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Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Blank is a popular desktop environment for Linux. Its the default desktop environment for openSUSE.

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KDE Plasma

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Blank is built using the Qt widget set.

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KDE Plasma

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Blank is the desktop environment for the Fedora and Ubuntu distributions and is built atop the GIMP toolkit widget set.

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GNOME

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The blank desktop environment was initially available for only the Linux Mint distribution but is now supported by others.

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Cinnamon

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The blank desktop environment is intended to consume few resources and therefore works well on old or modest computers

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Lightweight X11 desktop environment (LXDE)

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The blank desktop environment was originally modeled on a commercial desktop known as CDE, but it is built using the GTK+ widget and offers more configurability than GNOME

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Xfce

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Many desktop environments provide blank along a top, bottom, or side edge of the screen. One or more of these items can give you access to a preselected set of applications

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Desktop menus

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In some desktop environments, you can place blank in the main area of the desktop. Clicking or double-clicking them launch the applications

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Desktop icons

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Some desktop environments provide blank on the sides of screens where common applications appear. GNOME shell has these by default.

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Panels

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You can sometimes right-click on an unused part of the screen to get a blank with a variety of options.

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Context menus

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Some desktop environments provide an ability to blank a program by name.

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Search

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You can launch a program called blank , which provides a text-mode user interface and run either a text-based program or GUI program by typing in the filenames in the window.

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terminal

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GNOME’s default file manager

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GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus)

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The home locations refers to blank, that is, the directory where you store your own file

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home directory

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You can add bookmarks, called blank in GNOME, for locations not shown in the main panel

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Starred

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You can right click a file and select blank from the resulting drop-down menu, allowing you to use the open with tab.

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Properties

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17
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Name a few techniques to help you find suitable productivity applications (4)

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Using desktop menus
Using search features
Using Tables or Equivalent
Using Other’s experitse

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Name the web browsers that Linux supports

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Chrome
Firefox
Web
Konqueror
Lynx
Opera

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What type of web browsers does Linux not support

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Microsoft web browsers

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20
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Name the most popular web browser for Linux

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Firefox

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Name some of the issues with browsing the web (5)

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1) Websites can log user data
2) Web-content is dynamic, which means you could download malware
3) Malicious websites can trick users to providing sensitive information (phishing)
4) Some websites are not secure
5) Passwords are subject to theft

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Name some of the email clients for Linux (4)

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Evolution
Kmail
Mutt
Thunderbird

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Name the email server closely associated with Firefox

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Thunderbird

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Which office program was born out of a split from KOffice that offers Words, Stage, Sheets, Flow, and Kexi.

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Calligra

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Which office suite was donated by Oracle and includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math?

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Apache OpenOffice

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Which Office suite forked from Apache OpenOffice, is becoming the most popular office suite in Linux, and offers Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, and Math.

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LibreOffice

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Name 7 multimedia applications for Linux

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Audacity
Blender
Castero
GIMP
ImageMagick
Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS)
Kdenlive

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Which multimedia application is similar to Adope Photoshop and helped provide a basis for GNOME?

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GIMP

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Blank is the storage of computing software and/or data over the Internet, rather than storing it locally on your computer

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Public cloud computing

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Name some public cloud computing resources available for Linux

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Netflix
Dropbox
Zoho office
Gmail

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Blank is slightly different technology in that the cloud is your computer (or home’s network and its local resources instead of the Internet)

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private cloud computing

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Using Linux as the server, you can set up a private cloud for file hosting via one of which three software suite resources?

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1) ownCloud
2) Nextcloud
3) FileCloud

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33
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Files that are stored locally is known by what term?

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self-hosting

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34
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Although blank is a Linux-based OS, for the most part it runs entirely different applications than do desktop or server implementations of Linux.

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Android

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Networks, including the Internet, function by means of network blank, which define how two computers should exchange data to achieve a particular end.

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protocols

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Most protocols are described in one or more standard documents, known as blank, each of which has a number and defines the protocol.

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request for comments (RFC) documents

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Most network protocols involve transferring data over one or more blank, which are numbered resources on a computer.

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ports

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The blank is an old protocol for transferring files over a network. It supports both anonymous and password-mediated access. It’s odd in that it uses two ports.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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39
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What protocol uses ports 20 and 21?

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FTP

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40
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Common server programs like oftpd, Proftpd, Pute-FTPd, and vcftpd uses which port(s)?

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20 and 21

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The blank is an encrypted remote access tool that supports file transfers and ecrypting other protocols.

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Secure Shell (SSH)

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What protocol uses port 22?

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SSH

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43
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OpenSSH uses with port number?

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22

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Blank is an old unencrytped remote login protocol. It’s seldom used today, but can be a useful network diagnostic tool.

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Telnet

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45
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What protocol uses port 23?

46
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telnetd uses which port number?

47
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The blank is the main protocol for moving email on the internet. The sender initiates the transfer.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

48
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What protocol uses port 25?

49
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Postfix, qmail, and sendmail use which port?

50
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The blank enables computers to look up an IP address by providing a host name, or vice versa.

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Domain Name System

51
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What protocol uses port 53?

52
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dnsmasq and named use which port number?

