Testpassport 117-101 Exam Features

1. What command line redirection characters instruct the shell to read from the current input source until a specific word, on a separate line and without and trailing spaces, is reached?
A. <<
B. <|
C. !<
D. &<
Answer: A
 
2. Which of the following commands will change all CR LF pairs in an imported text file, userlist.txt, to Linux standard LF characters and store it as newlist.txt                        
A. tr '\r\n' '' < userlist.txt > newlist.txt
B. tr c '\n\r' '' < newlist.txt > userlist.txt
C. tr d '\r' < userlist.txt > newlist.txt
D. tr '\r' '\n' userlist.txt newlist.txt
E. tr s '^M' '^J' userlist.txt newlist.txt
Answer: C
 
3. Where can lilo place boot information?
A. The boot ROM
B. The boot RAM
C. The /boot partition
D. The MBR on a hard drive
Answer: D
4. What command will print a list of usernames (first column) and their corresponding user id (uid, third column) from /etc/passwd                        
A. cut d:  f1,3 /etc/passwd
B. chop c 1,3 /etc/passwd
C. tac 1 3 /etc/passwd
D. fmt u /etc/passwd
Answer: A

5. User Joseph has successfully extracted and compiled a program from source code. Installing the binaries produces errors. What is the most likely reason?
A. The source code was compiled for a different CPU.
B. The permissions set in the /usr/bin directory are wrong.
C. The binaries require root privileges to be installed.
D. The wrong prefix was used during configuration of the source code.
Answer: C
     
6. How can you turn off the group quota in /pub     
A. quotaoff /pub
B. quotaoff  gv /pub
C. quotadown /pub
D. rm /pub/quota.group
Answer: B
     
7. The ___________ partition is used for virtual memory.
Answer: swap
 
8. When reading man pages, a lot of extra characters are shown on screen. Which of the following commands can help to deal with this problem?
A. col
B. grep
C. more
D. pg
E. row
Answer: A
 
9. In GRUB's configuration file you find the line  root    (hd1,4)   What is corresponding device name on a Linux system?
A. /dev/hda4
B. /dev/hda5
C. /dev/hdb4
D. /dev/hdb5
Answer: D
 
10. You logged in as user tux1, but now you want to switch users to tux2 with tux2's environment. How would you do this?
A. su tux2
B. su e tux2
C. su tux2
D. su m tux2
E. su f tux2
Answer: C
 
11. You have read/write permission on an ordinary file foo. You have just run ln foo bar. What would happen if you ran rm foo 
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. You would be asked whether bar should be removed.
Answer: B
   
12. You enter the command date +%M. What does the output show you? 
A. the current year
B. the current month
C. the current hour
D. the current minute
E. the current second
Answer: D
 
13. The command echo $! Will produce what output?
A. the process id of last background command
B. the exit status of the last command
C. the exit status of the last background command
D. the process id of the current shell
E. the name of the command being executed
Answer: A

14. What command can put suspended jobs into the background?
Answer: bg
 
15. You wish to kill a process with a PID of 123. Select the command which will allow the process to "clean up" before exiting.
A. kill 1 123
B. kill 9 123
C. kill 15 123
D. kill 17 123
Answer: C
 
16. While using the vi editor, you wish to move ahead one page. You should press the control key and:
A. A
B. D
C. F
D. U
Answer: C
 
17. The command mkfs t ext3  T largefile /dev/hdb1 creates what size of inode?
A. 4 kilobyte
B. 1 megabyte
C. 2 megabyte
D. 4 megabyte
Answer: B

18. According to the File System Hierarchy Standard, the lost+found directory is used for:
A. files with unknown owners.
B. missing device files found by /proc.
C. unknown binary files found by find.
D. unlinked files found by fsck.
Answer: D
     
19. You are formatting a single hard disk for a Linux install. What is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create?
Answer: 4 or four
 
20. In order to save and restore your sound card's configuration between sessions, the ALSA sound system uses what program?
A. setalsa
B. setsound
C. soundctl
D. alsactl
E. alsaset
Answer: D
 
21. You are compiling some software from source. After running ./configure with the appropriate arguments and no errors, what is the next command to run?
Answer: make or make all
 
22. In order to append the output of ls to a file called bazz, which of the following command lines would you use?
A. ls > bazz
B. ls >& bazz
C. ls &> bazz
D. ls >> bazz
Answer: D
 
23. Users may create and edit a configuration file in their home directory that can tell the X window system what window manager they wish it to start when they log in.  What file is that?
A. $HOME/.wmrc
B. $HOME/.startx
C. $HOME/.Xdefaults
D. $HOME/.xserverrc
E. $HOME/.xinitrc
Answer: E
 
24. What information is displayed by the command cat /proc/dma                        
A. whether DMA is enabled
B. which DMA channels are in use
C. which DMA mode is in use
D. general information about DMA on the machine
Answer: B
  
25. To what environment variable will you assign or append a value if you need to tell the dynamic linker to look in a build directory for some of a program's shared libraries?
A. LD_LOAD_PATH
B. LD_LIB_PATH
C. LD_LIBRARY_PATH
D. LD_SHARE_PATH
E. LD_RUN_PATH
Answer: C
 
26. Which file the /proc filesystem lists parameters passed from the bootloader to the kernel?
Answer: cmdline or /proc/cmdline
27. After installing and configuring XFree86, you notice that when you start X, the display is not centered.  What program can you run to find a better modeline setting?
A. XF86Setup
B. xf86config
C. xvidtune
D. xvideoagent
Answer: C
 
28. Which of the following lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config indicates what fonts can be found on a font server?
A. FontPath= server
B. Fonts "unix/:7100"
C. FontPath "unix/:7100"
D. Fonts= server
E. Fontserver = "servername"
Answer: C
 
29. You have just set up the X Display Manager as your default display manager.  What file should you edit to change the default background for it?
A. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
B. /etc/X11/prefdm
C. /etc/X11/XF86Config
D. /etc/X11/xdm.conf
Answer: A
 
30. You are building a server that will be the file server for all users on your 100 user network. 
The server may have many hardware and operating system upgrades. 
Which directory should have its own mount point and/or hard drive?
Answer: /home