Linux Foundation - Prep4sure - Lfcs.v2018!12!29.by - Robert.150q

LFCS.exam.
150q
Number: LFCS
Passing Score: 800
Time Limit: 120 min
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LFCS
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator
Exam A
QUESTION 1
Which of the following commands will write a message to the terminals of all logged in users?
A. bcast
B. mesg
C. print
D. wall
E. yell
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
QUESTION 2
Which of the following kernel parameters instructs the kernel to suppress most boot messages?
A. silent
B. verbose=0
C. nomesg
D. quiet
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 3
Which of the following options for the kernel's command line changes the systemd boot target to rescue.target instead of the default target?
A. systemd.target=rescue.target
B. systemd.runlevel=rescue.target
C. systemd.service=rescue.target
D. systemd.default=rescue.target
E. systemd.unit=rescue.target
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 4
Which of the following commands is used to update the list of available packages when using dpkg based package management?
A. apt-get update
B. apt-get upgrade
C. apt-cache update
D. apt-get refresh
E. apt-cache upgrade
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 5
Which of the following commands lists the dependencies of a given dpkg package?
A. apt-cache depends-on package
B. apt-cache dependencies package
C. apt-cache depends package
D. apt-cache requires package
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 6
Which of the following options is used in a GRUB Legacy configuration file to define the amount of time that the GRUB menu will be shown to the user?
A. hidemenu
B. splash
C. timeout
D. showmenu
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 7
Which of the following commands updates the linker cache of shared libraries?
A. mkcache
B. soconfig
C. mkldconfig
D. lddconfig
E. ldconfig
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 8
Which of the following commands lists all currently installed packages when using RPM package management?
A. yum --query --all

B. yum --list --installed
C. rpm --query --all
D. rpm --list –installed
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 9
Which of the following commands can be used to download the RPM package kernel without installing it?
A. yum download --no-install kernel

B. yumdownloader kernel
C. rpm --download --package kernel
D. rpmdownload kernel
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 10
When using rpm --verify to check files created during the installation of RPM packages, which of the following information is taken into consideration? (Choose
THREE correct answers.)
A. Timestamps
B. MD5 checksums
C. Inodes
D. File sizes
E. GnuPG signatures
Correct Answer: ABD

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Explanation
QUESTION 11
Which of the following is correct when talking about mount points?
A. Every existing directory can be used as a mount point.

B. Only empty directories can be used as a mount point.
C. Directories need to have the SetUID flag set to be used as a mount point.
D. Files within a directory are deleted when the directory is used as a mount point.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 12
Which function key is used to start Safe Mode in Windows NT?
A. F10
B. F8
C. F6
D. Windows NT does not support Safe Mode
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 13
Which of the following environment variables overrides or extends the list of directories holding shared libraries?
A. LD_LOAD_PATH
B. LD_LIB_PATH
C. LD_LIBRARY_PATH
D. LD_SHARE_PATH
E. LD_RUN_PATH
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 14
Which RPM command will output the name of the package which supplied the file /etc/exports?
A. rpm -F /etc/exports
B. rpm -qf /etc/exports
C. rpm -Kl /etc/exports
D. rpm -qp /etc/exports
E. rpm -qi /etc/exports
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 15
When removing a package, which of the following dpkg options will completely remove the files including configuration files?
A. --clean
B. --delete
C. --purge
D. –remove
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 16
Which of the following commands overwrites the bootloader located on /dev/sda without overwriting the partition table or any data following it?
A. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512

B. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
C. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
D. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 17
Which of the following commands can be used to create a USB storage media from a disk image?
A. gdisk
B. dd
C. cc
D. fdisk
E. mount
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 18
In Bash, inserting 1>&2 after a command redirects
A. standard error to standard input.

B. standard input to standard error.
C. standard output to standard error.
D. standard error to standard output.
E. standard output to standard input.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 19
What command will generate a list of user names from /etc/passwd along with their login shell?
A. column -s : 1,7 /etc/passwd

B. chop -c 1,7 /etc/passwd
C. colrm 1,7 /etc/passwd
D. cut -d: -f1,7 /etc/passwd
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 20
In a nested directory structure, which find command line option would be used to restrict the command to searching down a particular number of subdirectories?
A. -dirmax
B. -maxdepth
C. -maxlevels
D. -n
E. -s
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 21
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the command foo 1> bar?
A. The stdout from the command foo is appended to the file bar.
B. The stdout from the command foo overwrites the file bar.
C. The command foo receives its stdin from the file bar.
D. The command foo receives its stdin from the stdout of the command bar.
E. The stderr from the command foo is saved to the file bar.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 22
Immediately after deleting 3 lines of text in vi and moving the cursor to a different line, which single character command will insert the deleted content below the
current line?
A. i (lowercase)
B. P (uppercase)
C. p (lowercase)
D. U (uppercase)
E. u (lowercase)
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 23
A user accidentally created the subdirectory \dir in his home directory. Which of the following commands will remove that directory?
A. rmdir '~/\dir'
B. rmdir "~/\dir"
C. rmdir ~/'dir'
D. rmdir ~/\dir
E. rmdir ~/\\dir
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 24
Which of the following commands will send output from the program myapp to both standard output (stdout) and the file file1.log?
A. cat < myapp | cat > file1.log
B. myapp 0>&1 | cat > file1.log
C. myapp | cat > file1.log
D. myapp | tee file1.log
E. tee myapp file1.log
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 25
What is the purpose of the Bash built-in export command?
A. It allows disks to be mounted remotely.

