An Advanced Computer Hardware and Software Components Test

1. When a new folder or file is created on a new technology file system (NTFS) partition, what permissions are automatically assigned?

Global group permissions

Everyone group permissions

No permissions are automatically assigned

Inherited permissions of the folder it's contained in

2. To change permissions on a shell script, you use the UNIX command

Chown

Chgrp

Chmod

Chper

3. Normally, when you create a file with a text editor, the file is set up with

Read and write permission for you and read-only permission for others

Write permission for you and read only permission for others

Read, write, and execute for you and read, write for others

Read and write permission for you and read, write for others

4. Which UNIX component provides a logical way to organize, store, retrieve, manipulate, and manage data?

File system

VI editor

Kernel

Shell

5. Which UNIX operating system component interacts directly with the system hardware?

File system

VI editor

Kernel

Shell

6. Which sequential query language (SQL) server feature tracks changes and is used to ensure data integrity?

Buffers

Concurrency

Locking

Logging

7. Which is the most commonly used sequential query language (SQL) data statement?

Commit

Select

Where

Update

8. Which type of lists uses pointers to connect each element together?

Derived

Linked

Ordered

Sequential

9. In exchange System Manager, which container holds configuration objects such as Queues, Mailbox stores and Public Folder stores and protocols information?

Global settings

System policies

Tools

Servers

10. Which exchange service is the first service launched when Microsoft Exchange starts and the last to stop when it's shut down?

Mailbox service

System attendant

Simple mail transport protocol (SMTP)

Post office protocol version 3 (POP3) service

11. The simplest place to put your function definitions is in your

Function

Dev

Definition

Profile

12. What permission always overrides all other permissions assigned to a user or group to which the user belongs?

Full control

No access

Change

Write

13. What defines the rules by which operations can be performed on a particular resource?

Rights

Permissions

Access control lists

Hardware configuration

14. Which special identity can represent users currently logged on to a particular computer and accessing a given resource located on that computer?

Anonymous logon

Everyone

Network

Interactive

15. which type of group manages the user's rights assignments and access permissions?

Universal

Distribution

Security

Access

16. According to Air Force dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) policies, how long is the lease that a noncritical workstation will have applied to them?

15 days

30 days

45 days

60 days

17. Which query is made by one name server to another name server?

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) query

Domain name service (DNS) query

Recursive query

Non-recursive query

18. Which components of domain name services (DNS) contain a database of associated names and IP addresses?

Name servers

Resolvers

Resource records

Forward lookup zone

19. Which type of patch would utilize a remote installation service (RIS)?

Automatic

Local

Manual

Unattended

20. Which UNIX command changes the group ownership of one or more files?

Chgrp

Chown

Whodo

Finger

21. Which UNIX command does the system administrator need to use to create the manual database prior to users being able to access the man -k command?

Catman

Manbld

Mancat

Man-b

22. The key to shutting down an xterm window is to know which of your programs is the

Controlling program

Exiting program

Executing program

Hard link file

23. Which UNIX command from the menu bar moves a window to the bottom of the stack of windows?

Resize

Move

Lower

Restore

24. What action puts unneeded windows out of the way without quitting the program inside of them?

Iconifying

Previewing

Paging

Desktop management

25. While using UNIX vi to edit a file, what would you enter to save the buffer contents and stay in the same file?

W

W!

Wq

!

26. Which UNIX vi character represents the end of the file?

*

&

?

$

27. Which UNIX vi mode allows users to execute set commands?

Edit

Text input

Command

Append

28. How many primary groups can a user be a member of?

One

Two

Three

Four

29. What is considered to be a computer's main storage?

Random access memory (RAM)

Read only memory (ROM)

Basic input/output system (BIOS)

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)

30. Which UNIX command deletes files from within a directory?

Lm

Rm

Pr

Ps

31. Which UNIX mechanism enables programs to communicate with one another through the file system?

Named pipes

Character devices

Block devices

Sockets

32. Hard links are created using which UNIX command?

Cd

Hd

Lm

Ln

33. What is the basic unit for storing and manipulating a collection of logically related information known as data?

Directories

Partitions

Slices

Files

34. What does the 0 following the c in the device name c0t6d0s7 represent?

Controller

Partition

Drive number

Bus target drive

35. The /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk directories are subdirectories of which directory?

Root

System

Device

Home

36. UNIX disks are divided into logical sections called

Sectors

Sections

Reams

Partitions

37. What do you type to quit a UNIX shell?

Exit

Quit

X

Xit

38. Which original components were very susceptible to damage from electrostatic discharge?

Read only memory (ROM)

Basic input/output system (BIOS)

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)

Electronic erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)

39. What is the connection type of choice for storage area networks (SAN)?

Fibre channel

ATA over Ethernet (AoE)

Small computer system interface (SCSI)

Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI)

40. Which storage device can be easily connected to a network and appears as a network drive?

Storage area network (SAN)

Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

Network attached storage (NAS)

RHD

41. (205) Which is not a characteristic of high-order languages?

