201-450 Exam Questions
269 real 201-450 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 6.
- Question #1204 Filesystem and Devices
What command must be used to create an ext3 file-system?
ext3mke2fsfilesystem creationmkfs - Question #2205 Advanced Storage Device Administration
What needs to be done to enable 32 bit I/O transfer mode for (E)IDE disks, on a system running a 2.4 series Linux kernel?
hdparmIDE diskI/O transfer modekernel 2.4 - Question #3206 Networking Configuration
DNSSEC is used for?
DNSSECDNS securitycryptographic authenticationDNS zones - Question #4202 Linux Kernel
Which of these commands allows you to use shared libraries that are in /usr/local/lib?
ldconfigshared librarieslibrary pathdynamic linking - Question #5203 System Startup
Which TWO archiving formats are used to create an initramfs image?
initramfscpiogzipboot image - Question #6202 Linux Kernel
After unpacking the source code for a Linux kernel, what is the first make command that should be run which will delete any current configuration and all generated files? This comm...
kernel compilationmake distcleankernel sourcebuild system - Question #7202 Linux Kernel
Which script, in the linux/scripts directory, can be used to add up grades or updated code to the 2.6.xx kernel source code?
kernel patchespatch-kernel scriptkernel updatekernel source - Question #8202 Linux Kernel
What tool can you use to print shared library dependencies?
lddshared librarieslibrary dependenciesdynamic linking - Question #9205 Advanced Storage Device Administration
Which of the following commands will copy one disk partition /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3?
dd commandpartition copyblock devicedata transfer - Question #10202 Linux Kernel
After unpacking source code, what file is used by configure to create a final Makefile?
autoconfMakefile.inconfigure scriptbuild system - Question #11202 Linux Kernel
User Joseph has successfully extracted and compiled a program from source code. Installing the binaries produces errors. What is the most likely reason?
make installroot privilegessource compilationbinary installation - Question #12202 Linux Kernel
You have finished updating and resolving dependencies for some source code. What command should you run before recompiling the code into binary form?
make cleansource compilationbuild systemrecompile - Question #13206 Networking Configuration
How can you manually add an entry to your system's ARP cache?
ARP cachearp commandstatic ARP entryMAC address - Question #14206 Networking Configuration
You find that a host (192.168.1.4) being used on one of your client's networks has been compromised with a backdoor program listening on port 31337. Your client requests a list of...
tcpdumppacket capturenetwork monitoringport filtering - Question #15204 Filesystem and Devices
Which tool can be used to control the runtime behavior of udev?
udevudevadmdevice managementruntime control - Question #16205 Advanced Storage Device Administration
Which of the following entries are NOT valid in /etc/raidtab?
RAIDraidtabmd RAIDstorage configuration - Question #17202 Linux Kernel
A pre-compiled module has been moved to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>, but 'modprobe -a <module-name>' fails to load it. What needs to be done to enable usage of this module?
depmodkernel modulesmodprobemodule dependencies - Question #18206 Networking Configuration
Which of the following commands should be used in a bash script that needs a variable containing the IP address of the eth0 interface? The output for the command ifconfig eth0 is s...
bash scriptingifconfigawk text processingIP extraction - Question #19204 Filesystem and Devices
You have elected to use the automounter and the autofs script. Your /etc/auto.master file contains the following: /home /etc/auto.home /project /etc/auto.project /data yp:data.map...
autofsautomounterauto.masterNFS - Question #20202 Linux Kernel
In order to find all library dependencies of /usr/bin/foo, which of the following statement is true?
lddshared librarieslibrary dependenciesdynamic linking - Question #21Filesystem and Devices
How can DMA be enabled for the device /dev/hda?
DMAhdparmIDE devicesdisk performance - Question #22Linux Kernel
To restore the kernel source to the previous, unpatched, version, which of the following commands could be used?
kernel patchingpatch commandreverse patchpatch -R - Question #23Linux Kernel
If the current directory is /root and the kernel source is located in /usr/src/linux, which of the following commands should be used to apply the patch /tmp/foopatch?
kernel patchingpatch -p1patch levelssource tree - Question #24Linux Kernel
A 2.6.9-ac1 kernel would be
kernel versioningAC patcheskernel naming conventionstable kernel - Question #25Filesystem and Devices
What command should be used to find out what PCI devices can be seen, without querying the kernel?
lspciPCI deviceshardware detectionbus-centric view - Question #26Linux Kernel
Considering that a 2.4 series Linux kernel is being used, which kernel module must be loaded to enable CD burning with an IDE CD writer?
