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Fundamentals of System Administration

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geared towards excellent research, active industry cooperation and sustainable community
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NAME : DATE:

Encircle the correct answer:

1. Which of the following introduced the flavor of UNIX named Solaris?

A. HP

B. IBM

C. Digital Equipment Corp

D. Sun Microsystems

2. Which of the following is not a variant of UNIX?

A. Solaris

B. AIX

C. IRIX

D. AS400

3. In which language are the system calls implemented in Unix?

A. C

B. C++

C. Assembly Language
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D. Fortran

4. Which of the following process is given the name “super daemon” in Unix?

A. sysinit

B. init

C. inetd

D. proc

5. What is the name of the method that kernel uses to minimize the frequency of disk access by
maintaining a pool of internal data buffer to increase the response time and throughput?

A. Pooling

B. Spooling

C. Buffer cache

D. Swapping

6. What does wtmp and utmp files maintain?

A. Temporary system data

B. User login-logout log

C. The user’s command execution log

D. The user’s su and sudo attempts

7. What approach does an application use to communicate with the kernel?

A. System Calls

B. C Programs

C. Shell Script

D. Shell
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8. What is the purpose of <dmesg> command?

A. Shows user login logoff attempts

B. Shows the Syslog file for info messages

C. kernel log messages

D. Shows the daemon log messages

9. What does the following command <mknod myfifo b 4 16> do?

A. Will create a block device if user is root

B. Will create a block device for all users

C. Will create a FIFO if user is not root

D. None of the above

10. Which of the following commands is used to set terminal IO characteristics?

A. tty

B. ctty

C. ptty

D. stty

11. Which of the following option of ls command can be used to view file inode number?

A. –l

B. -o

C. –a

D. –i

12. Which of the following actions is performed by <find / -name ‘*’> command?
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A. List all files and directories recursively starting from /

B. Print a file with name * in /

C. List all files in / directory

D. List all files and directories in / directory

13. Which of the following commands is used to display the octal value of the text?

A. octal

B. text_oct

C. oct

D. od

14. Which of the following command is used to view the contents of a compressed text file?

A. cat

B. type

C. zcat

D. print

15. What is the command to change the group ownership of a file?

A. cgrp

B. chgrp

C. change

D. group

16. Which command is used to extract the intermediate result in a pipeline?

A. tee

B. extract

C. exec
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D. none of the above

17. Which command is used to extract a column from a text file?

A. paste

B. get

C. cut

D. tar

18. Which of the following command display the disk consumption of any directory?

A. du

B. ds

C. dd

D. dds

19. Which command is used to take the backup in Unix?

A. backup

B. cpio

C. zip

D. gzip

20. Which command creates an empty file if it does not exist?

A. cat

B. touch

C. ed

D. read

21. Which option of rm command is used to remove a directory including all its subdirectories?

A. –b
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B. –o

C. –p

D. –r

22. Which command is used to identify the file type?

A. Type

B. File

C. Finfo

D. Info

23. What is the command to determine the path of an executable file?

A. which

B. where

C. wexec

D. what

24. What is the command to count the number of characters in a file?

A. grep

B. wc

C. count

D. cut

25. Which of the following commands displays one page of output at a time?

A. less

B. sed

C. pause

D. grep

26. Which of the following commands displays user id in its output?

A. ls

B. help
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C. date

D. ls –l

27. Which of the following commands will display all the files in your current directory and its
subdirectories including the hidden files?

A. ls –aR

B. ls –a

C. ls –R

D. ls –l

28. Which of the following commands can be used to change default permissions for files and directories
at the time of creation?

A. chmod

B. chown

C. umask

D. chgrp

29. Which of the following options when used with tar command displays the list of files in a tape
archive format?

A. cvf

B. tvf

C. xvf

D. ovf

30. Which of the following command displays the current date in the format dd/mm/yyyy?

A. date +%d/%m/%Y

B. date +”%d/%m/%Y”
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C. date +/%d/%m/20%y

D. date +”/%d/%m/20%y”

Part II.

1. How can Lori accommodate the employee with special visual needs with Windows 7?
2. What can Lori do to provide immediate weather forecasts?
3. What can Lori do to help optimize the five upgraded workstations without adding more
hardware upgrades?
4. What is the easiest method to determine the issues that Aneta may run into if she proceeds
with the upgrade?
5. How can Aneta copy the existing data from the systems running Windows XP to the upgraded
systems running Windows 7?
6. What could Christian use to run applications that run only on Windows XP?
7. What technology can Christian consider as a potential solution to the board’s request to reduce
the number of PC rollouts?
8. If April chooses Group Policy to manage her software, how will she disable it for the users who
shouldn’t have access to the software?
9. What is the best way for April to update the software?
10. What does UAC help prevent?

Part III.

Circle T if the statement is true or F if the statement is false.

T F 1. A collection is two or more trees.

T F 2. A site and domain controllers are the physical aspects of the network.

T F 3. A member server is running Active Directory domain services.

T F 4. Higher domain and forest functional levels will enhance the functionality of Active

Directory.

T F 5. Active Directory is closely tied to DNS.

T F 6. When configuring IDE drives, you must configure a SCSI ID and terminate both ends of the chain.

T F 7. Two volume types used by Windows Server 2008 are MBR and GPT.

T F 8. NTFS is the preferred file system used by Windows Server 2008.

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T F 9. Basic disks can be resized without rebooting.

T F 10. GUID partition types can support up to 18 EB drives.