Linux+ Practice Quiz: XK0-004 Quiz 4

1. Which component is responsible for loading and executing the initial process?

• OS kernel
• initrd image
• BIOS
• primary boot loader

2. You just got a new input device named GamePad that you want to use on your computer. You don't think that the GamePad driver (the kernel module) was compiled into the kernel of your Linux distribution.

Which of the following commands will install the driver (gamepad.ko) into the kernel? (Choose TWO)

• depmod gamepad
• insmod gamepad
• modprobe gamepad
• insmod gamepad.ko

3. Your ext3 file system has experienced a significant amount of corruption. To examine the file system, you want to use the debugfs utility.

Which of the following debugfs options should you use to examine the file system?

• -c
• -f
• -w
• -V

4. Anna, a system administrator, created a new virtual machine that she would like to provision on additional hypervisors. Which of the following will provide a VM template that is open and can be used by hypervisors from different vendors?

• OVF
• .vmx
• .vmdk
• XEN

5. You want the cronprocess to run a particular application only on Friday and Saturday of each week. Which entry should you place in the fifth field of the crontab entry?

• 5,6
• Saturday,Sunday
• Sat+Sun
• 5+6

6. Which file should you edit to schedule a task to execute every week on Saturday?

• /etc/cron.monthly
• /etc/cron.weekly
• /etc/cron.daily
• /etc/cron.hourly

7. The root user attempted to log in to the system using tty and was denied access. The pam_securetty module uses a configuration file to determine which virtual terminals (tty#) that root is allowed to log in from. Which of the following files would the root user check to see which terminals are permitted?

• /etc/pam.d/password-auth
• pam_ldap.conf
• /etc/securetty
• pam_securetty

8. Which of the following is the associated device file for that terminal?

• /dev/null
• /dev/port
• /dev/tty5
• /dev/lp0

9. Which of the following statements is true about the command myscript < mydata.txt?

• myscript receives input (stdin) from mydata.txt.
• The output of myscript is appended to mydata.txt.
• myscript outputs (stdout) data received from the mydata.txt input (stdin).
• The output of mydata.txt is stored in myscript, where it is processed.

10. Given the command ls > myfiles which of the following describes the results?

• The stdout of the ls command is redirected to the myfiles file.
• The ls command takes the stdin from myfiles and displays the results.
• The ls command outputs the contents of the myfiles file.
• The ls command lists only the files that match those stored in the myfiles file.