LINUX ESSENTIALS LPI 010-160 LATEST EXAM
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Alpha Software - ✔✔Extremely new and very likely to contain serious bugs
✔✔Beta Software - ✔✔More stable but is still likely to contain bugs
✔✔Terminal Program - ✔✔A program inside a desktop environment which provides a
text mode user interface inside a window
✔✔FTP - ✔✔-File Transfer Protocol
-20, 21
-Used for transferring files over a network
✔✔SMTP - ✔✔-25
-Main protocol for moving email on the Internet and sending user emails
✔✔DNS - ✔✔-53
-Enables computers to lookup an IP address by providing a hostname or vice versa
-host, nslookup, dig commands to look up DNS info
✔✔DHCP - ✔✔-67
,-Enables a computer on a local network to help automatically configure other computers
to use on a network
✔✔SQL - ✔✔-118 port
-Is a network enabled database interface language
✔✔SMB - ✔✔-137, 138, 139
-Is a protocol for file and printer sharing between Linux and Windows machines. Used in
the Samba software
✔✔IMAP - ✔✔-143 port
-another recipient email that allows email messages to remain in a server
✔✔LDAP - ✔✔-Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
-389 port
-a network protocol for accessing directories and databases
✔✔HTTPS - ✔✔443
✔✔NFS - ✔✔-Network File System
-2049
-Is a protocol for file sharing between Linux and Unix machines
✔✔Apache HTTPD (Linux Web Server) - ✔✔-The original Linux web server released in
1995
-It continues to maintain a level of popularity due to its stability and dependability
✔✔Nginx (Linux Web Server) - ✔✔-Released in 2002 and is known for its flexibility and
is lightweight
-Can also be used as an email server and a dual setup with Apache
✔✔Root user - ✔✔-Aka. super user, superuser, and administrator
-Access is indicated by a # instead of a $ in a terminal
-Login as root, su command or sudo (only for one cmd)
-0 is root's user id
✔✔Compiled language - ✔✔Translates the entire program, creating an executable
program which can be run at a later time
✔✔Interpreted Language - ✔✔-converted to machine code at the time they are run, by
a known programmer
-Code that is translated one line/instruction at a time
✔✔DPKG Package Manager - ✔✔-Installs, removes, updates, queries or verifies
packages on a Debian-based Linux distribution
, -low level interface
-Can't be installed on RPM and vice versa
✔✔RPM Package Manager - ✔✔-Installs, removes, updates, queries or verifies
packages on a Red Hat Linux distribution
-Can't be installed on DPKG and vice versa
✔✔apt-get - ✔✔-Text mode tool for Debian (dpkg) based distributions
-User can install from repositories and remove software packages from a local Linux
system
-Ex. apt-get install or remove or upgrade
✔✔yum - ✔✔-Text mode used in Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS distributions
-User can install from repositories, remove software packages from local Linux systems,
and upgrade packages
✔✔lscpu - ✔✔-display information about the CPU architecture
-cat /proc/cpuinfo and uname -a
✔✔lspci - ✔✔display information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected
to them
✔✔fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, gdisk - ✔✔simple, text based partitioning tools for MBR disks
✔✔LibreOffice - ✔✔-free alternative to MS Office
-https://www.libreoffice.org/
-previously called "Open Office"
-word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow program
-available for Windows, Mac, Linux
✔✔Filenames - ✔✔pattern of /dev/sda, dev/sdb and so on, with each disk taking on a
new letter
✔✔Partitions - ✔✔numbered starting with 1 and would look like something like this:
/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb6
✔✔MBR partitions - ✔✔-Partitions 1 - 4 are reserved for primary or extended partitions
(basic disk)
-Logical partitions take numbers 5 and up.
