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Linux Exam Review: Key Concepts & Commands

The document is a comprehensive exam covering various topics related to Unix and Linux systems, including kernel functions, software compatibility, command usage, and user management. It includes multiple-choice questions with correct and incorrect answers, highlighting key concepts such as file permissions, network commands, and software distributions. The exam serves as a review of knowledge from Modules 1-16, assessing understanding of system administration and operation principles.

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Linux Exam Review: Key Concepts & Commands

The document is a comprehensive exam covering various topics related to Unix and Linux systems, including kernel functions, software compatibility, command usage, and user management. It includes multiple-choice questions with correct and incorrect answers, highlighting key concepts such as file permissions, network commands, and software distributions. The exam serves as a review of knowledge from Modules 1-16, assessing understanding of system administration and operation principles.

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Final comprehensive exam (Modules 1-16)

CORRECT- See Section 1.2.1


One of the tasks of the kernel is:
✔ Manage the system resources

CORRECT- See Section 1.2


Unixis
✔ An operating system

CORRECT- See Section 1.2.3


The origin code refers to:
✔ A version of computer programs readable by humans

CORRECT- See Section 1.2.4


What distribution or clone does Red Hat produce?
✔ CentOS

CORRECT- See Section 1.3.1


A maintenance cycle:
✔ Describe how long the software version will receive support

CORRECT- See Section 1.3.1


The software is compatible with previous versions if:
✔ It is still compatible with old file formats or applications.

CORRECT- See Section 1.3.1


When choosing a Linux distribution, one should not consider:
✔ Popularity on social media.

CORRECT- See Section 2.2.1


The Samba application is:
✔ File server

CORRECT- See Section 2.2.1


When a computer starts up, it can obtain information from its network.
through:
✔ DHCP

CORRECT- See Section 3.4


Virtualization means:
✔ A single host can be divided into multiple guests.
CORRECT - See Section 3.7
Which of the following is a tool that helps you to anonymize it?
Internet browsing?
✔ The onion router

CORRECT - See Section 3.7


The 'like' buttons of social networks can track
Your activity over the Internet. True or false?
✔ True

CORRECT- See Section 3.6


What can be done to prevent remote workers from executing the
programs on your computer?
✔ They turned on the firewall.

CORRECT- See Section 4.12.2


A pair of single quotes (') will prevent the shell from interpreting anything
metacharacter. True or false?
✔ True

CORRECT- See Section 4.12.4


The use of a pair of backticks (`) will prevent the shell from executing text between them.
backticks as a command and will replace the new output with the command
True or false?
✔ False

CORRECT- See Section [Link]


The whatis command is the same as man -w. True or false?
✔ False

CORRECT- See Section 5.2.6


In which section of the manual will you find the content that deals with the
commands normally executed by a user?
✔1

CORRECT- See Section 6.2.5


Is the following path absolute or relative? /etc/ppp
✔ Absolute

CORRECT- See Section 7.3


What command would you use to package the Documents directory and compress it?
with bzip2?
✔ tar–cjf [Link] Documents
CORRECT- See Section 7.3
What command will show what is inside the tar file compressed with a
name of [Link]?
✔ Extract files from [Link]

CORRECT- See Section 7.3


You packaged your user directories in a file called [Link].
you can continue to view the packaged file and see that the names of
file follows this convention: home/username/somefile How are you going to extract
only the files for the user named fred?
✔ Extract the [Link] file to home/fred/

CORRECT- See Section 8.3.5


Channel 2 is:
✔ STDERR

CORRECT- See Section 8.3.4


Which of the following commands will append its output to [Link]?
✔ echo Testing >> [Link]

CORRECT- See Section 9.2


The echo command:
✔ It is used to output the text to the console

CORRECT- See Section 9.4.1


Given the following part of the script: if [ -f $1 ]; then echo 'I am here' fi What is the
meaning of $1?
✔ It is the first argument passed to the script.

CORRECT- See Section 10.5


A partition of a hard disk drive can be referred to as a
_______.
✔ partition

CORRECT- See Section 11.9


When you run the dmesg command, the system shows the messages that are
They are generated by the kernel. True or false?
✔ True

CORRECT- See Section 12.6.1


The name of the network devices with primary cables is ether0. True or false?
false?
✔ False
CORRECT- See Section 12.6.4
Which option of the netstat command contains the information displayed as
numbers instead of names?
✔ -n

CORRECT- See Section 12.6.7


Which of the following commands will allow you to log in to the
machine server1 with the account name nick?
✔ ssh nick@server1

CORRECT- See Section 13.2.2


Which users can view the /etc/shadow file?
✔ The root user

CORRECT- See Section 13.7


What command will be shown to users who have logged in to the
system?
✔ who

CORRECT- See Section 13.6.1


The sudo command allows regular users to...
✔ ...execute certain commands as the root user.

CORRECT- See Section 13.3.1


What structure does the file /etc/group follow?
✔ group_name:password_placeholder:GID:user_list

CORRECT- See Section 14.12


If a user is deleted, the files and directories that the user belongs to...
✔ ...will show a UID as an owner, but not the username.

CORRECT- See Section 14.7.1


Which of the following options for the useradd command allows root to
specify the UID to be associated with the account?
✔ -u

CORRECT- See Section 14.7.1


Which of the following options for the useradd command allows root to
specify the supplemental groups of which the user will be a member?
✔ -G

WRONG - See Section 14.7.1


The useradd command will create a home directory by default for
a user. True or false?
✗ False
CORRECT- See Section 14.11.1
Which of the following commands will add the extra group to the groups of
user bob in addition to the current secondary groups of bob?
✔ usermod -aG extra bob

CORRECT- See Section 15.6.3


Which of the following commands sets the 'other' permissions for the file to
r-x?
✔ chmod 775 file

CORRECT- See Section 15.5


The chown command can be used to change the owner and group of a
file. True or false?
✔ True

CORRECT- See Section 16.8


The /var directory contains files that change over time. True or
false?
✔ True

CORRECT- See Section 16.6


The 'sticky bit' permission...
✔ ...others cannot delete files that they do not own.
a common directory.

CORRECT- See Section 16.6


Which of the following commands will set the "sticky bit" on the
/shared directory?
✔ chmod 1777 /shared

CORRECT- See Section 16.2


The 'setuid' permission...
✔ ...allows a command to be executed as the owner of the file.

CORRECT- See Section 2.2.1


What server software would you use to create a company directory that
Can you use it to search and authenticate?
✔ OpenLDAP

CORRECT- See Section 2.2.1


The main purpose of a mail transfer agent is:
✔ Deliver the email between the servers
CORRECT- See Section 2.3
Under what license is Linux distributed?
✔ GPLv2

CORRECT- See Section 2.3.3


What does it mean when a work is placed in the public domain?
✔ The author has waived the copyright on the work

WRONG- See Section 2.3.3


The Creative Commons license version of a Public Domain is:
✗ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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