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You need to see the last fifteen lines of the files dog, cat and
horse. What command should you use?

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To display a list of all manual pages containing the keyword

"date", what command would you type?

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Which of the following interprets your actions when typing at the

command line for the operating system? Choose One a. Utility b.
Application c. Shell d. Command

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Who owns the data dictionary?

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When typing at the command line, the default editor is the

_____________ library.

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What daemon is responsible for tracking events on your system?

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What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install

Linux? What command can you use to review boot messages?

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What command you execute to display the last five commands you
have entered? Which partitions might you create on mail server HDDs
other than the root, swap and boot partitions? Which partitioning tool
is available in all distributions? Which two commands can you use to
delete directories? Which file defines all users on your system?

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What command is used to remove the password assigned to a

group?

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Which file defines all users on your system? Choose one: a.

/etc/passwd b. /etc/users c. /etc/password d. /etc/user.conf

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Describe the boot process of your favorite Linux in as much detail

as you can.

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What is difference between user right and user permission?

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What is kernel updation?

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What command would you type to use the cpio to create a backup
called backup.cpio of all the users' home directories? _____________

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Which daemon controls the network service -> POP3 mail service?
A) inetd B) pop3d C) maild D) nntpd E) pmaild

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What command can you use to review boot messages?

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What is difference between AT and CRON?

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What is contained in the directory /proc? Choose one: a. System

information b. Administrative procedures c. Boot procedures d.
Documentation on your system

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Your default umask is 002. What does this mean? Choose one: a.
Any file you create will have the permissions set as owner and group
having read and write permissions; others as read only. b. Any file you
create will have the permissions set as owner and group having read,
write and execute permissions; others as read and execute. c. Any
directoy you create will have the permissions set as owner and group
having read, write and execute permissions; others as read and write
permissions. d. Any directory you create will have the permissions set
as owner and group having read and write permissions; others as read
only.

You have been assigned the task of determining if there are any
user accounts defined on your system that have not been used during
the last three months. Which log file should you examine to determine
this information? Choose one: a. /var/log/wtmp b. /var/log/lastlog
c. /var/log/utmp d. /var/log/messages

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You need to create a new group called sales with Bob, Mary and
Joe as members. Which of the following would accomplish this? Choose
one: a. Add the following line to the /etc/group file:
sales:44:bob,mary,joe b. Issue the command groupadd sales. c. Issue
the command groupadd -a sales bob,mary,joe d. Add the following line
to the /etc/group file: sales::44:bob,mary,joe

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Which command do you use to change run levels? A) initlevel B)

runlevel C) level D) run E) init
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You have entered the following cronjob. When will it run? 15 * * *

1,3,5 myscript Choose one: a. at 15 minutes after every hour on the
1st, 3rd and 5th of each month. b. at 1:15 am, 3:15 am, and 5:15 am
every day c. at 3:00 pm on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th of each month d. at
15 minutes after every hour every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

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Your default umask is 002. What does this mean? Choose one: a.
Any file you create will have the permissions set as owner and group
having read and write permissions; others as read only. b. Any file you
create will have the permissions set as owner and group having read,
write and execute permissions; others as read and execute. c. Any
directoy you create will have the permissions set as owner and group
having read, write and execute permissions; others as read and write
permissions. d. Any directory you create will have the permissions set
as owner and group having read and write permissions; others as read
only.

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Which of the following commands can you use to cleanly restart a

Linux machine? [Choose all correct answers] A) reboot B) init 6 C) init
0 D) shutdown -r E) shutdown -h

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The whereis command is helpful in finding the location of a

command as well as its related man page. What is the disadvantage of
using it? Choose one: a. Since it searches the entire directory tree, the
whereis command can take an excessive amount of time. b. The
whereis command will not find source files located on your system. c.
You have to update the whereis database in order to keep it current.
d. The whereis command only searches known directories that are
hard coded into the command.

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 You are installing Linux into a computer with two IDE hard drives.
You plan on dividing each hard drive into two partitions. What are the
names of the partitions? Choose one: a. hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4 b.
hda1, hda2, hdb1, hdb2 c. sda1, sda2, sdb1, sdb2 d. sda1, sda2,
sda3, sda4

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In order to improve your system's security you decide to

implement shadow passwords. What command should you use?

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You want to ensure that your system is not overloaded with users
running multiple scheduled jobs. A policy has been established that
only the system administrators can create any scheduled jobs. It is
your job to implement this policy. How are you going to do this?
Choose one: a. create an empty file called /etc/cron.deny b. create a
file called /etc/cron.allow which contains the names of those allowed to
schedule jobs. c. create a file called /etc/cron.deny containing all
regular usernames. d. create two empty files called /etc/cron.allow
and /etc/cron.deny

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Your company has implemented a policy that users' passwords

must be reset every ninety days. Since you have over 100 users you
created a file with each username and the new password. How are you
going to change the old passwords to the new ones? Choose one: a.
Use the chpasswd command along with the name of the file containing
the new passwords. b. Use the passwd command with the -f option
and the name of the file containing the new passwords. c. Open the
/etc/passwd file in a text editor and manually change each password.
d. Use the passwd command with the -u option.

