Exam 101-500 – linux.betcher.info

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1. What is contained on the EFI System Partition?

The Linux root file system

The first stage boot loader

The default swap space file

The Linux default shell binaries

The user home directories

2. What is the first program the Linux kernel starts at boot time when using System V init?

/lib/init.so

/proc/sys/kernel/init

/etc/rc.d/rcinit

/sbin/init

/boot/init

During Linux installation, where is the boot manager typically installed?

In the BIOS settings

In the CPU cache

In the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard disk

In the /boot directory

Which commands prints the Linux kernel message buffer?

dmesg

uname

klog

kernellog

None, the kernel log can be found in a log file

What does “booting the system” mean in the context of system architecture?

Shutting down the system completely

Restarting the system after installing updates

Powering on the computer and initializing the operating system

Configuring the BIOS settings

6. A Debian package creates several files during its installation. Which of the following commands searches for packages owning the file /etc/debian_version?

apt-get search /etc/debian_version

apt -r /etc/debian_version

find /etc/debian_version -dpkg

dpkg -S /etc/debian_version

apt-file /etc/debian_version

7. Which umask value ensures that new directories can be read, written and listed by their owning user, read and listed by their owning group and are not accessible at all for everyone else?

0750

0027

0036

7640

0029

8. In which file is the users bash history stored?

~/.bash_history

~/.history

~/.bashrc

/etc/bash_history

/var/log/syslog

Which of the following tasks falls under configuring hardware settings?

Installing a new software application

djusting the screen resolution

Replacing a faulty hard drive

Creating a new user account

10. What is contained on the EFI System Partition?

The Linux root file system

The first stage boot loader

The default swap space file

The Linux default shell binaries

The user home directories

11. Which signal is sent by the kill command by default?

SIGHUP(1)

SIGQUIT(3)

SIGKILL(9)

SIGTERM(15)

12.

What is the role of YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) in RPM-based Linux distributions?

YUM is a graphical user interface for managing software packages.

YUM is a package management tool that provides automatic updates for the system.

YUM is a command-line package manager that handles software installations and dependency resolution.

YUM is a tool for configuring the hardware settings of the computer.

13.

What is the purpose of running the fsck command in Linux?

To check the amount of free disk space

To repair and check the integrity of a filesystem

To format a new partition with a filesystem

To create a new filesystem on a partition

14. What is true regarding UEFI firmware? (Choose two.)

It can read and interpret partition tables

It can use and read certain file systems

It stores its entire configuration on the /boot/ partition

It is stored in a special area within the GPT metadata

It is loaded from a fixed boot disk position

15. Which command numbers the lines of a file? (Not the file itself)

zcat

uniq

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