Q1. - (Topic 3) 

What happens after issuing the command vi without any additional parameters? 

A. vi starts and loads the last file used and moves the cursor to the position where vi was when it last exited. 

B. vi starts and requires the user to explicitly either create a new or load an existing file. 

C. vi exits with an error message as it cannot be invoked without a file name to operate on. 

D. vi starts in command mode and opens a new empty file. 

E. vi starts and opens a new file which is filled with the content of the vi buffer if the buffer contains text. 

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Q2. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 1) 

Which file in the /proc filesystem lists parameters passed from the bootloader to the kernel? (Specify the file name only without any path.) 

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Q3. - (Topic 1) 

What is the first program that is usually started, at boot time, by the Linux kernel when using SysV init? 

A. /lib/init.so 

B. /sbin/init 

C. /etc/rc.d/rcinit 

D. /proc/sys/kernel/init 

E. /boot/init 

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Q4. - (Topic 4) 

Which type of filesystem is created by mkfs when it is executed with the block device name only and without any additional parameters? 

A. ext2 

B. ext3 

C. ext4 

D. XFS 

E. VFAT 

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Q5. - (Topic 3) 

When starting a program with the nice command without any additional parameters, which nice level is set for the resulting process? 

A. -10 

B. 0 

C. 10 

D. 20 

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Q6. - (Topic 2) 

Which of the following commands lists all currently installed packages when using RPM package management? 

A. yum --query --all 

B. yum --list --installed 

C. rpm --query --all 

D. rpm --list –installed 

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Q7. - (Topic 3) 

Which of the following commands prints a list of usernames (first column) and their primary group (fourth column) from the /etc/passwd file? 

A. fmt -f 1,4 /etc/passwd 

B. split -c 1,4 /etc/passwd 

C. cut -d : -f 1,4 /etc/passwd 

D. paste -f 1,4 /etc/passwd 

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Q8. - (Topic 3) 

What is the maximum niceness value that a regular user can assign to a process with the nice command when executing a new process? 

A. 9 

B. 19 

C. 49 

D. 99 

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Q9. - (Topic 4) 

Which of the following commands changes the number of days before the ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1 has to run through a full filesystem check while booting? 

A. tune2fs -d 200 /dev/sda1 

B. tune2fs -c 200 /dev/sda1 

C. tune2fs -i 200 /dev/sda1 

D. tune2fs -n 200 /dev/sda1 

E. tune2fs --days 200 /dev/sda1 

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Q10. - (Topic 3) 

Which of the following commands will print the last 10 lines of a text file to the standard output? 

A. cat -n 10 filename 

B. dump -n 10 filename 

C. head -n 10 filename 

D. tail -n 10 filename 

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