Introduction to Linux I Midterm Test Online (Modules 1 – 14) 2016

Which command is used in order to view the manual page for a topic?

The basic form of a command line is:

A command can be:. (choose three)

Which of the following man page sections will provide an example of how a command is executed?

The command man 5 passwd will:

Which character(s) cannot be placed in variable names?

Shell variables are used to:

Local variables are:

Environment variables cannot be declared by which command?

The /usr/local/bin directory contains:

The key press combination that will request a running process terminate:

A popular program for monitoring running processes in real-time is:

To send a signal to a set of processes with the same name, you can run:

Which of the following commands will stop all processes owned by the user bob?. (choose two)

The range defined inside of square brackets is based on the:

You can combine glob characters in a single pattern, for example: a??*[0-9].. True or False?

The ls command can list the contents of only one directory at a time.. True or False?

To perform a “long listing” to show file details, use which of the following commands:

The mv command can be used to move more than one file at a time.. True or False?

Which option(s) for the rm command can be used to delete directories that contain files?. (choose two)

Which character at the beginning of a long listing indicates a regular file?

To decompress the archive example.gz, use the following command:

By default, tar will attempt to extract an archive…

The dd command can be used to create large files the can be used as swap files.. True or False?

Which of the following is not a valid argument for the dd command?

Which of the following are advantages of using the locate command?

Many commands that read text files will also read from this stream:

If you want to overwrite a file by redirecting the output of a command, you can use:

To redirect the errors that are output by a command, you can use:

Which two symbols can effectively redirect stdin to a command?. (choose two)

To send the normal and error output of a command to a single file, you can use:

The head -n -1 readme.txt command will:

Why would you press CTRL+C when executing tail?

Which command merges two files like related tables in a database?

Which command will remove consecutive duplicate lines from a file?

The _____ command provides many options for formatting a file for printing.

Which regular expression character matches zero or more of the previous character?

Which of the following regular expression characters is an extended regular expression character?

The regular expression a* is equivalent to:

To use regular expression characters to match themselves, you cannot:

What is NOT a purpose of using parentheses around parts of a regular expression?

To navigate to the end of the line in vi command mode, you can press:

To search forward from your cursor in your vi document in command mode, you can type __ followed by the pattern to search for.

If you are in vi command mode and want to begin inserting text at the end of the line, you can type:

If you want to move a character to the right in vi command mode, you can press the right arrow key or:

If you want to move up a line in vi command mode, you can press the up arrow key or:

Which permission is necessary on a directory in order for a user to use the cd command to change that directory?

The setuid permission on a file:

The command, chmod 1777 /data will:

The command, chmod 2777 /data will:

Which are valid link types in Linux?. (choose two)

Which is true about hard links?

Which value represents the inode number in the following output of the ls -li command: 87589 -rw-r–r–. 2 root root 83 Mar 4 22:45 myhosts

The FHS sets which standard?

The location of users’ default shells is stored in the ______ file.

Long command options are preceded by which two characters?

Which two characters do you use to tell the command that you are finished providing options and that the remaining data on the command line is arguments?

What option to the kill command will list the signals for the system?

Which glob character matches “exactly one character”?

Which glob character matches “zero or more characters”?

Which two characters match “a single character from a set of specified characters”?

Which option to the find command will search by user owner?

Which type of link can be made to directories, hard or soft?

Which type of link is easier to visually “see”, hard or soft?

Which type of link is indistinguishable by programs from regular files, hard or soft?

Which directory is used to store temporary files?

Which directory is used for the home directory of the root user?