share the same inode and inode number?

Back 48

No

Front 49

Which of the following commands will change the user ownership and group ownership of file 1 to user1 and root respectively

Back 49

Chown user1:root file 1