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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The four main parts of a Linux system are the Linux kernel, ______, a user interface, and application
software.
A) a firewall
B) memory management
C) GNU utilities
D) runlevels
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: What Is Linux?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
2. Which of the following is not a primary task of the Linux kernel?
A) System memory management
B) Hardware management
C) Network address allocation
D) Software program management
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The four main functions of the Linux kernel are system memory management, software
program management, hardware management, and filesystem management.
Taxonomy: Remember
3. When the kernel wishes to access a memory page and the page is not located in physical memory,
where does it go to retrieve the page?
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A) File server
B) Filesystem
C) Disk
D) Network
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The kernel maintains a table of the memory pages that indicates which pages are in physical
memory and which pages are swapped out to disk.
Taxonomy: Understand
4. You run the meminfo command on a Linux server and it reports the following results:
MemTotal: 3996421 kB
MemFree: 601133 kB
MemAvailable: 1984452 kB
Approximately how much physical memory is installed on the server?
A) 4 GB
B) 600 MB
C) 2 GB
D) 6 GB
Ans: A
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The MemTotal line provides the total amount of physical memory installed on the server. In
this case, it is approximately 4 GB.
Taxonomy: Analyze
5. Which of the following processes must start first on a Linux system?
A) cron
B) first
C) init
D) kswapd
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The init process is the first process created by the kernel and is used to start all other
processes running on the system.
Taxonomy: Analyze
6. You are creating a filesystem for a Linux system. It is based on a newer, high-performance filesystem
that supports journaling and large files. Which filesystem are you using?
A) ext
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B) ext2
C) ext3
D) btrfs
Ans: D
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
7. You are selecting a shell for your Linux system. You are concerned about the amount of memory used
by the shell. Which of the following shells would be the best choice?
A) bash
B) ksh
C) tcsh
D) ash
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The ash shell is a simple, lightweight shell that runs in low-memory environments but has full
compatibility with the bash shell.
Taxonomy: Apply
8. What is the default shell used in most Linux distributions?
A) bash
B) ksh
C) tcsh
D) ash
Ans: A
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Bash was developed by the GNU Project as a replacement for the standard Unix shell, called
the Bourne shell (after its creator). The bash name is a play on this wording, referred to as the Bourne
again shell.
Taxonomy: Remember
9. You are installing a Linux system for a customer who prefers the GNOME desktop. Which GNOME
application will provide a graphical file manager?
A) Amarok
B) Dolphin
C) Konqueror
D) Nautilus (now called Files)
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
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Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
10. You are managing memory on a Linux system that does not have sufficient physical memory to run all
of the applications you require. To augment the physical memory, you arrange to have locations on the
computer's hard drive switch out the contents from this location to physical memory. What is the name of
this location?
A) Vlocks
B) Managed memory
C) Swap space
D) Virtual memory
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Virtual memory is memory that does not exist but is created on the hard drive and treated as
real memory. It uses space on the hard disk called swap space. The Linux kernel swaps the contents of
virtual memory back and forth from the swap space to the actual physical memory.
Taxonomy: Apply
11. You want to test a derivative Linux distribution on your computer without installing it to see if it will
function properly on the PC's hardware. This specialized distribution should run the entire system. How
will you do this?
A) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a USB stick to boot the system to Debian.
B) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a DVD to boot the system to Gentoo.
C) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a USB stick to boot the system to Mint.
D) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a DVD to boot the system to openSUSE.
Ans: C
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: Linux Distributions: Why So Many?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Most Linux distributions also have a LiveDVD version available. Depending on the distribution,
the LiveDVD either contains a small subset of applications such as Debian, Gentoo, and openSUSE or, in
the case of specialized distributions such as Mint or Ubuntu, the entire system. The benefit of the
LiveDVD is that you can test it with your system hardware before going through the trouble of installing
the system.
Taxonomy: Apply
12. What core Linux distribution is popular with Linux experts and is one of the original distributions?
A) Fedora
B) MX Linux
C) Slackware
D) Ubuntu
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux Distributions: Why So Many?
