117-101 Exam Questions
234 real 117-101 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 3 of 5.
- Question #139
What is the default action of the split command on an input file?
- Question #140
In the vi editor, which of the following commands will copy the current line into the vi buffer?
- Question #141
You are writing text in vi. Now you want to save your changes and exit. Which TWO sequence of inputs will accomplish this?
- Question #142
In the command foo < bar | foobar, which ONE of the following statements is correct?
- Question #143
What does the + symbol mean in the following grep regular expression: grep '^d[aei]\+d$' /usr/share/dict/words
- Question #144
Which option to the tee command will cause the output to be concatenated on the end of the output file instead of overwriting the existing file contents?
- Question #145
Which of the following shell redirections will write standard output and standard error output to a file named filename?
- Question #146
Which of the following commands will produce the following output: USERPID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT STARTTIME COMMAND root 1255 4.4 0.9 6071634824 tty7 Ss+ 09:25 19:04 /usr/bin/X...
- Question #147
While editing a file in vi, the file changes due to another process. Without exiting vi, how can the file be reopened for editing with the new content?
- Question #148
Which of the following explanations are valid reasons to run a command in the background of your shell?
- Question #149
Which of the following commands would display the lines containing capital letters form the file "turkey.txt"?
- Question #150
In Bash, inserting "1>&2" after a command redirects
- Question #151
Identify the proper device for the third partition, on the second hard disk, on the first IDE controller on a PC system.
- Question #152
What umask will set the file permissions on a newly created file to -rw-r--r-- (644)?
- Question #153
Which command will create an ext3 filesystem on /dev/hda2?
- Question #154
What is the proper option to put in /etc/fstab to enable group quotas for a particular parition?
- Question #155
Which utility would you use to change how often a filesystem check was performed over an EXT2 filesystem (without losing any data stored on that filesystem)?
- Question #156
To allow a regular user account to mount and unmount a filesystem (for instance, a cdrom or floppy), which option will need to be added to the corresponding line in /etc/fstab?
- Question #157
You have run out of disk space on a partition. Which of the following would be an easy way to move data to a new partition without reconfiguring the path to the data in existing ap...
- Question #158
What TWO permissions must a user have in order to run a shell script?
- Question #160
You are using quota on your system. How can you see disk quota details?
- Question #161
You are experimenting with a binary in /tmp/foo.d that expects its configuration file at /etc/foo.conf. You don't want to save it there, but use a symbolic link to /tmp/foo.d/foo.c...
- Question #162
Which of the following Linux filesystems pre-allocates a fixed number of inodes at the filesystem's make/creation time, and does NOT generate them as needed?
- Question #163
You have just added a CD-ROM drive (/dev/hdd) to your system and have added it to your fstab. Typically you can use which of the following commands to mount media in that drive to...
- Question #165
What does the command mount -a do?
- Question #166
What would the following line accomplish if run as root? chown -R bert /home/bert/*
- Question #167
Which one of the following programs will only find files that are in your PATH?
- Question #168
What does the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard enable? (Select TWO answers)
- Question #169
You want the default permissions for your files to be -rw-r----- . HOW must you set umask?
- Question #170
Which chown command will change the ownership to foo and the group to bar on a file named biglist?
- Question #171
Which of the following programs will only find files that are in your PATH?
- Question #172
Which option must be listed in /etc/fstab to activate user quotas automatically?
- Question #173
Which of the following commands makes /bin/foo executable by everyone but only writable by its owner?
- Question #174
You are having problems with a particular font and you want to see if its directory is included in XF86Config. Which section contains this information?
- Question #175
You have just set up the X Display Manager as your default display manager. What file should you edit to change the default background for it?
- Question #176
Which of the following lines from /etc/X11/XF86Config indicates what fonts can be found on a font server?
- Question #177
You are the system administrator for a consulting firm where several people use Linux as their desktop operating system. One of your users has installed a commercial publishing pro...
- Question #178
Which of the following programs is typically used to query installed debian packages? (Please select TWO that apply)
- Question #180
An installed package is broken. In order to go back to the previous version of the same package which RPM option should be used?
- Question #181
George is planning a partition scheme for a new Linux installation. Which THREE directories should he consider for separate partitions? (Select three)
- Question #184
All items are required to enable USB support on a Linux system EXCEPT.
- Question #185
You are running Linux 2.0.36 and you need to add a USB mouse to your system. Which of the following statements is true?
- Question #186
In order to save and restore your sound card's configuration between sessions, the ALSA sound system uses what program?
- Question #187
According to the File System Hierarchy Standard, the lost+found directory is used for:
- Question #188
The sticky bit is usually set on
- Question #189
You are looking for an executable file foo. Select the command that would search for foo within directories set in the shell variable, PATH.
- Question #190
What key combination is used to forcibly halt the X server in the event of the graphical session becoming unusable (e.g., desktop manager or full screen application hanging)?
- Question #191
You ran out of space and added a eighth disk to your SCSI-I system. When you try to start, the system no longer boots. What is most likely the cause of this problem?
- Question #192
Keyboards and mice are members of which class of USB devices?
- Question #193
Which of the following commands will print the current video settings to stdout in XF86Config "Modeline" format?