Quiz 101-400

Question #1 - Topic 1
Which of the following commands reboots the system when using SysV init? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. shutdown -r now
B. shutdown -r "rebooting"
C. telinit 6
D. telinit 0
E. shutdown -k now "rebooting"
Question #2 - Topic 1
What information can the lspci command display about the system hardware?
(Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. Device IRQ settings
B. PCI bus speed
C. System battery type
D. Device vendor identification
E. Ethernet MAC address
Question #3 - Topic 1
During a system boot cycle, what program is executed after the BIOS completes its
tasks?
A. The bootloader
B. The inetd program
C. The init program
D. The kernel
Question #4 - Topic 1
What is the first program that is usually started, at boot time, by the Linux kernel
when using SysV init?
A. /lib/init.so
B. /sbin/init
C. /etc/rc.d/rcinit
D. /proc/sys/kernel/init
E. /boot/init
Question #5 - Topic 1
Which of the following are init systems used within Linux systems? (Choose THREE
correct answers.)
A. startd
B. systemd
C. Upstart
D. SysInit
E. SysV init
Question #6 - Topic 1
Which run levels should never be declared as the default run level when using SysV
init? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. 0
B. 1
C. 3
D. 5
E. 6
Question #7 - Topic 1
Which of the following information is stored within the BIOS? (Choose TWO correct
answers.)
A. Boot device order
B. Linux kernel version
C. Timezone
D. Hardware configuration
E. The system's hostname
Question #8 - Topic 1
Which of the following commands will write a message to the terminals of all logged
in users?
A. bcast
B. mesg
C. print
D. wall
E. yell
Question #9 - Topic 1
Which file in the /proc filesystem lists parameters passed from the bootloader to the
kernel? (Specify the file name only without any path.) cmdline
Question #10 - Topic 1
Which of the following kernel parameters instructs the kernel to suppress most boot
messages?
A. silent
B. verbose=0
C. nomesg
D. quiet
Question #11 - Topic 1
Which command will display messages from the kernel that were output during the
normal boot sequence? dmesg

Question #12 - Topic 1

Which of the following options for the kernel's command line changes the systemd
boot target to rescue.target instead of the default target?
A. systemd.target=rescue.target
B. systemd.runlevel=rescue.target
C. systemd.service=rescue.target
D. systemd.default=rescue.target
E. systemd.unit=rescue.target
Question #13 - Topic 1
Which of the following commands brings a system running SysV init into a state in
which it
is safe to perform maintenance tasks? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. shutdown -R 1 now
B. shutdown -single now
C. init 1
D. telinit 1
E. runlevel 1
Question #14 - Topic 1
Which of the following statements is correct when talking about /proc/?
A. All changes to files in /proc/ are stored in /etc/proc.d/ and restored on reboot.
B. All files within /proc/ are read-only and their contents cannot be changed.
C. All changes to files in /proc/ are immediately recognized by the kernel.
D. All files within /proc/ are only readable by the root user.
Question #15 - Topic 1
Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete
key combination?
A. /etc/keys
B. /proc/keys
C. /etc/inittab
D. /proc/inittab
E. /etc/reboot
Question #16 - Topic 1
What of the following statements are true regarding /dev/ when using udev? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. Entries for all possible devices get created on boot even if those devices are not
connected.
B. Additional rules for udev can be created by adding them to /etc/udev/rules.d/.
C. When using udev, it is not possible to create block or character devices in /dev/
using mknod.
D. The /dev/ directory is a filesystem of type tmpfs and is mounted by udev during
system startup.
E. The content of /dev/ is stored in /etc/udev/dev and is restored during system
startup.
Question #17 - Topic 2
In which directory must definition files be placed to add additional repositories to
yum? /etc/yum.repos.d/

Question #18 - Topic 2

When removing a package, which of the following dpkg options will completely
remove the files including configuration files?
A. --clean
B. --delete
C. --purge
D. –remove
Question #19 - Topic 2
What is the name of the main configuration file for GNU GRUB? (Specify the file
name only without any path.) menu.lst, grub.conf, grub.cfg

Question #20 - Topic 2

Which of the following options is used in a GRUB Legacy configuration file to define
the amount of time that the GRUB menu will be shown to the user?
A. hidemenu
B. splash
C. timeout
D. showmenu
Question #21 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands lists the dependencies of a given dpkg package?
A. apt-cache depends-on package
B. apt-cache dependencies package
C. apt-cache depends package
D. apt-cache requires package
Question #22 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands lists all currently installed packages when using
RPM package management?
A. yum --query --all
B. yum --list --installed
C. rpm --query --all
D. rpm --list –installed
Question #23 - Topic 2
Which RPM command will output the name of the package which supplied the file
/etc/exports?
A. rpm -F /etc/exports
B. rpm -qf /etc/exports
C. rpm -Kl /etc/exports
D. rpm -qp /etc/exports
E. rpm -qi /etc/exports
Question #24 - Topic 2
Which Debian package management tool asks the configuration questions for a
specific already installed package just as if the package were being installed for the
first time? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
dpkg-reconfigure

Question #25 - Topic 2

Which of the following commands updates the linker cache of shared libraries?
A. mkcache
B. soconfig
C. mkldconfig
D. lddconfig
E. ldconfig
Question #26 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands overwrites the bootloader located on /dev/sda
without
overwriting the partition table or any data following it?
A. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512
B. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
C. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
D. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440
Question #27 - Topic 2
Which of the following is correct when talking about mount points?
A. Every existing directory can be used as a mount point.
B. Only empty directories can be used as a mount point.
C. Directories need to have the SetUID flag set to be used as a mount point.
D. Files within a directory are deleted when the directory is used as a mount point.
Question #28 - Topic 2
Which world-writable directory should be placed on a separate partition in order to
prevent users from being able to fill up the / filesystem? (Specify the full path to the
directory.) /tmp/, /var/tmp/

Question #29 - Topic 2

Which file should be edited to select the network locations from which Debian
installation package files are loaded?
A. /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
B. /etc/apt/apt.conf
C. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
D. /etc/apt/sources.list
E. /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
Question #30 - Topic 2
After modifying GNU GRUB's configuration file, which command must be run for
the changes to take effect?
A. kill -HUP $(pidof grub)
B. grub-install
C. grub
D. No action is required
Question #31 - Topic 2
Which command will disable swapping on a device? (Specify ONLY the command
without any path or parameters.) swapoff, /sbin/swapoff

Question #32 - Topic 2

Which function key is used to start Safe Mode in Windows NT?
A. F10
B. F8
C. F6
D. Windows NT does not support Safe Mode
Question #33 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands is used to update the list of available packages
when using dpkg based package management?
A. apt-get update
B. apt-get upgrade
C. apt-cache update
D. apt-get refresh
E. apt-cache upgrade
Question #34 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands can be used to download the RPM package kernel
without installing it?
A. yum download --no-install kernel
B. yumdownloader kernel
C. rpm --download --package kernel
D. rpmdownload kernel
Question #35 - Topic 2
Which option to the yum command will update the entire system? (Specify ONLY the
option name without any additional parameters.) update, upgrade

