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Course Introduction
This course is designed to prepare students for obtaining industry-recognized Linux certifications such as CompTIA Linux+, LPIC-1, or Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA). It covers essential Linux concepts including system architecture, command-line operations, user and group management, permissions, package management, shell scripting, basic security, and networking. Through hands-on lab exercises, real-world scenarios, and practice exams, students will develop the practical skills and confidence needed to successfully attempt certification tests and effectively manage Linux-based systems in a professional environment.
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Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification 3rd Edition by Jason Eckert
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Linux
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Q1) Which of the following is the greatest expense for companies using Linux?
A) Software upgrades
B) Additional software
C) Hiring people to maintain the Linux system
D) Operating system cost
Answer: C
Q2) An organized collection of data that is arranged into tables of related information.
A)source code
B)software
C)proxy server
D)GNOME
E)clustering
F)package manager
G)firewall
H)fully qualified domain name
I)database
Answer: I
Q3) The ____________________ is the core component of the Linux operating system.
Answer: Linux kernel
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Chapter 2: Linux Installation and Usage
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Q1) The swap partition for Linux 2.4 kernels should be at least half the size of the physical RAM. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) To find all of the commands that have the word "list" in their name or description, you would type ____.
A) man -j list
B) man -k list
C) man -l list
D) man -m list
Answer: B
Q3) The command that displays the calendar for the current month is ____.
A) date
B) cal
C) w
D) id
Answer: B
Q4) To print the current date and time, type the command ____________________.
Answer: date
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Chapter 3: Exploring Linux Filesystems
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Q1) What does the cd command do? What happens if you use this command without an argument?
Answer: To change directories, you can issue the cd (change directory) command with an argument specifying the destination directory. If you do not specify a destination directory, the cd command returns you to your home directory.
Q2) List at least three differences between wildcard metacharacters and regular expressions.
Answer: 1. Wildcard metacharacters are interpreted by the shell, whereas regular expressions are interpreted by a text tool program.
2. Wildcard metacharacters match characters in filenames (or directory names) on a Linux filesystem, whereas regular expressions match characters within text files on a Linux filesystem.
3. Wildcard metacharacters typically have different definitions than regular expression metacharacters.
4. More regular expression metacharacters are available than wildcard metacharacters.
Q3) The file .file.dat is an example of a(n) ____________________ file. Answer: hidden
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Chapter 4: Linux Filesystem Management
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Q1) How does the execute permission apply to a directory?
Q2) The rmdir command automatically removes a directory and all of its subdirectories and files.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To create a hard link, you must use the ____ command.
A) ln
B) link
C) lnk
D) lk
Q4) The chgrp command takes ____ argument(s) at minimum.
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
Q5) The SGID allows regular users to execute a binary compiled program and become a member of the group that is attached to the file.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe hard and symbolic links. What is the difference between them?
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Chapter 5: Linux Filesystem Administration
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Q1) To create partitions after installation, you can use the ____ command.
A) format
B) formatdisk
C) fdisk
D) partition
Q2) You can edit the quotas for certain users by using the ____ command.
A) edquota
B) editquota
C) quota
D) repquota
Q3) To check a filesystem for errors, you can use the ____ command, which can check filesystems of many different types.
A) fcheck
B) fsc
C) fscheck
D) fsck
Q4) There can be multiple device files per device.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Each track on a hard disk is divided into ____________________ of information.
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Chapter 6: Advanced Installation
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Q1) A unique identifier for each device attached to any given node in a SCSI chain.
A)Network File System (NFS)
B)/root/install.log
C)disk striping
D)firmware RAID
E)Logical Unit Number (LUN)
F)iSCSI target
G)/root/install.log.syslog
H)segmentation fault
I)spanning
Q2) A computer connected to a remote hard disk via iSCSI is referred to as an iSCSI initiator.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A Fedora 13 CD installation requires ____ CDs.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) ten
Q4) What is System Rescue? Explain how you would activate this tool.
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Chapter 7: Working With the Bash Shell
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Q1) The normal output of a command.
