Linux Essentials Practice Exam Quiz!
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- 1.What's the difference between hard disk drives and solid-state drives?
- A.
Hard disks have moving parts and solid state drives do not.
- B.
Hard disk drives can fail. Solid state drives cannot.
- C.
Solid state drives are faster than hard disk drives
- D.
Solid state drives have larger storage capacity and are less expensive than hard disk drives.
- 2.How is the name for the IP 192.168.2.1 stored on a DNS server when using reverse DNS lookup?
- A.
In the REV record for arpa.in-addr.192.168.2.1
- B.
In the RNAME record for 192-168-2-1.rev.arpa
- C.
In the PTR record for 1.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa
- D.
In the A record for 1.2.168.192.ipv4.arpa
- 3.Which of the following connects a hard drive to the motherboard?
- A.
SATA
- B.
RAM
- C.
CPU
- D.
NUMA
- 4.You work for a company that wants to transition all of their servers to Red Hat Enterprise. You have no prior experience using Red Hat and you cannot afford a license. You need a free alternative to learn the new system. What version of Linux could you install?
- A.
CentOS
- B.
Ubuntu LTS
- C.
OpenSUSE
- D.
Debian GNU
- 5.What command can I use to display running processes order by CPU and RAM consumption?
- 6.The host command can be used to resolve a DNS name to an IP address.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.
What command will display the following output?- A.
Ls
- B.
Ln
- C.
Top
- D.
Free
- 8.What two things are true about the dmesg command?
- A.
It displays the Linux kernel's ring buffer
- B.
It'll send messages to other users logged into the system
- C.
Old information gets replaced by new information
- D.
It will open an email client to send messages to other users across a network
- 9.
What command will display the following output?
- A.
Last
- B.
Pwd
- C.
Passwd
- D.
Whoami
- 10.A user's UID is 0. What type of user is this?
- A.
Standard
- B.
Guest
- C.
Root
- D.
Superuser
- 11.You want to change permissions on a regular file to -rw-r-xr--. What command will you use?
- A.
Chown 654
- B.
Chmod 654
- C.
Ls -l
- D.
Chmod 555
- 12.Every file can be owned by only one user and group.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.What are the default permissions on the /tmp/ directory?
- A.
Rwx------
- B.
Rwxrwxrw-
- C.
Rx-rx-rx-
- D.
Rwxrwxrwxt
- 14.You want to create a new user with default configuration files. What command would you use?
- A.
Useradd -m username
- B.
Passwd -a username
- C.
Useradd -o default username
- D.
Lsuser username
- 15.In what directory will you find the UID, username, and encrypted password?
- 16.You need to do compression with the tar command. What option will allow you to handle compression?
- A.
-jz
- B.
-g
- C.
-c
- D.
-bz
- 17.You need to create a loop in a shell script. What argument will allow this?
- A.
Do
- B.
If
- C.
Then
- D.
For
- 18.You want to create an archive file work.tar from the contents of the ./work/ directory. Type in the complete command to do so.
- 19.What will the q key do on a less page?
- A.
Next page
- B.
Previous page
- C.
Exit
- D.
Go to the end
- 20.You need to run a shell script named elog.sh in the root directory. What two commands could be used to execute the shell script?
- A.
Cmd ./elog.sh
- B.
Exe ./elog.sh
- C.
Bash elog.sh
- D.
./elog.sh
- 21.Type the script to sort the output of the cat command?
- 22.Which command will search for the file tux.txt under the /home directory?
- A.
Find /home -name tux.txt
- B.
Search /home -name tux.txt
- C.
Find /home tux.txt
- D.
Search /home tux.txt
- 23.You try to run a shell script, and the CLI says permission denied. What is the problem?
- A.
The shell script is invalid.
- B.
The script is too long.
- C.
Check the file's extension.
- D.
The execute bit is turned off in the permissions.
- 24.What is a Linux flavor?
- A.
Bundle of the Linux kernel with specific utilities and other productivity software.
- B.
How the CPU "tastes" Linux when it is installed.
- C.
It tells how that specific version of Linux should be distributed.
- D.
The compatibility factor of a Linux distribution with certain hardware.
- 25.The Raspberry Pi's operating system is stored on rewritable flash storage built into the system.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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