Question #36 - Topic 2

Which of the following environment variables overrides or extends the list of
directories holding shared libraries?
A. LD_LOAD_PATH
B. LD_LIB_PATH
C. LD_LIBRARY_PATH
D. LD_SHARE_PATH
E. LD_RUN_PATH
Question #37 - Topic 2
When using rpm --verify to check files created during the installation of RPM
packages, which of the following information is taken into consideration? (Choose
THREE correct answers.)
A. Timestamps
B. MD5 checksums
C. Inodes
D. File sizes
E. GnuPG signatures
Question #38 - Topic 2
What can the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) be used for? (Choose THREE correct
answers.)
A. To create RAID 9 arrays.
B. To dynamically change the size of logical volumes.
C. To encrypt logical volumes.
D. To create snapshots.
E. To dynamically create or delete logical volumes.
Question #39 - Topic 3
In the vi editor, which of the following commands will copy the current line into the
vi buffer?
A. c
B. cc
C. 1c
D. yy
E. 1y
Question #40 - Topic 3
A user accidentally created the subdirectory \dir in his home directory. Which of the
following commands will remove that directory?
A. rmdir '~/\dir'
B. rmdir "~/\dir"
C. rmdir ~/'dir'
D. rmdir ~/\dir
E. rmdir ~/\\dir
Question #41 - Topic 3
Which command is used in a Linux environment to create a new directory? (Specify
ONLY the command without any path or parameters.) mkdir, /usr/bin/mkdir

Question #42 - Topic 3

Which of the following commands can be used to determine how long the system has
been running? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. uptime
B. up
C. top
D. uname -u
E. time –up
Question #43 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands will NOT update the modify timestamp on the file
/tmp/myfile.txt?
A. file /tmp/myfile.txt
B. echo "Hello" >/tmp/myfile.txt
C. sed -ie "s/1/2/" /tmp/myfile.txt
D. echo -n "Hello" >>/tmp/myfile.txt
E. touch /tmp/myfile.txt
Question #44 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands will send output from the program myapp to both
standard output (stdout) and the file file1.log?
A. cat < myapp | cat > file1.log
B. myapp 0>&1 | cat > file1.log
C. myapp | cat > file1.log
D. myapp | tee file1.log
E. tee myapp file1.log
Question #45 - Topic 3
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the command foo 1> bar?
A. The stdout from the command foo is appended to the file bar.
B. The stdout from the command foo overwrites the file bar.
C. The command foo receives its stdin from the file bar.
D. The command foo receives its stdin from the stdout of the command bar.
E. The stderr from the command foo is saved to the file bar.
Question #46 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands prints all files and directories within the /tmp
directory or its subdirectories which are also owned by the user root? (Choose TWO
correct answers.)
A. find /tmp -uid root -print
B. find -path /tmp -uid root
C. find /tmp -user root -print
D. find /tmp -user root
E. find -path /tmp -user root –print
Question #47 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands displays the contents of a gzip compressed tar
archive?
A. gzip archive.tgz | tar xvf -
B. tar ztf archive.tgz
C. gzip -d archive.tgz | tar tvf -
D. tar cf archive.tgz
Question #48 - Topic 3
Which variable defines the directories in which a Bash shell searches for executable
commands?
A. BASHEXEC
B. BASHRC
C. PATH
D. EXECPATH
E. PATHRC
Question #49 - Topic 3
What happens after issuing the command vi without any additional parameters?
A. vi starts and loads the last file used and moves the cursor to the position where vi
was when it last exited.
B. vi starts and requires the user to explicitly either create a new or load an existing
file.
C. vi exits with an error message as it cannot be invoked without a file name to
operate on.
D. vi starts in command mode and opens a new empty file.
E. vi starts and opens a new file which is filled with the content of the vi buffer if the
buffer contains text.
Question #50 - Topic 3
When starting a program with the nice command without any additional parameters,
which nice level is set for the resulting process?
A. -10
B. 0
C. 10
D. 20
Question #51 - Topic 3
Which of the following signals is sent to a process when the key combination
CTRL+C is pressed on the keyboard?
A. SIGTERM
B. SIGINT
C. SIGSTOP
D. SIGKILL
Question #52 - Topic 3
Which of the following command sets the Bash variable named TEST with the
content FOO?
A. set TEST="FOO"
B. TEST = "FOO"
C. var TEST="FOO"
D. TEST="FOO"
Question #53 - Topic 3
In compliance with the FHS, in which of the directories are man pages found?
A. /usr/share/man
B. /opt/man
C. /usr/doc/
D. /var/pkg/man
E. /var/man
Question #54 - Topic 3
What is the effect of the egrep command when the -v option is used?
A. It enables color to highlight matching parts.
B. It only outputs non-matching lines.
C. It shows the command's version information.
D. It changes the output order showing the last matching line first.
Question #55 - Topic 3
Which of the following shell redirections will write standard output and standard error
output to a file named filename?
A. 2>&1 >filename
B. >filename 2>&1
C. 1>&2>filename
D. >>filename
E. 1&2>filename
Question #56 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands is used to change options and positional
parameters for a running Bash?
A. history
B. set
C. bashconf
D. setsh
E. envsetup
Question #57 - Topic 3
What is the output of the following command?
echo "Hello World" | tr -d aieou
A. Hello World
B. eoo
C. Hll Wrld
D. eoo Hll Wrld
Question #58 - Topic 3
In the vi editor, how can commands such as moving the cursor or copying lines into
the buffer be issued multiple times or applied to multiple rows?
A. By using the command :repeat followed by the number and the command.
B. By specifying the number right in front of a command such as 4l or 2yj.
C. By selecting all affected lines using the shift and cursor keys before applying the
command.
D. By issuing a command such as :set repetition=4 which repeats every subsequent
command 4 times.
Question #59 - Topic 3
What is the purpose of the Bash built-in export command?
A. It allows disks to be mounted remotely.
B. It runs a command as a process in a subshell.
C. It makes the command history available to subshells.
D. It sets up environment variables for applications.
E. It shares NFS partitions for use by other systems on the network.
Question #60 - Topic 3
Which of the following files, located in the user home directory, is used to store the
Bash history?
A. .bash_history
B. .bash_histfile
C. .history
D. .bashrc_history
E. .history_bash
Question #61 - Topic 3
When running the command sed -e "s/a/b/" /tmp/file >/tmp/file
While /tmp/file contains data, why is /tmp/file empty afterwards?
A. The file order is incorrect. The destination file must be mentioned before the
command to ensure redirection.
B. The command sed did not match anything in that file therefore the output is empty.
C. When the shell establishes the redirection it overwrites the target file before the
redirected command starts and opens it for reading.
D. Redirection for shell commands do not work using the > character. It only works
using the | character instead.
Question #62 - Topic 3
What is the default nice level when a process is started using the nice command?
A. -10
B. 10
C. 20
D. 0
Question #63 - Topic 3
Immediately after deleting 3 lines of text in vi and moving the cursor to a different
line, which single character command will insert the deleted content below the current
line?
A. i (lowercase)
B. P (uppercase)
C. p (lowercase)
D. U (uppercase)
E. u (lowercase)
Question #64 - Topic 3
Which shell command is used to continue background execution of a suspended
command?
A. &
B. bg
C. cont
D. exec
E. :&
Question #65 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands kills the process with the PID 123 but allows the
processto "clean up" before exiting?
A. kill -PIPE 123
B. kill -KILL 123
C. kill -STOP 123
D. kill -TERM 123
Question #66 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands can be used to create a USB storage media from a
disk image?
A. gdisk
B. dd
C. cc
D. fdisk
E. mount
Question #67 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands determines the type of a file by using a definition
database file which contains information about all common file types?
A. magic
B. type
C. file
D. pmagic
E. hash
Question #68 - Topic 3
Which command displays a list of all background tasks running in the current shell?
(Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.) jobs
Question #69 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands replaces each occurrence of 'bob' in the file letter
with 'Bob' and writes the result to the file newletter?
A. sed '/bob/Bob' letter > newletter
B. sed s/bob/Bob/ letter < newletter
C. sed 's/bob/Bob' letter > newletter
D. sed 's/bob/Bob/g' letter > newletter
E. sed 's/bob, Bob/' letter > newletter
Question #70 - Topic 3
In a nested directory structure, which find command line option would be used to
restrict the command to searching down a particular number of subdirectories?
A. -dirmax
B. -maxdepth
C. -maxlevels
D. -n
E. -s
Question #71 - Topic 3
Which signal is missing from the following command that is commonly used to
instruct a daemon to reinitialize itself, including reading configuration files?
killall -s _______ daemon HUP, SIGHUP, 1

