Question 1
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You want to disable the network device eht0. Which command can you use?
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ifconfig halt eth0
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ipconfig eth0 halt
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ip link set eth0 down
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ip param set eth0 halt
Question 2
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You wonder which installed RPM package the /etc/exports file belongs to. Which command will give you the desired information?
Question 3
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Which is the main configuration file for logrotate?
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/etc/logrotate
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/etc/logr.conf
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/etc/cron/logrotate
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/etc/logrotate.conf
Question 4
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You want to delete all data on the second hard drive (/dev/hdb). Which command accomplishes this?
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rm /dev/hdb
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=100k
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dd of=/dev/zero if=/dev/hdb bs=100k
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=1024
Question 5
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You want to copy the mytext file from your computer to the /tmp/ directory on the remote computer da20.digitalairlines.com. Which command would you use to accomplish this?
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ssh mytext da20.digitalairlines.com:/tmp
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scp da20.digitalairlines.com:/tmp mytext
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scp mytext da20.digitalairlines.com:/tmp
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sftp mytext da20.digitalairlines.com:/tmp
Question 6
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Which statement about a differential backup is correct?
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The use of differential backups is limited to backups on tape roboters.
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To restore a differential backup, you need tha last differential backup only.
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To restore a differential backup, you need the last full backup and the last differential backup that was made since the last full backup.
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The amount of data that needs to be backed up with each differential backup depends only on the amount of data changed since tha last differential backup.
Question 7
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Which statement about the Set User ID bit on executable files is correct?
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The SUID bit has no security implications.
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The SUID bit on executables has no effect; it is only relevant when set on directories.
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The SUID bit makes it more difficult to exploit any potential vulnerabilities in the program.
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The SUID should only be set when really needed and only on applications that are well tested
Question 8
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You are viewing the manual page of crontab, but it does not caontain the information you are looking for. You suspect there is another crontab manual page. Which command could you use to find out if another crontab manual page exists? (Choose 2)
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man a crontab
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whatis crontab
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man -k crontab
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man --next crontab
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man --showall crontab
Question 9
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You want to know which files are contained in the hugin-0.6.1-2.2.i586.rpm RPM package, which has not yet been installed. Which command will give you this information?
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rpm -f hugin-0.6.1-2.2.i586.rpm
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rpm -qpf hugin-0.6.1-2.2.i586.rpm
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rpm -qpl hugin-0.6.1-2.2.i586.rpm
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rpm --provides hugin-0.6.1-2.2.i586.rpm
Question 10
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You created a script (/root/bin/backup.sh) that backups up your files when executed. Using cron, you want to executed ths script once every Saturday at 3:00 pm. Which line would you have to enter after invoking crontab -e in a terminal window?
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15 0 * * 6 /root/bin/backup.sh
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0 15 * * 6 /root/bin/backup.sh
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0 15 * 6 * /root/bin/backup.sh
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15 0 * * 6 root /root/bin/backup.sh
Question 11
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While in insert mode, how do you save a file and close vi?
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Press Esc and :q
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Press Esc and :w
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Press Esc and :wq
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Press Esc and :zz
Question 12
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You want to install the ethereal RPM package that is available on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 installation media. Which command install the ethereal package, and resolves dependencies as needed?
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rpm -i ethereal
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yast -i ethereal
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yast -l ethereal
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rpm -U ethereal
Question 13
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Which command can be used to view the inode assigned to a filename?
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ls -i
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fsck -h i
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inode --list
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cat /proc/inodes
Question 14
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Which lists of wireless networks are kept by NetworkManager?
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Preferred list and avoid list
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User list and encryption list
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Trusted list and preferred list
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Trusted list and untrusted list
Question 15
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What is the effect of selecting the optoin "Enable IP Forwarding" in the routing configuration is YaST?
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IP packets that do have this host as their destination are routed to another host.
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IP packets that do not have this host as their destination are filtered according to the firewall rules.
