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Q. You have recently installed a new disk drive in your Linux system. You wish to store a directory containing many data files used within your company on the new disk drive. Which of the following can be used so the change is invisible to users of the system?

  • (A) soft links
  • (B) hard links
  • (C) mv
  • (D) cp

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Q. Which command and options are used to delete a user’s account and home directory?

  • (A) usermod -e
  • (B) passwd -e
  • (C) usermod -f
  • (D) userdel -r

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Q. What command can be used to locate specific text within a file?

  • (A) where
  • (B) find
  • (C) locate
  • (D) grep

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Q. Which of the following can be used to suspend a process running in the foreground?

  • (A) Ctrl+Z
  • (B) bg
  • (C) fg
  • (D) &

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Q. Where might you find instructions on installing and configuring a Winmodem on a Linux system?

  • (A) dmesg
  • (B) /usr/doc
  • (C) HOWTOs
  • (D) man pages

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Q. Which of the following would be used to run a script called mozilla_update as a background process?

  • (A) mozilla_process -bg
  • (B) `mozilla_process`
  • (C) mozilla_update&
  • (D) bg mozilla_update

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Q. Which environment variable would be used to specify the location of files that you wish to run without specifying an absolute path?

  • (A) TERM
  • (B) PATH
  • (C) PS1
  • (D) HOME

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Q. When booting your system you notice that your sound module failed to load; however, the error message scrolled by too quickly. What command can you use to view the errors?

  • (A) lilo
  • (B) errors
  • (C) messages
  • (D) dmesg

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Q. What command is used to create a new archived file using compression?

  • (A) bzip2 -tbz
  • (B) compress -tf
  • (C) tar -cfz
  • (D) gzip -t

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Q. Which command is used to view processes running in the background?

  • (A) jobs
  • (B) bg
  • (C) ls
  • (D) dmesg

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