LPI Linux Essentials 010-150

Which of the following program phases is usually a product that is delivered free of charge for users to find and receive feedback on any bugs and issues? - ANSWER Beta Which of the following Linux command line help t ...

Which of the following program phases is usually a product that is delivered free of charge for users to find and receive feedback on any bugs and issues? - ANSWER Beta Which of the following Linux command line help tools is more modern and supports hyperlinking? - ANSWER info How many primary partitions can the GUID partitioning method support? - ANSWER 128 Which of the following would NOT likely be a filename used in Linux? (choose all that apply) A. /dev/xda B. /dev/sda C. /dev/sdb D. /dev/xdb - ANSWER /dev/xda, /dev/xdb Which programming language is most of the Linux kernel written? - ANSWER C Which keyboard combination would you press to move your screen cursor to the end of a command line? A. Ctrl + Tab B. Ctrl + E C. Ctrl + Alt + Shift D. Ctrl + Enter - ANSWER Ctrl + E Which of the following two are considered to be pre-release versions of software applications known to contain bugs and issues? - ANSWER alpha, beta Early versions of the Windows OS used _____ multitasking, in which programs can voluntarily give up CPU time to other processes. - ANSWER cooperative Which command line tool would you use to show the total amount of free space available on your Linux hard disk? - ANSWER free The MBR partitioning method cannot support disks that are larger than 2 _______ in size. - ANSWER TB True or False: The Linux kernel is a break off of the Mac OS kernel. - ANSWER False Which command would you use to create a symbolic link to a file in Linux? - ANSWER ln If you wanted to create or update a file from the Linux command line, which tool would you use? - ANSWER touch Which of the following is usually non-existent to Linux operating systems? - ANSWER Viruses Which of the following Linux folders would usually NOT store programs? - ANSWER /usr/cat/info Which command line prompt would you use to print arguments onto a terminal screen in Linux? - ANSWER echo Which of the following are all considered Linux GUI desktop environments? (choose all that apply) - ANSWER Gnome, KDE, XFce Which of the following is considered to be an example of an embedded Linux OS? (choose all that apply) - ANSWER Android, Tivo, Which term is considered a play on words and is the practice of offering people the right to freely copy and modify versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in works down the line? - ANSWER copyleft If you see a .odt file extension on a file inside Linux, what type of document would this most likely be? - ANSWER OpenDocument Text Which Linux command line tool will allow you to mount a hard disk? - ANSWER mount Firefox is to Chrome as rpm is to _____. - ANSWER dpkg Which version of the ext filesystem is the newest used in Linux today? - ANSWER ext4 Which filesystem was developed by the IBM Corporation and is now being used in some Linux operating systems? - ANSWER JFS Which of the following open source applications can be used as an email client? (choose all that apply) - ANSWER evolution, thunderbird, geary, mutt What is another term for Linux distribution? - ANSWER Flavor Which of the following is considered to be the names for the Mac OS GUI interfaces? (choose two) - ANSWER aqua, cocoa Which type of programming language is converted into machine code at the time they are run? - ANSWER interpreted Which text mode tool for Debian based distributions can install software from a Linux system? - ANSWER apt-get What does the command line prompt pwd mean? - ANSWER present working directory A Linux terminal window is best described as a - ANSWER command line interface Which of the following are considered Linux Web Server programs? (choose all that apply) - ANSWER Appache HTTPD, Nginx Which command line tool would you use to view all the commands in your terminal command line history? - ANSWER history Which of the following is the default shell found in most Linux distributions? - ANSWER bash True or False: If you use the Linux GUI Windows X mode, you have no way of accessing any type of command line interface. - ANSWER false In the simplest terms, everything in the Linux OS is considered to be a ________ - ANSWER file Which hardware component converts AC power to DC power for a PC? - ANSWER PSU What is the purpose of Linux distributions using a longer release cycle? - ANSWER provide a more stable environment for users Which of the following options would provide an interface between a hardware device and a software application? - ANSWER device driver Which of the following would you NOT use to list the capabilities and details of your Linux computer's CPU? - ANSWER echo cpu Which company is given credit for creating the Unix OS? - ANSWER AT&T Which of the following describes a system that uses 32-bit processing? - ANSWER x86 Which Linux distribution was the first to be released in 1993? - ANSWER Slackware Which key would you press on your keyboard to complete a command with a minimal number of keystrokes in a Linux command terminal? - ANSWER Tab Which of the following would be considered a proprietary operating system? - ANSWER Mac OS, Windows OS Which command line tool would you use to assign a static IP address in a Linux system? - ANSWER ifconfig Which of the following command line tools would you use to partition a hard drive? - ANSWER fdisk Which command line tool would you place at the end of the statement below to see a list of all directories on you Linux computer? echo $ - ANSWER PATH Which of the following command line tools would you use to provide the most information about your Linux PCs motherboard features? - ANSWER lspci Which of the following is considered the most powerful account in Linux? - ANSWER Root account What is a partition called that is contained in an extended partition? - ANSWER Logical Which Linux help command line tool is intended to be