How could one search for the file foo.txt under the directory /home?
find /home -name foo.txt
find /home foo.txt
search /home -file foo.txt
search /home foo.txt
Which function does a shell program server?
It receives user commands and executes them
It is responsible for logging a user into the system
It is responsible for establishing a connection to another computer
It provides a graphical environment
The output of the program date should be saved in the variable actdat. What is the correct statement?
Actdat='date'
Date | acdat
Set actdat='date'
Actdat=date
Which of the following statements may be used to access the second command line argument to a script?
"$1"
"$2"
'$2'
$1
Which command will display running process information in realtime?
ps current
top
show current
Process
Which of the following file systems is most commonly used for Linux distributions?
NTFS
FAT32
ext4
HFS+
Which one of the following statements concerning Linux passwords is true?
Passwords are only stored in encrypted form
Passwords may never start with a non-letter
All passwords can be decrypted using the system administrator's master password
Users cannot change their password once it has been set
Why is the file data.txt empty after executing sort data.txt > data.txt?
Because the file gets truncated before the sort is executed
Because, if data.txt is empty now, it must have been empty before
Because sort cannot sort text files, only binary files
Because sort detects that both files are the same
Where is the BIOS located?
RAM
LCD Monitor
Hard drive
Motherboard
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?
ln -s /user/bin/foo /home/user/foo
ln -sys /home/user/foo /user/bin/foo
ln /user/bin/foo /home/user/foo
ln /home/user/foo /user/bin/foo
What keyword is missing from the following segment of the shell script?
for i in*;----cat $idone
Endo
Do
Then
Fi
What is the command that will show system boot time messages?
Display system boot
Messages
dmesg
lspci
Which of the following is a Linux based operating system for use on mobile devices?
CentOS
Debian
Android
Fedora
Which network interface always exists in a Linux system?
lo
wlan0
vlan0
eth0
Which command shows if /usr/bin is in the current shell search path?
cat $PATH
echo %PATH
echo $PATH
echo %PATH%
What are the three sets of permission for a file?
Administrator, standard user, others
User, group, others
Administrator, group, others
User, standard user, others
Which of the following programs is not a graphical web browser?
Chrome
Konqueror
Links
Firefox
After installing a new package, in which directory are you most likely find its configuration file?
/etc
/conf
/usr
/lib
Which of the following is true about open source software?
Open source software is available for commercial use
Open source software is not for sale
Open source software can not be copied for free
The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable forms of the software but not the source code.
What is the preferred source for the installation of new applications?
The distribution's package repository
A CD-ROM disk
A retail store
The vendor's website
Which of the following is a combined audio/video interface for transmission of digital data?
HDMI
DVD
VGA
ATI
Which of the following commands moves the directory ~/summer-vacation and it content to ~/vacation/2011?
mv ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
mv -R ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
move -R ~/summer-vacation ~/vacation/2011
mv /home/summer-vacation /home/vacation/2011
Which command line can be used to search help files that mention the word "copy"?
copy help
whatis copy
man l-k copy
copy -help
Which of the following software packages is an email server?
Postfix
Apache
MySQL
GIMP
Which of the following can be used to access the command line?
Terminal
BIOS
XWindow
Which option will cause the echo command NOT to output a trailing newline?
-p
-e
-n
-s
Which of the following statements concerning the General Public License (GPL) is true?
If you changed a program you received under the GPL, you must send your changes to the original author for approval
GPL software may never be sold for money
The GPL is identical to the BSD license
The GPL is designed to ensure that the source code of a software remains freely available
Identify the proper device for the third partition, on the second hard disk, on the first IDE controller on a PC system.
/dev/hdb3
/dev/hd1b3
/dev/hdc1d2p3
Dev/hdc1a3
Which command lists all files in the current directory that starts with a capital letter?
ls A-Z*
ls [A-Z]*
ls A-Z
ls -uppercase-files
How can the normal output of a command be written to a file while discarding the error output?
Command> file2>/dev/null
Command /dev/null
Command>2>file &1>/dev/null
Command>2>discard-error>file
Which of the following Ubuntu releases is considered most stable and fit to use for business purposes?
Ubuntu Vanilla
LTS
Xubuntu
Kubuntu
The following file is found in which system file?
root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
/usr/bin/shadow
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/password
Which is a suitable command to find the next appearance of the word hidden in a man page being viewed from the command line?
/hidden
/? hidden
CTRL-F hidden
Find hidden
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?
Linux file names are case sensitive
Rm had to be called with the option -R to delete all files
Files with extensions need a different treatment
The file Access.txt was hidden
What is the output of the following command?tail -n 20 test.txt
The last 20 lines of test.txt including the black lines
The last 20 lines of test.txt omitting the black lines
The last 20 lines of test.txt with line numbers
The first 20 lines of test.txt
Which of the following commands will display a list of all files in the current directory, including those that may be hidden?
ls -a
ls --hidden
ls -h
ls --a
Which command will display the last line of the file foo.txt?
tail -n 1 foo.txt
last -n 1 foo.txt
head -n foo.txt
tail foo.txt
