The Samba application is a:
File Server
Web Server
Security Server
Mail Server
Which of the following are examples of desktop software? (choose two)
Web server
File share
Web browser
Music player
Compiler
If you wanted to set up a blog, which software would be most helpful?
WordPress
MySQL
Samba
Postfix
Dovecot
Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing? (choose three)
Netatalk
NFS
XWindows
PostgreSQL
If you wanted to create and print an invoice, which software could you use?
Evolution
Firefox
GNOME
Compiz
LibreOffice
POP and IMAP are related to:
Sharing files
Email
Reading and writing music
Serving web pages
Letting users log in to multiple servers with 1 set of credentials
When a computer boots, it can get its network information through:
X11
DNS
DHCP
LDAP
SMTP
Which of the following are examples of text editors? (choose four)
pico
emacs
yum
vim
nano
A package manager: (choose two)
Downloads software from the Internet
Emails you when software is out of date
Keeps track of which files belong to which packages
Can optionally repartition your disk to make room for Linux
Performs a fresh install of Linux
An interpreted programming language: (choose two)
Takes fewer resources to run than a compiled language
Tends to offer more features than compiled languages
Is converted into machine specific instructions as the program runs
Requires a linking step but no compilation step
Requires a compilation step but no linking step
Which of the following are true about compiled programming languages?
Compiled languages are great for system administration tasks like scripting
C is a compiled language
Ruby is a compiled language
Perl is a compiled language
A programmer is usually more productive when using a compiled language
Which package manager is used in Fedora, a Red Hat derived system?
tar
aptget
bash
The Linux shell: (choose three)
Has a scripting language
Has a built in text editor
Is responsible for tracking the location of configuration files
Is customizable
Allows you to launch programs
Which application would you use to edit and piece together sound files to make podcast?
GIMP
Bash
Thunderbird
Audacity
Audiolicious
The two main families of Linux shells are: (choose two)
Python Shell
Korn shell
Bourne Shell
C Shell
Which server software would you use to create a company directory that you could search and authenticate against?
ISC DHCP
OpenLDAP
bind
A Mail Transfer Agent’s primary purpose is to:
Filter out spam
Manage the end user’s inbox
Serve email to end clients
Deliver mail between servers
Act as a gateway between faxes and email
Which of the following are examples of a web server? (choose two)
postfix
Nginx
Apache
If you wanted to let a Linux machine share files with Windows clients and servers, you would use:
Richard Stallman is associated with:
The Open Source Initiative
Microsoft
The Free Software Foundation
BSD Unix
The Apache foundation
A “copyleft provision” in a software license means:
If you redistribute the software, you must distribute the source to any changes you make
You may not link against third party closed source software
You must provide free copies of the software if you use it
You must provide support for your modifications
You give up your copyright to the software
The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is:
GPLv2 is not approved by the OSI
Only BSD allows commercial use
Nothing, they are virtually identical
BSD has no copyleft provision
GPLv2 requires assigning copyright to the FSF
The Free Software Foundation believes that:(choose two)
Software should be free to modify
No money should ever change hands
Software should be free to share
People should write software with no expectation of making money
Software should not have copyright
Which of the following licenses was made by the FSF?
MIT
BSD
GPLv3
Creative Commons
A permissive free software license: (choose two)
Means you can use the software for anything you want
Does not allow the software to be locked to certain hardware
Places no restrictions on sharing modifications
Places the software in the public domain
Requires you share software changes but not binaries
Linux is distributed under which license?
Linux Foundation
GPLv2
Who founded the Open Source Initiative? (choose two)
Richard Stallman
University of California at Berkeley
Eric Raymond
Linus Torvalds
Bruce Perens
A generic term for Open Source and Free Software is:
SLOFF
Libre Software
FLOSS
GPL
OS/FS
Which are examples of permissive software licenses? (choose two)
LGPLv3
What does it mean when a work is placed in the public domain?
The work was done by a government agency
The author has died
You must redistribute changes to the software
You may not use the work for commercial purposes
The author has relinquished the copyright on the work
Creative Commons licenses allow you to: (choose three)
Specify whether or not people may distribute changes
Receive royalties on the use of the work
Specify whether or not changes must be shared
Allow or disallow commercial use
Get a veto on where the work is used
If a podcast is licensed under the CC BYND license, you may: (choose two)
Use an interview or song from it for your own podcast
Post it to your website
Add ads to it and post it to your website.
Share it as long as you give credit to the author
Sell it as part of a compilation
How can you make money from open source software? (choose three)
Charge a yearly fee for the right to use the software
Take payments for fixing bugs
Sell hardware that’s built to work with the software
Provide paid consulting services for users
Unlock premium features for people that pay
To place software under an open source license, you must give up your copyright. True or False
The difference between the GPL and LGPL licenses are:
LGPL is shorter than GPL
LGPL allows linking to non GPLed software
LGPL applies to web services
LGPL was made by the OSI while GPL was made by the FSF
LGPL allows you to distribute the software in binaryonly form
Permissive free software licenses: (choose three)
Are not approved by the OSI
Are not approved by the FSF
Include the GPLv2 and BSD
Can allow software to be used inside closed source software
Don’t have a copyleft provision
The Creative Commons version of Public Domain licensing is:
AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike
AttributionNonCommercia
Attribution
NoAttributionShareAlike
No Rights Reserved
Your company makes a hardware firewall that runs a custom Linux kernel. What are your obligations under GPLv2?
You must ensure your custom kernel runs on a regular Intel machine
You must make the source to your kernel available
There are no requirements
You must make the source to your custom web interface available
You must make your hardware designs available
Participating in open source projects can improve your technical skills, even if it is not your day job. True or False?