They are nearly self-documenting

They use English-like statements

Source codes that are written closest to the machine language

Programs that are transportable between computers with few changes

42. Sitting at a computer and loading a software patch onto it is an example of what type of software patch?

Automatic

Attended

Unattended

Remote

43. Which selection is a set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a web browser page?

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

44. Which web application is most likely to succeed Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Extensible HTML (XHTML)

45. Which protocol is commonly used for managing the security of a message transmission on the internet?

Secure socket layer (SSL)

Public key infrastructure (PKI)

Data encryption standard (DES)

Transport layer security (TLS)

46. What is considered as a technique or method of checking data integrity?

Fault

Parity

Interrupt

Asynchronous

47. Which program can be used to automatically launch programs on a preset schedule?

Check disk

Disk quotas

Disk defragmenter

Task scheduler

48. Which error-checking tool allows you to monitor the file systems for errors?

Check disk

Disk quotas

Task Scheduler

Disk defragmenter

49. Which term is used to describe that data is whole or complete?

Driver

Parity bit

Data integrity

Error correction

50. Which controller component interprets an electronic signal, prioritizes it, and requests the attention of the central processing unit (CPU)?

Disk request

Utility resource

Priority interrupt

Integrated resource

51. What should each organization have that spells out which systems are prioritized in what order for the basis of protecting those systems from disasters?

Preventive controls

List of critical devices

Recovery strategies

Emergency action plans

52. Which type of backup would you use at the end of the week to save all the data that you select on your systems?

Incremental

Differential

Daily

Normal

53. What is based around a central directory database containing information about all the domain controllers in the network?

Active directory

Domains manager

Domain name service (DNS)

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)

54. Which type of backup will backup all files that have been altered within the last 24 hours?

Daily

Normal

Incremental

Differential

55. Which type of interface is friendlier to the average user to use?

Command line interface

Graphical user interface

Menu driven interface

Palo Alto Research Center user interface

56. What is a group of users, servers, and other resources that share a centralized database of account and security information?

Domain

Forest

Schema

Tree

57. Where does a copy of the active directory database reside?

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers

Domain name service (DNS) servers

Domain controllers

Global catalog servers

58. What kind of server contains the master listing of all active directory objects in the forest?

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)

Domain controller

Global catalog

Member

59. What is considered as nonvolatile permanent memory?

Read only memory (ROM)

Basic input/output system (BIOS)

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)

Electronic erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)

60. What is a set of rules that can be set to affect active directory leaf objects to control what can be done by a user?

Access control lists

Access policy objects

Group policy objects

Group rules sets

61. What is a form of firmware that contains the computer's startup instructions?

Cache

Basic input/output system (BIOS)

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)

Electronic erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)

62. What type of service allows network administrators to install upgrades on any number of client computers at one time from a centralized location?

Domain name service (DNS)

Internet information services (IIS)

Remote installation services (RIS)

Web

63. (205) what best describes programming machine code?

Another term for firmware

Statements that correspond to complex actions

Instructions in a form that is acceptable to the computer

Source code that, when compiled, is appropriate for the computer

64. Which UNIX command displays the current working directory?

Ls

Ls-s

Pwf

Pwd

65. Which UNIX command allows you to move to different directories within a file system using absolute or relative pathnames?

Ls

Cd

Pwf

Pwd

66. Which UNIX command takes any characters from standard input and then echoes them to standard output?

Cat

Mkdir

Pwd

Pwf

67. What is a way of utilizing a group of storage devices as if they were physically connected to a server when they are not?

Network attached storage (NAS)

Storage are network (SAN)

Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

Array storage

68. Which UNIX command looks at an individual file and finds a specified pattern (string)?

Grep

Find

Crypt

Group

69. What is defined as an asynchronous signal from a computer hardware device indicating the need for attention from a central processing unit (CPU) or a synchronous event?