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I have created a file with vi editor with -x option. #vi -x hello.sh

This is an encrypted file with password. when i again open this file, it
ask me to enter a password before editing it. Can i remove that
password, but i dont want to delete that file.
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Using command substitution, how would you display the value of

the present working directory? Choose one a. echo $(pwd) b. echo
pwd c. $pwd d. pwd | echo

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How Does Linux Kernel Versioning Work?

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You wish to print the file vacations with 60 lines to a page. Which
of the following commands will accomplish this? Choose one: a. pr -l60
vacations | lpr b. pr -f vacations | lpr c. pr -m vacations | lpr d. pr -l
vacations | lpr

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You want to print out a text file called vacations however the lines
are of varying length. What text filter could you use to even out the
length of the lines?

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The maximum size of the swap partition is _______ MB.

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You have a tab delimited file called phonenos and want to change
each tab to four spaces. What command can you use to accomplish
this? Choose one: a. expand -t4 phonenos b. expand phonenos c.
expand -n4 phonenos d. expand -t phonenos

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How to exclude ip address in dhcp? my ranges are 192.168.1.2

192.168.1.20 then how do i exclude different ip's like 192.168.1.4 and
7 and 10 from the range please help me out
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In Linux How to exclude ip from the given range please help me

out

You have a technician who will come in after hours to install new
hardware in your system. You do not want to give him the root
password, but he needs to be able to shutdown the system. How can
you accomplish this? Choose one: a. You cannot do this; only root can
run the shutdown command. b. Add his username to the
/etc/shutdown.conf file. c. Add his username to the
/etc/shutdown.allow file. d. Give him the root password and change it
when you arrive the next morning.

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You locate a command in the /bin directory but do not know what
it does. What command can you use to determine its purpose.

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You have a file called phonenos that is almost 4,000 lines long.
What text filter can you use to split it into four pieces each 1,000 lines
long?

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What utility can you use to show a dynamic listing of running

processes? __________

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You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home

directories. What utility should you use?

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How to install 8139 realtek drivers in rhel5.0? Please help me out.

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 Bob Armstrong, who has a username of boba, calls to tell you he
forgot his password. What command should you use to reset his
command?

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In order to apply a filesystem to your new partitions you must

format them. What command would you use to create the ext2
filesystem?

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You have the /var directory on its own partition. You have run out
of space. What should you do? Choose one: a. Reconfigure your
system to not write to the log files. b. Use fips to enlarge the partition.
c. Delete all the log files. d. Delete the partition and recreate it with a
larger size.

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You changed /etc/lilo.conf to cause a boot: prompt to show,

however, when you restart your computer you still do not have a
prompt. What should you do? Choose one: a. Rename your
configuration file to /etc/lilo.conf.new. b. Install the configuration
changes by issuing the command /sbin/lilo c. Install the configuration
changes by issuing the command /sbin/lilo -t d. Install the
configuration changes by issuing the command /sbin/lilo -u

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Send some linux interview questions?

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Is Linux Unix?

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Who Wrote Linux?

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What is Kernel-Level Threads?

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You routinely compress old log files. You now need to examine a
log from two months ago. In order to view its contents without first
having to decompress it, use the _________ utility.

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You are covering for another system administrator and one of the
users asks you to restore a file for him. You locate the correct tarfile
by checking the backup log but do not know how the directory
structure was stored. What command can you use to determine this?
Choose one: a. tar fx tarfile dirname b. tar tvf tarfile filename c. tar ctf
tarfile d. tar tvf tarfile

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Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?

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What file defines the levels of messages written to system log

files?

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You suspect that you have two commands with the same name as
the command is not producing the expected results. What command
can you use to determine the location of the command being run?

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A PC in a private network (on a DSL connection) should be

reachable from the outside. How would you solve this?

What is the real mean of DHCP?

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What account is created when you install Linux?

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The top utility can be used to change the priority of a running

process? Another utility that can also be used to change priority is
___________?

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Where are the startup scripts defined? Choose one: a. /etc/initd

b. /etc/scripts c. /etc/start d. /etc/inittab

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What would you type to send the last 20 lines of a text file to
STDIN? A) end -n 20 filename B) last -n 20 filename C) head -20
filename D) end -20 filename E) tail -20 filename

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While logged on as a regular user, your boss calls up and wants

you to create a new user account immediately. How can you do this
without first having to close your work, log off and logon as root?
Choose one: a. Issue the command rootlog. b. Issue the command su
and type exit when finished. c. Issue the command su and type logoff
when finished. d. Issue the command logon root and type exit when
finished.

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In order to prevent a user from logging in, you can add a(n)
________at the beginning of the password field.

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In order to run fsck on the root partition, the root partition must
be mounted as ___________.
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When you only back up one partition, this is called a ______

backup. Choose one a. Differential b. Full c. Partial d. Copy

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What type of local file server can you use to provide the
distribution installation materials to the new machine during a network
installation? A) Inetd B) FSSTND C) DNS D) NNTP E) NFS

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Which file do you need to change to alter how the updatedb

database is created? Choose one: a. /etc/which.conf b.
/etc/conf.updatedb c. /etc/updatedb.conf d. /etc/conf.which

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You wish to restore the file memo.ben which was backed up in the
tarfile MyBackup.tar. What command should you type?

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When you issue the command ls -l, the first character of the
resulting display represents the file's ___________.