Question #72 - Topic 3

Which grep command will print only the lines that do not end with a / in the file foo?
A. grep '/$' foo
B. grep '/#' foo
C. grep -v '/$' foo
D. grep -v '/#' foo
Question #73 - Topic 3
What is the difference between the i and a commands of the vi editor?
A. i (interactive) requires the user to explicitly switch between vi modes whereas a
(automatic) switches modes automatically.
B. i (insert) inserts text before the current cursor position whereas a (append) inserts
text after the cursor.
C. i (independent rows) starts every new line at the first character whereas a (aligned
rows) keeps the indentation of the previous line.
D. i (interrupt) temporarily suspends editing of a file to the background whereas a
(abort) terminates editing.
Question #74 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands prints a list of usernames (first column) and their
primary
group (fourth column) from the /etc/passwd file?
A. fmt -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
B. split -c 1,4 /etc/passwd
C. cut -d : -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
D. paste -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
Question #75 - Topic 3
Which of the following sequences in the vi editor saves the opened document and
exits the
editor? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. esc ZZ
B. ctrl :w!
C. esc zz
D. esc :wq!
E. ctrl XX
Question #76 - Topic 3
From a Bash shell, which of the following commands directly executes the instruction
from the file /usr/local/bin/runme.sh without starting a subshell? (Please select TWO
answers.)
A. source /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
B. . /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
C. /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
D. /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
E. run /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
Question #77 - Topic 3
What is the maximum niceness value that a regular user can assign to a process with
the nice command when executing a new process?
A. 9
B. 19
C. 49
D. 99
Question #78 - Topic 3
Which of the following are valid stream redirection operators within Bash? (Choose
THREE correct answers.)
A. <
B. <<<
C. >
D. >>>
E. %>
Question #79 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands will print the last 10 lines of a text file to the
standard output?
A. cat -n 10 filename
B. dump -n 10 filename
C. head -n 10 filename
D. tail -n 10 filename
Question #80 - Topic 3
Which character, added to the end of a command, runs that command in the
background as a child process of the current shell?
A. !
B. +
C. &
D. %
E. #
Question #81 - Topic 3
In Bash, inserting 1>&2 after a command redirects
A. standard error to standard input.
B. standard input to standard error.
C. standard output to standard error.
D. standard error to standard output.
E. standard output to standard input.
Question #82 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands moves and resumes in the background the last
stopped shell job?
A. run
B. bg
C. fg
D. back
Question #83 - Topic 3
What command will generate a list of user names from /etc/passwd along with their
login shell?
A. column -s : 1,7 /etc/passwd
B. chop -c 1,7 /etc/passwd
C. colrm 1,7 /etc/passwd
D. cut -d: -f1,7 /etc/passwd
Question #84 - Topic 3
Regarding the command:
nice -5 /usr/bin/prog
Which of the following statements is correct?
A. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of -5.
B. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of 5.
C. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of -5.
D. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of 5.
Question #85 - Topic 3
Which Bash environment variable defines in which file the user history is stored when
exiting a Bash process? (Specify ONLY the variable name.) HISTFILE

Question #86 - Topic 3

What is the default action of the split command on an input file?
A. It will break the file into new files of 1,024 byte pieces each.
B. It will break the file into new files of 1,000 line pieces each.
C. It will break the file into new files of 1,024 kilobyte pieces each.
D. It will break the file into new files that are no more than 5% of the size of the
original file.
Question #87 - Topic 3
What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?
A. Match the preceding qualifier one or more times.
B. Match the preceding qualifier zero or more times.
C. Match the preceding qualifier zero or one times.
D. Match a literal ? character.
Question #88 - Topic 3
Which of the following characters can be combined with a separator string in order to
read from the current input source until the separator string, which is on a separate
line and without any trailing spaces, is reached?
A. <<
B. <|
C. !<
D. &<
Question #89 - Topic 3
When given the following command line.
echo "foo bar" | tee bar | cat
Which of the following output is created?
A. cat
B. foo bar
C. tee bar
D. bar
E. foo
Question #90 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands will reduce all consecutive spaces down to a single
space?
A. tr '\s' ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
B. tr -c ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
C. tr -d ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
D. tr -r ' ' '\n' < a.txt > b.txt
E. tr -s ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
Question #91 - Topic 4
In order to display all currently mounted filesystems, which of the following
commands could be used? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. cat /proc/self/mounts
B. free
C. mount
D. lsmounts
E. cat /proc/filesystems
Question #92 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands shows the definition of a given shell command?
A. where
B. stat
C. type
D. case
Question #93 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands creates an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sdb1? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. /sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
B. /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
C. /sbin/mkfs -c ext3 /dev/sdb1
D. /sbin/mke3fs -j /dev/sdb1
Question #94 - Topic 4
Instead of supplying an explicit device in /etc/fstab for mounting, what other options
may be used to identify the intended partition? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. FIND
B. ID
C. LABEL
D. NAME
E. UUID
Question #95 - Topic 4
Which of the following file permissions belong to a symbolic link?
A. -rwxrwxrwx
B. +rwxrwxrwx
C. lrwxrwxrwx
D. srwxrwxrwx
Question #96 - Topic 4
Which of the following is the device file name for the second partition on the only
SCSI drive?
A. /dev/hda1
B. /dev/sda2
C. /dev/sd0a2
D. /dev/sd1p2
Question #97 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands changes the ownership of file.txt to the user dan
and the group staff?
A. chown dan/staff file.txt
B. chown dan:staff file.txt
C. chown -u dan -g staff file.txt
D. chown dan -g staff file.txt
Question #98 - Topic 4
Which of the following pieces of information of an existing file is changed when a
hard link pointing to that file is created?
A. File size
B. Modify timestamp
C. Link count
D. Inode number
E. Permissions
Question #99 - Topic 4
What does the command mount -a do?
A. It mounts all available filesystems onto the current directory.
B. It shows all mounted filesystems.
C. It mounts all user mountable filesystems for the current user.
D. It mounts all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab which have the option auto set.
E. It mounts all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab which have the option noauto set.
Question #100 - Topic 4
What is the purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard?
A. It is a security model used to ensure files are organized according to their
permissions and accessibility.
B. It provides unified tools to create, maintain and manage multiple filesystems in a
common way.
C. It defines a common internal structure of inodes for all compliant filesystems.
D. It is a distribution neutral description of locations of files and directories.

