IST-190 Written Final Exam Review Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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IST-190 Written Final Exam Review
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers

Question:What is the name of the Linux time zone that Greenville Tech is
located in?


Ans: America/New_York


Question: The highest possible address on a subnet (host part is all ones in
binary) is used for broadcast messages in IPv4 and is called the
____________________________.


Ans: broadcast address


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


Ans: bash


Question: bash is an acronym for _____________________________.


Ans: Bourne Again Shell


Question: A _______________________ is a text-based interface which can be
used to input instructions to a computer system.

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Ans: command line


Question: _____________________________ is a computer programmer and
free-software advocate who launched the Free Software Movement by
announcing to develop the GNU operating system. He also founded the Free
Software Foundation.


Ans: Richard Stallman


Question: _________________ was the main developer of the Linux kernel
(used by Linux distributions and other operating systems like Android). He
also created the Git source control management system.


Ans: Linus Torvalds


Question: _____________________________ is software with source code
that anyone can use, study, modify, and share. It promotes collaboration,
sharing, transparency, and rapid innovation because it encourages people
beyond the original developers to make modifications and improvements to
the software and to share it with others.


Ans: Open source software


Question: The Red Hat Support Tool utility, __________________________,
provides a text-based interface that allows you to search Knowledgebase
articles and to file support cases on the Customer Portal from your system's
command line. The tool does not have a graphical interface and, because it
interacts with the Red Hat Customer Portal, it requires internet access.

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Ans: redhat-support-tool


Question: The ______________________________________ is a section that
provides information about high-profile security issues, access to the Red Hat
CVE Database, the Security channel of the Red Hat Blog, and resources about
Red Hat's security response process and how we rate issues and resolve them.


Ans: Red Hat Product Security Center


Question: All files on a Linux system are stored on file systems which are
organized into a single inverted tree of directories, known as a
_______________________________.


Ans: file system hierarchy


Question: Define this Linux meta-character as it applies to file globbing:
[[:alpha:]]


Ans: Any alphabetic character.


Question: __________________________________ grants the user the right
to run the program and also to view, modify, compile, and redistribute the
source royalty-free to others.


Ans: Open source software


Question: ________________ is a community project that produces and
releases a complete, free, Linux-based operating system. It focuses on

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innovation and excellence, not long-term stability. New major updates
happen every six months, and they can bring significant changes. It only
supports releases for about a year (two major updates), which makes it less
suitable for enterprise use.


Ans: Fedora


Question: _______________ is a community-driven Linux distribution derived
from much of the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux codebase and other
sources. It is free of charge, easy to install, and is staffed and supported by an
active user community of volunteers that operates independently of Red Hat.
It is self-support only and generally not certified by software vendors like SAS,
SAP, and Oracle as a supported platform.


Ans: CentOS


Question: ______________________________________ 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 extensively tested, with a large supporting ecosystem of
partners, hardware and software certifications, consulting services, training,
and multiyear support and maintenance guarantees. It uses a subscription-
based distribution model. Because this is open source software, this is not a
license fee. Instead, it pays for support, maintenance, updates, security
patches, access to the Knowledgebase on the Red Hat Customer Portal,
certifications, and so on.