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What can you type at a command line to determine which shell

you are using?

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Where is standard output usually directed?

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After creating a backup of the users' home directories called

backup.cpio you are asked to restore a file called memo.ben. What
command should you type?
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You have written a script called usrs to parse the passwd file and
create a list of usernames. You want to have this run at 5 am
tomorrow so you can see the results when you get to work. Which of
the following commands will work? Choose one: a. at 5:00 wed usrs b.
at 5:00 wed -b usrs c. at 5:00 wed -l usrs d. at 5:00 wed -d usrs

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How can you determine who has scheduled at jobs? Choose one:
a. at -l b. at -q c. at -d d. atwho

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What is the name and path of the main system log?

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What utility can you use to automate rotation of logs? What

command should you use to check your filesystem?

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You are going to reboot your system but want to warn your users
to log off. Which of the following commands will send a message to the
users. Choose one: a. init b. halt c. reboot d. shutdown

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When looking at the /etc/passwd file, you notice that all the
password fields contain 'x'. What does this mean? Choose one: a. That
the password is encrypted. b. That you are using shadow passwords.
c. That all passwords are blank. d. That all passwords have expired.

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One of your users calls to tell you that he cannot save a new file
he has created in his home directory. You check his disk quota and
find that he is using less than 50 percent of the space he is allotted.
What could be the problem? Choose one: a. He is presently a member
of a group that has exceeded its disk space quota. b. He has not
named the file correctly. c. The system is corrupt. d. He needs to
specify the absolute path when naming the file.

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What command should you use to check the number of files and
disk space used and each user's defined quotas?

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You copy the administration directory to George's home directory.

-rw-rw--w- 1 root admin 7202 Sep 17 9:10 administration The only
group that George is a member of is users. He calls you to say he
cannot list the contents of the administration directory. Why can't he
look at its contents since it is in his home directory? Choose one: a. In
order to view the contents of a directory, you must have read
permission. George only has write permission. b. Only the owner of a
directory can list its contents. c. George needs to change his default
group to admin. d. George needs to make himself the owner of the
administration directory.

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You have a file with the following permissions -rw-r--r-- 1 root

admin 7202 Sep 17 9:10 phonenos You want the members of the
admin group to be able to modify the file. What command should you
use? Choose one: a. chmod 664 phonenos b. chmod 114 phonenos c.
chmod 771 phonenos d. chmod 551 phonenos

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What key combination can you press to suspend a running job and
place it in the background?

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Many factors are taken into account when planning a backup

strategy. The one most important one is how often does the file
____________.
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If you type the command cat dog &> cat what would you see on
your display? Choose one: a. Any error messages only. b. The
contents of the file dog. c. The contents of the file dog and any error
messages. d. Nothing as all output is saved to the file cat.

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Which of the following commands can be used to get information

about a package? [Choose all correct answers] A) man B) list C)
apropos D) info E) more

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Which first-level segment of the file system contains a majority of

system and server configuration files within its subdirectories? A) /var
B) /etc C) /bin D) /sbin E) /lib

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Where Is the Latest Kernel Version on the Internet?

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Can Linux Use More than 3 Serial Ports by Sharing Interrupts?

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Can Linux Use the Same Hard Drive as MS-DOS? OS/2? 386BSD?
Win95?

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What is UserLabel Thread?

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 There are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file. Which of the
following lists all the fields in the correct order? Choose one: a.
username, UID, GID, home directory, command, comment b.
username, UID, GID, comment, home directory, command c. UID,
username, GID, home directory, comment, command d. username,
UID, group name, GID, home directory, comment

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Which of the following commands will show a list of the files in

your home directory including hidden files and the contents of all
subdirectories?

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Which of the following commands will show a list of the files in

your home directory including hidden files and the contents of all
subdirectories? Choose one: a. ls -c home b. ls -aR /home/username
c. ls -aF /home/username d. ls -l /home/username

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You have a directory called /home/ben/memos and want to move

it to /home/bob/memos so you issue the command mv
/home/ben/memos /home/bob. What is the results of this action?
Choose one: a. The files contained in /home/ben/memos are moved to
the directory /home/bob/memos/memos. b. The files contained in
/home/ben/memos are moved to the directory /home/bob/memos. c.
The files contained in /home/ben/memos are moved to the
directory /home/bob/. d. The command fails since a directory called

memos already exists in the target directory. You attempt to use

shadow passwords but are unsuccessful. What characteristic of the
/etc/passwd file may cause this? Choose one: a. The login command is
missing. b. The username is too long. c. The password field is blank. d.
The password field is prefaced by an asterick.

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 What file would you edit in your home directory to change which
window manager you want to use? A) Xinit B) .xinitrc C) XF86Setup D)
xstart E) xf86init

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Where is a good place to store shell scripts that are for use by the
author? A) ~/bin B) /bin C) /usr/bin D) /root

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What would be displayed as the result of issuing the command ps

ef? Choose one a. A listing of the user's running processes formatted
as a tree. b. A listing of the stopped processes c. A listing of all the
running processes formatted as a tree. d. A listing of all system
processes formatted as a tree.

