Linux+ Practice Quiz: XK0-005 Quiz 10

1. Which of the following is the standard shell for MOST Linux computers?

• Korn
• Bourne shell
• C-shell
• Bourne again shell (bash)

2. You have just entered the apropos grep command at the command prompt. What can you expect to be displayed?

• The appropriate use of the grep command in your Linux system
• The syntax available for the grep command
• A one-line man page description for the grep command
• The apropos information in the grep command man pages

3. Which of the following Linux features lets you store a shortcut in memory or as part of the shell configuration file that runs a specific command?

• Alias
• Kernel
• Shell
• Background service

4. When creating a custom alias, how many commands can you add to the alias?

• 3 or more
• 2 or more
• 1
• 1 or more

5. Each time you present credentials to log in, you want a particular entry to be written to a log file. This action will only apply to yourself. You are using the bash shell.

Which of the following configuration files is the BEST to modify to enable this action?

• .profile
• .bashrc
• /etc/profile
• .sh

6. You are in the process of manually creating the partitions during a Linux installation.

Knowing that users will often require a lot of space to store their files, which of the following directories (or mount points) SHOULD be configured on its own partition?

• /home
• /var
• /usr
• /boot

7. Which of the following is a file image containing an exact copy of a Linux installation disc?

• Network installation
• Optical disc
• USB drive
• ISO

8. Which of the following commands verifies the entries in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files to ensure that they have the proper format and contain valid data?

• pwck
• pwpasswd
• ls
• pwconv

9. During installation, you must create a root user account for the system. Which of the following UID numbers is assigned to this account by default?

• 1
• 100
• 0
• 10

10. A user with an account name larry has just been terminated from the company. There is good reason to believe that the user will attempt to access and damage files in your system in the very near future.

Which of the following commands will disable or remove the user account from the system and remove his home directory?

• userdel -r larry
• userdel larry
• userdel -home larry
• userdel -h larry