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1.

What command is used to display and create files?

A. lyrix
B. ed
C. vi
D. cat
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
2.

What command is used to remove a file?

A. del
B. mv
C. rm
D. remove
E. None of the above
Answer» D. remove
Discussion
3.

What command can be used to get information about yourself?

A. which
B. pwd
C. i /4
D. who am i
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
4.

What layer protocol is responsible for user and the application programme support such as passwords, resource sharing, file transfer and network management?

A. Layer 4 protocols
B. Layer 5 protocols
C. Layer 6 protocols
D. Layer 7 protocols
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
5.

What command is used to display the top of the file?

A. grep
B. more
C. head
D. cat
E. None of the above
Answer» D. cat
Discussion
6.

What does OSS stand for?

A. Open System Software
B. Original Source Software
C. Open Source Software
D. Original System Server
E. None of the above
Answer» D. Original System Server
Discussion
7.

Which of the following subdirectory(ies) contains the device files?

A. /dev
B. /bin
C. /etc
D. /home
E. None of the above
Answer» B. /bin
Discussion
8.

Which of the following subdirectory(ies) contains the system boot scripts.

A. /dev
B. /bin
C. /etc
D. /home
E. None of the above
Answer» D. /home
Discussion
9.

What of the following tool is used to check and repair Linux file systems?

A. mkfs
B. fdisk
C. fsck
D. mount
E. None of the above
Answer» D. mount
Discussion
10.

Which of the following tool is used to partition your hard drive?

A. mkfs
B. fdisk
C. fsck
D. mount
E. None of the above
Answer» C. fsck
Discussion
11.

NIS

A. is Network Information Service
B. is a simple directory service whose main purpose is to allow remote authentication of systems on local network systems
C. was formerly known as yellow pages
D. allows configuration-such as password and group files
E. None of the above
Answer» B. is a simple directory service whose main purpose is to allow remote authentication of systems on local network systems
Discussion
12.

In order to increase the amount of memory available for a system, what is the maximum size of a swap partition (with kernel version 2.2.x)?

A. 2GB
B. 128MB
C. 64MB
D. 32MB
E. None of the above
Answer» B. 128MB
Discussion
13.

Which file is used to configure which filesystems are mounted?

A. /etc/mount.sys
B. /etc/filesys
C. /etc/sysconfig
D. /etc/fstab
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
14.

Who has developed the Linux?

A. Bob Young
B. Mark Eving
C. Richard Stallman
D. Linus Torvalds
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
15.

Which of the following is not a filter command?

A. sort
B. wc
C. grep
D. cat
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
16.

What command is used to display a file contents in octal form?

A. oct
B. of
C. od
D. cd
E. None of the above
Answer» D. cd
Discussion
17.

How many extended partitions can exist on one drive?

A. 16
B. 4
C. 2
D. 1
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
18.

The location of some system configuration and system administrator executable files, is:

A. /home
B. /proc
C. /var
D. /sbin
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
19.

What command is used to change the working directory?

A. cdir
B. chdir
C. changedir
D. cd
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
20.

Which command can force all buffers to disk?

A. save
B. sync
C. edbuff
D. flush
E. None of the above
Answer» C. edbuff
Discussion
21.

Which of the following NIS clients returns the name of the NIS server used by the NIS client?

A. ypwhich
B. ypbind
C. ypcat
D. yppoll
E. None of the above
Answer» B. ypbind
Discussion
22.

Who founded the Linux Kernel?

A. Bill Gates
B. Ben Thomas
C. Richard Stallman
D. Linus Torvalds
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
23.

What type of addressing format is used by Class A network.

A. Net.Net.Net.Node
B. Net.Net.Node.Node
C. Net.Node.Net.Node
D. Net.Node.Node.Node
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
24.

What command is used with file named 'letter' to remove the executable permission from the user and assign read permission to the group and others?

A. chmod go + x, u - x letter
B. chmod g - x, uo + r letter
C. chmod go + r, u + x letter
D. chmod u - x, go + r letter
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
25.

What command do you use to add routes to a Linux router?

A. addroute
B. route
C. netstat
D. net
E. None of the above
Answer» C. netstat
Discussion
26.

What command is used to assign executable permission to the owner of the file named "letter"?

