Question 1
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How could one search for the file foo.txt under the directory /home?
Question 2
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Which function does a shell program server?
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It receives user commands and executes them
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It is responsible for logging a user into the system
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It is responsible for establishing a connection to another computer
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It provides a graphical environment
Question 3
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The output of the program date should be saved in the variable actdat. What is the correct statement?
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Actdat='date'
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Date | acdat
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Set actdat='date'
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Actdat=date
Question 4
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Which of the following statements may be used to access the second command line argument to a script?
Question 5
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Which command will display running process information in realtime?
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ps current
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top
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show current
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Process
Question 6
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Which of the following file systems is most commonly used for Linux distributions?
Question 7
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Which one of the following statements concerning Linux passwords is true?
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Passwords are only stored in encrypted form
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Passwords may never start with a non-letter
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All passwords can be decrypted using the system administrator's master password
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Users cannot change their password once it has been set
Question 8
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Why is the file data.txt empty after executing sort data.txt > data.txt?
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Because the file gets truncated before the sort is executed
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Because, if data.txt is empty now, it must have been empty before
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Because sort cannot sort text files, only binary files
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Because sort detects that both files are the same
Question 9
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Where is the BIOS located?
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RAM
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LCD Monitor
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Hard drive
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Motherboard
Question 10
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You have a program called /user/bin/foo. You wish to create a symbolic link, /home/user/bin/foo, that points to it. Which command will do this task?
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ln -s /user/bin/foo /home/user/foo
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ln -sys /home/user/foo /user/bin/foo
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ln /user/bin/foo /home/user/foo
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ln /home/user/foo /user/bin/foo
Question 11
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What keyword is missing from the following segment of the shell script?
for i in*;----cat $idone
Question 12
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What is the command that will show system boot time messages?
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Display system boot
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Messages
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dmesg
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lspci
Question 13
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Which of the following is a Linux based operating system for use on mobile devices?
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CentOS
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Debian
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Android
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Fedora
Question 14
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Which network interface always exists in a Linux system?
Question 15
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Which command shows if /usr/bin is in the current shell search path?
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cat $PATH
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echo %PATH
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echo $PATH
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echo %PATH%
Question 16
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What are the three sets of permission for a file?
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Administrator, standard user, others
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User, group, others
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Administrator, group, others
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User, standard user, others
Question 17
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Which of the following programs is not a graphical web browser?
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Chrome
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Konqueror
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Links
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Firefox
Question 18
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After installing a new package, in which directory are you most likely find its configuration file?
Question 19
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What are the three sets of permission for a file?
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Administrator, group, others
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User, group, others
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User, standard user, others
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Administrator, standard user, others
Question 20
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Which of the following is true about open source software?
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Open source software is available for commercial use
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Open source software is not for sale
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Open source software can not be copied for free
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The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable forms of the software but not the source code.
Question 21
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What is the preferred source for the installation of new applications?
Question 22
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Which of the following is a combined audio/video interface for transmission of digital data?
Question 23
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Which of the following commands moves the directory ~/summer-vacation and it content to ~/vacation/2011?
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mv ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
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mv -R ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
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move -R ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
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mv /home/summer-vacation /home/vacation/2011
Question 24
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Which command line can be used to search help files that mention the word "copy"?
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copy help
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whatis copy
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man l-k copy
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copy -help
Question 25
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Which of the following software packages is an email server?
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Postfix
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Apache
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MySQL
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GIMP
Question 26
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Which of the following can be used to access the command line?
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Terminal
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Firefox
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BIOS
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XWindow
Question 27
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After installing a new package, in which directory are you most likely find its configuration file?
Question 28
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Why is the file data.txt empty after executing sort data.txt > data.txt?
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Because the file gets truncated before the sort is executed
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Because sort cannot sort text files, only binary files
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Because sort detects that both files are the same
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Because, if data.txt is empty now, it must have been empty before
Question 29
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Which option will cause the echo command NOT to output a trailing newline?
Question 30
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Which of the following statements concerning the General Public License (GPL) is true?
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If you changed a program you received under the GPL, you must send your changes to the original author for approval
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GPL software may never be sold for money
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The GPL is identical to the BSD license
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The GPL is designed to ensure that the source code of a software remains freely available
Question 31
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Identify the proper device for the third partition, on the second hard disk, on the first IDE controller on a PC system.
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/dev/hdb3
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/dev/hd1b3
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/dev/hdc1d2p3
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Dev/hdc1a3
Question 32
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Which command lists all files in the current directory that starts with a capital letter?
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ls A-Z*
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ls [A-Z]*
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ls A-Z
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ls -uppercase-files
Question 33
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How can the normal output of a command be written to a file while discarding the error output?
Question 34
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Which of the following Ubuntu releases is considered most stable and fit to use for business purposes?
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Ubuntu Vanilla
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LTS
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Xubuntu
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Kubuntu
Question 35
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The following file is found in which system file?
root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
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/usr/bin/shadow
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/etc/passwd
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/etc/shadow
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/etc/password
Question 36
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Which is a suitable command to find the next appearance of the word hidden in a man page being viewed from the command line?
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/hidden
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/? hidden
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CTRL-F hidden
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Find hidden
Question 37
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While deleting all files beginning with the letter a there was still the file Access.txt left. Assuming that it had the correct ownership, why was it not deleted?
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Linux file names are case sensitive
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Rm had to be called with the option -R to delete all files
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Files with extensions need a different treatment
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The file Access.txt was hidden
Question 38
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What is the output of the following command?tail -n 20 test.txt
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The last 20 lines of test.txt including the black lines
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The last 20 lines of test.txt omitting the black lines
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The last 20 lines of test.txt with line numbers
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The first 20 lines of test.txt
Question 39
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Which of the following commands will display a list of all files in the current directory, including those that may be hidden?
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ls -a
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ls --hidden
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ls -h
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ls --a
Question 40
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Which command will display the last line of the file foo.txt?
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tail -n 1 foo.txt
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last -n 1 foo.txt
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head -n foo.txt
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tail foo.txt