B. It runs a command as a process in a subshell.
C. It makes the command history available to subshells.
D. It sets up environment variables for applications.
E. It shares NFS partitions for use by other systems on the network.
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 26
What is the output of the following command?
echo "Hello World" | tr -d aieou
A. Hello World
B. eoo
C. Hll Wrld
D. eoo Hll Wrld
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 27
Which of the following characters can be combined with a separator string in order to read from the current input source until the separator string, which is on a
separate line and without any trailing spaces, is reached?
A. <<
B. <|
C. !<
D. &<
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 28
Which of the following commands will NOT update the modify timestamp on the file /tmp/myfile.txt?
A. file /tmp/myfile.txt
B. echo "Hello" >/tmp/myfile.txt
C. sed -ie "s/1/2/" /tmp/myfile.txt
D. echo -n "Hello" >>/tmp/myfile.txt
E. touch /tmp/myfile.txt
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 29
What is the default nice level when a process is started using the nice command?
A. -10
B. 10
C. 20
D. 0
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 30
What is the default action of the split command on an input file?
A. It will break the file into new files of 1,024 byte pieces each.
B. It will break the file into new files of 1,000 line pieces each.
C. It will break the file into new files of 1,024 kilobyte pieces each.
D. It will break the file into new files that are no more than 5% of the size of the original file.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 31
What is the difference between the i and a commands of the vi editor?
A. i (interactive) requires the user to explicitly switch between vi modes whereas a (automatic) switches modes automatically.
B. i (insert) inserts text before the current cursor position whereas a (append) inserts text after the cursor.
C. i (independent rows) starts every new line at the first character whereas a (aligned rows) keeps the indentation of the previous line.
D. i (interrupt) temporarily suspends editing of a file to the background whereas a (abort) terminates editing.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 32
SIMULATION
Which command displays a list of all background tasks running in the current shell? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
Correct Answer: jobs

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QUESTION 33
Which of the following commands moves and resumes in the background the last stopped shell job?
A. run
B. bg
C. fg
D. back
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 34
What is the effect of the egrep command when the -v option is used?
A. It enables color to highlight matching parts.

B. It only outputs non-matching lines.
C. It shows the command's version information.
D. It changes the output order showing the last matching line first.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 35
What does the symbol within regular expressions represent?
A. Match the preceding qualifier one or more times.

B. Match the preceding qualifier zero or more times.
C. Match the preceding qualifier zero or one times.
D. Match a literal character.
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 36
Which grep command will print only the lines that do not end with a / in the file foo?
A. grep '/$' foo

B. grep '/#' foo
C. grep -v '/$' foo
D. grep -v '/#' foo
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 37
Which of the following commands is used to change options and positional parameters for a running Bash?
A. history
B. set
C. bashconf
D. setsh
E. envsetup
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 38
Which of the following commands replaces each occurrence of 'bob' in the file letter with 'Bob' and writes the result to the file newletter?
A. sed '/bob/Bob' letter > newletter

B. sed s/bob/Bob/ letter < newletter
C. sed 's/bob/Bob' letter > newletter
D. sed 's/bob/Bob/g' letter > newletter
E. sed 's/bob, Bob/' letter > newletter
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 39
From a Bash shell, which of the following commands directly executes the instruction from the file /usr/local/bin/runme.sh without starting a subshell? (Please select
TWO answers.)
A. source /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
B. . /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
C. /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
D. /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
E. run /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 40
Regarding the command:
nice -5 /usr/bin/prog
Which of the following statements is correct?
A. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of -5.

B. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of 5.
C. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of -5.
D. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of 5.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 41
Which shell command is used to continue background execution of a suspended command?
A. &
B. bg
C. cont
D. exec
E. :&
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 42
Which of the following shell redirections will write standard output and standard error output to a file named filename?
A. 2>&1 >filename
B. >filename 2>&1
C. 1>&2>filename
D. >>filename
E. 1&2>filename
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 43
In the vi editor, which of the following commands will copy the current line into the vi buffer?
A. c
B. cc
C. 1c
D. yy
E. 1y
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 44
Which of the following sequences in the vi editor saves the opened document and exits the editor? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. esc ZZ
B. ctrl :w!
C. esc zz
D. esc :wq!
E. ctrl XX
Correct Answer: AD
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Explanation
QUESTION 45
When starting a program with the nice command without any additional parameters, which nice level is set for the resulting process?
A. -10
B. 0
C. 10
D. 20
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 46
Which of the following commands will reduce all consecutive spaces down to a single space?
A. tr '\s' ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
B. tr -c ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
C. tr -d ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
D. tr -r ' ' '\n' < a.txt > b.txt
E. tr -s ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 47
Which character, added to the end of a command, runs that command in the background as a child process of the current shell?
A. !
B. +
C. &
D. %
E. #
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 48
Which of the following commands will print the last 10 lines of a text file to the standard output?
A. cat -n 10 filename
B. dump -n 10 filename
C. head -n 10 filename
D. tail -n 10 filename
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 49
Which of the following commands prints a list of usernames (first column) and their primary group (fourth column) from the /etc/passwd file?
A. fmt -f 1,4 /etc/passwd

B. split -c 1,4 /etc/passwd
C. cut -d : -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
D. paste -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 50
What happens after issuing the command vi without any additional parameters?
A. vi starts and loads the last file used and moves the cursor to the position where vi was when it last exited.
B. vi starts and requires the user to explicitly either create a new or load an existing file.
C. vi exits with an error message as it cannot be invoked without a file name to operate on.
D. vi starts in command mode and opens a new empty file.
E. vi starts and opens a new file which is filled with the content of the vi buffer if the buffer contains text.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 51
Which of the following command sets the Bash variable named TEST with the content FOO?
A. set TEST="FOO"
B. TEST = "FOO"
C. var TEST="FOO"
D. TEST="FOO"
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 52
Which variable defines the directories in which a Bash shell searches for executable commands?
A. BASHEXEC
B. BASHRC
C. PATH
D. EXECPATH
E. PATHRC
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 53
When given the following command line.
echo "foo bar" | tee bar | cat
Which of the following output is created?
A. cat
B. foo bar
C. tee bar
D. bar
E. foo
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 54
Which of the following commands can be used to determine how long the system has been running? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. uptime
B. up
C. top
D. uname -u
E. time –up
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 55
Which of the following are valid stream redirection operators within Bash? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. <
B. <<<
C. >
D. >>>
E. %>
Correct Answer: ABC

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QUESTION 56
After successfully creating a hard link called bar to the ordinary file foo, foo is deleted from the filesystem. Which of the following describes the resulting situation?
A. foo and bar would both be removed.

B. foo would be removed while bar would remain accessible.
C. foo would be removed. bar would still exist but would be unusable.
D. Both foo and bar would remain accessible.
E. The user is prompted whether bar should be removed, too.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 57
After moving data to a new filesystem, how can the former path of the data be kept intact in order to avoid reconfiguration of existing applications? (Choose TWO
correct answers.)
A. By creating an ACL redirection from the old to the new path of the data.
B. By creating a hard link from the old to the new path of the data.
C. By creating a symbolic link from the old to the new path of the data.
D. By running the command touch on the old path.
E. By mounting the new filesystem on the original path of the data.
Correct Answer: CE
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QUESTION 58
Which of the following commands changes the ownership of file.txt to the user dan and the group staff?
A. chown dan/staff file.txt

B. chown dan:staff file.txt
C. chown -u dan -g staff file.txt
D. chown dan -g staff file.txt
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 59
Which of the following commands makes /bin/foo executable by everyone but writable only by its owner?
A. chmod u=rwx,go=rx /bin/foo

B. chmod o+rwx,a+rx /bin/foo
C. chmod 577 /bin/foo
D. chmod 775 /bin/foo
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 60
What does the command mount -a do?
A. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option noauto in /etc/fstab are mounted.
B. It shows all mounted file systems that have been automatically mounted.
C. It opens an editor with root privileges and loads /etc/fstab for editing.
D. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option auto in /etc/fstab are mounted.
E. It ensures that all file systems listed in /etc/fstab are mounted regardless of their options.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 61
Which of the following settings for umask ensures that new files have the default permissions -rw-r----- ?
A. 0017
B. 0640
C. 0038
D. 0027
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 62
Which of the following is the device file name for the second partition on the only SCSI drive?
A. /dev/hda1
B. /dev/sda2
C. /dev/sd0a2
D. /dev/sd1p2
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 63
In order to display all currently mounted filesystems, which of the following commands could be used? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. cat /proc/self/mounts
B. free
C. mount
D. lsmounts
E. cat /proc/filesystems
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 64
Which of the following commands can be used to locate programs and their corresponding man pages and configuration files?.
A. dirname
B. which
C. basename
D. query
E. whereis
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION 65
Which of the following commands changes the number of days before the ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1 has to run through a full filesystem check while booting?
A. tune2fs -d 200 /dev/sda1

