IST-190 Written Final Exam Review Questions With Correct Answers

IST-190 Written Final Exam Review
Questions With Correct Answers


What is the name of the Linux time zone that Greenville Tech is located in? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-America/New_York|




The highest possible address on a subnet (host part is all ones in binary) is used
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for broadcast messages in IPv4 and is called the
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____________________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-broadcast address | | | |




___________(GNU Bourne-Again shell) is the default shell for users in Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux. It is an improved version of the Bourne Shell (sh). - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-bash


bash is an acronym for _____________________________. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Bourne Again Shell | |




A _______________________ is a text-based interface which can be used to
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input instructions to a computer system. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-command line
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_____________________________ is a computer programmer and free-software | | | | | | |


advocate who launched the Free Software Movement by announcing to develop
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the GNU operating system. He also founded the Free Software Foundation. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Richard Stallman| |

,_________________ was the main developer of the Linux kernel (used by Linux | | | | | | | | | | | |


distributions and other operating systems like Android). He also created the Git
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source control management system. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Linus Torvalds
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_____________________________ is software with source code that anyone can | | | | | | | | |


use, study, modify, and share. It promotes collaboration, sharing, transparency,
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and rapid innovation because it encourages people beyond the original
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developers to make modifications and improvements to the software and to
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share it with others. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Open source software
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The Red Hat Support Tool utility, __________________________, provides a text-
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based interface that allows you to search Knowledgebase articles and to file
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support cases on the Customer Portal from your system's command line. The tool
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does not have a graphical interface and, because it interacts with the Red Hat
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Customer Portal, it requires internet access. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-redhat-
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support-tool


The ______________________________________ is a section that provides
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information about high-profile security issues, access to the Red Hat CVE
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Database, the Security channel of the Red Hat Blog, and resources about Red
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Hat's security response process and how we rate issues and resolve them. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Red Hat Product Security Center
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All files on a Linux system are stored on file systems which are organized into a
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single inverted tree of directories, known as a
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_______________________________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-file system | | | | |


hierarchy

, Define this Linux meta-character as it applies to file globbing:
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[[:alpha:]] - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Any alphabetic character.
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__________________________________ grants the user the right to run the | | | | | | | | |


program and also to view, modify, compile, and redistribute the source royalty-
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free to others. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Open source software
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________________ is a community project that produces and releases a | | | | | | | | | |


complete, free, Linux-based operating system. It focuses on innovation and
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excellence, not long-term stability. New major updates happen every six months,
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and they can bring significant changes. It only supports releases for about a year
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(two major updates), which makes it less suitable for enterprise use. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Fedora


_______________ is a community-driven Linux distribution derived from much of | | | | | | | | |


the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux codebase and other sources. It is free
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of charge, easy to install, and is staffed and supported by an active user
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community of volunteers that operates independently of Red Hat. It is self-
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support only and generally not certified by software vendors like SAS, SAP, and
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Oracle as a supported platform. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-CentOS
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______________________________________ is Red Hat's enterprise-ready | | | | |


commercially-supported Linux distribution. It is the leading platform for open | | | | | | | | | |


source computing, not just a collection of mature open source projects. It is
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extensively tested, with a large supporting ecosystem of partners, hardware and
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software certifications, consulting services, training, and multiyear support and
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maintenance guarantees. It uses a subscription-based distribution model.
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Because this is open source software, this is not a license fee. Instead, it pays for
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support, maintenance, updates, security patches, access to the Knowledgebase
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