a quick reference on various programs and configuration files in a Linux installation? - ANSWER ? If a user was in a Linux command line terminal, which symbol would indicate that they were running in root access? - ANSWER # How many pins would you find on one end normal HDMI cable? - ANSWER 19 pins Which OS is Andrew Tannenbaum given credit for creating? - ANSWER Minix Which command would you use if you have trouble finding anything inside the Linux command line? - ANSWER man Which of the following is the port number for the LDAP protocol? - ANSWER 389 Which of the following open source software includes various packages such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, graphics, and databases? - ANSWER Apache OpenOffice Which of the following terms would you find a the beginning of a Linux text-mode login prompt? - ANSWER login which of the following is considered to be the core part of any Linux operating system - ANSWER kernel which of the following would not be considered a duty of the linux kernel - ANSWER creating the menus and folders in a GUI program Which of the following would be reasons you might want to partition your hard drive? (choose two) - ANSWER To dual boot a PC for two separate, To partition your file system data from the swap space. If you were inside of an Ubuntu Linux distribution, which keyboard combination would you use to return back to GUI interface from a virtual terminal screen? - ANSWER ctrl + alt +f7 Who created Linux? - ANSWER Linus Torvalds Which of the following is considered to be one of the differences between a Linux OS and the Mac OS? - ANSWER Linux's GUI is based on the X window system whereas OS X's is not Which of the following hardware components would be considered the central nervous system of a computer? - ANSWER motherboard Which of the following IEEE standards is based upon base-2 values? - ANSWER IEEE-1541 f you wanted to enable one Linux computer to access files stored on another Linux computer? Which of the following network protocols is the best choice? - ANSWER NFS Which of the following applications is an open source video editor? - ANSWER Blender Which is a kernel that does everything a kernel is to do in one big process? - ANSWER monolithic Which of the following is NOT considered a normal way to connect a video monitor to a PC? - ANSWER USB Who is given credit for founding the GNU Project back in September 1983? - ANSWER Richard Stallman Which type of software is similar to commercial software in that it is copyrighted, but a user is given a trial period before they must begin paying to use the software? - ANSWER shareware The C++ is considered to be a(n) _____ programming language - ANSWER compiled Which of the following actions does the find command perform? - ANSWER searching a file in a directory Which type of file is nano LEAST likely to be useful for examining or editing? - ANSWER A LibreOffice word processing document True or False: You can create a symbolic link from one low-level filesystem to another. - ANSWER True True or False: You've typed rmdir junk to delete the junk directory, but this command has failed because junk contains word processing files. To do the job, you type rm -r junk. - ANSWER True True or False: Valid looping statements in Bash include for, while, and until. - ANSWER True What could you type in a Linux command line terminal shell to see a list of all process IDs (PID) on your computer? - ANSWER ps Which of the following type of user information might you find in the /etc/passwd file? - ANSWER The UID, the user's account home directory, the path to the user's default text-mode shell Which of the following directories is where you would find the new mount point for removable media in the Linux OS? - ANSWER /media What is the filename extension for the bzip2 compression program? - ANSWER .bz2 You've written a simple shell script that does nothing but launch programs. In order to ensure that the script works with most user shells, what should its first line read? - ANSWER #!/bin/sh What are the two types of FHS files found in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard? - ANSWER standard, variable Which of the following commands will install the GIMP software application on an RPM-based Linux OS? - ANSWER yum install gimp _____________files are those that control how the computer operates. - ANSWER System Which of the following commands would you type to rename a file called newfile.txt to afile.txt - ANSWER mv newfile.txt afile.txt Which of the following command line tools would be the best to use when compressing more than two files inside a Linux system? - ANSWER tar You type mkdir one/two/three and receive an error message that reads, in part, no such file or directory. What can you do to overcome this problem? - ANSWER Issue three separate mkdir commands: mkdir one, then mkdir one/two, and then mkdir one/two/three The gzip, bzip2, and xz programs all perform_______compression, in which the decompressed data exactly matches the original pre-compression data. - ANSWER lossless True or False: Unicode is useful for encoding most European languages but not Asian languages. - ANSWER False Once a shell script has been written, it must be made________in order to run it. - ANSWER executable Which single keyboard character represents any single character except in a new line in a regular expression in Linux? - ANSWER . Which of the following extensions would you use at the end of the script name? - ANSWER .sh What is the purpose of conditional expressions in shell scripts? - ANSWER They enable the script to take different actions in response to variable data Which Linux directory usually holds the system configuration files? - ANSWER /etc Which of the following redirection operators appends a program's standard output to an existing file, without overwriting that file's original contents? - ANSWER >> Which two keyboard characters can denote an account with no password? - ANSWER * ! What is another name for a bash shell script that you might see? - ANSWER hashpling You want to copy a directory, MyFiles, to a USB flash drive that uses the FAT filesystem. The contents of MyFiles are as follows: $ ls -l MyFiles/ total 276 -rw-r--r-- 1 jen users 129840 Nov 8 15:13 contract.odt -rw-r--r-- 1 rod users 42667 Nov 8 15:12 outline.