B. tune2fs -c 200 /dev/sda1
C. tune2fs -i 200 /dev/sda1
D. tune2fs -n 200 /dev/sda1
E. tune2fs --days 200 /dev/sda1
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 66
Which type of filesystem is created by mkfs when it is executed with the block device name only and without any additional parameters?
A. ext2
B. ext3
C. ext4
D. XFS
E. VFAT
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 67
Which of the following commands creates an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sdb1? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. /sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
B. /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
C. /sbin/mkfs -c ext3 /dev/sdb1
D. /sbin/mke3fs -j /dev/sdb1
Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 68
Which of the following commands will change the quota for a specific user?
A. edquota
B. repquota
C. quota -e
D. quota
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 69
Which utility would be used to change how often a filesystem check is performed on an ext2 filesystem without losing any data stored on that filesystem?
A. mod2fs
B. fsck
C. tune2fs
D. mke2fs
E. fixe2fs
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 70
Which of the following Linux filesystems preallocates a fixed number of inodes at the filesystem's make/creation time and does NOT generate them as needed?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. ext3
B. JFS
C. ext2
D. XFS
E. procfs
Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 71
What is the purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard?
A. It is a security model used to ensure files are organized according to their permissions and accessibility.
B. It provides unified tools to create, maintain and manage multiple filesystems in a common way.
C. It defines a common internal structure of inodes for all compliant filesystems.
D. It is a distribution neutral description of locations of files and directories.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 72
After running the command umount /mnt, the following error message is displayed:
umount: /mnt: device is busy.
What is a common reason for this message?
A. The kernel has not finished flushing disk writes to the mounted device.
B. A user has a file open in the /mnt directory.
C. Another file system still contains a symlink to a file inside /mnt.
D. The files in /mnt have been scanned and added to the locate database.
E. The kernel thinks that a process is about to open a file in /mnt for reading.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 73
What does the command mount -a do?
A. It mounts all available filesystems onto the current directory.

B. It shows all mounted filesystems.
C. It mounts all user mountable filesystems for the current user.
D. It mounts all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab which have the option auto set.
E. It mounts all filesystems listed in /etc/fstab which have the option noauto set.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 74
Which of the following commands set the sticky bit for the directory /tmp? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. chmod +s /tmp
B. chmod +t /tmp
C. chmod 1775 /tmp
D. chmod 4775 /tmp
E. chmod 2775 /tmp
Correct Answer: BC
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QUESTION 75
Which of the following commands can be used to display the inode number of a given file?
A. inode
B. ls
C. ln
D. cp
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 76
What do the permissions -rwSr-xr-x mean for a binary file when it is executed as a command?
A. The command is SetUID and it will be executed with the effective rights of the owner.
B. The command will be executed with the effective rights of the group instead of the owner.
C. The execute flag is not set for the owner. Therefore the SetUID flag is ignored.
D. The command will be executed with the effective rights of the owner and group.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 77
Which of the following pieces of information of an existing file is changed when a hard link pointing to that file is created?
A. File size
B. Modify timestamp
C. Link count
D. Inode number
E. Permissions
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 78
What output will the following command sequence produce?
echo '1 2 3 4 5 6' | while read a b c; do
echo result: $c $b $a;
done
A. result: 3 4 5 6 2 1
B. result: 1 2 3 4 5 6
C. result: 6 5 4
D. result: 6 5 4 3 2 1
E. result: 3 2 1
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 79
When the command echo $ outputs 1, which of the following statements is true?
A. It is the process ID of the echo command.

B. It is the process ID of the current shell.
C. It is the exit value of the command executed immediately before echo.
D. It is the exit value of the echo command.
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 80
SIMULATION
What word is missing from the following SQL statement?
insert into tablename ________(909, 'text');
(Please specify the missing word using lower-case letters only.)
Correct Answer: VALUES -or- values

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QUESTION 81
Which command makes the shell variable named VARIABLE visible to subshells?
A. export $VARIABLE
B. export VARIABLE
C. set $VARIABLE
D. set VARIABLE
E. env VARIABLE
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 82
What output will the command seq 10 produce?
A. A continuous stream of numbers increasing in increments of 10 until stopped.

B. The numbers 1 through 10 with one number per line.
C. The numbers 0 through 9 with one number per line.
D. The number 10 to standard output.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 83
SIMULATION
What word is missing from the following SQL statement?
__________ count(*) from tablename;
(Please specify the missing word using lower-case letters only.)
Correct Answer: select

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QUESTION 84
After issuing:
function myfunction { echo $1 $2 ; }
in Bash, which output does:
myfunction A B C
Produce?
A. AB
B. ABC
C. AC
D. BC
E. CBA
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 85
Which of the following commands puts the output of the command date into the shell variable mydate?
A. mydate="$(date)"
B. mydate="exec date"
C. mydate="$((date))"
D. mydate="date"
E. mydate="${date}"
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 86
Which of the following files, when existing, affect the behavior of the Bash shell? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. ~/.bashconf
B. ~/.bashrc
C. ~/.bashdefaults
D. ~/.bash_etc
E. ~/.bash_profile
Correct Answer: BE
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Explanation
QUESTION 87
What is the difference between the commands test -e path and test -f path?
A. They are equivalent options with the same behavior.