Cache

Buffer

Interface

Interrupt

70. Which is a very simple example of an error-detecting code?

Interrupt

Parity bit

Asynchronous

Data Integrity

71. Which UNIX command changes the ownership of one or more files to a new owner?

Chgrp

Chown

Whodo

Finger

72. Which UNIX command sets access and modification times for each file to the current time?

Chgrp

Chown

Touch

Finger

73. The act of choosing the window you type is called setting the

Active window

Input focus

X window

Window manager

74. Which UNIX default command starts the X windows system?

Xwnds

Xstart

Xinit

X

75. Which interrupt request (IRQ) line number is normally used for the floppy disk controller?

2

4

6

8

76. In UNIX, which package of programs lets a terminal handle many sessions at once?

UNIX windows system

Multi-user manager

Multi-session manager

UNIX session manager

77. What is the most common UNIX windows system?

U windows

X windows

UX windows

UZwindows

78. What type of sequential query language (SQL) statement would you use to make the changes you were working on permanent?

Data

Query

Schema

Transaction

79. Which of the following is not one of the elements that most graphical user interfaces are composed of?

Windows

Icons

Menus

Programs

80. Which software program manages an IP address allocation for a network?

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)

Domain name service (DNS)

Active directory (AD)

DHCP server

81. The group of IP addresses that a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server manages is known as a

Pool

Range

Scope

Zone

82. What is the minimum number of scopes a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server can have?

One

Two

Three

Five

83. Which is not a component of Internet information services (IIS)?

FTP server

Internet services manager

Simple mail transport protocol (SMTP)

Simple network management protocol (SNMP)

84. What component of windows unifies and simplifies day to day system management tasks?

Domain name service (DNS)

Internet information services (IIS)

Microsoft management consoles (MMC)

Remote installation services (RIS)

85. A feature of networking that enables individuals to designate resources they want other users to be able to access through the network is called

Rights

Sharing

Permissions

Access control lists

86. Which numbering system characteristic is the leftmost non-zero digit of a numeric value?

Least significant digit (LSD)

Most significant digit (MSD)

Exponent

Radix

87. A set of data elements (values) organized using a model of horizontal rows and vertical columns whose data is calculated in response to a query is called a

List

Schema

Table

View

88. What is the most common type of operation in sequential query language (SQL)?

Clauses

Expressions

Queries

Statements

89. What is an advantage of using a storage area network (SAN) architecture?

Ease of replacing the hard drive

Ease of replacing network connectivity

Ease of replacing server

Multiple users can access the server at once

90. Which UNIX capability can execute numerous programs at the same time?

Mulit-user

Multiprocessing

Time sharing

Multitasking

91. Which UNIX ability can run on different types of hardware with few relatively minor changes?

Portability

Flexibility

Simplicity

Base line programming

92. A standard web application used to pass a Web user's request to a server's application program and to exchange data back to the user is called a

Transport layer security (TLS)

Common gateway interface (CGI)

Data encryption standard (DES)

Public key infrastructure (PKI)

93. Which UNIX shell is the most compact and is often used for writing shell scripts?

C Shell

Bourne shell

Korn shell

D shell

94. (204) Which technology is often used in redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array that can be daisy chained?

Small computer system interface (SCSI)

Serial attached (SAS) SCSI

Serial advanced technology attachment (SATA)

Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe)

95. How many characters do most UNIX system administrators and users tend to use for filenames?

10

12

14

16

96. (204) The hard drives in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array are presented to the server as

One single hard drive

A collection of hard drives

A single RAID array

A remote storage device

97. Which storage device has the means of providing data storage reliability using multiple hard drives?

Storage area network (SAN)

Network attached storage (NAS)

Small computer system interface (SCSI)

Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

98. What does the 7 in the device name c0t6d0s7 represent?

Bus target number

Drive number

Controller

Partition

99. The first step in quitting an xterm session is to

Quit all non-controlling programs

Quit all controlling programs

Type quit and press enter

Type exit and press enter

100. Which UNIX mechanism provides for communication with system device drivers through the file system one character at a time?

Named pipes

Character devices

Block devices

Sockets

An Advanced Computer Hardware and Software Components Test

1. When a new folder or file is created on a new technology file system (NTFS) partition, what permissions are automatically assigned?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. To change permissions on a shell script, you use the UNIX command

3. Normally, when you create a file with a text editor, the file is set up with

4. Which UNIX component provides a logical way to organize, store, retrieve, manipulate, and manage data?

5. Which UNIX operating system component interacts directly with the system hardware?

6. Which sequential query language (SQL) server feature tracks changes and is used to ensure data integrity?

7. Which is the most commonly used sequential query language (SQL) data statement?

8. Which type of lists uses pointers to connect each element together?

9. In exchange System Manager, which container holds configuration objects such as Queues, Mailbox stores and Public Folder stores and protocols information?