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Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Most distributions are customized for a specific user group. Slackware is one of the original
Linux distributions popular with Linux geeks.
Taxonomy: Understand
13. When shell commands are grouped together so they can be executed as a program, they are called:
A) C programming language.
B) command-line interface.
C) command prompt.
D) shell scripts.
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
14. Which of the following is true of the Linux KDE Plasma and GNOME 3 desktop environments?
A) They require far fewer system resources to run than the Microsoft Windows desktop environment.
B) They require about the same amount of system resources to run as the Microsoft Windows desktop
environment.
C) They require significantly more system resources to run than the Microsoft Windows desktop
environment.
D) They can run on a PC only if emulating Windows, such as the Linux fvwm desktop.
Ans: B
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: In the early days of Linux, a hallmark and selling feature of Linux was its ability to operate on
older, less powerful PCs that the newer Microsoft desktop products couldn't run on. However, with the
popularity of KDE Plasma and GNOME 3 desktops, this has changed because it takes just as much
memory to run a KDE Plasma or GNOME 3 desktop as the latest Microsoft desktop environment.
Taxonomy: Understand
15. You are building a Linux system for use by individuals familiar with the Windows environment and
want to provide them with a familiar look and feel. What desktop environment was designed for this
purpose?
A) K Desktop Environment (KDE)
B) X Window
C) XFree86
D) GNOME
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
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Feedback: KDE was first released in 1996 as an open-source project to produce a graphical desktop
similar to the Microsoft Windows environment.
Taxonomy: Understand
16. You list the device files on a Linux system and the following results appear:
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 10 16:27 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 10 16:27 sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 10 16:27 sda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 10 16:27 sda3
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 10 16:27 sda4
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 64 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS0
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 65 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS1
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 66 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS2
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 67 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS3
How many physical hard disks are present on this system?
A) 1
B) 4
C) 5
D) 8
Ans: A
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The sda device is the only disk device on the system. Each of the numbered sda devices (i.e.,
sda1, sda2, sda3, and sda4) are partitions of that physical drive.
Taxonomy: Evaluate
17. Which of the following is not a component of the GNU coreutils package?
A) Utilities for handling files
B) Utilities for configuring firewalls
C) Utilities for manipulating text
D) Utilities for managing processes
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The GNU Utilities
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The GNU coreutils package consists of three parts: utilities for handling files, utilities for
manipulating text, and utilities for managing processes.
Taxonomy: Remember
18. Which file defines the default runlevel for the Linux system?
A) /etc/defaults
B) /etc/inittab
C) /etc/rc.d
D) /etc/resolv.conf
Ans: B
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Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
19. What Linux runlevel is also known as single-user mode?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5
Ans: B
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
20. What allows developers to insert device driver code into a running kernel without having to recompile
the kernel?
A) Block device file
B) Character device file
C) Kernel code
D) Kernel modules
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
True/False
1. True or False? The kernel controls all of the hardware and software on the computer system.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy:
2. True or False? The kernel manages physical memory but cannot create or manage virtual memory.
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Ans: False
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The kernel manages physical memory and can create and manage virtual memory.
Taxonomy:
3. True or False? The kernel keeps track of which memory pages are in use and automatically copies
memory pages that have not been accessed for a period of time to the swap space area.
Ans: True
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy:
4. True or False? The runlevel defines the state of the running Linux system and what processes should
run in each state.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy:
5. True or False? In Linux, processes run only in the background.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: A process can run in the foreground, displaying output on a display, or it can run in the
background behind the scenes.
Taxonomy:
6. True or False? A distribution is a complete Linux system package.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Linux Distributions: Why So Many?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy:
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Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
Quizzes, Midterm and final exams are included (if available in the original resources).
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
✅ Why Buy From Us?
📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
⚡ Instant digital delivery – get your file the moment you pay, no waiting.
📅 Always up to date – we track new editions so you always get the latest version.
💬 Friendly support – real humans ready to help, anytime you need us.
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correct version, free of charge.