kernel moduleside-scsiSCSI emulationCD burning - Question #27Filesystem and Devices
What command must be used to create an ext3 filesystem?
ext3mke2fsfilesystem creationmkfs - Question #28System Startup
The Linux kernel is loaded successfully by the boot loader. However, straight after the kernel mounts the root filesystem, the boot process stops and an error message regarding ini...
initboot troubleshootingkernel boot parameterssingle user mode - Question #29System Startup
A machine is running in single user mode and, as such, not all file-systems are accessible. What command must be run to make all of the other file-systems listed in /etc/fstab acce...
mount -afstabsingle user modefilesystem mounting - Question #30Filesystem and Devices
What command is used to force a file-system check, when rebooting?
fsckfilesystem checkshutdown flagsforced check on reboot - Question #31Filesystem and Devices
What command can be used on an existing (formatted) partition, to configure the interval between disk checks when mounting partitions?
tune2fsmount intervalext2/ext3 tuningdisk check interval - Question #32Networking Configuration
Performing a DNS lookup with dig results in this answer: ;; question SECTION: ;5.123.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 5.123.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 600 IN PTR linuserv...
DNSPTR recordsreverse lookup zoneFQDN trailing dot - Question #33Networking Configuration
Which of the following commands will securely copy the directory ./fyf/ to /var/tmp/ on the remote host deltaur using the remote user account kevin?
rsyncSSHsecure remote copyrsync syntax - Question #34Filesystem and Devices
Journalling doesn't appear to be working on an ext3 file-system. When booting, the following line appears: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only. What could be causing the...
ext3 journalingkernel ext3 supportfstab filesystem typeVFS mount - Question #35Linux Kernel
Your routing configuration relies on eth0 being a 3com card that requires the 3c59x module. What line must be added to modules configuration file, to ensure that eth0 always uses t...
module aliasmodules.confnetwork moduleeth0 binding - Question #36System Maintenance
What backup arrangement should be used for an intranet web server the contents of which is updated fairly regularly by different staff?
backup strategyincremental backupfull backupoffsite backup - Question #37System Startup
During which stage of the boot process would this message be seen? Ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
boot stageshardware initializationIDE DMAkernel boot messages - Question #38System Startup
Which of the following commands can be used to access the content of a ramdisk file (/boot/initrd) used by the kernel at boot time?
initrdramdiskloop mountgunzip initrd - Question #39Networking Configuration
A BIND server should be upgraded to use TSIG. Which configuration parameters should be added, if the server should use the algorithm hmac-md5 and the key skrKc4DoTzi/tAkllPi7JZA==...
BINDTSIGHMAC-MD5DNS security - Question #40Networking Configuration
Which of the following sentences is true for the shown BIND9 configuration? options { directory "/var/named"; allow-query { any; }; allow-recursion {127.0.0.1; 10.0.0.0/24; }; forw...
BIND9DNS forwardingforward firstallow-recursion - Question #41Networking Configuration
What is a significant difference between host and zone keys generated by dnssec-keygen?
DNSSECdnssec-keygenzone keyshost keys - Question #42Capacity Planning
A system is running out of swap space. To initialise 5GB of additional swap space, which combination of commands should be used?
swap spacedd commandmkswapswapon - Question #43System Maintenance
Hundreds of people log in to a server from remote locations per day. Which of the following commands show remote SSH, FTP & telnet sessions for a particular day?
log analysisgrepegrepdate filtering - Question #44Filesystem and Devices
What command is used to mount a floppy disk image under /mnt/floppy?
mountloop devicefloppy imagefilesystem - Question #45Networking Configuration
What information can be found in the log file specified by the status parameter in OpenVPN's server.conf? (Select TWO correct answers)
OpenVPNserver.confstatus logVPN monitoring - Question #46System Startup
After changing the default runlevel in the init configuration file, the system boots in a different than the intended runlevel. Where else could be this different runlevel be defin...
runlevelbootloaderGRUBinit configuration - Question #47Networking Configuration
A BIND server should never answer queries from certain networks or hosts. Which configuration directive could be used for this purpose?
BINDnamed.confblackholeaccess control - Question #48Networking Configuration
What is the purpose of a PTR record?
DNSPTR recordreverse DNSIP resolution - Question #49Networking Configuration
What directive can be used in named.conf to restrict zone transfers to the 192.168.1.0/24 network?
BINDnamed.confzone transferallow-transfer - Question #50Networking Configuration
To securely use dynamic DNS updates, the use of TSIG is recommended. Which TWO statements about TSIG are true?
TSIGdynamic DNSBIND securitytime synchronization