Question #101 - Topic 4

Which of the following commands makes /bin/foo executable by everyone but
writable only by its owner?
A. chmod u=rwx,go=rx /bin/foo
B. chmod o+rwx,a+rx /bin/foo
C. chmod 577 /bin/foo
D. chmod 775 /bin/foo
Question #102 - Topic 4
Creating a hard link to an ordinary file returns an error. What could be the reason for
this?
A. The source file is hidden.
B. The source file is read-only.
C. The source file is a shell script.
D. The source file is already a hard link.
E. The source and the target are on different filesystems.
Question #103 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands set the sticky bit for the directory /tmp? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. chmod +s /tmp
B. chmod +t /tmp
C. chmod 1775 /tmp
D. chmod 4775 /tmp
E. chmod 2775 /tmp
Question #104 - Topic 4
Which utility would be used to change how often a filesystem check is performed on
an ext2 filesystem without losing any data stored on that filesystem?
A. mod2fs
B. fsck
C. tune2fs
D. mke2fs
E. fixe2fs
Question #105 - Topic 4
Which umask value will result in the default access permissions of 600 (rw-------) for
files and 700 (rwx------) for directories? (Specify only the numerical umask value.)
077
Question #106 - Topic 4
What does the command mount -a do?
A. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option noauto in /etc/fstab are
mounted.
B. It shows all mounted file systems that have been automatically mounted.
C. It opens an editor with root privileges and loads /etc/fstab for editing.
D. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option auto in /etc/fstab are mounted.
E. It ensures that all file systems listed in /etc/fstab are mounted regardless of their
options.
Question #107 - Topic 4
Which type of filesystem is created by mkfs when it is executed with the block device
name only and without any additional parameters?
A. ext2
B. ext3
C. ext4
D. XFS
E. VFAT
Question #108 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands can be used to search for the executable file foo
when it has been placed in a directory not included in $PATH?
A. apropos
B. which
C. find
D. query
E. whereis
Question #109 - Topic 4
After running the command umount /mnt, the following error message is displayed:
umount: /mnt: device is busy. What is a common reason for this message?
A. The kernel has not finished flushing disk writes to the mounted device.
B. A user has a file open in the /mnt directory.
C. Another file system still contains a symlink to a file inside /mnt.
D. The files in /mnt have been scanned and added to the locate database.
E. The kernel thinks that a process is about to open a file in /mnt for reading.
Question #110 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands can be used to locate programs and their
corresponding man pages and configuration files?
A. dirname
B. which
C. basename
D. query
E. whereis
Question #111 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands can be used to display the inode number of a given
file?
A. inode
B. ls
C. ln
D. cp
Question #112 - Topic 4
Which of the following Linux filesystems preallocates a fixed number of inodes at the
filesystem's make/creation time and does NOT generate them as needed? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. ext3
B. JFS
C. ext2
D. XFS
E. procfs
Question #113 - Topic 4
How many fields are in a syntactically correct line of /etc/fstab?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7
Question #114 - Topic 4
After successfully creating a hard link called bar to the ordinary file foo, foo is deleted
from the filesystem. Which of the following describes the resulting situation?
A. foo and bar would both be removed.
B. foo would be removed while bar would remain accessible.
C. foo would be removed. bar would still exist but would be unusable.
D. Both foo and bar would remain accessible.
E. The user is prompted whether bar should be removed, too.
Question #115 - Topic 4
What do the permissions -rwSr-xr-x mean for a binary file when it is executed as a
command?
A. The command is SetUID and it will be executed with the effective rights of the
owner.
B. The command will be executed with the effective rights of the group instead of the
owner.
C. The execute flag is not set for the owner. Therefore the SetUID flag is ignored.
D. The command will be executed with the effective rights of the owner and group.
Question #116 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands changes the number of days before the ext3
filesystem on /dev/sda1 has to run through a full filesystem check while booting?
A. tune2fs -d 200 /dev/sda1
B. tune2fs -c 200 /dev/sda1
C. tune2fs -i 200 /dev/sda1
D. tune2fs -n 200 /dev/sda1
E. tune2fs --days 200 /dev/sda1
Question #117 - Topic 4
Which command is used to create and initialize the files used to store quota
information? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
quotacheck

Question #118 - Topic 4

Which of the following commands will change the quota for a specific user?
A. edquota
B. repquota
C. quota -e
D. quota
Question #119 - Topic 4
After moving data to a new filesystem, how can the former path of the data be kept
intact in order to avoid reconfiguration of existing applications? (Choose TWO
correct answers.)
A. By creating an ACL redirection from the old to the new path of the data.
B. By creating a hard link from the old to the new path of the data.
C. By creating a symbolic link from the old to the new path of the data.
D. By running the command touch on the old path.
E. By mounting the new filesystem on the original path of the data.
Question #120 - Topic 4
Which of the following settings for umask ensures that new files have the default
permissions -rw-r----- ?
A. 0017
B. 0640
C. 0038
D. 0027
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Showing 1-100 of 120 Questions
Question #1 - Topic 1
What word is missing from the following SQL statement?
insert into tablename ________(909, 'text');
(Please specify the missing word using lower-case letters only.)
Question #2 - Topic 1
Which of the following files, when existing, affect the behavior of the Bash shell?
(Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. ~/.bashconf
B. ~/.bashrc
C. ~/.bashdefaults
D. ~/.bash_etc
E. ~/.bash_profile
Question #3 - Topic 1
When the command echo $$ outputs 12942, what is the meaning of 12942?
A. It is the process ID of the echo command.
B. It is the process ID of the current shell.
C. It is the process ID of the last command executed.
D. It is the process ID of the last command which has been placed in the background.
Question #4 - Topic 1
What output will the following command produce?
seq 1 5 20
A. 1
B. 1
C. 1
D. 2
E. 5
Question #5 - Topic 1
What output will the following command sequence produce?
echo '1 2 3 4 5 6' | while read a b c; do
echo result: $c $b $a;
done
A. result: 3 4 5 6 2 1
B. result: 1 2 3 4 5 6
C. result: 6 5 4
D. result: 6 5 4 3 2 1
E. result: 3 2 1
Question #6 - Topic 1
Which of the following commands lists all defined variables and functions within
Bash?
A. env
B. set
C. env -a
D. echo $ENV
Question #7 - Topic 1
Which of the following SQL queries counts the number of occurrences for each value
of the field order_type in the table orders?
A. SELECT order_type,COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE order_type=order_type;
B. SELECT order_type,COUNT(*) FROM orders GROUP BY order_type;
C. COUNT(SELECT order_type FROM orders);
D. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders ORDER BY order_type;
E. SELECT AUTO_COUNT FROM orders COUNT order_type;
Question #8 - Topic 1
When the command echo $ outputs 1, which of the following statements is true?
A. It is the process ID of the echo command.
B. It is the process ID of the current shell.
C. It is the exit value of the command executed immediately before echo.
D. It is the exit value of the echo command.
Question #9 - Topic 1
What command displays all aliases defined in the current shell? (Specify the
command without any path information) alias, alias -p