-Can't support disks larger than 2 TB
✔✔Native filesystems Linux supports - ✔✔-FAT (DOS/Windows)
-NTFS (Windows)
-HFS (Mac)
-HFS+ (Mac)
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Alpha Software - ✔✔Extremely new and very likely to contain serious bugs
✔✔Beta Software - ✔✔More stable but is still likely to contain bugs
✔✔Terminal Program - ✔✔A program inside a desktop environment which provides a
text mode user interface inside a window
✔✔FTP - ✔✔-File Transfer Protocol
-20, 21
-Used for transferring files over a network
✔✔SMTP - ✔✔-25
-Main protocol for moving email on the Internet and sending user emails
✔✔DNS - ✔✔-53
-Enables computers to lookup an IP address by providing a hostname or vice versa
-host, nslookup, dig commands to look up DNS info
✔✔DHCP - ✔✔-67
,-Enables a computer on a local network to help automatically configure other computers
to use on a network
✔✔SQL - ✔✔-118 port
-Is a network enabled database interface language
✔✔SMB - ✔✔-137, 138, 139
-Is a protocol for file and printer sharing between Linux and Windows machines. Used in
the Samba software
✔✔IMAP - ✔✔-143 port
-another recipient email that allows email messages to remain in a server
✔✔LDAP - ✔✔-Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
-389 port
-a network protocol for accessing directories and databases
✔✔HTTPS - ✔✔443
✔✔NFS - ✔✔-Network File System
-2049
-Is a protocol for file sharing between Linux and Unix machines
✔✔Apache HTTPD (Linux Web Server) - ✔✔-The original Linux web server released in
1995
-It continues to maintain a level of popularity due to its stability and dependability
✔✔Nginx (Linux Web Server) - ✔✔-Released in 2002 and is known for its flexibility and
is lightweight
-Can also be used as an email server and a dual setup with Apache
✔✔Root user - ✔✔-Aka. super user, superuser, and administrator
-Access is indicated by a # instead of a $ in a terminal
-Login as root, su command or sudo (only for one cmd)
-0 is root's user id
✔✔Compiled language - ✔✔Translates the entire program, creating an executable
program which can be run at a later time
✔✔Interpreted Language - ✔✔-converted to machine code at the time they are run, by
a known programmer
-Code that is translated one line/instruction at a time
✔✔DPKG Package Manager - ✔✔-Installs, removes, updates, queries or verifies
packages on a Debian-based Linux distribution
, -low level interface
-Can't be installed on RPM and vice versa
✔✔RPM Package Manager - ✔✔-Installs, removes, updates, queries or verifies
packages on a Red Hat Linux distribution
-Can't be installed on DPKG and vice versa
✔✔apt-get - ✔✔-Text mode tool for Debian (dpkg) based distributions
-User can install from repositories and remove software packages from a local Linux
system
-Ex. apt-get install or remove or upgrade
✔✔yum - ✔✔-Text mode used in Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS distributions
-User can install from repositories, remove software packages from local Linux systems,
and upgrade packages
✔✔lscpu - ✔✔-display information about the CPU architecture
-cat /proc/cpuinfo and uname -a
✔✔lspci - ✔✔display information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected
to them
✔✔fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, gdisk - ✔✔simple, text based partitioning tools for MBR disks
✔✔LibreOffice - ✔✔-free alternative to MS Office
-https://www.libreoffice.org/
-previously called "Open Office"
-word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow program
-available for Windows, Mac, Linux
✔✔Filenames - ✔✔pattern of /dev/sda, dev/sdb and so on, with each disk taking on a
new letter
✔✔Partitions - ✔✔numbered starting with 1 and would look like something like this:
/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb6
✔✔MBR partitions - ✔✔-Partitions 1 - 4 are reserved for primary or extended partitions
(basic disk)
-Logical partitions take numbers 5 and up.
-Can't support disks larger than 2 TB
✔✔Native filesystems Linux supports - ✔✔-FAT (DOS/Windows)
-NTFS (Windows)
-HFS (Mac)
-HFS+ (Mac)
