Linux Module 5 : Interactive Quiz

Question 1

Which of the following commands can be used to create partitions on either MBR or GPT hard disk?

Answer 1

Parted

Question 2

After a partition on a hard disk drive formatted with a filesystem, all partitions on that hard disk drive must use the same filesystem. True or False?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

You want to see the filesystems that are presently in use on the system. What command could you use?

Answer 3

cat /etc/mtab

Question 4

Jim has just purchased two new SCSI hard disk drives and a controller card for them. He properly installs the hardware in his machine. Before he can use them for data storage and retrieval, what must he do?

Answer 4

Mount any partitions created on the two hard drives such that they are accessible by the operating system.

Question 5

Given the following output from /etc/fstab, which filesystems will be automatically checked on boot by the fsck command?

/dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode= 620 1 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 1

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 1 0

/dev/sdc2 swap swap defaults 0 1

/dev/dvd /media/dvd iso 9660 noauto,ro 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto 0 0

Answer 5

/, /dev/pts and /dev/shm

Question 6

A user monuts a device to a mount point directory and realizes afterward there are files previously found within the mount point directory that are needed. What should this user do?

Answer 6

Unmount the device from the directory.

Question 7

Which command is used to display the amount of free space that exists on a filesystem?

Answer 7

df

Question 8

What must you do to successfully run the fsck command on a filesysstem?

Answer 8

Unmout the filesystem.

Question 9

Character devices typically transfer data more quickly than block devices. True of False?

Answer 9

False

Question 10

What does the du /var command do?

Answer 10

displays the amount of free space in the /var directory

Question 11

What does the command dumpe2fs -h do?

Answer 11

Displays the number of inodes used and available in an ext2 filesystem

Question 12

The first floppy drive on the system is not responding. You enter the file /dev/fd0 command and receive the following output. What is the problem?

[root@server1 root]# file /dev/fd0

/dev/fd0: ASCII text

[root@server1 root]#

Answer 12

The device file has become corrupt

Question 13

Which of the following statements are true?

Answer 13

Quotas can limit both user space and the number of files a user can own.

Question 14

A device file :

Answer 14

displays a major and minor number in place of a file size

Question 15

Which of the following statements regarding LVM structure is correct?

Answer 15

VGs are compromised of one of more PVs

Question 16

The lvextend command can be used add additional unused space within a volume group to an existing logical volume. True or False?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

You plug a USB flash memory drive into a system that has two SATA hard disks. What will the partition on this USB flash memory drive be recognized as to the Linux system?

Answer 17

/dev/sdc1

Question 18

Which command mounts all existing filesystems in /etc/fstab?

Answer 18

mount -a

Question 19

A user runs the fsck command with the -a option on a filesystem that is showing signs of corruption. How would that user locate any files the system was unable to repair?

Answer 19

Mount the filesystem and check the lost+found directory underneath the mount point.

Question 20

Which command is used to format a partition on a hard disk drive with the ext4 filesystem?

Answer 20

e2mkfs -t ext4 device