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Which two documents should you consult before making any final
purchasing recommendations? A) The overall Linux hardware
compatibility listing. B) The hardware compatibility listing for the
distribution you have chosen. C) The installation instructions for the
distribution you have chosen. D) System administration
documentation. E) Linux user documentation.

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Which two commands can you use to delete directories? A) rm B)

rm -rf C) rmdir D) rd E) rd -rf

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What command should you type to see all the files with an
extension of 'mem' listed in reverse alphabetical order in the
/home/ben/memos directory.

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 What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install
Linux?

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You want to enter a series of commands from the command-line.

What would be the quickest way to do this?

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Explain about debugging?

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Which two utilities can you use to set up a job to run at a specified
time? Choose one: a. at and crond b. atrun and crontab c. at and
crontab d. atd and crond

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Several of your users have been scheduling large at jobs to run

during peak load times. How can you prevent anyone from scheduling
an at job? Choose one: a. delete the file /etc/at.deny b. create an
empty file called /etc/at.deny c. create two empty files: /etc/at.deny
and /etc/at.allow file d. create an empty file called /etc/at.allow

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When defining a cronjob, there are five fields used to specify when
the job will run. What are these fields and what is the correct order?
Choose one: a. minute, hour, day of week, day of month, month b.
minute, hour, month, day of month, day of week c. minute, hour, day
of month, month, day of week d. hour, minute, day of month, month,
day of week

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As the system administrator you need to review Bob's cronjobs.

What command would you use? Choose one: a. crontab -lu bob b.
crontab -u bob c. crontab -l d. cronq -lu bob
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In order to schedule a cronjob, the first task is to create a text file

containing the jobs to be run along with the time they are to run.
Which of the following commands will run the script MyScript every
day at 11:45 pm? Choose one: a. * 23 45 * * MyScript b. 23 45 * * *
MyScript c. 45 23 * * * MyScript d. * * * 23 45 MyScript

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Which daemon must be running in order to have any scheduled

jobs run as scheduled? Choose one: a. crond b. atd c. atrun d. crontab

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You notice that your server load is exceptionally high during the
hours of 10 am to 2 noon. When investigating the cause, you suspect
that it may be a cron job scheduled by one of your users. What
command can you use to determine if your suspicions are correct?
Choose one: a. crontab -u b. crond -u c. crontab -l d. crond -l

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One of your users, Bob, has created a script to reindex his

database. Now he has it scheduled to run every day at 10:30 am.
What command should you use to delete this job. Choose one: a.
crontab -ru bob b. crontab -u bob c. crontab -du bob d. crontab -lu
bob

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What is the name and path of the default configuration file used by
the syslogd daemon?

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You have made changes to the /etc/syslog.conf file. Which of the

following commands will cause these changes to be implemented
without having to reboot your computer? Choose one: a. kill SIGHINT
`cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` b. kill SIGHUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` c.
kill SIGHUP syslogd d. kill SIGHINT syslogd

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Which of the following lines in your /etc/syslog.conf file will cause

all critical messages to be logged to the file /var/log/critmessages?
Choose one: a. *.=crit /var/log/critmessages b. *crit
/var/log/critmessages c. *=crit /var/log/critmessages d. *.crit
/var/log/critmessages

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You wish to have all mail messages except those of type info to
the /var/log/mailmessages file. Which of the following lines in your
/etc/syslogd.conf file would accomplish this? Choose one: a.
mail.*;mail!=info /var/log/mailmessages b. mail.*;mail.=info
/var/log/mailmessages c. mail.*;mail.info /var/log/mailmessages d.
mail.*;mail.!=info /var/log/mailmessages

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Which log contains information on currently logged in users?

Choose one: a. /var/log/utmp b. /var/log/wtmp c. /var/log/lastlog
d. /var/log/messages

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You have been told to configure a method of rotating log files on

your system. Which of the following factors do you not need to
consider? Choose one: a. date and time of messages b. log size c.
frequency of rotation d. amount of available disk space

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 You wish to rotate all your logs weekly except for the
/var/log/wtmp log which you wish to rotate monthly. How could you
accomplish this. Choose one: a. Assign a global option to rotate all
logs weekly and a local option to rotate the /var/log/wtmp log
monthly. b. Assign a local option to rotate all logs weekly and a global
option to rotate the /var/log/wtmp log monthly. c. Move the
/var/log/wtmp log to a different directory. Run logrotate against the
new location. d. Configure logrotate to not rotate the /var/log/wtmp
log. Rotate it manually every month.

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You have configured logrotate to rotate your logs weekly and keep
them for eight weeks. You are running our of disk space. What should
you do? Choose one: a. Quit using logrotate and manually save old
logs to another location. b. Reconfigure logrotate to only save logs for
four weeks. c. Configure logrotate to save old files to another location.
d. Use the prerotate command to run a script to move the older logs to
another location.

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Which of the following user names is invalid? Choose one: a.

Theresa Hadden b. thadden c. TheresaH d. T.H.

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The beginning user identifier is defined in the _________ file.

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Which field is used to define the user's default shell?

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You need to copy all the files and directories contained in the home
directory to another location. What utility can you use for this? Choose
one a. cpio b. cp c. mv d. mvdir

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 You are creating new partitions in preparation for installing Linux.
You want to have five different partitions. You have successfully
created four partitions, but are unable to create the fifth one. What is
the problem? Choose one: a. Your hard drive is not large enough for
more than four partitions. b. You need to create the swap partition
last. c. You created four primary partitions. d. Linux cannot be
installed on more than four partitions.

