Linux - Week 2 Quiz

RAID level ____ is often referred to as disk mirroring. 1 2 3 4

1

Most Parallel SCSI controllers support up to ____ devices. 12 13 14 15

15

____ is a freely available version of X Windows used in many Linux distributions. FreeX86 XFree86 X.org XFree

XFree86

The Linux kernel is stored in the ____ directory. / /boot /root /krnl

/boot

The ____ device file represents the first primary partition on the second IDE hard disk drive (primary slave). /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc2

/dev/hdb1

The ____ environment file is always executed immediately after login for all users on the system, and sets most environment variables, such as HOME and PATH. ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login /etc/profile ~/.profile

/etc/profile

To verify hardware settings, you can examine the contents of the ____ directory. /log /root /proc hw

/proc

To ensure that Linux has detected the correct amount of RAM in the system after installation, you can view the contents of the ____ file. /proc/mem /proc/cpuinfo /proc/memoryinfo /proc/meminfo

/proc/meminfo

In Linux, runlevel ____ is also known as multiuser mode. 1 2 3 4

2

The file descriptor stderr is represented by the number ____. 0 1 2 3

2

You can redirect a file to the standard input of a command using the ____ metacharacter. < # > |

<

The two most common desktop environments that are used on Linux are ____ and ____. KDE; kwin KDE; Xfce KDE; GNOME Xfce; GNOME

KDE; GNOME

Most configuration files on Linux systems are delimited using ____ characters. tab colon space semicolon

colon

To create partitions after installation, you can use the ____ command. format formatdisk fdisk partition

fdisk

To check a filesystem for errors, you can use the ____ command, which can check filesystems of many different types. fcheck fsc fscheck fsck

fsck

CD-ROMs typically use the ____ filesystem type. ntfs ext2 iso9660 ext3

iso9660

The ____ file in the /proc directory contains statistics on the performance of the processor. loadavg cpuinfo modules kcore

loadavg

The ____ filesystem contains most of the operating system files. boot data mnt root

root

You can use the ____ command to start, stop, or restart any daemons listed within the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. daemon manip-daemon service daemon-service

service

The ____ command counts the number of lines, words, and characters in a file. pr nl tr wc

wc