B. The -f option tests for a regular file. The -e option tests for an empty file.
C. Both options check the existence of the path. The -f option also confirms that it is a regular file.
D. The -f option tests for a regular file. The -e option tests for an executable file.
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 88
How can the existing environment variable FOOBAR be suppressed for the execution of the script./myscript only?
A. unset -v FOOBAR;./myscript
B. set -a FOOBAR="";./myscript
C. env -u FOOBAR./myscript
D. env -i FOOBAR./myscript
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 89
When the command echo $$ outputs 12942, what is the meaning of 12942?
A. It is the process ID of the echo command.

B. It is the process ID of the current shell.
C. It is the process ID of the last command executed.
D. It is the process ID of the last command which has been placed in the background.
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 90
Which of the following words is used to restrict the records that are returned from a SELECT SQL query based on a supplied criteria for the values in the records?
A. CASE
B. FROM
C. WHERE
D. IF
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 91
Which of the following commands lists all defined variables and functions within Bash?
A. env
B. set
C. env -a
D. echo $ENV
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 92
Which of the following SQL queries counts the number of occurrences for each value of the field order_type in the table orders?
A. SELECT order_type,COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE order_type=order_type;
B. SELECT order_type,COUNT(*) FROM orders GROUP BY order_type;
C. COUNT(SELECT order_type FROM orders);
D. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders ORDER BY order_type;
E. SELECT AUTO_COUNT FROM orders COUNT order_type;
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 93
What is the purpose of the file /etc/profile?
A. It contains the welcome message that is displayed after login.

B. It contains security profiles defining which users are allowed to log in.
C. It contains environment variables that are set when a user logs in.
D. It contains default application profiles for users that run an application for the first time.
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 94
Which of the following are requirements in order to run a shell script like a regular command from anywhere in the filesystem? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. The user issuing the command must be in the group script.

B. The script file must be found in the $PATH.
C. The script file must have the executable permission bit set.
D. The script must begin with a shebang-line (#!) that points to the correct interpreter.
E. The file system on which the script resides must be mounted with the option scripts.
Correct Answer: BCD

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Explanation
QUESTION 95
Which file used by XDM specifies the default wallpaper?
A. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
B. /etc/X11/xdm.conf
C. /etc/X11/xdm/Defaults
D. /etc/X11/defaults.conf
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 96
The X11 configuration file xorg.conf is grouped into sections. How is the content of the section SectionName associated with that section?
A. It is placed in curly brackets as in Section SectionName { ... }.

B. It is placed between a line containing Section "SectionName" and a line containing EndSection.
C. It is placed between the tags <Section name="SectionName"> and </Section>
D. It is placed after the row [SectionName].
E. It is placed after an initial unindented Section "SectionName" and must be indented by exactly one tab character.
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 97
What is the purpose of a screen reader?
A. It reads text displayed on the screen to blind or visually impaired people.
B. It reads the parameters of the attached monitors and creates an appropriate X11 configuration.
C. It displays lines and markers to help people use speed reading techniques.
D. It manages and displays files that contain e-books.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 98
How is a display manager started?
A. It is started by a user using the command startx.

B. It is started like any other system service by the init system.
C. It is started by inetd when a remote hosts connects to the X11 port.
D. It is started automatically when a X11 user logs in to the system console.
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 99
Which of the following commands shows the current color depth of the X Server?
A. xcd
B. xcdepth
C. xwininfo
D. xcolordepth
E. cat /etc/X11
Correct Answer: C
Section: (none)
Explanation
QUESTION 100
For accessibility assistance, which of the following programs is an on-screen keyboard?
A. xkb
B. atkb
C. GOK
D. xOSK
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 101
Which of the following are tasks handled by a display manager like XDM or KDM? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. Start and prepare the desktop environment for the user.