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The recommended minimum size of the swap partition is _____

MB?

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You have a computer with Windows 95 installed and want to install

Linux on it. However, there is no free space available. How could you
manage to install Linux on this computer with the least amount of
effort? Choose one: a. Use fips to resize the partition containing
Windows 95. b. Repartition the hard drive; reinstall Windows 95 and
then install Linux c. You cannot run Windows 95 and Linux on the
same computer d. Create a directory under Windows 95 and install
Linux in that directory.

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You are partitioning your second SCSI hard drive. What command
should you use? Choose one: a. fdisk sda2 b. fdisk sdb c. fdisk hdb d.
fdisk hda2

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While using fdisk what command would you use to see the
partition table? Choose one: a. w b. m c. w d. p

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What type would you set on a partition to make it a swap

partition? Choose one: a. 82 b. 83 c. s d. swap
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You have a new, empty hard drive that you will use for Linux.
What is the first step you use. Choose one: a. Create an extended
partition to be used for data. b. Format the hard drive to use the ext2
filesystem. c. Create a swap partition of type 82. d. Create a primary
partition using fdisk.

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You have created a primary partition, a swap partition and an

extended partition. You can format the primary partition but when you
try to format the extended partition it fails. What is the problem?
Choose one: a. You should have created another primary partition
instead of an extended partition. b. Your syntax is wrong for the
format command when attempting to format the extended partition. c.
You cannot format an extended partition. d. You have to use the
fdformat command to format extended partitions.

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When you create a new partition, you need to designate its size by
defining the starting and ending _____________.

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You need to view the contents of the tarfile called MyBackup.tar.

What command would you use?

When formating your partition with the mkfs command, you must
also pass to the command the type of filesystem and the number of
__________?

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You want to create a compressed backup of the users' home

directories. What utility should you use?

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 You have new documentation that you wish to install so that it will
be available to your users. Which directory would be the most
appropriate to use for these files? Choose one: a. /tmp b. /usr c. /lib
d. /mnt

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What daemon is responsible for tracking events on your system?

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Each inode contains extensive information on a file. Which of the

following is not contained in the inode. Choose one: a. file size b.
filename c. file's owner d. number of links to the file

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What account is created when you install Linux?

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What command should you use to check the number of files and
disk space used and each user's defined quotas?

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In order to improve your system's security you decide to

implement shadow passwords. What command should you use?

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Bob Armstrong, who has a username of boba, calls to tell you he

forgot his password. What command should you use to reset his
command?

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You cannot mount /dev/hdb1 and suspect that the superblock is

bad. How do you fix this? Choose one: a. Use the mkfs command. b.
Use the fsck command with the -f option. c. Use the e2fsck to replace
the superblock with a copy saved to another location on your disk. d.
Restore the superblock from your tape backup.

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What command should you type to see all the files with an
extension of 'mem' listed in reverse alphabetical order in the
/home/ben/memos directory. op

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Why should you track the amount of free space on your disks?
Choose one: a. If there is no free space, you will not be able to write
to that filesystem. b. If there is no free space, you will not be able to
install new applications. c. If the amount of free space becomes less
than 50 percent, then your system will slow down. d. If the amount of
free space is too low, your system will not boot.

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What file defines the levels of messages written to system log

files?

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You want to know how much space is being occupied by your

user's home directories. Which of the following will provide you with
this information? Choose one: a. du -l /home b. du -b /home c. du
-m /home d. du -c /home

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What command is used to remove the password assigned to a

group?

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You also need to know the amount of free space on the partition
containing the users' home directories. Which of the following
commands will provide this information? Choose one: a. df /home b. df
-i /home c. df --sync d. df -T
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What command would you type to use the cpio to create a backup
called backup.cpio of all the users' home directories?

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You notice that the amount of free space is getting low. When you
check the contents of the /tmp directory you find several hundred files
so you delete them. After deleting these temp files, you check the
amount of free space, however, it has not increased. What should you
do? Choose one: a. Move the /tmp directory to another partition. b.
Delete the partition containing the /tmp directory, recreate it and
restore its contents. c. Delete the /tmp directory and recreate it. d.
Run fsck on the filesystem containing the /tmp directory.

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What can you type at a command line to determine which shell

you are using?

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What type of local file server can you use to provide the
distribution installation materials to the new machine during a network
installation?

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When the kernel is loading, it writes any messages to the

____________ file.

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Which password package should you install to ensure that the

central password file couldn't be stolen easily?

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 What command can you use to see the boot messages? Choose
one: a. dmesg b. cat kernel.messages c. logview d. man logs

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When using useradd to create a new user account, which of the

following tasks is not done automatically.

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After the kernel is loaded, it calls the _________ daemon which is

responsible for creating new processes. Choose one: a. inittab b.
sys.conf c. init d. syslog

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Each entry in the /etc/inittab file contains four fields the third of
which is the Action field. What is the purpose of this field? Choose one:
a. Identifies the entry b. Specifies the command to execute c. Defines
how to handle the entry. d. Defines which runlevels this line applies to.