Question #10 - Topic 1

By default, the contents of which directory will be copied to a new user's home
directory when the account is created by passing the -m option to the useradd
command? (Specify the full path to the directory.) /etc/skel
Question #11 - Topic 1
What output will the command seq 10 produce?
A. A continuous stream of numbers increasing in increments of 10 until stopped.
B. The numbers 1 through 10 with one number per line.
C. The numbers 0 through 9 with one number per line.
D. The number 10 to standard output.
Question #12 - Topic 1
How can the existing environment variable FOOBAR be suppressed for the execution
of the script./myscript only?
A. unset -v FOOBAR;./myscript
B. set -a FOOBAR="";./myscript
C. env -u FOOBAR./myscript
D. env -i FOOBAR./myscript
Question #13 - Topic 1
What is the difference between the commands test -e path and test -f path?
A. They are equivalent options with the same behaviour.
B. The -f option tests for a regular file. The -e option tests for an empty file.
C. Both options check the existence of the path. The -f option also confirms that it is a
regular file.
D. The -f option tests for a regular file. The -e option tests for an executable file.
Question #14 - Topic 1
Which of the following are requirements in order to run a shell script like a regular
command from anywhere in the filesystem? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. The user issuing the command must be in the group script.
B. The script file must be found in the $PATH.
C. The script file must have the executable permission bit set.
D. The script must begin with a shebang-line (#!) that points to the correct interpreter.
E. The file system on which the script resides must be mounted with the option
scripts.
Question #15 - Topic 1
Which of the following words is used to restrict the records that are returned from a
SELECT SQL query based on a supplied criteria for the values in the records?
A. CASE
B. FROM
C. WHERE
D. IF
Question #16 - Topic 1
Which of the following commands puts the output of the command date into the shell
variable mydate?
A. mydate="$(date)"
B. mydate="exec date"
C. mydate="$((date))"
D. mydate="date"
E. mydate="${date}"
Question #17 - Topic 1
What word is missing from the following SQL statement?
__________ count(*) from tablename; select
(Please specify the missing word using lower-case letters only.)
Question #18 - Topic 1
What is the purpose of the file /etc/profile?
A. It contains the welcome message that is displayed after login.
B. It contains security profiles defining which users are allowed to log in.
C. It contains environment variables that are set when a user logs in.
D. It contains default application profiles for users that run an application for the first
time.
Question #19 - Topic 1
Which command makes the shell variable named VARIABLE visible to subshells?
A. export $VARIABLE
B. export VARIABLE
C. set $VARIABLE
D. set VARIABLE
E. env VARIABLE
Question #20 - Topic 1
After issuing:
function myfunction { echo $1 $2 ; }
in Bash, which output does:
myfunction A B C
Produce?
A. A B
B. A B C
C. A C
D. B C
E. C B A
Question #21 - Topic 2
Which command can be used to investigate the properties for a particular window in
X by clicking that window? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or
parameters.) /usr/bin/xwininfo, xwininfo

