This document contains a quiz about Linux commands and concepts with multiple choice answers. It covers topics such as the command line interface, navigating and manipulating files and directories, permissions, users and passwords. For each question there are typically 4 potential answers to choose from.
This document contains a quiz about Linux commands and concepts with multiple choice answers. It covers topics such as the command line interface, navigating and manipulating files and directories, permissions, users and passwords. For each question there are typically 4 potential answers to choose from.
This document contains a quiz about Linux commands and concepts with multiple choice answers. It covers topics such as the command line interface, navigating and manipulating files and directories, permissions, users and passwords. For each question there are typically 4 potential answers to choose from.
This document contains a quiz about Linux commands and concepts with multiple choice answers. It covers topics such as the command line interface, navigating and manipulating files and directories, permissions, users and passwords. For each question there are typically 4 potential answers to choose from.
Core Learning Interface Command Learning Interface Core Line Interface Command Line Interface 2. Commands are case-sensitive. True or False? True False 3. When entering a command, do arguments or options typically come first? Options Arguments 4. Which of the following is NOT a correct way to combine options? -l -r -lr -r l -rl 5. Which command will print your current location in the filesystem? pcl pwd pd cd 6. Which command will allow you to change your current directory? ls cd ch chdir 7. Which of the following is NOT an example of an absolute path? / /home/sysadmin Documents 8. Which of the following is NOT an example of a relative path? Documents /home Documents/Work home/sysadmin/Documents/School/Art 9. The ~ (tilde) character is used to represent: A user’s home directory Nothing, it doesn’t have a special meaning The current directory The directory above the current directory 10. The .. (double period) characters are used to represent: A user’s home directory The current directory Nothing, it doesn’t have a special The directory above the current directory 11. The . (period) character is used to represent: The directory above the current directory A user’s home directory The current directory Nothing, it doesn’t have a special meaning 12. The ls command without options or arguments… …lists the contents of the current directory. …prompts for a directory to list. …lists the contents of a user’s home. …generates an error as this command. 13. The first character in a long listing ls -l indicates: Hard Link Count File Size Permissions File Type 14. Which option to the ls will sort the output by file size? -z -r -S -s 15. Which of these commands will create a new shell logged in as the root user? sudo su 16. Which of the following sets has the owner permissions highlighted? rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– 17. Which of the following sets has the group permissions highlighted? rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– 18. Which of the following sets has the other permissions highlighted? rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– rw-rw-r– 19. Which command will allow a user to change the permissions of a file? perm chown chmod chperm 20. Which of the following permission sets indicates the other owner has only the read permission? rw-r–rwx rwxrw-r-x r–r–r-x rw-rw-r– 21. Which of the following commands is used to change the ownership of a file? chow chmod chown chperm 22. Changing the user owner of a file requires administrative access. True or False? True False 23. Which of the following commands can be used to rename a file? name cp rn mv 24. The mv command requires at least two arguments. True or False? True False 25. Which command can be used to copy a file? mv rm cy cp 26. The cp command requires at least two arguments. True or False? True False 27. Which command is used to copy files at the bit level? cp dd 28. The rm command requires at least two arguments. True or False? True False 29. Which option to the rm command will allow a user to delete directories? -l -r -d -a 30. Which of the following commands is used to filter text? text grep dd regex 31. Which of the following commands will return only lines that begin with test? grep ‘^test’ file.txt grep ‘$test’ file.txt grep ‘*test’ file.txt grep ‘[test]’ file.txt 32. Which of the following commands will return only lines that end with test? grep ‘$test’ file.txt grep ‘test$’ file.txt grep ‘test^’ file.txt grep ‘^test’ file.txt 33. Which of the following lines would be NOT returned by the grep ‘[^0-9]’ file.txt command? I am 37 years old. My favorite food is avocados. 3121991 Hello my name is Joe. 34. Which of the following lines would be returned by the grep ‘b[oe]t’ file.txt command? beet bet boet boot 35. Which of the following commands will NOT shutdown the system immediately? shutdown shutdown now shutdown now ‘Goodbye World!’ shutdown +0 36. Which of the following commands can be used to display network configuration information? netconfig pwd ifconfig net 37. Which of the following commands will display every process? ps –all ps -e ps ps -a 38. The ps command requires administrative access. True or False? True False 39. Which of the following commands will update all packages? apt-get upgrade apt-get update apt-get install apt-get search 40. Which of the following will delete all of a package’s files? apt-get remove apt-get delete apt-get purge apt-get trash 41. Which of the following commands should be executed before installing a package? apt-get upgrade apt-get update apt-get install apt-get search 42. Users can update their own passwords. True or False? True False 43. The root user can change the password of any user. True or False? True False 44. Which option can be used to view status information about the current user’s password? -i -I -S -s