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You attempt to use shadow passwords but are unsuccessful. What

characteristic of the /etc/passwd file may cause this?

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What file should you examine to determine the defined runlevels

for your system?

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What are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file.

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How does single user mode differ from other runlevels? Choose
one: a. init does not read the /etc/inittab file b. Users can only log into
the system across the network. c. Network services are disabled. d. All
processes are stopped and the root filesystem is mounted as read-only
when in single user mode.

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What should you type to change the runlevel of your system?

Choose one: a. init [runlevel] b. halt [runlevel] c. /etc/inittab d. sys
init [runlevel]

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Which tasks is not necessary when creating a new user by editing

the /etc/passwd file? Choose one:

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Which file defines all users on your system?

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Which of the following tasks is not controlled by one of the rc

startup scripts? Choose one: a. backup users' directories b. run fsck c.
mount filesystems d. load modules

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Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?

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Modules are pieces of kernel code that you can load or unload.
What file do you use to pass parameters to a module? Choose one:
a. /etc/conf.mod b. /etc/modules c. /etc/inittab d. /etc/conf.modules

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What command can you use to review boot messages?

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 You have installed a new UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) and
the powerd daemon. Which file should you use to define the steps to
be taken in the case of a power failure? Choose one: a. /etc/ups.conf
b. /etc/inittab c. /etc/power.conf d. /etc/conf.ups

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You have made changes to the /etc/inittab file after installing your
UPS. How do you institute these configuration changes without having
to reboot your computer or have your users log off? Choose one: a.
Issue the command source /etc/inittab. b. Change the runlevel to
single user mode. c. Issue the init q command. d. The init daemon
only reads its configuration file during boot.

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Which of the following statements is not true of LILO? Choose one:

a. It can be used on a floppy to boot Linux. b. It must replace the
master boot record on your hard drive. c. It will work with other
operating systems such as DOS and Windows. d. It can specify up to
16 different boot images.

You have made changes to the LILO configuration file but you are
not sure the changes will work. How can you test the new
configuration without installing it? Choose one: a. LILO -t b. LILO -c
filename c. LILO -s filename d. LILO

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What is the complete name of the default configuration file for

LILO?

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Part of your /etc/lilo.conf file is as follows: boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36.0.7
label=linux root=/dev/dha1 You would like to start in single user mode
but you do not get a boot: prompt. What changes should you make to
the /etc/lilo.conf file to make a prompt appear everytime you boot
your system? Choose one: a. Add a line containing prompt. b. Add a
line containing a timeout. c. Add a line containing prompt=30 d.
Change the label to boot: instead of linux.

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When booting your system after installing LILO you see LIL and
then nothing happens. What could be the problem. Choose one: a.
LILO loaded successfully but the kernel is corrupt. b. LILO is not
installed properly. c. LILO could only complete the first stage, usually a
geometry mismatch. d. LILO could not load the map file, usually media
failure.

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You are going to install a new hard disk in your system. Which of
the following commands will halt your system so you can install the
new hardware? Choose one: a. shutdown -k now b. shutdown -h now
c. shutdown -r now d. shutdown -t now

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You want to review the man page on the files used to control hosts
access, however, when you enter man hosts_access you get the man
page for the routines used to programaticlly manipulate access. What
is the problem? Choose one: a. The page you are looking for does not
exist on your system. b. The page you are looking for resides in a
directory that is searched later. c. You typed the name of the page
incorrectly. d. The installation of man pages on your system is corrupt.

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You want to find how to set the manpath variable so you type man
man. What would you type while displaying the page to find the
location where manpath is discussed? Choose one: a. grep manpath b.
find manpath c. /manpath d. locate manpath

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You wish to find the man page that discusses how to change a
password. You type man password but get the message that no
manual entry for password exists. What command will find the
appropriate page? Choose one: a. man -C password b. man -k
password c. man -c password d. man -q password

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You have installed an additional set of man pages but in Spanish.

You have one user who wishes to use the Spanish pages rather than
English ones. What should you do to accomplish this? Choose one: a.
Edit the man.config file located in that user's home directory. b.
Instruct the user in how to reset the MANPATH variable whenever he
logs in. c. Edit the .profile file located in that user's home directory. d.
You can only have one version of man pages installed on your system
at a time.

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You know that the info utility provides easier to understand

documentation but you have never used it. How can you access a
tutorial on using info? Choose one: a. man info b. info c. info info d.
info help

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There is considerable documentation covering various tasks

provided as HOWTOs. These documents are normally installed in which
directory. Choose one: a. /etc/HOWTO b. /usr/doc/HOWTO c.
/usr/HOWTO d. /usr/lib/HOWTO

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What does FAQ stand for?

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When you install a new application, documentation on that

application is also usually installed. Where would you look for the
documentation after installing an application called MyApp? Choose
one: a. /usr/MyApp b. /lib/doc/MyApp c. /usr/doc/MyApp d. In the
same directory where the application is installed.