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Base Settings: Brownstone Default
Information Field: Complexity
Information Field: Ahead
Information Field: Subject
Information Field: Title
Information Field: Feedback
Information Field: Taxonomy
Highest Answer Letter: D
Multiple Keywords in Same Paragraph: No
NAS ISBN13: 9781284254884, add to Ahead, Title tags
Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The four main parts of a Linux system are the Linux kernel, ______, a user interface, and application
software.
A) a firewall
B) memory management
C) GNU utilities
D) runlevels
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: What Is Linux?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
2. Which of the following is not a primary task of the Linux kernel?
A) System memory management
B) Hardware management
C) Network address allocation
D) Software program management
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The four main functions of the Linux kernel are system memory management, software
program management, hardware management, and filesystem management.
Taxonomy: Remember
3. When the kernel wishes to access a memory page and the page is not located in physical memory,
where does it go to retrieve the page?
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A) File server
B) Filesystem
C) Disk
D) Network
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The kernel maintains a table of the memory pages that indicates which pages are in physical
memory and which pages are swapped out to disk.
Taxonomy: Understand
4. You run the meminfo command on a Linux server and it reports the following results:
MemTotal: 3996421 kB
MemFree: 601133 kB
MemAvailable: 1984452 kB
Approximately how much physical memory is installed on the server?
A) 4 GB
B) 600 MB
C) 2 GB
D) 6 GB
Ans: A
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The MemTotal line provides the total amount of physical memory installed on the server. In
this case, it is approximately 4 GB.
Taxonomy: Analyze
5. Which of the following processes must start first on a Linux system?
A) cron
B) first
C) init
D) kswapd
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The init process is the first process created by the kernel and is used to start all other
processes running on the system.
Taxonomy: Analyze
6. You are creating a filesystem for a Linux system. It is based on a newer, high-performance filesystem
that supports journaling and large files. Which filesystem are you using?
A) ext
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B) ext2
C) ext3
D) btrfs
Ans: D
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
7. You are selecting a shell for your Linux system. You are concerned about the amount of memory used
by the shell. Which of the following shells would be the best choice?
A) bash
B) ksh
C) tcsh
D) ash
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The ash shell is a simple, lightweight shell that runs in low-memory environments but has full
compatibility with the bash shell.
Taxonomy: Apply
8. What is the default shell used in most Linux distributions?
A) bash
B) ksh
C) tcsh
D) ash
Ans: A
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Bash was developed by the GNU Project as a replacement for the standard Unix shell, called
the Bourne shell (after its creator). The bash name is a play on this wording, referred to as the Bourne
again shell.
Taxonomy: Remember
9. You are installing a Linux system for a customer who prefers the GNOME desktop. Which GNOME
application will provide a graphical file manager?
A) Amarok
B) Dolphin
C) Konqueror
D) Nautilus (now called Files)
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
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Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
10. You are managing memory on a Linux system that does not have sufficient physical memory to run all
of the applications you require. To augment the physical memory, you arrange to have locations on the
computer's hard drive switch out the contents from this location to physical memory. What is the name of
this location?
A) Vlocks
B) Managed memory
C) Swap space
D) Virtual memory
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Virtual memory is memory that does not exist but is created on the hard drive and treated as
real memory. It uses space on the hard disk called swap space. The Linux kernel swaps the contents of
virtual memory back and forth from the swap space to the actual physical memory.
Taxonomy: Apply
11. You want to test a derivative Linux distribution on your computer without installing it to see if it will
function properly on the PC's hardware. This specialized distribution should run the entire system. How
will you do this?
A) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a USB stick to boot the system to Debian.
B) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a DVD to boot the system to Gentoo.
C) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a USB stick to boot the system to Mint.
D) Use a LiveDVD version burned to a DVD to boot the system to openSUSE.
Ans: C
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: Linux Distributions: Why So Many?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Most Linux distributions also have a LiveDVD version available. Depending on the distribution,
the LiveDVD either contains a small subset of applications such as Debian, Gentoo, and openSUSE or, in
the case of specialized distributions such as Mint or Ubuntu, the entire system. The benefit of the
LiveDVD is that you can test it with your system hardware before going through the trouble of installing
the system.