B. Configure additional devices like new monitors or projectors when they are attached.
C. Handle the login of a user.
D. Lock the screen when the user was inactive for a configurable amount of time.
E. Create an X11 configuration file for the current graphic devices and monitors.
Correct Answer: AC
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Explanation
QUESTION 102
Which of the following steps prevents a user from obtaining an interactive login session?
A. Run the command chsh -s /bin/false with the user name.
B. Set the UID for the user to 0.
C. Remove the user from the group staff.
D. Add the user to /etc/noaccess.
E. Create a .nologin file in the user's home directory.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 103
Which character in the password field of /etc/passwd is used to indicate that the encrypted password is stored in /etc/shadow?
A. *
B. -
C. s
D. x
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 104
Which of the following fields are available in both the global /etc/crontab file as well as in user-specific crontab files? (Select TWO correct answers)
A. Year
B. Minute
C. Username
D. Command
Correct Answer: BD
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Explanation
QUESTION 105
Which command can be used to delete a group from a Linux system?
A. groupdel
B. groupmod
C. groups
D. groupedit
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 106
What is the purpose of the iconv command?
A. It converts bitmap images from one format to another such as PNG to JPEG.
B. It verifies that the root directory tree complies to all conventions from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).
C. It displays additional meta information from icon files ending in .ico.
D. It changes the mode of an inode in the ext4 file system.
E. It converts files from one character encoding to another.
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 107
In case neither cron.allow nor cron.deny exist in /etc/, which of the following is true?
A. Without additional configuration, no users may have user specific crontabs.
B. Without additional configuration, all users may have user specific crontabs.
C. The cron daemon will refuse to start and report missing files in the system's logfile.
D. When a user creates a user specific crontab the system administrator must approve it explicitly.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 108
Which of the following commands can remove a user from a group?
A. grouprm
B. groupmod
C. passwd
D. usergroups
E. usermod
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 109
Where are user specific crontabs stored?
A. In the database file /etc/crontab.db which is shared by all users.

B. As individual per-user files within /var/spool/cron.
C. As individual per-user files in /etc/cron.user.d.
D. In the .crontab file in the user's home directory.
E. In the file /var/cron/user-crontab which is shared by all users.
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 110
Which file contains the date of the last change of a user's password?
A. /etc/gshadow
B. /etc/passwd
C. /etc/pwdlog
D. /etc/shadow
E. /var/log/shadow
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 111
Each entry in a crontab must end with what character?
A. Tab
B. Space
C. Backslash
D. Newline
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 112
To prevent a specific user from scheduling tasks with at, what should the administrator do?
A. Add the specific user to /etc/at.allow file.
B. Add the specific user to [deny] section in the /etc/atd.conf file.
C. Add the specific user to /etc/at.deny file.
D. Add the specific user to nojobs group.
E. Run the following: atd --deny [user].
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 113
Which of the following crontab entries will execute myscript at 30 minutes past every hour on Sundays?
A. 0 * * * 30 myscript
B. 30 * * * 6 myscript
C. 30 0 * * 0 myscript
D. 30 0-23 * * 0 myscript
E. 0 0-23 * * 30 myscript
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 114
Which of the following files assigns a user to its primary group?
A. /etc/pgroup
B. /etc/shadow
C. /etc/group
D. /etc/passwd
E. /etc/gshadow
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 115
Which of the following commands should be added to /etc/bash_profile in order to change the language of messages for an internationalized program to
Portuguese (pt)?
A. export LANGUAGE="pt"
B. export MESSAGE="pt"
C. export UI_MESSAGES="pt"
D. export LC_MESSAGES="pt"
E. export ALL_MESSAGES="pt"
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 116
Which commands can be used to change a user's account aging information? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. usermod
B. passwd
C. chattr
D. chage
E. chsh
Correct Answer: ABD

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Explanation
QUESTION 117
What is true about the file /etc/localtime?
A. It is a plain text file containing a string such as Europe/Berlin.

B. It is created and maintained by the NTP service based on the geolocation of the system's IP address.
C. It is a symlink to /sys/device/clock/ltime and always contains the current local time.
D. It is either a symlink to or a copy of a timezone information file such as /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin.
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 118
What is true regarding the command userdel --force --remove bob? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. The user bob is removed from the system's user database.

B. The user bob's home directory is removed.
C. The locate database is updated to drop files owned by bob.
D. All files owned by bob are remove from all mounted filesystems.
E. In case bob was the last member of a group, that group is deleted.
Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 119
Which of the following fields can be found in the /etc/group file? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. The list of users that belong to the group.

B. The home directory of the group.
C. The name of the group.
D. The description of the group.
E. The password of the group.
Correct Answer: ACE

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Explanation
QUESTION 120
Which of the following tasks can be accomplished using the command date? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. Synchronize the hardware and system clocks.

B. Output date and time in different formats.
C. Set the system clock.

D. Set the hardware clock.
E. Update the time via NTP.
Correct Answer: BC
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Explanation
QUESTION 121
What is the purpose of the command mailq?
A. It fetches new emails from a remote server using POP3 or IMAP.

B. It is a multi-user mailing list manager.
C. It is a proprietary tool contained only in the qmail MTA.
D. It queries the mail queue of the local MTA.
E. It is a command-line based tool for reading and writing emails.
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 122
Which file inside the CUPS configuration directory contains the definition of the printers?
A. cups-devices.conf
B. snmp.conf
C. printcap.conf
D. printers.conf
E. cupsd.conf
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 123
What is true regarding the command sendmail?
A. With any MTA, the sendmail command must be run periodically by the cron daemon.
B. All MTAs, including Postfix and Exim, provide a sendmail command.
C. The sendmail command prints the MTAs queue history of which mails have been sent successfully.
D. It is only available when the sendmail MTA is installed.
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 124
Which of the following is a legacy program provided by CUPS for sending files to the printer queues on the command line?
A. lpd
B. lpp
C. lpq
D. lpr
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 125
What entry can be added to the syslog.conf file to have all syslog messages generated by a system displayed on console 12?
A. *.* /dev/tty12
B. /var/log/messages | /dev/tty12
C. | /dev/tty12
D. syslog tty12
E. mail.* /dev/tty12
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 126
What is true about the ntpdate command?
A. It is the primary management command for the NTP time server.