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 You need to update your HOWTOs. Where should you go to acquire
the latest versions? Choose one: a. Linux Mall and order a new CD. b.
Your local Linux Users Group should have a copy. c. The web site for
your distribution. d. Linux Documentation Project

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You have a problem installing an older CD-ROM drive on one of

your Linux servers. You have checked the HOWTOs and FAQs but have
not found your answer. Where could you go to search the newsgroups
to look for a solution? Choose one: a. http://www.deja.com b.
http://www.news.com c. http://www.linux-help.com d.
http://www.lug.com

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What command must you run to update the database used by the
whatis command? Choose one: a. makewhatis b. updatedb c. make
whatisdb d. The database is updated automatically.

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What does the apropos command do? Choose one: a. It is the

same as the man -f command. b. It is the same as the man -K
command. c. It searches the short descriptions from the man pages. d.
It uses the locatedb database to answer your query.

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Which of the following items would not be important for you to

record in your system documentation. Choose one: a. Any kernel
patches you might apply. b. Applications that are installed. c. When
did each user log on last. d. What problems with the system you have
had.

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Which of the following would improve your ability to provide user

support? Choose one: a. Create a directory containing instructions for
using all installed applications. b. Email your user's your office hours.
c. Whenever a user has a problem, fix it and leave. d. Use as much
technical language as possible when explaining what went wrong.

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Which of the following commands will make your home directory

your working directory. Choose one: a. cd b. cd home c. cd .. d. cd
home/username

You have three files in the /home/ben/memos

directory called letters, tom, betty. How could View
you determine each file's type by issuing only Answer
one command?
Which of the following commands will combine
the contents of the files tom and betty into a
new file called friends? Choose one: a. ls tom View
betty > friends b. cat tom betty > friends c. Answer
more tom betty >> friends d. cat tom; cat
betty > friends
Which of the following cannot be accomplished
with the cat command? Choose one: a. Create
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a new file b. Display the contents of a file c.
Answer
Append information to another file d. Change
the contents of a file
Which of the following commands will display a
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file one screen at a time? Choose one: a. less
Answer
b. page c. tr d. cat
You are debugging a new application that is
crashing. You want to watch the messages as
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they are being written to the log. What
Answer
command should you use? Choose one: a. tail
b. head c. less d. log
Which of the following tasks cannot be
accomplished with the touch command?
View
Choose one: a. Create a new file b. Change a
Answer
file's modification time c. Change a file's access
time d. Change a file's creation time
You want to copy the user's home directories View
to a new location. Which of the following Answer
commands will accomplish this? Choose one: a.
cp -rP /home/* newdir b. cp -i /home/* newdir
c. cp -iv /home/* newdir d. cp -b /home/*
newdir
You read an article that lists the following
command: dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 of=/new
What does this accomplish? Choose one: a. It View
copies the contents of a floppy disk to a file Answer
called new. b. It copies the file new to a floppy
disk. c. It formats a floppy d. It erases a floppy
You attempt to delete a file called sales.mem
using the rm command but the command fails.
What could be the problem? Choose one: a.
You do not have delete rights to the file called
View
sales.mem. b. You need to use the -i option
Answer
with rm to delete a file. c. You do not have
write rights to the directory containing the
sales.mem file. d. You are not the owner of the
file sales.mem.
You need to create two new directories in your
home directory. The first one is called
/home/bob/letters and the second one is
/home/bob/letters/sales. Which of the following View
command lines should you use? Choose one: a. Answer
mkdir /home/bob/letters/sales b. mkdir letters;
mkdir sales c. mkdir letters/sales d. mkdir
home/bob/letters/sales
You want to delete the following directories and
their files /home/bob/letters /home/bob/sales
so you issue the command rmdir
/home/bob/letters but the command fails.
What went wrong? Choose one: a. You need to
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first delete the sales subdirectory and its files
Answer
before deleting its parent directory, letters, and
its files. b. There is no such command as rmdir.
c. The rmdir command cannot remove
directories that are not empty. d. The rmdir
command will not remove directory heirarchies.
You want to construct a regular expression that View
will match all lines that end with 'stuff'. Which Answer
of the following expressions will do this?
Choose one: a. ^stuff b. stuff$ c. $stuff d.
stuff^
You create a new user account by adding the
following line to your /etc/passwd file.
bobm:baddog:501:501:Bob
Morris:/home/bobm:/bin/bash Bob calls you
and tells you that he cannot logon. You verify
that he is using the correct username and
password. What is the problem? Choose one: View
a. The UID and GID cannot be identical. b. You Answer
cannot have spaces in the line unless they are
surrounded with double quotes. c. You cannot
directly enter the password; rather you have to
use the passwd command to assign a password
to the user. d. The username is too short, it
must be at least six characters long.
You want to search for sale and sales. What
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regular expression should you use? Choose
Answer
one: a. sale* b. sale? c. ^sale d. sale$
Which of the following tasks is not necessary
when creating a new user by editing the
/etc/passwd file? Choose one: a. Create a link
from the user's home directory to the shell the View
user will use. b. Create the user's home Answer
directory c. Use the passwd command to
assign a password to the account. d. Add the
user to the specified group.
You have a file named 'kickoff' and would like
to find every line beginning with a number.
Which of the following commands will View
accomplish this? Choose one: a. grep [0-9] Answer
kickoff b. grep ^[0-9] kickoff c. grep [0-9]$
kickoff d. grep $[0-9] kickoff
You create a new user by adding the following View
line to the /etc/passwd file Answer
bobm::501:501:Bob
Morris:/home/bobm:/bin/bash You then create
the user's home directory and use the passwd
command to set his password. However, the
user calls you and says that he cannot log on.
What is the problem? Choose one: a. The user
did not change his password. b. bobm does not
 have permission to /home/bobm. c. The user
did not type his username in all caps. d. You
cannot leave the password field blank when
creating a new user.
You want to know how many lines in the
kickoff file contains 'prize'. Which of the
following commands will produce the desired View
results? Choose one: a. grep -n prize kickoff b. Answer
grep -c prize kickoff c. grep -v prize kickoff d.
grep prize kickoff
When using useradd to create a new user
account, which of the following tasks is not
done automatically. Choose one: a. Assign a View
UID. b. Assign a default shell. c. Create the Answer
user's home directory. d. Define the user's
home directory.
You search for the word prize in the file kickoff
by typing grep prize kickoff. However you also
find lines containing prize as part of a word
such as prizes but do not find Prize. How
View
should you change the command to find all
Answer
occurrences of prize as a word and not part of
a word? Choose one: a. grep -lc prize kickoff b.
grep -cw prize kickoff c. grep -vi prize kickoff
d. grep -iw prize kickoff

