Test Question Review

Question 1

Which keyboard shortcut allows copying highlighted text while working in the command line terminal

Answer 1

Ctrl+shift+c

Question 2

How do you get a typical commands builtin usage information?

Answer 2

–help

Question 3

Ls -r and the -r means recursive.. what does this command give?

Answer 3

List of files in current directory and any files in sub directory

Question 4

Typing $ followed by what key twice in rapid succession will list all variables?

Answer 4

Tab

Question 5

What sections does man page have?

Answer 5

Name,config,return,value, and error sections

Question 6

What command is used to print one page of text to a screen at a time?

Answer 6

Less command

Question 7

What option can be used with cat to display line numbers with text of a file to the screen?

Answer 7

-n

Question 8

What option can be used with tail or head to specify the number of lines to display to the screen?

Answer 8

-n

Question 9

What is used to redirect the standard out of a command to a file?

Answer 9

1>

Question 10

What statement is used to get input from the terminal when a shell script is being run?

Answer 10

Read

Question 11

Which version of Linux should be installed on a system with a 32 bit processor?

Answer 11

X86

Question 12

What is used as a virtual or pseudo files stem used to interface with the kernel and process?

Answer 12

/proc

Question 13

What is the command that will show system boot time messages?

Answer 13

Dmesg

Question 14

What command will display a list of all files in the current directory, including those that may be hidden?

Answer 14

ls -a

Question 15

What type of link contains the data in the the target file?

Answer 15

Hard link

Question 16

What is defined by a free software license?

Answer 16

The conditions for modifying or distributing the licensed software

Question 17

What is the Debian based computer operating system for Raspberry Pi?

Answer 17

Raspbian

Question 18

What is used as a replacement for Microsoft word?

Answer 18

Writer

Question 19

What is the UNIX device name for a physical or virtual terminal connection?

Answer 19

Tty

Question 20

What is the suite of client server software for creating and using hosting service?

Answer 20

ownCloud

Question 21

What command line can be used to search help files that mention the word ‘copy’?

Answer 21

Man -k copy

Question 22

What option of the command history can be used to clear the user’s history?

Answer 22

-c

Question 23

What command shows if /usr/bin is in the current shell search path?

Answer 23

echo $PATH

Question 24

What keyword should be used to fill in the blank in the following segment of the given shell scripts, for I *;___ cat $i done

Answer 24

do

Question 25

What option is used with tar to create a new .tar archive file?

Answer 25

-c

Question 26

What option can be used with tail to print last x bytes of a file to the screen?

Answer 26

-c

Question 27

What is the correct statement to be used for comparison in a linux shell script?

Answer 27

If [condition]

Question 28

Why is the file data.txt empty after exciting sora data.txt>data.txt?

Answer 28

Because rge gets truncated before sort is executed

Question 29

What network device serves as the gateway between your internal network and external network?

Answer 29

Router

Question 30

What's the maximum amount if memory accessible by a 32 bit operating system?

Answer 30

4 GB

Question 31

What software package is a mail server

Answer 31

Postfix

Question 32

What is used as a virtual or pseudo filesystem used to interface with the kernel and system as a whole but not with individual processes?

Answer 32

/sys

Question 33

What command can be used to resolve a DNS name to an IP address?

Answer 33

host

Question 34

What option can be used with useradd to create new user without a home directory?

Answer 34

-M

Question 35

What command is used to show the information about a directory or a symbolic link?

Answer 35

ls -d

Question 36

Which file on a Linux system is modified to set the maximum number of data before a password must be changed?

Answer 36

/etc/shadow

Question 37

What is a special permission bit set on a file or a directory that let's only the owner of the file/directory or the root user to delete or rename the file?

Answer 37

Sticky bit