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Q. Which command would you use to copy the /Documents directory and all subdirectories from the current system to the remote system newman?

  • (A) scp -R root@newman:/ /Documents
  • (B) rcp -R /documents newman:/
  • (C) scp -r /Documents root@newman:/
  • (D) cp -R /Documents newman:/

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Q. Which command would update your Debian system to the latest version of all installed packages?

  • (A) apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
  • (B) apt-get upgrade ; apt-get update
  • (C) apt-get refresh
  • (D) apt get update ; apt get upgrade

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Q. Which of the following directories should be on their own partition?
A. /usr
B. /boot
C. /home
D. /tmp

  • (A) A and C
  • (B) A and B
  • (C) A, B and C
  • (D) A, B, C and D

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Q. Which command(s) would be used to display which kernel packages are installed on your system?

  • (A) dpkg -l | grep kernel
  • (B) dpkg -l kernel
  • (C) rpm -qa | grep kernel
  • (D) Both A and C

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Q. To use the X11 graphical interface to make a kernel configuration, you would use which of the following?

  • (A) make tclconfig
  • (B) make menuconfig
  • (C) make xconfig
  • (D) make gconfig

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Q. If you want to remotely display an X Window application to another system, which option would you use?

  • (A) -display
  • (B) -connect
  • (C) -remote
  • (D) -xhost

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Q. You have a Red Hat system that currently boots in text mode. Which file do you need to modify to have it boot in GUI mode?

  • (A) /etc/xdm
  • (B) /etc/inittab
  • (C) /etc/init.conf
  • (D) /etc/runlevel

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Q. The first line of a shell script should be which of the following?

  • (A) #!/bin/bash
  • (B) #!/usr/bin/bash
  • (C) #!bash
  • (D) !#/bin/sh

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Q. When examining the network logs for the firewall, you notice a lot of connection attempts to port 110. Which service may your remote users be trying to use?

  • (A) SMTP
  • (B) POP3
  • (C) DNS
  • (D) IMAP

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Q. You need to access a resource named Documents shared by the NFS server bigserver. Which command would you use?

  • (A) nfsmount bigserver:Documents /mnt/docs
  • (B) mount -t nfs bigserver:/Documents /mnt/docs
  • (C) mount bigserver:Documents /mnt/docs
  • (D) mount -t nfs //bigserver/Documents /mnt/docs

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