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You are using tar to create a tarfile of the files contained in the
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Mary has recently gotten married and wants to change her

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should you run to accomplish this? Choose one: a. usermod -l mknight
mstone b. usermod -l mstone mknight c. usermod -u mknight mstone
d. usermod -u mstone mknight

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You created a tarfile called myfiles.tar containing copies of all the

files in your home directory. In order to save space you compress this
file using gzip. After completing the operation, you do a listing of the
contents of the directory to see how much smaller the compressed file
is. How can you use the information from the listing to determine the
percentage of compression? Choose one: a. Only the compressed file
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directory by default. d. Divide the reported size of the compressed file
by the reported size of the tarfile.

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After bob leaves the company you issue the command userdel bob.
Although his entry in the /etc/passwd file has been deleted, his home
directory is still there. What command could you have used to make
sure that his home directory was also deleted? Choose one: a. userdel
-m bob b. userdel -u bob c. userdel -l bob d. userdel -r bob

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You have a file called docs.Z but do not know what it is. What is
the easiest way to look at the contents of the file? Choose one: a. Use
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All groups are defined in the /etc/group file. Each entry contains
four fields in the following order. Choose one: a. groupname,
password, GID, member list b. GID, groupname, password, member
list c. groupname, GID, password, member list d. GID, member list,
groupname, password

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You issue the command mount without any options and the
following output is displayed /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) none on
/proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda7 on
/tmp type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on
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your system and is taken from the /etc/fstab file. b. This is a listing of
all the mounted filesystems on your system and is taken from the
/etc/mtab file. c. This is a listing of all the available filesystems that
may be mounted on your system and is taken from the /etc/mtab file.
d. This is a listing of all the mounted filesystems on your system and is
taken from the /etc/fstab file.

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You have a new application on a CD-ROM that you wish to install.

What should your first step be? Choose one: a. Read the installation
instructions on the CD-ROM. b. Use the mount command to mount
your CD-ROM as read-write. c. Use the umount command to access
your CD-ROM. d. Use the mount command to mount your CD-ROM as
read-only.

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You want to make it possible for your users to mount floppy disks.
What do you need to do? Choose one: a. Tell your users the password
for root as floppies can only be mounted by root. b. Edit the mtab file
and add the user option on the floppy entry. c. Edit the fstab file and
add the ro option on the floppy entry. d. Edit the fstab file and add the
user option on the floppy entry.

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You changed the GID of the sales group by editing the /etc/group
file. All of the members can change to the group without any problem
except for Joe. He cannot even login to the system. What is the
problem? Choose one: a. Joe forgot the password for the group. b. You
need to add Joe to the group again. c. Joe had the original GID
specified as his default group in the /etc/passwd file. d. You need to
delete Joe's account and recreate it.

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You use the mount -a command to mount all your filesystems,

however, you cannot access your CD-ROM. What could be the
problem? Choose one: a. The CD-ROM is not defined in the fstab file.
b. The CD-ROM cannot be mounted using the mount -a command. c.
The command mount -a is not a valid command. d. The correct syntax
to mount all filesystems is mount fstab.
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You need to delete the group dataproject. Which two of the

following tasks should you do first before deleting the group? A. Check
the /etc/passwd file to make sure no one has this group as his default
group. B. Change the members of the dataproject group to another
group besides users. C. Make sure that the members listed in the
/etc/group file are given new login names. D. Verify that no file or
directory has this group listed as its owner. Choose one: a. A and C b.
A and D c. B and C d. B and D

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When you look at the /etc/group file you see the group kmem
listed. Since it does not own any files and no one is using it as a
default group, can you delete this group?

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After copying a file to a floppy disk, what should you do before

removing the disk?

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You have set quotas for all your users but half of your users are
using more space than they have been allotted. Which of the following
could be the problem? Choose one: a. You have too many users on
your system. b. Users' home directories are located on two different
partitions. c. Your kernel does not support setting disk quotas. d. You
did not turn quotas on with the quotaon command.

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What file contains the default environment variables when using

the bash shell? Choose one: a. ~/.profile b. /bash c. /etc/profile d.
~/bash