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Q. Which menuconfig/xconfig menu has the disk configuration options?

  • (A) General setup
  • (B) SCSI devices
  • (C) File systems
  • (D) Block devices

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Q. Which script is executed when a nonlogin bash shell is started?

  • (A) .cshrc
  • (B) /etc/profile
  • (C) .bash_nologin
  • (D) .bashrc

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Q. Which command inserts text into vi at the current cursor location?

  • (A) i
  • (B) T
  • (C) f
  • (D) a

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Q. Where are user crontab files stored?

  • (A) ~/.cron
  • (B) /var/spool/cron
  • (C) /var/spool
  • (D) /etc/crontab

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Q. The proper way to tar files without compressing is:

  • (A) tar -cvzf backup.tar /home/Jason
  • (B) tar -zvf backup.gz /home/Jason
  • (C) tar -cvf backup.tar /home/Jason
  • (D) none of these

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Q. To limit the amount of space core dumps may occupy use:

  • (A) ~/.ulimit
  • (B) quota
  • (C) ulimit
  • (D) climit

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Q. Which type of backup is used to back up only the files that have changed since the last full backup?

  • (A) Differential
  • (B) Incremental
  • (C) Partial
  • (D) Full

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Q. Which mode of cpio is used to copy files from an archive file?

  • (A) Copy-out
  • (B) Copy-in
  • (C) Copy-pass
  • (D) none of these

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Q. The default location of the system log containing login times for users is:

  • (A) var/log/login
  • (B) /var/log/lastlog
  • (C) /var/log/users
  • (D) /var/log/utmp

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Q. Which option on the cron command is used to display entries in the current crontab?

  • (A) -e
  • (B) -r
  • (C) -l
  • (D) -s

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