A)hashpling
B)tee
C)environment variables
D)stdin
E)stderr
F)decision construct
G)shell scripts
H)stdout
I)file descriptors
Q2) The BASH shell assumes stdout in the absence of a numeric file descriptor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The file descriptor stderr is represented by the number ____.
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Q4) What are shell scripts? Why and how are they executed?
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Chapter 8: System Initialization and X Windows
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Q1) List and describe the seven Linux runlevels. Mention the common name of each.
Q2) GRUB must be reinstalled after editing its configuration file.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To see the current runlevel of the system and the previous runlevel (if runlevels have been changed since system startup), you can use the runlevel command.
A)True
B)False
Q4) LILO is the most common boot loader used on modern Linux systems and the only boot loader supported by Fedora 13. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q5) After configuring X Windows, you can fine-tune the vsync and hsync of the video card using the ____ utility within the desktop environment.
A) xvidtune
B) xvideotune
C) xtune
D) vidtune
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Chapter 9: Managing Linux Processes
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Q1) After a background process has been started, it can be moved to the foreground by using the ____ command.
A) b2f
B) fgd
C) fg
D) fgnd
Q2) When you append a(n) ____ to a command, the command is run in a background process.
A) &
B) $
C) #
D) %
Q3) Most commands such as ls, find, and grep are binary programs that exist on the filesystem until executed. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q4) Processes that have encountered an error during execution and continuously uses up system resources are referred to as ____________________ processes.
Q5) What is forking?
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Chapter 10: Common Administrative Tasks
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Q1) A user can only be a member of one group.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Accepting print jobs into a print queue.
A)facility
B)LPD
C)rsyslogd
D)primary group
E)logrotate
F)GID
G)spooling
H)CUPS
I)UID
Q3) You can restrict who can print to certain printers by using the ____ command.
A) lpadmin
B) lpa
C) lpr
D) admin
Q4) Why should log files be periodically cleared? What methods can be used to clear log files?
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Chapter 11: Compression, System Backup, and Software Installation
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Q1) If no level of compression is specified, the gzip command assumes the number
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7
Q2) Command that can be used to ensure that a file was received in its entirety after you download it.
A)full backup
B)make install
C)checksum
D)tarball
E)compression ratio
F)Brasero Disc Burner
G)compression algorithm
H)sum
I)archive
Q3) The ____________________ utility uses the Burrows-Wheeler Block Sorting Huffman Coding algorithm when compressing files.
Q4) ____________________ is used to reduce the size of a file or set of files.
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Chapter 12: Network Configuration
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Q1) In an IP address, the host ID represents the network on which the computer is located.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Directed communication from one computer to another single computer using TCP/IP is referred to as a(n) unicast. _________________________
A)True B)False
Q3) A company that provides Internet access.
A)SSH
B)DNS
C)ISP
D)FQDN
E)telnet
F)CIDR
G)WANs
H)X Windows
I)LANs
Q4) What is VNC? How does it transfer graphics across the network?
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Chapter 13: Configuring Network Services
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Q1) You can use the ____________________ command to connect to both Samba and Windows servers.
Q2) The ____ httpd.conf directive specifies that the index.html file in the document root directory will be sent to clients who request an HTML document.
A) DirectoryIndex index.html
B) DocumentRoot index.html
C) Index index.html
D) UseIndex index.html
Q3) In NFS, one computer shares a certain directory in the directory tree by placing the name of that directory in the /etc/imports file. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ____ PostgreSQL command-line utility backs up PostgreSQL database settings.
A) pg_dumpall
B) pg_dump
C) pg_restore
D) pg_backup
Q5) What is NFS? How do you access files using a configured NFS Server?
Q6) How does DHCP automatically configure IP addresses?
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Chapter 14: Troubleshooting, Performance, and Security
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Q1) Performing regular system backups and identifying potential problem areas are examples of reactive maintenance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) To identify which shared libraries are required by a certain program, you can use the ldconfig command. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ____ option to the iptables command can be used to specify the default policy for a certain chain type.
A) -P
B) -C
C) -p
D) -c
Q4) The ____ option for the sar command is used to display swap statistics.
A) -B
B) -b
C) -s
D) -q
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