CIT 225 Linux Final Exam
1. One of the jobs of the kernel is to: Manage the system's resources
2. Unix is: An operating system A trademark
3. Linux is written in: C
4. Source code refers to: A human readable version of computer software
5. What is the standard option to provide a command line program to view its documentation: -help
6. The command man -k is the same as the command apropos: False
7. The whatis command is the same as man -w: False
8. the directory where additonal documentation for software packages most likely can be found is:
/usr/share/doc
9. Hidden files are files that begin with what character?: a period (.)
10.What option for the ls command will display all files, including hidden files: -a
11.The top level directory on a Linux system is represented as: /
12. Is the following path absolute or relative?
/etc/ppp: Absolute
13. Is the following path absolute or relative?
sysadmin/Documents: Relative
14.Compression on a file works by: Removing redundant information
15.In general, for which of the following would you want to use lossless compression: A log file
16.Lossy Compression:: Sacrifices some quality usually results better
compression than lossless
is often used with images
17.You type gzip myfile.tar. what happens: myfile.tar.gz holds a compressed version of myfile.tar
myfile.tar is removed
18. error message generated by commands are sent where by default?: -
STDERR
19.A successful command will print output to STDOUT: True
20.Which of the following commands will direct error messages to the file, error.log?: Is /root 2> error.log
21.A pipe allows you to: Send the output of one command to another
22.Channel 2 is: STDERR
23.The echo command: Is used to output text to the console
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1. One of the jobs of the kernel is to: Manage the system's resources
2. Unix is: An operating system A trademark
3. Linux is written in: C
4. Source code refers to: A human readable version of computer software
5. What is the standard option to provide a command line program to view its documentation: -help
6. The command man -k is the same as the command apropos: False
7. The whatis command is the same as man -w: False
8. the directory where additonal documentation for software packages most likely can be found is:
/usr/share/doc
9. Hidden files are files that begin with what character?: a period (.)
10.What option for the ls command will display all files, including hidden files: -a
11.The top level directory on a Linux system is represented as: /
12. Is the following path absolute or relative?
/etc/ppp: Absolute
13. Is the following path absolute or relative?
sysadmin/Documents: Relative
14.Compression on a file works by: Removing redundant information
15.In general, for which of the following would you want to use lossless compression: A log file
16.Lossy Compression:: Sacrifices some quality usually results better
compression than lossless
is often used with images
17.You type gzip myfile.tar. what happens: myfile.tar.gz holds a compressed version of myfile.tar
myfile.tar is removed
18. error message generated by commands are sent where by default?: -
STDERR
19.A successful command will print output to STDOUT: True
20.Which of the following commands will direct error messages to the file, error.log?: Is /root 2> error.log
21.A pipe allows you to: Send the output of one command to another
22.Channel 2 is: STDERR
23.The echo command: Is used to output text to the console
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