Guide to Linux+ - Test 1

The ____ metacharacter indicates background command execution.

&

The ____ regular expression metacharacter matches 0 or more occurrences of the previous character.

*

To view a list of files and their type, use the ____ switch to the ls command.

-F

The ____ directory contains system commands and utilities

/usr

Can you have more than four SCSI hard disks within a system? (Yes/No)

Yes

Is Linux less expensive than other operating systems such as Windows? (Yes/No)

Yes

Is Samba the most common service used to allow clients to connect to shared information and printers on a Linux server? (Yes/No)

Yes

To display the line number of each line in a file, in addition to its contents, would you use the cat -n command? (Yes/No)

Yes

Using wildcard metacharacters, how can one indicate a number is either 1, 2, 3, or 4?

[1-4]

____ is software that is distributed free of charge, but the source code is not available.

Freeware

Which of the following is the greatest expense for companies using Linux?

Hiring people to maintain the Linux system

____ is the most common method of installing Linux.

Installation from a DVD

A(n) ____ service allows users to post messages in forums.

News

Do all commands have either man pages or info pages? (Yes/No)

No

Does SYSLINUX, the Linux installation program, have a full range of hardware support? (Yes/No)

No

Is Linux referred to as a multioperational operating system? (Yes/No)

No

Is the graphical Emacs editor harder to use than the Emacs editor? (Yes/No)

No

Is the password database used for authentication always located on the local computer? (Yes/No)

No

To perform a case-insensitive grep search, would you use the -a option to the grep command? (Yes/No)

No

The concept of ____ enables software developers to read other developers' source code, modify that source code to make the software better, and redistribute that source code to other developers who might improve it further.

Open Source Software

____ Linux is the most common Linux distribution used today.

Red Hat

____ are specific letters that start with a dash ("-").

options

Which is an extended regular expression metacharacter?

{}

Hard disks can contain a maximum of ____ major partitions

4

Which of the following key combinations, commonly used in the vi editor command mode, displays current line statistics?

Ctrl+G

The ____ can be used with LISP artificial intelligence programming language and supports hundreds of keyboard functions like the vi editor.

Emacs editor

A(n) ____ service provides an efficient method for transferring files over the Internet.

FTP

A swap partition contains a filesystem.

False

It is difficult to port software designed for UNIX to Linux.

False

Pressing the Esc key at the prompt while using the more command displays a help screen.

False

The term hacker refers to someone who illegally uses computers for personal benefit or to cause damage.

False

Consider the phrase "collaboration between several developers with a common need speeds up software creation, and when bugs in the software are found by these users, bug fixes are created very quickly" from the chapter. This statement describes which advantage of the Linux operating system?

Stability and security

Companies and institutions using computers to perform extraordinarily large calculations that would be unsuitable for most computers would employ a(n) ____.

Supercomputer

If you type enough unique letters of a directory and press ____ key, the BASH shell will find the intended file or directory being specified and fill in the appropriate information.

Tab

Commands indicate the name of a program to execute and are case sensitive.

True

Each computer participating on the Internet must have an IP address.

True

Linux is merely one product of open source development.

True

Linux uses a logical directory tree to organize files into different folders.

True

Open Source Software (OSS) is freely developed and continuously improved by a large community of software developers.

True

System Rescue can be used to repair a Linux system that cannot be started.

True

The command that displays the calendar for the current month is ____.

cal

To move from the /home/joe/test/data to the /home/joe directory, use the ____ command.

cd ../ ..

Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are all ____ of Unix.

flavors

The ____ editor is functionally analogous to the Windows Wordpad and Notepad editors.

gedit

The ____ command can be used to provide a long listing for each file in a certain directory.

ls -l

To find all of the commands that have the word "list" in their name or description, you would type ____.

man -k list

Which Linux command displays your login name?

whoami

Because you need to document so many pieces of hardware and software information, you should create a ____ that contains all important installation information as well as hardware information.

preinstallation checklist

In Linux, a(n) ____ is used to accept input from the user and pass the input to the kernel for processing.

shell

The ____ command displays the last five lines of a text file.

tail -5