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Question 1 Selectable Answer

You want to preview where the package file, apache-xml.i386.rpm, will install its files before installing it.
What command do you issue?

A. rpm -qp apache-xml.i386.rpm
B. rpm -qv apache-xml.i386.rpm
C. rpm -ql apache-xml.i386.rpm
D. rpm -qpl apache-xml.i386.rpm

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Question 2 Selectable Answer

What is contained on the EFI System Partition?

A. The Linux root file system
B. The first stage boot loader
C. The default swap space file
D. The Linux default shell binaries
E. The user home directories

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Question 3 Selectable Answer

Which of the following signals is sent to a process when the key combination CTRL+C is pressed on the keyboard?

A. SIGTERM
B. SIGINT
C. SIGSTOP
D. SIGKILL

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Question 4 Selectable Answer

Which of the following commands will display the inode usage of each mounted filesystem?

A. du Ci
B. df Ci
C. lsfs Ci
D. printfs Ci

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Question 5 Selectable Answer

When running the command
sed -e "s/a/b/" /tmp/file >/tmp/file
While /tmp/file contains data, why is /tmp/file empty afterwards?

A. The file order is incorrect. The destination file must be mentioned before the command to ensure redirection.
B. The command sed did not match anything in that file therefore the output is empty.
C. When the shell establishes the redirection it overwrites the target file before the redirected command starts and opens itfor reading.
D. Redirection for shell commands do not work using the > character. It only works using the | character instead.

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Question 6 Selectable Answer

Which of the following properties of a Linux system should be changed when a virtual machine is cloned? (Choose two.)

A. The partitioning scheme
B. The file system
C. The D-Bus Machine ID
D. The permissions of /root/
E. The SSH host keys

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Question 7 Selectable Answer

Which of the following command sets the Bash variable named TEST with the content FOO?

A. set TEST="FOO"
B. TEST = "FOO"
C. var TEST="FOO"
D. TEST="FOO"

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Question 8 Selectable Answer

How can the list of files that would be installed by the RPM package file apache-xml.rpm be previewed?

A. rpm Cqp apache-xml.rpm
B. rpm Cqv apache-xml.rpm
C. rpm Cql apache-xml.rpm
D. rpm Cqpl apache-xml.rpm

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Question 9 Selectable Answer

Which of the following commands creates an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sdb1? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

A. /sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
B. /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
C. /sbin/mkfs -c ext3 /dev/sdb1
D. /sbin/mke3fs -j /dev/sdb1

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Question 10 Selectable Answer

The command dbmaint & was used to run dbmaint in the background. However, dbmaint is terminated after logging out of the system.
Which alternative dbmaint invocation lets dbmaint continue to run even when the user running the program logs out?

A. job Cb dmaint
B. dbmaint &>/dev/pts/null
C. nohup dbmaint &
D. bg dbmaint
E. wait dbmaint

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Question 11 Selectable Answer

Which of the following commands displays the contents of a gzip compressed tar archive?

A. gzip archive.tgz | tar xvf
B. tar ztf archive.tgz
C. gzip -d archive.tgz | tar tvf
D. tar cf archive.tgz

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Question 12 Selectable Answer

In compliance with the FHS, in which of the following directories are documentation files found?

A. /usr/share/documentation
B. /usr/local/share/documentation
C. /var/share/doc
D. /usr/share/doc
E. /etc/share/doc

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Question 13 Selectable Answer

Which of the following commands lists the dependencies of a given dpkg package?

A. apt-cache depends-onpackage
B. apt-cache dependencies package
C. apt-cache depends package
D. apt-cache requires package

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Question 14 Selectable Answer

What is the difference between the i and a commands of the vi editor?

A. i (interactive) requires the user to explicitly switch between vi modes whereas a (automatic) switches modesautomatically.
B. i (insert) inserts text before the current cursor position whereas a (append) inserts text after the cursor.
C. i (independent rows) starts every new line at the first character whereas a (aligned rows) keeps the indentation of the previous line.
D. i (interrupt) temporarily suspends editing of a file to the background whereas a (abort) terminates editing.

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Question 15 Selectable Answer

What is true regarding UEFI firmware? (Choose two.)

A. It can read and interpret partition tables
B. It can use and read certain file systems
C. It stores its entire configuration on the /boot/ partition
D. It is stored in a special area within the GPT metadata
E. It is loaded from a fixed boot disk position

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