Linux+ Practice Quiz: XK0-005 Quiz 9

1. Your company uses both Linux desktops and Windows desktops. Which of the following server roles should you use to provide a central location for users of both operating systems to share files?

• Database
• Authentication server
• Proxy
• File servers

2. Which of the following is the primary role of a mail transfer agent (MTA)?

• Provide redundant online storage for the mail sever
• Transfer mail to a print server queue
• Control the bandwidth used by mail user agent (MUA)
• Store messages so they can be downloaded or send email to a destination MTA

3. What is another term used when referring to Linux services running under systemd?

• Target
• Unit
• Utility
• Daemon

4. You are working on a systemd-based Linux distribution. Which command can you use to manage the services and targets?

• initctl
• insserv
• telinit
• systemctl

5. Which of the following functions does the -d option perform when using the apt-get command to install a package?

• Package installation is simulated without an actual installation.
• Packages are downloaded to the system but not installed.
• All installed packages are upgraded to the latest versions with the information in /etc/apt/sources.list.
• The package database is checked for consistency and errors.

6. You have installed a package called mathpac with apt-get. After a system upgrade, the package is not working correctly.

Which of the following commands is the MOST correct method to get the package to work?

• apt-get update mathpac
• apt-get upgrade mathpac
• rpm -U mathpac
• apt-get dist-upgrade mathpac

7. You are the administrator of a small company. You need to create a new group for users in the sales department and want to name the group sales.

Which of the following commands will help you accomplish this task?

• groupadd -r sales
• groupadd sales
• addgroup sales
• addgroup -x sales

8. You need to modify the group membership for the cjensen user to add the staff group to his list of secondary group memberships. He needs to keep his existing secondary group memberships.

Which of the following commands will add cjensen to the staff group without removing them from the other groups?

• usermod -ag staff cjensen
• usermod -aG staff cjensen
• usermod -a staff cjensen
• usermod -G staff cjensen

9. While editing a script using gedit, you discover that you no longer have access to your current terminal session and need to check the values of some variables the script is using.

Which of the following commands will send the gedit process to the background so you can regain access to the current terminal?

• bg
• Ctrl+Alt+F2
• Ctrl+Z
• Ctrl+C

10. Which is the default signal sent to processes by the kill utility?

• -15
• -1
• -2
• -9