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 sam users 105979 Nov 8 15:12 Outline.PDF The USB flash drive is mounted at /media/usb, and so you type cp -a MyFiles/media/usb. What problem will occur when you attempt to copy these files? - ANSWER one file will be missing on the USB flash drive True or False: Many (not all) configuration files use a hash mark (#) to identify comment lines? - ANSWER True Which of the following are considered RPM-based Linux distributions? - ANSWER Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE Enterprise Which optional parameter would you use with the Linux sort command to ignore case sensitivity? - ANSWER -f If you were a Linux system's administrator and wanted to see who is currently logged into the computer and what programs they are currently running, you can type the ____ command. - ANSWER w True or false: GUI text editors for ASCII are superior to text-mode ASCII text editors because the GUI editors support underlining, italics, and multiple fonts. - ANSWER false Which of the following are the two major Linux package management systems? - ANSWER RPM, dpkg True or false: Linux stores information on groups in the /etc/groups file. - ANSWER false What are two forms of regular expressions used in Linux? - ANSWER basic, extended True or false: To compress files archived with the zip command, you must use an external compression program such as gzip or bzip2 in a pipeline with zip. - ANSWER false Which of the following actions is performed when a file is uncompressed? - ANSWER extract True or false: The find command enables you to locate files based on their sizes. - ANSWER true True or false: You can set a directory's time stamps with the touch command. - ANSWER true True or false: You can easily damage your Linux installation by mistyping an rm command when you log into your regular account. - ANSWER false Which of the following directories stores package database information? - ANSWER /var/lib True or false: A user types myscript laser.txt to run a script called myscript. Within myscript, the $0 variable holds the value laser.txt . - ANSWER False Which command would you type if you wanted to display your username from a Linux command line terminal shell? - ANSWER whoami To have a script send an email automatically, which command would you use to do this? - ANSWER mail Which command would you use to display prompts for a user in a shell script? - ANSWER echo Which of the following keyboard strokes would you use to connect two or more commands in Linux? - ANSWER | After using a text editor to create a shell script, what step should you take before trying to use the script by typing its name? - ANSWER set one or more executable bits using chmod If a Linux system has no programs demanding CPU time what number would best represent the load average on that computer? - ANSWER 0 Which character that represents the start of a line in a regular expression? - ANSWER ^ What are the two types of outputs that can result using basic redirection operators in Linux? - ANSWER standard output, standard error Which of the following statements would you need to include in a case statement to denote the end of the case statement? - ANSWER esac A _____ is when the standard output from one program is redirected as the standard input to a second program. - ANSWER pipe How would you remove two lines of text from a file using the Vi text editor? - ANSWER In command mode, position the cursor on the first line and type 2dd Which of the following consists of supporting files for an application that are installed on a Linux computer? - ANSWER package Complete the following command to redirect both standard output and standard error from the bigprog program to the file out.txt: $ bigprog _____ out.txt - ANSWER &> Using the image below, which Linux command line tool would give you this list in an alphabetic order? - ANSWER sort rue or false: The following script launches three simultaneous instances of the terminal program. #!/bin/bash terminal terminal terminal - ANSWER false Which file hierarchy structure was created to give a standardization to the Linux filesystem structure? - ANSWER FHS Which of the following Linux commands will print lines from the file world.txt that contain matches to changes and changed? - ANSWER grep change[ds] world.txt Which of the following Linux command line tools supports both gzip and bzip2 compression? - ANSWER tar Which file now stores users passwords in the Linux OS? - ANSWER /etc/shadow Using the image below, what does the x character represent? - ANSWER An encrypted password stored in the /etc/shadow file You want to run the following command inside your Linux terminal: iptables -L but know you will need to have root access to do so. If you are logged in under a basic user account, which command could you add to give you root access for just this command? - ANSWER sudo iptables -L To uninstall an application using the apt-get command, you would type apt-get _____. - ANSWER remove Which of the following would you use the yum command to install or upgrade applications? (choose all that apply) - ANSWER Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS Which of the following entries would you use on the first line of a script you are creating in Linux? - ANSWER #!/bin/sh ASCII supports _____ unique characters. - ANSWER 128 What is the effect of the following short script, cp1, if it's called as cp1 big.c.big.cc? #!/bin/bash cp $2 $1 - ANSWER It copies the contents of big.cc to big.c, eliminating the old big.c Which command would reveal the total RAM statistics about your Linux system? - ANSWER Mem Which keystrokes invoke the pico or nano search function? (choose two) - ANS