A. chmod ugo + x letter
B. chmod u + x letter
C. chmod u + w letter
D. chmod g + x letter
E. None of the above
Answer» C. chmod u + w letter
Discussion
27.

What command is used to summarize the disk usage?

A. disk
B. du
C. fdisk
D. chkdsk
E. None of the above
Answer» C. fdisk
Discussion
28.

What command is used to list the jobs currently in print queues?

A. lpq
B. lpr
C. lprm
D. lpc
E. None of the above
Answer» B. lpr
Discussion
29.

What command do you use to delete a file?

A. rename
B. delete
C. rm
D. cp
E. None of the above
Answer» D. cp
Discussion
30.

Which of the following command lists the last 10 lines of a file?

A. grep
B. tail
C. head
D. cat
E. None of the above
Answer» C. head
Discussion
31.

Which of the following format of partition tables does Linux use?

A. Linux
B. BSD
C. UnixWare
D. DOS
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
32.

What command is used to copy a file?

A. tar
B. cpio
C. cp
D. copy
E. None of the above
Answer» D. copy
Discussion
33.

What command is used to display your current working directory?

A. path
B. pwd
C. prompt $p$g
D. dir
E. None of the above
Answer» C. prompt $p$g
Discussion
34.

Which of the following command is used to mount NFS filesystems?

A. nfsmount
B. knfsd
C. mount
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Answer» D. All of the above
Discussion
35.

What command is used with vi editor to delete three words?

A. 3$d
B. 3 dw
C. 3 x
D. 3 dd
E. None of the above
Answer» C. 3 x
Discussion
36.

What command is used to assign only read permission to all three categories of the file'letter'?

A. chmod u + r, g + r, o - x letter
B. chmod ugo = r letter
C. chmod a - rw letter
D. chmod go + r letter
E. None of the above
Answer» C. chmod a - rw letter
Discussion
37.

What can he used to set up a firewall on a Linux system?

A. netstat
B. route
C. trace
D. ipchains
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
38.

Which program is used to automatically install Red Mat Linux on identical hardware?

A. bzimage.img
B. tar
C. ghost
D. mkkickstart
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion
39.

What service is not monitored by inetd ?

A. SSH
B. time
C. ntalk
D. finger
E. None of the above
Answer» B. time
Discussion
40.

Who founded the FSF?

A. Linus Torvalds
B. Richard Stallman
C. Bob Young
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Answer» C. Bob Young
Discussion
41.

What TCP/IP protocol is used for file transfer with minimal capability and minimal overhead?

A. TELNET
B. TFTP
C. FTP
D. RARP
E. None of the above
Answer» C. FTP
Discussion
42.

What TCP/IP protocol is used for transferring electronic mail messages from one machine to another?

A. FTP
B. SNMP
C. SMTP
D. RPC
E. None of the above
Answer» D. RPC
Discussion
43.

What command is used to halt a Linux system?

A. init 0
B. Shutdown -t
C. Shutdown -g -y0
D. Ctrl+Alt+Del
E. None of the above
Answer» B. Shutdown -t
Discussion
44.

Which daemon is used for the Apache server?

A. apached
B. httpd
C. html
D. shttp
E. None of the above
Answer» C. html
Discussion
45.

GNOME is based on

A. CORBA toolkit
B. COM/DCOM toolkit
C. ORE toolkit
D. OLE DB toolkit
E. None of the above
Answer» B. COM/DCOM toolkit
Discussion
46.

What command is used to terminate a process?

A. kill
B. cancel
C. haltsys
D. shutdown
E. None of the above
Answer» B. cancel
Discussion
47.

To create an installation boot floppy disk from Linux (or another Unix) machine, what command could you use?

A. fdisk
B. fsck
C. dd
D. rawrite
E. None of the above
Answer» D. rawrite
Discussion
48.

You just added a new user, kara, to the system. What group is kara added to by default?

A. root
B. kara
C. group
D. user
E. None of the above
Answer» C. group
Discussion
49.

What are the appropriate Hex codes for setting Linux swap and Linux native partition types in fdisk?

A. 82 and 83
B. 92 and 93
C. 63 and 64
D. 82 and 85
E. None of the above
Answer» B. 92 and 93
Discussion
50.

What types of installations require a special boot disk?

A. NFS
B. FTP
C. PCMCIA
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Answer» E. None of the above
Discussion