Linux+ Practice Quiz: LX0-104 Quiz 16

1. One of your users, Karen Scott, has recently married and is now Karen Jones. She has requested that her username be changed from kscott to kjones, but no other values change. Which of the following commands will accomplish this?

• usermod -u kjones kscott
• usermod -l kjones kscott
• usermod -l kscott kjones
• usermod -u kscott kjones

2. You have performed an audit and have found active accounts for employees who no longer work for the company. You want to disable those accounts. What command example will disable a user account?

• usermod -l joer
• usermod -L joer
• usermod -u joer
• usermod -d joer

3. Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of an X font server?

• X font servers were developed for client systems that were not powerful enough to handle font rendering.
• An X font server is the main component of the X Window System by managing input devices such as the mouse and keyboard, and it controls output to monitors and printers.
• An X font server controls the placement and appearance of windows on a Linux computer, such as moving, hiding, resizing, or closing them, as well as controlling what they display.
• An X font server controls the desktop features including desktop menus, screensavers, wallpapers, desktop icons, and taskbars.

4. You want to customize logging on your system. Which file would you configure to customize the logging?

• /etc/syslog.conf
• /var/log/syslog.conf
• /etc/sysconfig/syslog.conf
• /var/log/sysconfig

5. You want to implement remote logfile storage. This means you want one or more of your Linux systems to send all system messages to a remote server. Which description is the most correct?

• Edit the local /etc/syslog.conf file to point to a remote host for logging and set the -r flag when starting the logging daemon syslogd on the remote system.
• Edit the /etc/syslog.conf file to point to a remote host for logging.
• Remote logging of system messages is not supported in Linux.
• Set the -r flag when starting the syslogd logging daemon.

6. You want to change the information being recorded in the system logs. Which file would you edit to specify what you want to log?

• /etc/syslog.conf
• /logs/logfiles.conf
• /etc/logfiles.conf
• /var/syslogd.sh

7. Which directory holds most of the system log files?

• /syslog
• /proc
• /etc/log
• /var/log

8. What would be the outcome of the following command?

• The user jjones' home directory would be deleted, but the user account would still exist.
• The user account, jjones, would be deleted, but jjones' home directory would be left untouched.
• The user account, jjones, would be deleted along with jjones' home directory and all files owned by jjones.
• The user account, jjones, would be deleted along with jjones' home directory.

9. An employee named Bob Smith, with a user name of bsmith, has left the company. You have been instructed by your supervisor to delete his user account along with his home directory.

Which of the following commands would produce the required outcome? (Choose all that apply)

• rm -rf /home/bsmith
• userdel -r bsmith
• userdel -h bsmith
• userdel bsmith
• userdel bsmith

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

Which command below 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