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Question 1

RAID – or Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Answer 1

a type of storage that writes data across multiple drives within the same system

Question 2

Name all the parts in a server

Answer 2

Power supply
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
Backplane
Midplane
Fans
Hard drives
Chassis
SATA/SAS cables
NIC cards
Controllers
Risers
Onboard controllers
Power button boards

Question 3

Random Access Memory (RAM)

Answer 3

temporary storage where the data is stored that your computer processor needs to run your applications and open your files

Question 4

Hard Drive

Answer 4

permanent computer storage, it lets you store data for a very long time, and
its capacity is measured in Terabytes (TB) or Gigabytes (GB)

Question 5

SSD VS HHD

Answer 5

SSDs are faster than HHDs because they use electrical circuitry and have no physical moving
parts. This leads to shorter wait times when you’re starting up and fewer delays when
opening apps or doing heavy computing tasks

Question 6

Pwd

Answer 6

prints the full name (the full path) of current/working directory

Used to figure out which directory you are in

Question 7

Ls

Answer 7

Command to know what files are in the directory you are in

Question 8

cd

Answer 8

used to go to a directory

Question 9

mkdir

Answer 9

use when you need to create a folder or a directory

Question 10

rmdir

Answer 10

used to delete a directory, but it can only be used to delete an empty directory

Question 11

rm

Answer 11

used to delete files and directories

Question 12

touch

Answer 12

used to create a file

Question 13

man & –help

Answer 13

used to know more about a command and how to use it. man shows the manual pages of the command

Question 14

cp

Answer 14

used to copy files through the command line

Question 15

locate

Answer 15

used to locate a file in a Linux system

Question 16

MAC address

Answer 16

hardware identification number that uni

Question 17

Internet Protocol address

Answer 17

numerical label assigned to each device connected
to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication

Question 18

BIOS

Answer 18

Basic Input/Output System
BIOS loads and executes the MBR boot loader

Question 19

MBR

Answer 19

Master Boot Record
MBR loads and executes the GRUB boot loader

Question 20

GRUB

Answer 20

Grand Unified Bootloader
GRUB just loads and executes Kernel and initrd images

Question 21

Kernel

Answer 21

Mounts the root file system as specified in the “root=” in grub.conf

initrd stands for Initial RAM Disk.

initrd is used by kernel as temporary
root file system until kernel is booted and the real root file system is mounted. It also contains necessary drivers compiled inside, which helps it to access the hard drive p

artitions, and other hardware.