Taxonomy: Apply
12. What core Linux distribution is popular with Linux experts and is one of the original distributions?
A) Fedora
B) MX Linux
C) Slackware
D) Ubuntu
Ans: C
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux Distributions: Why So Many?
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Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: Most distributions are customized for a specific user group. Slackware is one of the original
Linux distributions popular with Linux geeks.
Taxonomy: Understand
13. When shell commands are grouped together so they can be executed as a program, they are called:
A) C programming language.
B) command-line interface.
C) command prompt.
D) shell scripts.
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
14. Which of the following is true of the Linux KDE Plasma and GNOME 3 desktop environments?
A) They require far fewer system resources to run than the Microsoft Windows desktop environment.
B) They require about the same amount of system resources to run as the Microsoft Windows desktop
environment.
C) They require significantly more system resources to run than the Microsoft Windows desktop
environment.
D) They can run on a PC only if emulating Windows, such as the Linux fvwm desktop.
Ans: B
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: In the early days of Linux, a hallmark and selling feature of Linux was its ability to operate on
older, less powerful PCs that the newer Microsoft desktop products couldn't run on. However, with the
popularity of KDE Plasma and GNOME 3 desktops, this has changed because it takes just as much
memory to run a KDE Plasma or GNOME 3 desktop as the latest Microsoft desktop environment.
Taxonomy: Understand
15. You are building a Linux system for use by individuals familiar with the Windows environment and
want to provide them with a familiar look and feel. What desktop environment was designed for this
purpose?
A) K Desktop Environment (KDE)
B) X Window
C) XFree86
D) GNOME
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Linux User Interfaces
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
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Feedback: KDE was first released in 1996 as an open-source project to produce a graphical desktop
similar to the Microsoft Windows environment.
Taxonomy: Understand
16. You list the device files on a Linux system and the following results appear:
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 10 16:27 sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep 10 16:27 sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep 10 16:27 sda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep 10 16:27 sda3
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 Sep 10 16:27 sda4
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 64 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS0
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 65 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS1
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 66 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS2
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 4, 67 Sep 10 16:27 ttyS3
How many physical hard disks are present on this system?
A) 1
B) 4
C) 5
D) 8
Ans: A
Complexity: Hard
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The sda device is the only disk device on the system. Each of the numbered sda devices (i.e.,
sda1, sda2, sda3, and sda4) are partitions of that physical drive.
Taxonomy: Evaluate
17. Which of the following is not a component of the GNU coreutils package?
A) Utilities for handling files
B) Utilities for configuring firewalls
C) Utilities for manipulating text
D) Utilities for managing processes
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The GNU Utilities
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The GNU coreutils package consists of three parts: utilities for handling files, utilities for
manipulating text, and utilities for managing processes.
Taxonomy: Remember
18. Which file defines the default runlevel for the Linux system?
A) /etc/defaults
B) /etc/inittab
C) /etc/rc.d
D) /etc/resolv.conf
Ans: B
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Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
19. What Linux runlevel is also known as single-user mode?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5
Ans: B
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Remember
20. What allows developers to insert device driver code into a running kernel without having to recompile
the kernel?
A) Block device file
B) Character device file
C) Kernel code
D) Kernel modules
Ans: D
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy: Understand
True/False
1. True or False? The kernel controls all of the hardware and software on the computer system.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback:
Taxonomy:
2. True or False? The kernel manages physical memory but cannot create or manage virtual memory.
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Ans: False
Complexity: Medium
Ahead: The Linux Kernel
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Linux Basics
Feedback: The kernel manages physical memory and can create and manage virtual memory.
Taxonomy:
3. True or False? The kernel keeps track of which memory pages are in use and automatically copies
memory pages that have not been accessed for a period of time to the swap space area.
Ans: True
Complexity: Medium
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4. True or False? The runlevel defines the state of the running Linux system and what processes should
run in each state.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
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5. True or False? In Linux, processes run only in the background.
Ans: False
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6. True or False? A distribution is a complete Linux system package.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
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