DCOM 142 EXAM SCRIPT 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Applications make requests to the kernel and receive resources, such as memory,
CPU, and disk in return - ✔✔True
✔✔Which distributions are made by, or clones of, Red Hat? (choose two) - ✔✔Fedora
CentOs
✔✔Software is backward compatible if: - ✔✔It still supports old file formats or
applications
✔✔Unix is (choose two) - ✔✔A trademark
An operating system
✔✔Which of the following is an example of an embedded Linux OS? - ✔✔Android
✔✔A license where you don't have access to the source code is called: - ✔✔Closed
Source
✔✔Most of the tools that are part of Linux systems come from: - ✔✔The GNU project
✔✔If a software release is in a state in that it has many new features that have not been
rigorously tested, it is typically referred to as beta software. - ✔✔True
✔✔The Linux kernel is derived from the BSD kernel - ✔✔False
✔✔Source code refers to: - ✔✔Human readable version of computer software
✔✔Open source means: (choose two) - ✔✔You can view the software's source code
You can modify the software's source code
✔✔Apple's OS X is: (choose three) - ✔✔Certified as UNIX compatible
Derived from FreeBSD
Only compatible with Apple hardware
✔✔A permissive free software license: (choose two) - ✔✔means you can use the
software for anything you want
places no restrictions on sharing modifications
, ✔✔Which of the following are examples of a web server? (choose two) - ✔✔Nginx
Apache
✔✔Richard Stallman is associated with - ✔✔The Free Software Foundation
✔✔A package manager: (choose two) - ✔✔keeps track of which files belong to which
packages
downloads software from the Internet
✔✔What is the meaning of a public domain license? - ✔✔The author has relinquished
the copyright on the work
✔✔The Free Software Foundation believes that: (choose two) - ✔✔Software should be
free to modify
Software should be free to share
✔✔The Samba application is a: - ✔✔File Server
✔✔The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is: - ✔✔BSD has no
copyleft provision
✔✔The two main families of Linux shells are: (choose two) - ✔✔C Shell
Bourne Shell
✔✔Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing? (choose three) -
✔✔NFS
Netatalk
Samba
✔✔If you wanted to let a Linux machine share files with Windows clients and servers,
you would use: - ✔✔Samba
✔✔Which of the following are examples of text editors? (choose four) - ✔✔vim
Correctc.
nano
Correctd.
emacs
Correcte.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Applications make requests to the kernel and receive resources, such as memory,
CPU, and disk in return - ✔✔True
✔✔Which distributions are made by, or clones of, Red Hat? (choose two) - ✔✔Fedora
CentOs
✔✔Software is backward compatible if: - ✔✔It still supports old file formats or
applications
✔✔Unix is (choose two) - ✔✔A trademark
An operating system
✔✔Which of the following is an example of an embedded Linux OS? - ✔✔Android
✔✔A license where you don't have access to the source code is called: - ✔✔Closed
Source
✔✔Most of the tools that are part of Linux systems come from: - ✔✔The GNU project
✔✔If a software release is in a state in that it has many new features that have not been
rigorously tested, it is typically referred to as beta software. - ✔✔True
✔✔The Linux kernel is derived from the BSD kernel - ✔✔False
✔✔Source code refers to: - ✔✔Human readable version of computer software
✔✔Open source means: (choose two) - ✔✔You can view the software's source code
You can modify the software's source code
✔✔Apple's OS X is: (choose three) - ✔✔Certified as UNIX compatible
Derived from FreeBSD
Only compatible with Apple hardware
✔✔A permissive free software license: (choose two) - ✔✔means you can use the
software for anything you want
places no restrictions on sharing modifications
, ✔✔Which of the following are examples of a web server? (choose two) - ✔✔Nginx
Apache
✔✔Richard Stallman is associated with - ✔✔The Free Software Foundation
✔✔A package manager: (choose two) - ✔✔keeps track of which files belong to which
packages
downloads software from the Internet
✔✔What is the meaning of a public domain license? - ✔✔The author has relinquished
the copyright on the work
✔✔The Free Software Foundation believes that: (choose two) - ✔✔Software should be
free to modify
Software should be free to share
✔✔The Samba application is a: - ✔✔File Server
✔✔The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is: - ✔✔BSD has no
copyleft provision
✔✔The two main families of Linux shells are: (choose two) - ✔✔C Shell
Bourne Shell
✔✔Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing? (choose three) -
✔✔NFS
Netatalk
Samba
✔✔If you wanted to let a Linux machine share files with Windows clients and servers,
you would use: - ✔✔Samba
✔✔Which of the following are examples of text editors? (choose four) - ✔✔vim
Correctc.
nano
Correctd.
emacs
Correcte.
