Linux Essentials Chapter 2 Exam Answer 2016

1. The Samba application is a:

• File Server
• Web Server
• Security Server
• Mail Server

2. Which of the following are examples of desktop software?. (choose two)

• Web server
• File share
• Web browser
• Music player
• Compiler

3. If you wanted to set up a blog, which software would be most helpful?

• WordPress
• MySQL
• Samba
• Postfix
• Dovecot

4. Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing?. (choose three)

• Netatalk
• NFS
• X-Windows
• Samba
• PostgreSQL

5. If you wanted to create and print an invoice, which software could you use?

• Evolution
• Firefox
• GNOME
• Compiz
• LibreOffice

6. POP and IMAP are related to:

• Sharing files
• Email
• Reading and writing music
• Serving web pages
• Letting users log in to multiple servers with 1 set of credentials

7. When a computer boots, it can get its network information through:

• X11
• DNS
• DHCP
• LDAP
• SMTP

8. Which of the following are examples of text editors?. (choose four)

• pico
• emacs
• yum
• vim
• nano

9. A package manager:. (choose two)

• Downloads software from the Internet
• Emails you when software is out of date
• Keeps track of which files belong to which packages
• Can optionally repartition your disk to make room for Linux
• Performs a fresh install of Linux

10. An interpreted programming language:. (choose two)

• Takes fewer resources to run than a compiled language
• Tends to offer more features than compiled languages
• Is converted into machine specific instructions as the program runs
• Requires a linking step but no compilation step
• Requires a compilation step but no linking step

11. Which of the following are true about compiled programming languages?

• Compiled languages are great for system administration tasks like scripting
• C is a compiled language
• Ruby is a compiled language
• Perl is a compiled language
• A programmer is usually more productive when using a compiled language

12. Which package manager is used in Fedora, a Red Hat derived system?

• vim
• tar
• apt-get
• bash
• yum

13. The Linux shell:. (choose three)

• Has a scripting language
• Has a built in text editor
• Is responsible for tracking the location of configuration files
• Is customizable
• Allows you to launch programs

14. Which application would you use to edit and piece together sound files to make podcast?

• GIMP
• Bash
• Thunderbird
• Audacity
• Audiolicious

15. The two main families of Linux shells are:. (choose two)

• Python Shell
• Korn shell
• emacs
• Bourne Shell
• C Shell

16. Which server software would you use to create a company directory that you could search and authenticate against?

• ISC DHCP
• Netatalk
• OpenLDAP
• bind
• Samba

17. A Mail Transfer Agent’s primary purpose is to:

• Filter out spam
• Manage the end user’s inbox
• Serve email to end clients
• Deliver mail between servers
• Act as a gateway between faxes and email

18. Which of the following are examples of a web server?. (choose two)

• postfix
• NFS
• Nginx
• WordPress
• Apache

19. If you wanted to let a Linux machine share files with Windows clients and servers, you would use:

• Netatalk
• DNS
• Samba
• NFS
• bind

20. Richard Stallman is associated with:

• The Open Source Initiative
• Microsoft
• The Free Software Foundation
• BSD Unix
• The Apache foundation

21. A “copyleft provision” in a software license means:

• If you redistribute the software, you must distribute the source to any changes you make
• You may not link against third party closed source software
• You must provide free copies of the software if you use it
• You must provide support for your modifications
• You give up your copyright to the software

22. The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is:

• GPLv2 is not approved by the OSI
• Only BSD allows commercial use
• Nothing, they are virtually identical
• BSD has no copyleft provision
• GPLv2 requires assigning copyright to the FSF

23. The Free Software Foundation believes that:. (choose two)

• Software should be free to modify
• No money should ever change hands
• Software should be free to share
• People should write software with no expectation of making money
• Software should not have copyright

24. Which of the following licenses was made by the FSF?

• MIT
• BSD
• GPLv3
• Creative Commons
• Apache

25. A permissive free software license:. (choose two)

• Means you can use the software for anything you want
• Does not allow the software to be locked to certain hardware
• Places no restrictions on sharing modifications
• Places the software in the public domain
• Requires you share software changes but not binaries

26. Linux is distributed under which license?

• Linux Foundation
• MIT
• BSD
• GPLv2
• GPLv3

27. Who founded the Open Source Initiative?. (choose two)

• Richard Stallman
• University of California at Berkeley
• Eric Raymond
• Linus Torvalds
• Bruce Perens

28. A generic term for Open Source and Free Software is:

• SLOFF
• Libre Software
• FLOSS
• GPL
• OS/FS

29. Which are examples of permissive software licenses?. (choose two)

• GPLv3
• GPLv2
• LGPLv3
• MIT
• BSD

30. What does it mean when a work is placed in the public domain?

• The work was done by a government agency
• The author has died
• You must redistribute changes to the software
• You may not use the work for commercial purposes
• The author has relinquished the copyright on the work

31. Creative Commons licenses allow you to:. (choose three)

• Specify whether or not people may distribute changes
• Receive royalties on the use of the work
• Specify whether or not changes must be shared
• Allow or disallow commercial use
• Get a veto on where the work is used

32. If a podcast is licensed under the CC BY-ND license, you may:. (choose two)

• Use an interview or song from it for your own podcast
• Post it to your website
• Add ads to it and post it to your website.
• Share it as long as you give credit to the author
• Sell it as part of a compilation

33. How can you make money from open source software?. (choose three)

• Charge a yearly fee for the right to use the software
• Take payments for fixing bugs
• Sell hardware that’s built to work with the software
• Provide paid consulting services for users
• Unlock premium features for people that pay

34. To place software under an open source license, you must give up your copyright.. True or False?

• True
• False

35. The difference between the GPL and LGPL licenses are:

• LGPL is shorter than GPL
• LGPL allows linking to non GPLed software
• LGPL applies to web services
• LGPL was made by the OSI while GPL was made by the FSF
• LGPL allows you to distribute the software in binary-only form

36. Permissive free software licenses:. (choose three)

• Are not approved by the OSI
• Are not approved by the FSF
• Include the GPLv2 and BSD
• Can allow software to be used inside closed source software
• Don’t have a copyleft provision

37. The Creative Commons version of Public Domain licensing is:

• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• Attribution-NonCommercial
• Attribution
• NoAttribution-ShareAlike
• No Rights Reserved

38. Your company makes a hardware firewall that runs a custom Linux kernel. What are your obligations under GPLv2?

• You must ensure your custom kernel runs on a regular Intel machine
• You must make the source to your kernel available
• There are no requirements
• You must make the source to your custom web interface available
• You must make your hardware designs available

39. Participating in open source projects can improve your technical skills, even if it is not your day job.. True or False?

• True
• False