Question #22 - Topic 2

What is the purpose of a screen reader?
A. It reads text displayed on the screen to blind or visually impaired people.
B. It reads the parameters of the attached monitors and creates an appropriate X11
configuration.
C. It displays lines and markers to help people use speed reading techniques.
D. It manages and displays files that contain e-books.
Question #23 - Topic 2
Which of the following are tasks handled by a display manager like XDM or KDM?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. Start and prepare the desktop environment for the user.
B. Configure additional devices like new monitors or projectors when they are
attached.
C. Handle the login of a user.
D. Lock the screen when the user was inactive for a configurable amount of time.
E. Create an X11 configuration file for the current graphic devices and monitors.
Question #24 - Topic 2
For accessibility assistance, which of the following programs is an on-screen
keyboard?
A. xkb
B. atkb
C. GOK
D. xOSK
Question #25 - Topic 2
Which file used by XDM specifies the default wallpaper?
A. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
B. /etc/X11/xdm.conf
C. /etc/X11/xdm/Defaults
D. /etc/X11/defaults.conf
Question #26 - Topic 2
Which of the following commands shows the current color depth of the X Server?
A. xcd
B. xcdepth
C. xwininfo
D. xcolordepth
E. cat /etc/X11
Question #27 - Topic 2
What is the default name of the configuration file for the Xorg X11 server? (Specify
the file name only without any path.) /etc/xorg.conf
Question #28 - Topic 2
How is a display manager started?
A. It is started by a user using the command startx.
B. It is started like any other system service by the init system.
C. It is started by inetd when a remote hosts connects to the X11 port.
D. It is started automatically when a X11 user logs in to the system console.
Question #29 - Topic 2
What is the name of the simple graphical login manager that comes with a vanilla
X11 installation? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
xdm
Question #30 - Topic 2
The X11 configuration file xorg.conf is grouped into sections. How is the content of
the section SectionName associated with that section?
A. It is placed in curly brackets as in Section SectionName { ... }.
B. It is placed between a line containing Section "SectionName" and a line containing
EndSection.
C. It is placed between the tags <Section name="SectionName"> and </Section>
D. It is placed after the row [SectionName].
E. It is placed after an initial unindented Section "SectionName" and must be indented
by exactly one tab character.
Question #31 - Topic 3
What is true about the file /etc/localtime?
A. It is a plain text file containing a string such as Europe/Berlin.
B. It is created and maintained by the NTP service based on the geolocation of the
system's IP address.
C. It is a symlink to /sys/device/clock/ltime and always contains the current local
time.
D. It is either a symlink to or a copy of a timezone information file such as
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin.
Question #32 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands can remove a user from a group?
A. grouprm
B. groupmod
C. passwd
D. usergroups
E. usermod
Question #33 - Topic 3
Which environment variable should be set in order to change the time zone for the
commands run from within the environment variable's scope? (Specify the variable
name only.) TZ
Question #34 - Topic 3
Which commands can be used to change a user's account aging information? (Choose
THREE correct answers.)
A. usermod
B. passwd
C. chattr
D. chage
E. chsh
Question #35 - Topic 3
Each entry in a crontab must end with what character?
A. Tab
B. Space
C. Backslash
D. Newline
Question #36 - Topic 3
What is the purpose of the iconv command?
A. It converts bitmap images from one format to another such as PNG to JPEG.
B. It verifies that the root directory tree complies to all conventions from the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).
C. It displays additional meta information from icon files ending in .ico.
D. It changes the mode of an inode in the ext4 file system.
E. It converts files from one character encoding to another.
Question #37 - Topic 3
Which character in the password field of /etc/passwd is used to indicate that the
encrypted password is stored in /etc/shadow?
A. *
B. -
C. s
D. x
Question #38 - Topic 3
What is NOT contained in the locale setting of the operating system?
A. currency symbol
B. language
C. timezone
D. thousands separator
Question #39 - Topic 3
Which file specifies the user accounts that can NOT submit jobs via at or batch?
(Provide the full path and filename) /etc/at.deny
Question #40 - Topic 3
Which of the following files assigns a user to its primary group?
A. /etc/pgroup
B. /etc/shadow
C. /etc/group
D. /etc/passwd
E. /etc/gshadow
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Question #41 - Topic 3
Which command can be used to delete a group from a Linux system?
A. groupdel
B. groupmod
C. groups
D. groupedit
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Question #42 - Topic 3
In case neither cron.allow nor cron.deny exist in /etc/, which of the following is true?
A. Without additional configuration, no users may have user specific crontabs.
B. Without additional configuration, all users may have user specific crontabs.
C. The cron daemon will refuse to start and report missing files in the system's logfile.
D. When a user creates a user specific crontab the system administrator must approve
it explicitly.
Question #43 - Topic 3
To prevent a specific user from scheduling tasks with at, what should the
administrator do?
A. Add the specific user to /etc/at.allow file.
B. Add the specific user to [deny] section in the /etc/atd.conf file.
C. Add the specific user to /etc/at.deny file.
D. Add the specific user to nojobs group.
E. Run the following: atd --deny [user].
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Question #44 - Topic 3
Which of the following crontab entries will execute myscript at 30 minutes past every
hour on Sundays?
A. 0 * * * 30 myscript
B. 30 * * * 6 myscript
C. 30 0 * * 0 myscript
D. 30 0-23 * * 0 myscript
E. 0 0-23 * * 30 myscript
Question #45 - Topic 3
Where are user specific crontabs stored?
A. In the database file /etc/crontab.db which is shared by all users.
B. As individual per-user files within /var/spool/cron.
C. As individual per-user files in /etc/cron.user.d.
D. In the .crontab file in the user's home directory.
E. In the file /var/cron/user-crontab which is shared by all users.
Question #46 - Topic 3
Which of the following commands should be added to /etc/bash_profile in order to
change the language of messages for an internationalized program to Portuguese (pt)?
A. export LANGUAGE="pt"
B. export MESSAGE="pt"
C. export UI_MESSAGES="pt"
D. export LC_MESSAGES="pt"
E. export ALL_MESSAGES="pt"
Question #47 - Topic 3
Which file contains the date of the last change of a user's password?
A. /etc/gshadow
B. /etc/passwd
C. /etc/pwdlog
D. /etc/shadow
E. /var/log/shadow
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Question #48 - Topic 3
Which of the following fields are available in both the global /etc/crontab file as well
as in user-specific crontab files? (Select TWO correct answers)
A. Year
B. Minute
C. Username
D. Command
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Question #49 - Topic 3
Which of the following steps prevents a user from obtaining an interactive login
session?
A. Run the command chsh -s /bin/false with the user name.
B. Set the UID for the user to 0.
C. Remove the user from the group staff.
D. Add the user to /etc/noaccess.
E. Create a .nologin file in the user's home directory.
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Question #50 - Topic 3
Which of the following fields can be found in the /etc/group file? (Choose THREE
correct answers.)
A. The list of users that belong to the group.
B. The home directory of the group.
C. The name of the group.
D. The description of the group.
E. The password of the group.
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Question #51 - Topic 3
The system's timezone may be set by linking /etc/localtime to an appropriate file in
which directory? (Provide the full path to the directory, without any country
information) /usr/share/zoneinfo/

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Question #52 - Topic 3
In which file, if present, must all users be listed that are allowed to use the cron
scheduling system? (Specify the full name of the file, including path.) /etc/cron.allow
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Question #53 - Topic 3
What is true regarding the command userdel --force --remove bob? (Choose TWO
correct answers.)
A. The user bob is removed from the system's user database.
B. The user bob's home directory is removed.
C. The locate database is updated to drop files owned by bob.
D. All files owned by bob are remove from all mounted filesystems.
E. In case bob was the last member of a group, that group is deleted.
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Question #54 - Topic 3
Which command is used to add an empty group to the system? (Specify ONLY the
command without any path or parameters.) groupadd, /usr/sbin/groupadd
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Question #55 - Topic 4
Please specify the top directory containing the configuration files for the CUPS
printing system. (Specify the full path to the directory.)
/etc/cups/
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Question #56 - Topic 4
After adding a new email alias to the configuration, which command must be run in
order to ensure the MTA knows about it? (Specify the command without any path but
including allrequired parameters.) newaliases, sendmail -bi
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Question #57 - Topic 4
Which of the following are commonly used Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) applications?
(Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. Postfix
B. Procmail
C. Sendmail
D. Exim
E. SMTPd
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Question #58 - Topic 4
What is the purpose of the command mailq?
A. It fetches new emails from a remote server using POP3 or IMAP.
B. It is a multi-user mailing list manager.
C. It is a proprietary tool contained only in the qmail MTA.
D. It queries the mail queue of the local MTA.
E. It is a command-line based tool for reading and writing emails.
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Question #59 - Topic 4
What entry can be added to the syslog.conf file to have all syslog messages generated
by a system displayed on console 12?
A. *.* /dev/tty12
B. /var/log/messages | /dev/tty12
C. | /dev/tty12
D. syslog tty12
E. mail.* /dev/tty12
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Question #60 - Topic 4
Which of the following commands is used to rotate, compress, and mail system logs?
A. rotatelog
B. striplog
C. syslogd --rotate
D. logrotate
E. logger
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Question #61 - Topic 4
Which command is used to sync the hardware clock to the system clock? (Specify
ONLY the command without any path or parameters.) hwclock
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Question #62 - Topic 4
Which file inside the CUPS configuration directory contains the definition of the
printers?
A. cups-devices.conf
B. snmp.conf
C. printcap.conf
D. printers.conf
E. cupsd.conf
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Question #63 - Topic 4
Which of the following is a legacy program provided by CUPS for sending files to the
printer queues on the command line?
A. lpd
B. lpp
C. lpq
D. lpr
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Question #64 - Topic 4
Which of the following parameters are used for journalctl to limit the time frame of
the output? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. --from=
B. --since=
C. --until=
D. --upto=
E. --date=
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Question #65 - Topic 4
What is true regarding the command sendmail?
A. With any MTA, the sendmail command must be run periodically by the cron
daemon.
B. All MTAs, including Postfix and Exim, provide a sendmail command.
C. The sendmail command prints the MTAs queue history of which mails have been
sent successfully.
D. It is only available when the sendmail MTA is installed.
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Question #66 - Topic 4
After configuring printing on a Linux server, the administrator sends a test file to one
of the printers and it fails to print. What command can be used to display the status of
the printer's queue? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
lpq, /usr/bin/lpq, lpstat, /usr/bin/lpstat