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IP packets that do have this host as their destination are dropped to protect the host from attacks.
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IP packets that do not have as their destination are transferred from one network connected to he host to another network connected to this host, according to the routing table.
Question 16
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You want to boot your system to runlevel 3. Which option do you have enter at the GRUB boot manager dialog?
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3
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init=3
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boot=3
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runlevel=3
Question 17
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You would like to run command1 and then command2, whether or not command1 completed successfully. Which command accomplishes this task?
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command1 | command2
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command1 ; command2
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command1 > command2
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command1 & command2
Question 18
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You want to find out which jobs are currently queued in the laser print queue on your CUPS print server. Which command displays the information you need?
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lpstat -t
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lp -P laser
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lpq -P laser
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lpadmin -P laser
Question 19
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In which is the host name of a Linux computer configured? (Hint: You do not need to include the entire path.)
/etc/HOSTNAME
Question 20
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You want to view the status (loked, valid password, etc.) of the account tux.
Which command displays the desired information?
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passwd -L tux
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passwd -v tux
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passwd -p tux
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passwd -S tux
Question 21
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In which file are global configurations for users who use bash as their login shell set?
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/etc/bashrc
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/etc/bash.cf
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/etc/bash.conf
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/etc/bash.bashrc
Question 22
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Which command displays the value stored in the $MYVAR variable?
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less MYVAR
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cat $MYVAR
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echo MYVAR
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echo $MYVAR
Question 23
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Which file contains the configuration information of the print queues available on your CUPS server?
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The /etc/printcap file
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The /etc/sysconfig/cups file
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The /etc/cups/cups.conf file
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The /etc/cups/printers.conf file
Question 24
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How can you list the ACLs (if there are any) of a file test?
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ls -l test
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lsacl test
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getfacl test
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ls -l --acl test
Question 25
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Routes to the directly connected network are automatically set up when a device is started. All other routes are saved in which configuration file?
Question 26
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What information do you need to set up an LDAP client? (Choose 4.)
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LDAP version
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LDAP base DN
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Kind of encrytion
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Synchronization frequency
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Address of the LDAP server
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File name of the LDAP database
Question 27
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What is the minimum number of partitions required by a SLES 10 system?
Question 28
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What is the purpose of the ssh-agent command?
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ssh-agent is a program that helps configure the ssh daemon.
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ssh-agent is used to fecth public keys from machines within your network.
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ssh-agent is used to avoid typing the passphrase for your key on each login.
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ssh-agent is a program that checks for machnes in the network that have an ssh daemon running.
Question 29
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Using the nice command, what is the highest priority a normal user can assing to a process?
Question 30
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Which command can you use to create a Reiser file system on the sda6 partition? (Choose 2.)
Question 31
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You have limited access to the /admin directory of the web interface of your CUPS server with the following statement in /etc/cups/cups.conf:
<Location /admin>
AuthType BasicDigest
AuthClass Group
AuthGroupName sys
Order Deny, Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>
To allow the cupsadmin user to access the /admin directory when connecting from localhost, how do you create the cupsadmin user and set his password?
Question 32
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You have a test directory with the following permissions: rwx------ You want to change the permissions to the following values: r-xr-xr-x. Which command accomplishes this?
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chmod 777 test
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chmod a=rx test
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chmod u=rx,a-rx test
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chmod u+w,g+rx,o+rx test
Question 33
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How do you activate an ACL when mounting a file system manually?
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mount --acl /dev/hda5 /data
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mount -f acl /dev/hda5 /data
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mount -o acl /dev/hda5 /data
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mount --use-acl /dev/hda5 /data
Question 34
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You have a test directory with the following permissions: rwx------ You want to change the permissions to the following values: r-xr-xr-x. Which command accomplishes this?
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chmod 777 test
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chmod u=rx,a-rx test
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chmod u-w,g+rx,o+rx test
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chmod u+w,g+rx,o+rx test
Question 35
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What does the following line of the sudo configuration file mean? geeko ALL=/sbin/shutdown
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All users are allowed to shut down the computer.