B. It updates the local system's date (i.e. day, month and year) but not the time (i.e. hours, minutes, seconds).
C. It queries one or more NTP time servers and adjusts the system time accordingly.
D. It sends the local system time to one or many remote NTP time servers for redistribution.
E. It can be used by any user to set the user clock independently of the system clock.
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 127
What is true regarding the file ~/.forward?
A. As it is owned by the MTA and not writable by the user, it must be edited using the editaliases command.
B. After editing ~/.forward the user must run newaliases to make the mail server aware of the changes.
C. Using ~/.forward, root may configure any email address whereas all other users may configure only their own addresses.
D. When configured correctly, ~/.forward can be used to forward each incoming mail to more than one other recipient.
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 128
What is the command to delete the default gateway from the system IP routing table? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. route del default

B. ifconfig unset default
C. netstat -r default
D. ip route del default
E. sysctl ipv4.default_gw=0
Correct Answer: AD
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Explanation
QUESTION 129
What is the purpose of the nsswitch.conf file?
A. It is used to configure where the C library looks for system information such as host names and user passwords.
B. It is used to configure network protocol port numbers such as for HTTP or SMTP.
C. It is used to configure LDAP authentication services for the local system.
D. It is used to configure which network services will be turned on during the next system boot.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 130
SIMULATION
Which parameter must be passed to ifconfig to activate a previously inactive network interface? (Specify the parameter only without any command, path or
additional options)
Correct Answer: up
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Explanation
QUESTION 131
What is true regarding a default route?
A. The default route is always used first. When the default route is not available more specific routes are tried.
B. When a default route is set, all other routes are disabled until the default route is deleted.
C. The default route is only used if there is not a more specific route to a destination host or network.
D. Without a default route, no network communication even in directly attached networks is possible.
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 132
Which of the following lines are valid in the file /etc/hosts? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. 2001:db8::15 www.example.com www

B. www.example.com www 203.0.13.15
C. 203.0.113.15 www.example.com www
D. www.example.com,www 203.0.13.15,2001:db8::15
E. 2003.0.113.15,2001:db8::15 www.example.com www
Correct Answer: AC
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Explanation
QUESTION 133
Which of the following keywords can be used in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf to specify a source for host name lookups? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. resolv
B. dns
C. remote
D. files
E. hosts
Correct Answer: BD
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Explanation
QUESTION 134
What is true regarding TCP port 23?
A. Port 23 is the well known port for the telnet service which is a plain text protocol that should no longer be used.
B. Port 23 is the well known port for the SSH service which provides secure logins.
C. Port 23 is the well known port for the rlogin service which is SSL secured by default.
D. Port 23 is the well-known port for the system login services which are encrypted when the user runs the starttls command in his login shell.
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 135
Which of the following IPv4 networks are reserved by IANA for private address assignment and private routing? (Choose THREE correct answers.)
A. 127.0.0.0/8
B. 10.0.0.0/8
C. 169.255.0.0/16
D. 172.16.0.0/12
E. 192.168.0.0/16
Correct Answer: BDE

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Explanation
QUESTION 136
Which of the following tools used for DNS debugging, reports not only the response from the name server but also details about the query?
A. dnsq
B. dig
C. hostname
D. dnslookup
E. zoneinfo
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 137
Which of the following programs can be used to determine the routing path to a given destination?
A. dig
B. netstat
C. ping
D. route
E. traceroute
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 138
Given the following routing table:
How would an outgoing packet to the destination 192.168.2.150 be handled?
A. It would be passed to the default router 192.168.178.1 on wlan0.