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Question #67 - Topic 4
Which of the following are syslog facilities? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. local7
B. mail
C. advanced
D. postmaster
E. remote
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Question #68 - Topic 4
Which of the following tasks can be accomplished using the command date? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. Synchronize the hardware and system clocks.
B. Output date and time in different formats.
C. Set the system clock.
D. Set the hardware clock.
E. Update the time via NTP.
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Question #69 - Topic 4
What is true about the ntpdate command?
A. It is the primary management command for the NTP time server.
B. It updates the local system's date (i.e. day, month and year) but not the time (i.e.
hours, minutes, seconds).
C. It queries one or more NTP time servers and adjusts the system time accordingly.
D. It sends the local system time to one or many remote NTP time servers for
redistribution.
E. It can be used by any user to set the user clock independently of the system clock.
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Question #70 - Topic 4
Why is the correct configuration of a system's time zone important?
A. Because the conversion of Unix timestamps to local time relies on the time zone
configuration.
B. Because the time zone is saved as part of the modification times of files and cannot
be changed after a file is created.
C. Because the environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES are, by default,
set according to the time zone.
D. Because NTP chooses servers nearby based on the configured time zone.
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Question #71 - Topic 4
Which command, available with all MTAs, is used to list the contents of the MTA's
mail queue? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.) mailq
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Question #72 - Topic 4
Which option in the /etc/ntp.conf file specifies an external NTP source to be queried
for time information? (Specify ONLY the option without any values or parameters.)
server
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Question #73 - Topic 4
Which of the following is observed and corrected by a NTP client?
A. The skew in time between the system clock and the hardware clock.
B. The skew in time between the system clock and the reference clock.
C. Changes in the time zone of the current computer's location.
D. Adjustments needed to support Daylight Saving Time.
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Question #74 - Topic 4
What is true regarding the file ~/.forward?
A. As it is owned by the MTA and not writable by the user, it must be edited using the
editaliases command.
B. After editing ~/.forward the user must run newaliases to make the mail server
aware of
the changes.
C. Using ~/.forward, root may configure any email address whereas all other users
may
configure only their own addresses.
D. When configured correctly, ~/.forward can be used to forward each incoming mail
to more than one other recipient.
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Question #75 - Topic 5
Which of the following tools used for DNS debugging, reports not only the response
from the name server but also details about the query?
A. dnsq
B. dig
C. hostname
D. dnslookup
E. zoneinfo
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Question #76 - Topic 5
Which of the following commands can be used to display the local routing table?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. ifconfig
B. dig
C. netstat
D. route
E. trackroute
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Question #77 - Topic 5
Which keyword must be listed in the hosts option of the Name Service Switch
configuration file in order to make host lookups consult the /etc/hosts file? files
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Question #78 - Topic 5
How many IP-addresses can be used for unique hosts inside the IPv4 subnet
192.168.2.128/28? (Specify the number only without any additional information.) 14
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Question #79 - Topic 5
Which of the following commands will help identify a broken router between the
local and the remote machine?
A. ps
B. netstat
C. nslookup
D. ifconfig
E. traceroute
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Question #80 - Topic 5
Which of the following is true about IPv6?
A. With IPv6, the TCP port numbers of most services have changed.
B. IPv6 no longer supports broadcast addresses.
C. IPv4 addresses can be used without any change with IPv6.
D. IPv6 no longer supports multicast addresses.
E. For IPv6, UDP and TCP have been replaced by the Rapid Transmission Protocol
RTP.
Question #81 - Topic 5
Which of the following keywords can be used in the file /etc/resolv.conf? (Choose
TWO correct answers.)
A. substitute
B. nameserver
C. search
D. lookup
E. method
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Question #82 - Topic 5
What is the command to delete the default gateway from the system IP routing table?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. route del default
B. ifconfig unset default
C. netstat -r default
D. ip route del default
E. sysctl ipv4.default_gw=0
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Question #83 - Topic 5
What is true regarding a default route?
A. The default route is always used first. When the default route is not available more
specific routes are tried.
B. When a default route is set, all other routes are disabled until the default route is
deleted.
C. The default route is only used if there is not a more specific route to a destination
host or network.
D. Without a default route, no network communication even in directly attached
networks is possible.
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Question #84 - Topic 5
On a regular users workstation the route command takes a long time before printing
out the
routing table. Which of the following errors does that indicate?
A. The local routing information may be corrupted and must be re-validated using a
routing protocol.
B. One of the routers in the routing table is not available which causes the automatic
router failure detection mechanism (ARF-D) to wait for a timeout.
C. There may accidentally be more than one default router in which case a default
router election has to be done on the network in order to choose one router as the
default.
D. DNS resolution may not be working as route by default tries to resolve names of
routers and destinations and may run into a timeout.
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Question #85 - Topic 5
What is true regarding TCP port 23?
A. Port 23 is the well known port for the telnet service which is a plain text protocol
that should no longer be used.
B. Port 23 is the well known port for the SSH service which provides secure logins.
C. Port 23 is the well known port for the rlogin service which is SSL secured by
default.
D. Port 23 is the well known port for the system login services which are encrypted
when the user runs the starttls command in his login shell.
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Question #86 - Topic 5
Which of the following IPv4 networks are reserved by IANA for private address
assignment and private routing? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. 127.0.0.0/8
B. 10.0.0.0/8
C. 169.255.0.0/16
D. 172.16.0.0/12
E. 192.168.0.0/16
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Question #87 - Topic 5
Which of the following statements is valid in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf?
A. multi on
B. 192.168.168.4 dns-server
C. hosts: files dns
D. include /etc/nsswitch.d/
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Question #88 - Topic 5
Given the following routing table:

How would an outgoing packet to the destination 192.168.2.150 be handled?

