CompTIA Linux+ Quizzes and answers graded A+(Linux+ Module 1 and all quizzes)

What term is used to describe a running program on Linux? Process What is represented by the second number in the Linux kernel version 2.3.4? Minor Number Under which licensing model is Linux made available? GPL Which of the following describes a type of closed source license which is distributed free of charge, yet after a certain number of hours of usage or to gain certain features of the program, payment is required? Shareware A task-specific instruction guide to performing a wide variety of tasks that is freely available from the Linux Documentation Project is known as which of the following? HOWTO documents What Internet service provides content caching services for clients? Proxy Which e-mail service is responsible for sending messages between services? MTA DNS can be used to map which of the following types of names to IP addresses? FQDNs Which of the following are a collection of programs and tools designed to allow for the creation, modification, maintenance, and access of information from databases? Database Management Systems (DBMSs) The ability for a computer to increase workload as the number of processors increase is known as scalability What is the most common method for installing Linux? ISO image Which of the following can be used to boot your computer to a fully functional graphical Linux OS that you can use to ensure all hardware drivers were detected properly? live media What type of hard disk can have no more than four units connected to the computer at the same time? Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) A partition on a hard disk that can be further subdivided into components called logical drives is known as which of the following? extended partition Which of the following is the process whereby each user must log in with a valid user name and password before gaining access to the user interface of a system? authentication The OS component which loads all other components and serves to centrally control the activities of the computer is known as which of the following? kernel Which keystroke combination should be used to access the tty3 terminal? Ctrl+Alt+F3 Which command can be issued to view all users currently logged on to a server and their tasks? w Which of the following is NOT a command associated with help on a Linux system? whatis Which metacharacter is used for command termination? ; Which command will display the current working directory onscreen? pwd What is the maximum number of characters in a Linux filename? 255 Which of the following does NOT represent compressed file types? .ps Which command can be used to view hidden files in Linux? la -a Which wildcard metacharacter stands for all the files in the current directory? * Which of the following commands can be used to view an entire text file called project4 along with line numbers for each line of text? cat -n project4 Which command can be used to search for text characters in a binary file and output them to the screen? strings What vi command mode command allows you to move the cursor to line 64 of a file? 64G What vi command would be used to save changes to a file and quit from the vi editor? :wq Which of the following grep commands would be issued to view the contents of a file except the lines that include the word "hello"? grep -v What directory on a Linux system is commonly used to store log files and spools? /var Which of the following commands can be used to move a file to the same directory but with a different filename? mv file1 file2 What command is used to delete an empty directory on a Linux system? rmdir In order to update the database used for the locate command, which of the following commands can be issued? updatedb To override the interactive option, which is known as interactive mode, use the _____ option to override the choice. -f Which of the following is a pointer to another file on the same or another filesystem? symbolic link