Ch 08: Sys Initial, X Wind, and Local (Practice)

Which of the following files is where the default runlevel is set on some Linux systems?

/etc/inittab

Which of the following files is a binary file that contains the rules for calculating the time based on your time zone relative to epoch time?

/etc/localtime

In addition to /etc/localtime, some Linux distributions also have an /etc/timezone text file that contains a reference to the correct time zone file contained in which directory?

/usr/share/zoneinfo

Where are the files stored that contain information for all of the time zones that could be recognized by a Linux operating system?

/usr/share/zoneinfo

Which of the following is the default desktop environment used by Linux Mint?

Cinnamon

Which of the following is an on-screen keyboard used with Linux?

GOK

Which of the following options is passed to the Linux kernel from the GRUB2 configuration file to set the locale?

LANG

Which of the following does Click Assist do?

Simulates a right click by holding down the left mouse button.

Which of the following accessibility features simulates simultaneous key presses when two keys are pressed in sequence?

Sticky Keys

Which of the following is a valid Linux initialization process?

Systemd SysV

Which of the following system variables can you modify to override the default system time zone within your current shell?

TZ

Which of the following does a Linux kernel use to store the value of epoch time?

The number of seconds since January 1, 1970

Which of the following is responsible for starting tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown, and supervising them while the system is running?

Upstart

What is contained in the DISPLAY variable on a Linux system running the X window system?

Which X server the client is supposed to connect to by default.

Which of the following is a lightweight desktop environment that uses very few system resources that a system administrator might choose to install on a Linux server instead of one of the two main desktop environments?

XFCE

Which of the following commands will display the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970?

date +%s

Which of the following commands will generate a new initramfs?

dracut mkinitrd

Which of the following can be used to compare the hardware clock to the system clock, writing a new result to a new line every 10 seconds?

hwclock -c

Which of the following commands can be used to convert files between different character encodings?

iconv

Which of the following will invalid entries in the GRUB2 configuration cause?

kernel panic and halt the system

Which of the following commands will show a number of environment variables that start with LC_?

locale

Which of the following commands can be used to display the current locale of a system? (Choose two.)

localectl locale

Which of the following files holds the configuration information for GRUB Legacy on Ubuntu Linux systems?

menu.lst

Which of the following is the default window manager used by the GNOME version 3 desktop environment?

mutter

Which of the following commands will show the current runlevel along with the previous runlevel? (Choose all that apply.)

runlevel

Which of the following commands will set the default runlevel of a Linux system?

systemctl set-default runlevel5.target

Which of the following commands will display a list of Systemd units sorted by the time they took to load?

systemd-analyze blame

Which of the following commands will shut down a Linux system? (Choose all that apply.)

telinit 0 poweroff shutdown -h now

Which of the following commands will list the time zones available on a Linux system?

timedatectl list-timezones

Which of the following options can be specified in the GRUB Legacy configuration file to set how long the boot menu is displayed before loading the default image?

timeout

Which of the following commands will prompt you to answer a series of questions to help determine which time zone file you should use?

tzselect

If incompatible X Windows settings are configured, where will the errors that are generated be written to?

~/.xsession-errors