A. It would be passed to the default router 192.168.178.1 on wlan0.
B. It would be directly transmitted on the device eth0.
C. It would be passed to the default router 255.255.255.0 on eth0.
D. It would be directly transmitted on the device wlan0.
E. It would be passed to the router 192.168.1.1 on eth0.
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Question #89 - Topic 5
Which of the following lines are valid in the file /etc/hosts? (Choose TWO correct
answers.)
A. 2001:db8::15 www.example.com www
B. www.example.com www 203.0.13.15
C. 203.0.113.15 www.example.com www
D. www.example.com,www 203.0.13.15,2001:db8::15
E. 2003.0.113.15,2001:db8::15 www.example.com www
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Question #90 - Topic 5
Which command is used to set the hostname of the local system? (Specify ONLY the
command without any path or parameters.) hostaname
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Question #91 - Topic 5
Which parameter must be passed to ifconfig to activate a previously inactive network
interface? (Specify the parameter only without any command, path or additional
options) up
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Question #92 - Topic 5
Which port is the default server port for the HTTPS protocol? (Specify the port
number using digits.) 443
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Question #93 - Topic 5
Which of the following details is NOT provided in any output from the netstat utility?
A. broadcast services
B. interface statistics
C. masquerading connections
D. network connections
E. routing tables
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Question #94 - Topic 5
Which of the following is a valid IPv6 address?
A. 2001:db8:3241::1
B. 2001::db8:4581::1
C. 2001:db8:0g41::1
D. 2001%db8%9990%%1
E. 2001.db8.819f..1
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Question #95 - Topic 5
Which command, depending on its options, can display the open network
connections, the routing tables, as well as network interface statistics. (Specify ONLY
the command without any path or parameters.) netstat, /bin/netstat, ss, /usr/bin/ss

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Question #96 - Topic 5
Which of the following programs can be used to determine the routing path to a given
destination?
A. dig
B. netstat
C. ping
D. route
E. traceroute
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Question #97 - Topic 5
Which of the following keywords can be used in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf to specify
a source for host name lookups? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. resolv
B. dns
C. remote
D. files
E. hosts
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Question #98 - Topic 5
What of the following can be done by the command ifconfig? (Choose TWO correct
answers.)
A. Set a network interface active or inactive.
B. Specify the kernel module to be used with a network interface.
C. Allow regular users to change the network configuration of a network interface.
D. Change the netmask used on a network interface.
E. Specify which network services are available on a network interface.
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Question #99 - Topic 5
What is the lowest numbered unprivileged TCP port? (Specify the number in digits
only.) 1024
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Question #100 - Topic 5
Which of the following may occur as a consequence of using the command ifconfig?
(Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. New name servers may be added to the resolver configuration.
B. Network interfaces may become active or inactive.
C. The routing table may change.
D. IP addresses may change.
E. The system's host name may change.
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Question #101 - Topic 5

What is the purpose of the nsswitch.conf file?
  A. It is used to configure where the C library looks for system
information such as host names and user passwords.
 B. It is used to configure network protocol port numbers such as for
HTTP or SMTP.
 C. It is used to configure LDAP authentication services for the local
system.
 D. It is used to configure which network services will be turned on
during the next system boot.
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Question #102 - Topic 5
With IPv6, how many bits have been used for the interface identifier of an unicast
address?
(Specify the number using digits only.) 64
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Question #103 - Topic 6
Which file lists which users can execute commands using sudo? (Specify the full
name of the file, including path.) /etc/sudoers
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Question #104 - Topic 6
Which of the following commands preloads and manages keys that are used for
automaticauthentication while logging in to other machines using SSH?
 A. sshd
 B. ssh-agent
 C. ssh-keygen
 D. ssh-add
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Question #105 - Topic 6
What argument to the -type option of find will match files that are symbolic links?
(Specifyonly the argument and no other options or words.) l
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Question #106 - Topic 6
The presence of what file will temporarily prevent all users except root from logging
into the system? (Specify the full name of the file, including path.) /etc/nologin

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Question #107 - Topic 6
When trying to unmount a device it is reported as being busy. Which of the following
commands could be used to determine which process is causing this?
 A. debug
 B. lsof
  C. nessus
 D. strace
 E. traceroute
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Question #108 - Topic 6
With X11 forwarding in ssh, what environment variable is automatically set in the
remote host shell that is not set when X11 forwarding is not enabled? (Specify only
the environment variable without any additional commands or values.) DISPLAY,
$DISPLAY

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Question #109 - Topic 6
 Which of the following programs uses the hosts.allow file to perform
its main task of
checking for access control restrictions to system services?
 A. tcpd
 B. inetd
 C. fingerd
 D. mountd
 E. xinetd
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Question #110 - Topic 6
What is a purpose of an SSH host key?
 A. It must be sent by any SSH client in addition to a user key in order
to identify the client's host.
 B. It provides the server's identity information to connecting SSH
clients.
 C. It is the root key by which all user SSH keys must be signed.
 D. It authenticates any user that logs into a remote machine from the
key's host.
 E. It is used by system services like cron, syslog or a backup job to
automatically connect to remote hosts.
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Question #111 - Topic 6
Which of the following find commands will print out a list of files owned by root and
with the
SUID bit set in /usr?
 A. find /usr -uid 0 -perm +4000
 B. find -user root +mode +s /usr
 C. find -type suid -username root -d /usr
 D. find /usr -ls \*s\* -u root
 E. find /usr -suid -perm +4000
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 Question #112 - Topic 6
 Which command is used to set restrictions on the size of a core file that
is created for a
user when a program crashes?
 A. core
 B. edquota
 C. ulimit
 D. quota
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Question #113 - Topic 6
In an xinetd configuration file, which attribute specifies the network address that will
be used to provide the service? bind, interface

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Question #114 - Topic 6
 Which configuration file would be edited to change default options for
the OpenSSH server?
 A. /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 B. /etc/ssh/ssh
 C. /etc/ssh/server
 D. /etc/ssh/ssh_config
 E. /etc/ssh/ssh_server
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Question #115 - Topic 6
 Which of the following commands can be used to limit the amount of
memory a user may use?
 A. umask
 B. usermod
 C. ulimit
 D. passwd
 E. chage
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Question #116 - Topic 6
 Which configuration file would be edited to change the default options
for outbound SSH
sessions?
 A. /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 B. /etc/ssh/ssh
 C. /etc/ssh/client
 D. /etc/ssh/ssh_config
 E. /etc/ssh/ssh_client
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 Question #117 - Topic 6
 Which of the following commands connects to the remote host
example.com which has OpenSSH listening on TCP port 2222?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)
 A. ssh --port 2222 example.com
 B. ssh -p 2222 example.com
 C. ssh -o Port=2222 example.com
 D. ssh -o GatewayPort=2222 example.com
 E. ssh example.com:2222
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Question #118 - Topic 6
Which file contains a set of services and hosts that will be allowed to connect to the
server by going through a TCP Wrapper program such as tcpd? (Specify the full name
of the file, including path.) /etc/hosts.allow

Question #119 - Topic 6

Which directory holds the files that configure the xinetd service when using several
configuration files instead of an integrated configuration file? (Specify the full path to
the directory.) /etc/xinetd.d/

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Question #120 - Topic 6
 On a Linux system with shadow passwords enabled, which file in the
file system contains the password hashes of all local users? (Specify
the full name of the file, including path.)
/etc/shadow