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