ITS 121 Quiz 2 Study Guide for Chapter 5

Data is read from physical hard drives in concentric circles known as which of the following? A. tracks B. blocks C. sectors D. cylinders

A

The mkfs command can be issued with what switch in order to specify a filesystem type? A. -t B. -f C. -c D. -o

A

The quotas for certain users can be edited using which command? A. edquota B. chquota C. usrquota D. repquota

A

Which command below provides the easiest method for monitoring free space on mounted filesystems? A. df B. fs C. du D. fd

A

Errors on a filesystem are common on most filesystems. What do these errors indicate? A. filesystem breaks B. filesystem corruption C. raid degradation D. hard drive failures

B

In the event that you wish to disable a swap partition, what command must be used? A. umount B. swapoff C. delete swap D. swapdrop

B

In the fdisk interactive mode, what letter can be used to save changes to the partition table and exit? A. s B. w C. q D. d

B

Select the command below that shows the size of a directory and its contents in kilobytes. A. df B. du C. sizeof D. dir

B

What command below can be used to create a new physical volume? A. lvcreate B. pvcreate C. new_pv D. pvdisk

B

What file system below is used by software programs that write to a CD-RW or DVD-RW drive? A. ntfs B. udf C. ext2 D. hpfs

B

What hex code is associated with a Linux swap type partition? A. 12 B. 82 C. 83 D. 96

B

Which device file below represents the first primary partition on the second PATA hard disk drive? A. /dev/hdc1 B. /dev/hdb1 C. /dev/hda1 D. /dev/hdc2

B

Which option, when used with the mount command, enables loopback mode so that an iso image can be mounted onto a directory? A. --loop B. -o loop C. --mode 1 D. -- option 1

B

A device that transfers data in a character-by-character fashion is referred to as what type of device? A. text B. block C. character D. binary

C

Select the command that can be used to create partitions that will be stored in an MBR after initialization: A. format B. formatdisk C. fdisk D. partition

C

Set the command that can be used to check an ext2, ext3, ext4 filesystem. A. mke2fs B. ext2fsck C. fdisk D. e2fsck

C

To mount all filesystems in the /etc/fstab file that are intended to mount at boot time, what command can be used? A. mount -o B. mount -f C. mount -f D. mount -a

C

In what filesystem are most of the operating system files contained? A. boot B. data C. mnt D. root

D

What character device file represents the second serial port on a system (COM2)? A. /dev/ttyS0 B. /dev/tty2 C./dev/ttu1 D. /dev/ttyS1

D

What command can be used to check different kinds of filesystems on Linux for errors? A. chkdsk B. fs_check C. errorchk D. fsck

D

Each device attached to a system can be represented by multiple device files. True or False?

False

In Linux, you are restricted to using only one type of filesystem on a system. True or False?

False

The more filesystems that are used on a system, the less likely a corrupted filesystem will interfere with normal system operations. True or False?

False

Volumes can contain a filesystem but they can's be mounted to directories within the Linux filesystem hierarchy. True or False?

False

When you insert a DVD while in a GUI environment, it is automatically mounted by the system to a directory underneath the /media directory that is named for the label on the DVD. True or False?

True