53
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The blank and its younger cousin blank both enable a computer on a local network to help automatically configure other computers to use a network

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Bootstrap protocol (BOOTP)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

54
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What protocols use port 67?

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BOOTP, DHCP

55
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dnsmasq and dhcpd operate on which port?

56
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The blank is the basis of the World Wide Web.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

57
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Apache HTTPD and NGINX use what port numbers

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80
443 (secured)

58
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Which protocol uses port 80?

59
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The blank enables a recipient to initiate an email transfer, so it’s often the last leg in email delivery, from a server to a recipient

A

Post Office Protocol (POP)

60
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What protocol(s)uses ports 109-110?

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POP2 and POP3

61
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Courier, Cyrus IMAP, Dovecot, UW IMAP use what port number(s)?

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109-110
143
200

62
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The blank is a network-enabled database interface language.

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Structured Query Language (SQL)

63
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What protocol uses port 118?

64
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MySQL, ProstgreSQL, and MariaDB use what port number?

65
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Microsoft uses the Server Message Block(SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols for file and printer sharing, blank implements these protocols in Linux

66
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What protocol(s) use ports 137-139?

67
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What port(s) does Samba use?

68
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The blank is another recipient-initiated email transfer protocol, similar to POP, but makes it easier for recipients to store email on the server permanently

A

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

69
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What protocol uses ports 143 and 200?

70
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The blank is a network protocol for accessing directories, which is in the context of a database.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

71
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What protocol uses port 389?

72
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OpenLDAP uses what port number?

73
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What protocol is a secured (encrypted) variant of HTTP?

74
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What protocol uses port 443?

75
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The blank is a protocol, and a server of the same name, for file sharing between Unix and Unix-like OSs.

A

Network File System (NFS)

76
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What protocol uses port 2049?

77
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NFS uses which port number?

78
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A blank delivers web pages to internal and/or external network users

A

web server

79
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Originally released in 1995, blank is a web server that is part of the prevalent Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP(LAMP) stack for web applications

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Apache HTTPD

80
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Released in 2002, the blank web server that can retrieve resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers, as well as operate as a mail server.

81
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A server program runs in the background, as a blank, that is a process that runs unattended

82
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Most blank are started automatically when Linux boots

83
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Name three initialization daemons

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System V init (SysV init)
systemd
Upstart

84
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Some servers run via a blank, such as xinetd. These server programs run constantly, keeping the servers they manage unloaded except when they are needed

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super server

85
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Servers can contain blank that enable outsiders to abuse the software to run programs locally

86
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You can blank a server, granting an outsider greater access to your system that you had intended

A

misconfigure

87
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Even without breaking into a computer, an attacker can swamp a server with bogus data, thus shutting it down. This is called a blank attack.

A

Denial-of-service (DOS) attack

88
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Blank is arguably the most important compiled language for Linux, since most of the kernel, as well as a huge number of Linux applications are written it it.

89
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What is the extension for C’s main source code files?

90
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What is the extension for C’s header files?

91
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In Linux, C files are generally compiled with the blank program, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection package.

A

gcc program

92
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Many complex Linux programs such as KDE and Apache OpenOffice/ LibreOffice are written in what language

93
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Blank was created by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) as a cross-platform language that’s somewhere between compiled and interpreted. It’s become popular for small applications via websites

94
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Blank is an interpreted scripting language and is one of the most popular website programming language

A

JavaScript

95
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An interpreted language, blank is designed for easy manipulation of text, but it’s a general purpose language that can be used for many other tasks as well.

96
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The blank was created for use on web servers in order to generate dynamic content– that is content that varies depending on the user, the time of day , or some other criterion

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PHP, hypertext Preprocessor

97
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The blank interpreted language makes code readability a major goal. It’s often used for scripting purposes, but can be used to write more complex programs too.

98
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Most Linux text-mode shells provide their own interpreted language. Of these blank is the most common.

A

Bourne Again Shell (bash)

99
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Blank is a low level package tool used as the foundation of the Debian based family of PMS tools. It can be used to directly install, manage, and remove software packages, but it cannot download software packages from the repository.

100
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The blank tool is a low-level package tool similar to dpkg utility, but it is used for Red Hat Linux package management system

101
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Blank is a tool for Debian PMS, which allows you to install software from the repositories and remove software packages from your local Linux system.

102
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Blank is text-mode tool for the Red Hat PMS which allows you to install software from the repositories and remove software packages from your local Linux system.

103
Q

Which of the following are Linux desktop environments? (choose all that apply)

A. GTK+
B. GNOME
C. KDE Plasma
D. Evolution
E. Xfce

104
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If you want to enable one Linux computer to access files stored on another Linux computer’s hard disk, which of the following network protocols is the BEST choice?

A. SMTP
B. NFS
C. PHP
D. DNS
E. DHCP

105
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In what language is most of the Linux kernel written in?

106
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True or False: OpenOffice.org forked from Calligra

107
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True or False: Malicious outsiders can disrupt services even if the computer that runs them is never broken into.

108
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True or False: Python is generally implemented as an interpreted language.

109
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Thunderbird is a blank program.

A

email client

110
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A Linux server that handles the SMB/CIFS protocol normally runs the blank software

111
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A program written in the blank programming language is completely converted to binary before being run.

112
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You can install and manage various Linux software applications via a blank management system.

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