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It allows the user geeko to shut down the computer.
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All users (except geeko) are allowed to shut down the computer.
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User geeko is allowed to shut down the computer with name ALL.
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All users of the computer with the name geeko are allowed to shut down the computer.
Question 36
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What is the key characteristic of the root account?
Question 37
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Which statement about an incremental backup is correct?
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The use of incremental backups is limited to backups on tapes.
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To restore an incremental backup, you need the last incremental backup only.
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To restore an incremental backup, you need the last full backup and incremental backup that was made since the last full backup.
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The amount of data that needs to be backed up with each incremental backup depends only on the amount of data changed the last incremental backup.
Question 38
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Which options are PAM module types that can be used in a PAM configuration file? (Choose 4.)
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key
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auth
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card
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account
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session
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password
Question 39
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Which command shows you the default shell of a user?
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w user
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id user
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who user
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finger user
Question 40
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Suppose you change from your current runlevel 5 to the new runlevel 3. Which statement is correct?
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Nothing will happen at all.
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If there is a K* link for a certain service in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ but no corresponding S* link l /etc/init.d/rc3.d/, nothing will happen.
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If there is no K* link for a certain service in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ but there is an S* link in /etc/init.d/rc3.d/, the service is started.
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If there is a K* link for a certain service in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ and there is an S* link in /etc/init.d/rc3.d/, the service is stopped and started again.
Question 41
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In a terminal window, which command can you enter to change to your home directory (/home/geeko)? (Choose 2.)
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cd
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cd ~
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cd -h
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cd home
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cd --homedir
Question 42
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You have a file named file1 and you want to create a symbolic link named link-to-file1 to the file. In a terminal window, which command accomplishes what you want? (Choose 2.)
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ln file link-to-file1
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ln link-to-file1 file1
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ln -s file1 link-to-file1
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ln -s link-to-file1 file1
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cp -s file1 link-to-file1
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mv -s file1 link-to-file1
Question 43
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Which are configuration files of syslog-ng? (Choose 3.)
Question 44
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The useradd command s used to create new users. Which file contains information on the primary group, shell and other parameters to be used by useradd when specified on the command line?
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/etc/profile
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/etc/passwd
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/etc/shadow
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/etc/default/useradd
Question 45
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What does the following command do? tar -tzvf /tmp/backup.tgz etc/HOSTNAME
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It extracts the etc/HOSTNAME file from the /tmp/backup.tgz archive
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It includes the etc/HOSTNAME file in the /tmp/backup.tgz archive
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It produces an error message because the options are in the wrong sequence.
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It displays a line similar to the following, but otherwise does nothing: -rw-r--r-- root/root 23 2005-03-11 14:20 etc/HOSTNAME
Question 46
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As root, you entered the runlevel command. What does the following output indicate? N5
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You are in runlevel 5. A previos runlevel is not available.
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You are in runlevel 5. A previous runlevel was 3 (network).
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You are in runlevel 3 (network). The system is changing now to runlevel 5.
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You are currently in no runlevel. The system is changing now to runlevel 5
Question 47
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You need to find the files in the /etc directory that contain the word DocumentRoot. In a terminal window, which command will help you find it?
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discover DocumentRoot /etc
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grep -r DocumentRoot /etc/*
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search -r DocumentRoot /etc/*
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find /etc -content DocumentRoot
Question 48
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You can schedule jobs to be executed by cron in several ways. Which directories are used for scripts that are to be executed at regular intervals? (Choose 2.)
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/etc/cron.d/
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/etc/crontabs/
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/etc/cron.daily/
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/var/spool/cron/tabs
Question 49
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As a normal user, such as geeko, you use the lpoptions command to change printer options, such as the page size. To which file are these options saved.
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~/.bashrc
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~/.lpoptions
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/etc/cups/lpoptions
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/etc/sysconfig/cups
Question 50
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Which command displays cpu and input/output statics for device and partitions?