B. It would be directly transmitted on the device eth0.
C. It would be passed to the default router 255.255.255.0 on eth0.
D. It would be directly transmitted on the device wlan0.
E. It would be passed to the router 192.168.1.1 on eth0.
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation
QUESTION 139
Which of the following is a valid IPv6 address?
A. 2001:db8:3241::1
B. 2001::db8:4581::1
C. 2001:db8:0g41::1
D. 2001%db8%9990%%1
E. 2001.db8.819f..1
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 140
Which configuration file would be edited to change the default options for outbound SSH sessions?
A. /etc/ssh/sshd_config
B. /etc/ssh/ssh
C. /etc/ssh/client
D. /etc/ssh/ssh_config
E. /etc/ssh/ssh_client
Correct Answer: D
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Explanation
QUESTION 141
Which of the following programs uses the hosts.allow file to perform its main task of checking for access control restrictions to system services?
A. tcpd
B. inetd
C. fingerd
D. mountd
E. xinetd
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 142
When trying to unmount a device it is reported as being busy. Which of the following commands could be used to determine which process is causing this?
A. debug
B. lsof
C. nessus
D. strace
E. traceroute
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 143
Which configuration file would be edited to change default options for the OpenSSH server?
A. /etc/ssh/sshd_config
B. /etc/ssh/ssh
C. /etc/ssh/server
D. /etc/ssh/ssh_config
E. /etc/ssh/ssh_server
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 144
Which of the following find commands will print out a list of files owned by root and with the SUID bit set in /usr?
A. find /usr -uid 0 -perm +4000

B. find -user root +mode +s /usr
C. find -type suid -username root -d /usr
D. find /usr -ls \*s\* -u root
E. find /usr -suid -perm +4000
Correct Answer: A
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Explanation
QUESTION 145
Given a file called birthdays containing lines like:
YYYY-MM-DD Name
1983-06-02 Tim
1995-12-17 Sue
Which command would you use to output the lines belonging to all people listed whose birthday is in May or June?
A. grep '[56]' birthdays

B. grep 05?6? birthdays
C. grep '[0-9]*-0[56]-' birthdays
D. grep 06 birthdays | grep 05
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 146
The script, script.sh, consists of the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
echo $2 $1
Which output will appear if the command, ./script.sh test1 test2, is entered?
A. test1 test2
B. test2 test1
C. script.sh test2
D. script.sh test1
E. test1 script.sh
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 147
Which character starts a comment line in a shell script file?
A. ;
B. *
C. #
D. /
Correct Answer: C
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Explanation
QUESTION 148
What is the output of the following command sequence?
for token in a b c; do
echo -n "$token ";
done
A. anbncn
B. abc
C. "a " "b " "c "
D. token token token
E. abc
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 149
Which command chain will count the number of regular files with the name of foo.txt within /home?
A. ls -lR /home | grep foo.txt | wc -l

B. find /home -type f -name foo.txt | wc -l
C. find /home -name foo.txt -count
D. find /home -name foo.txt | wc -l
E. grep -R foo.txt /home | wc -l
Correct Answer: B
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Explanation
QUESTION 150
Which of the following commands redirects the output of cmd to the file foo.txt, in which an existing file is overwritten?
A. cmd || foo.txt
B. cmd | foo.txt
C. cmd && foo.txt
D. cmd >> foo.txt
E. cmd > foo.txt
Correct Answer: E
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Explanation

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A. yum --query --all

A. yum download --no-install kernel

Correct Answer: ABD

A. Every existing directory can be used as a mount point.

A. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512

A. standard error to standard input.

A. column -s : 1,7 /etc/passwd

A. It allows disks to be mounted remotely.

Correct Answer: jobs

A. It enables color to highlight matching parts.

A. Match the preceding qualifier one or more times.

A. grep '/$' foo

A. sed '/bob/Bob' letter > newletter

A. /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of -5.

A. tr '\s' ' ' < a.txt > b.txt

A. fmt -f 1,4 /etc/passwd

Correct Answer: ABC

A. foo and bar would both be removed.

A. chown dan/staff file.txt

A. chmod u=rwx,go=rx /bin/foo

A. tune2fs -d 200 /dev/sda1

A. It mounts all available filesystems onto the current directory.

A. It is the process ID of the echo command.

Correct Answer: VALUES -or- values

A. A continuous stream of numbers increasing in increments of 10 until stopped.

Correct Answer: select

A. They are equivalent options with the same behavior.

A. It is the process ID of the echo command.

A. SELECT order_type,COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE order_type=order_type;

A. It contains the welcome message that is displayed after login.

A. The user issuing the command must be in the group script.

Correct Answer: BCD

A. It is placed in curly brackets as in Section SectionName { ... }.

A. It is started by a user using the command startx.

A. Start and prepare the desktop environment for the user.

A. In the database file /etc/crontab.db which is shared by all users.

Correct Answer: ABD

A. It is a plain text file containing a string such as Europe/Berlin.

A. The user bob is removed from the system's user database.

A. The list of users that belong to the group.

Correct Answer: ACE

A. Synchronize the hardware and system clocks.

C. Set the system clock.

A. It fetches new emails from a remote server using POP3 or IMAP.

A. It is the primary management command for the NTP time server.

A. route del default

A. 2001:db8::15 www.example.com www

Correct Answer: BDE

How would an outgoing packet to the destination 192.168.2.150 be handled?

A. It would be passed to the default router 192.168.178.1 on wlan0.

A. find /usr -uid 0 -perm +4000

A. grep '[56]' birthdays

A. ls -lR /home | grep foo.txt | wc -l

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