Introduction to Linux II Chapter 9 Exam Answer 2016

1. Which of the following parameters is not referred by locale?

• Character classification
• Digital signatures
• Numeric representation
• Monetary symbols

2. For locally run programs, the locale information is provided by system variables.. True or False?

• True
• False

3. How is the locale set for web applications?

• Obtained from the web browser
• Obtained from the user’s environment variables
• Obtained from the user’s .profile
• Obtained from the web server

4. What is the format used for naming a locale definition file?

• language[_countrycode][.codeset][@modifiers]
• language[_territory][.codeset][@modifiers]
• language[_region][.codeset][@modifiers]
• language[.codeset][_territory][@modifiers]

5. Which of the following is not seen in the output of the locale command?

• LC_PRINT
• LC_COLLATE
• LC_CTYPE
• LC_MESSAGES

6. Which command is used to list all available locales on the system?

• locale
• locale -l
• locale –A
• locale –a

7. Which of the following environment variables will set the user’s locale to French?

• LANG=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
• LC_NAME=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
• LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.iso-8859-15
• LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.iso-8859-15

8. Which file is used to set the user’s locale permanently?

• ~/.forward
• ~/.lang
• ~/.profile
• ~/.login

9. What is the behavior of setting C locale?

• Strings are displayed as written in the initial code
• Strings are always displayed in UTF-8
• Strings are displayed as per the user’s LANG setting
• Strings are translated and then displayed

10. Which environment variable is used to specify the directories for message translation catalogs?

• PATH
• NLPATH
• NLSPATH
• LOCALEPATH

11. Linux systems keep time in ____.

• UTC
• GMT
• UST
• IST

12. UTC is not subjected to daylight saving time.. True or False?

• True
• False

13. Which environment variable is used to find the time zone?

• TZ
• SYSTIME
• TIME
• TZONE

14. The /etc/localtime file is a flat file containing plain text that is used to configure the system wide time zone.. True or False?

• True
• False

15. Which file is used to indicate the current time zone on Red Hat systems?

• /etc/sysconfig/tz
• /etc/sysconfig/time
• /etc/sysconfig/time
• /etc/sysconfig/clock

16. Which utility is used to determine the TZ variable’s value?

• tzchange
• tzselect
• tzset
• tzmod

17. Which command is used to verify time zone changes?

• sysdate
• nls
• date
• systime

18. Which of the following is not a function of the date command?

• Displaying past dates
• Reading date patterns from a file
• Displaying Universal time
• Sorting files by date

19. Character encoding is the process of maintaining the mapping between the character and its ______ value.

• Internal
• Mapped
• Encoded
• Decoded

20. Which command is used to find the current character mapping in Linux?

• locale -C
• locale –charmap
• locale -c
• locale charmap

21. Which characters are not supported by ASCII?

• Punctuation symbols
• Mathematical symbols
• Numbers 0 – 9
• English letters

22. ASCII is not a subset of UTF-8.. True or False?

• True
• False

23. Which of the following is NOT a capability of Unicode characters?

• Supports mathematical and technical symbols
• Can be used in file names
• User applications can display Unicode files
• Uses separate language packs for each language

24. What does UTF-8 mean?

• UCS Technology Format
• UCS Transfer Format
• UCS Transcoding Format
• UCS Transformation Format

25. UTF-8 is a fixed-width encoding scheme that can represent every character in the Unicode character set.. True or False?

• True
• False

26. How many bits character encoding is supported by ISO?

• 32-bit
• 8-bit
• 16-bit
• 4-bit

27. Which is the most commonly used character encoding for the Internet?

• ISO
• UTF-8
• ASCII
• UTF-16

28. Which API is used for converting one character encoding to another?

• fconv
• pconv
• iconv
• rconv

29. Which can be used for converting an older ASCII encoded file to UTF-8 encoding?

• locale
• iconv
• sed
• awk

30. The ______ mapping method is supported by Unicode.

• Universal Transformation Set (UTS)
• Universal Locale Set (ULS)
• Universal Formatting Set
• Universal Character Set (UCS)