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siga
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sitar
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fdisk
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lspci
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iostat
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hwinfo
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hdparm
Question 51
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What is the result of the following command? (Choose 2.)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=1
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Overwrites an existing partition table
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Creates a LVM partition of 512 blocks
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Backs up the /dev/zero and /dev/hdd files
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Writes zeros in the firts 512 bytes of the firts hard disk block
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Assings the physical volume zero to the logical volume hdd
Question 52
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You do not want to see any error messages when using the find command; you want to see only the results. Which command accomplishes this task?
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find /etc -name "*conf" 0>/dev/null
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find /etc -name "*conf" 1>/dev/null
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find /etc -name "*conf" 2>/dev/null
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find /etc -name "*conf" 3>/dev/null
Question 53
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In the terminal window, your current working directory is /home/geeko. You want to change to the /tmp directory. Which command will make the desired change of directores? (Choose 2.)
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cd tmp
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cd /tmp
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cd ./tmp
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cwd /tmp
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cd ../tmp
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cd ../../tmp
Question 54
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Why are the noauto and users options used with /etc/fstab?
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A normal user is not allowed to access this partition.
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They allow any user to mount and unmount a partition.
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They specify the partitions that are bootable by a user.
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They specify the partitions that are not bootable by a user.
Question 55
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You have a /tmp/data directory containing the files .file, file1 and file2. You want to copy the file1 and file2 files only to the /data-old directory that already exists. In a terminal window, which command accomplishes this?
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cp /tmp/data /data-old
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cp /tmp/data/. /data-old
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cp /tmp/data/* /data-old
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cp /tmp/data/? /data-old
Question 56
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You entered the following as a boot option in the GRUB boot screen: init=/bin/bash What does the option mean?
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The bash is used as the default shell.
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Linux starts without a graphical environment.
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The system is started directly in a bash shell. You are automatically logged in as root without being asked for a password.
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The system is started directly in a bash shell. You are automatically logged in as default user without being asked for a password.
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The system is started directly in a bash shell. You are automatically asked for the root password before you are logged in as root.
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The system is started directly in a bash shell. You are automatically asked for the default user's password before you are logged in.
Question 57
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You want to view tha last 20 lines of the /var/log/messages file and any new lines that are subsequently added by syslog to this file. Which command would you use?
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tail -20f /var/log/messages
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end -20f /var/log/messages
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less -20f /var/log/messages
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follow -20 /var/log/messages
Question 58
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Which RAID level is described by the following sentence? This level improves the performance of your data access; however, it does not provide redundancy.
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RAID 0
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RAID 1
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RAID 4
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RAID 5
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RAID 6
Question 59
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To which process does the process ID 1 always belong?
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init
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boot
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cron
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X server
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kernel (vmlinuz)
Question 60
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Which command would you use to star the xeyes program in the background?
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xeyes &
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xeyes &&
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bg | xeyes
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xeyes -bg
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xeyes | bg
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xeyes > bg
Question 61
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Which command creates the .depend.boot, .depend.start, and .dependn.stop files in /etc/init.d/?
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init
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insserv
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mkinitrd
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mkreiserfs
Question 62
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Whch command can you use to check an ext2/ext3 file system for a correct superblock, faulty data blocks, or faulty allocation of data blocks?
Answer
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df
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du
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fdisk
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e2fsck
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reiserfsck
Question 63
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Which statements about the LVM components are correct? (Choose 2.)
Answer
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A volumen group is aprt of a logical volume.
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Logical volumes are grouped in a master group.
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A volume group always consist of one physical volume.
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A physical volume can be a partition or an entire hard disk.
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A volume group can be reduced in size by removing physical volumes.
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The operating system accesses the volume groups like conventional physical partitions.
Question 64
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When SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 starts, some boot messages scroll by on the screen quickly. What is the name of the file in /var/log/ where these messages are stored?
/var/log/boot.msg