10. Which exchange service is the first service launched when Microsoft Exchange starts and the last to stop when it's shut down?

11. The simplest place to put your function definitions is in your

12. What permission always overrides all other permissions assigned to a user or group to which the user belongs?

13. What defines the rules by which operations can be performed on a particular resource?

14. Which special identity can represent users currently logged on to a particular computer and accessing a given resource located on that computer?

15. which type of group manages the user's rights assignments and access permissions?

16. According to Air Force dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) policies, how long is the lease that a noncritical workstation will have applied to them?

17. Which query is made by one name server to another name server?

18. Which components of domain name services (DNS) contain a database of associated names and IP addresses?

19. Which type of patch would utilize a remote installation service (RIS)?

20. Which UNIX command changes the group ownership of one or more files?

21. Which UNIX command does the system administrator need to use to create the manual database prior to users being able to access the man -k command?

22. The key to shutting down an xterm window is to know which of your programs is the

23. Which UNIX command from the menu bar moves a window to the bottom of the stack of windows?

24. What action puts unneeded windows out of the way without quitting the program inside of them?

25. While using UNIX vi to edit a file, what would you enter to save the buffer contents and stay in the same file?

26. Which UNIX vi character represents the end of the file?

27. Which UNIX vi mode allows users to execute set commands?

28. How many primary groups can a user be a member of?

29. What is considered to be a computer's main storage?

30. Which UNIX command deletes files from within a directory?

31. Which UNIX mechanism enables programs to communicate with one another through the file system?

32. Hard links are created using which UNIX command?

33. What is the basic unit for storing and manipulating a collection of logically related information known as data?

34. What does the 0 following the c in the device name c0t6d0s7 represent?

35. The /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk directories are subdirectories of which directory?

36. UNIX disks are divided into logical sections called

37. What do you type to quit a UNIX shell?

38. Which original components were very susceptible to damage from electrostatic discharge?

39. What is the connection type of choice for storage area networks (SAN)?

40. Which storage device can be easily connected to a network and appears as a network drive?

41. (205) Which is not a characteristic of high-order languages?

42. Sitting at a computer and loading a software patch onto it is an example of what type of software patch?

43. Which selection is a set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a web browser page?

44. Which web application is most likely to succeed Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)?

45. Which protocol is commonly used for managing the security of a message transmission on the internet?

46. What is considered as a technique or method of checking data integrity?

47. Which program can be used to automatically launch programs on a preset schedule?

48. Which error-checking tool allows you to monitor the file systems for errors?

49. Which term is used to describe that data is whole or complete?

50. Which controller component interprets an electronic signal, prioritizes it, and requests the attention of the central processing unit (CPU)?

51. What should each organization have that spells out which systems are prioritized in what order for the basis of protecting those systems from disasters?

52. Which type of backup would you use at the end of the week to save all the data that you select on your systems?

53. What is based around a central directory database containing information about all the domain controllers in the network?

54. Which type of backup will backup all files that have been altered within the last 24 hours?

55. Which type of interface is friendlier to the average user to use?

56. What is a group of users, servers, and other resources that share a centralized database of account and security information?

57. Where does a copy of the active directory database reside?

58. What kind of server contains the master listing of all active directory objects in the forest?

59. What is considered as nonvolatile permanent memory?

60. What is a set of rules that can be set to affect active directory leaf objects to control what can be done by a user?

61. What is a form of firmware that contains the computer's startup instructions?

62. What type of service allows network administrators to install upgrades on any number of client computers at one time from a centralized location?

63. (205) what best describes programming machine code?

64. Which UNIX command displays the current working directory?

65. Which UNIX command allows you to move to different directories within a file system using absolute or relative pathnames?

66. Which UNIX command takes any characters from standard input and then echoes them to standard output?

67. What is a way of utilizing a group of storage devices as if they were physically connected to a server when they are not?

68. Which UNIX command looks at an individual file and finds a specified pattern (string)?

69. What is defined as an asynchronous signal from a computer hardware device indicating the need for attention from a central processing unit (CPU) or a synchronous event?

70. Which is a very simple example of an error-detecting code?

71. Which UNIX command changes the ownership of one or more files to a new owner?

72. Which UNIX command sets access and modification times for each file to the current time?

73. The act of choosing the window you type is called setting the

74. Which UNIX default command starts the X windows system?

75. Which interrupt request (IRQ) line number is normally used for the floppy disk controller?

76. In UNIX, which package of programs lets a terminal handle many sessions at once?

77. What is the most common UNIX windows system?