Q1. - (Topic 4) 

After successfully creating a hard link called bar to the ordinary file foo, foo is deleted from the filesystem. Which of the following describes the resulting situation? 

A. foo and bar would both be removed. 

B. foo would be removed while bar would remain accessible. 

C. foo would be removed. bar would still exist but would be unusable. 

D. Both foo and bar would remain accessible. 

E. The user is prompted whether bar should be removed, too. 

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Q2. - (Topic 3) 

In a nested directory structure, which find command line option would be used to restrict the command to searching down a particular number of subdirectories? 

A. -dirmax 

B. -maxdepth 

C. -maxlevels 

D. -n 

E. -s 

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Q3. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 3) 

Which command is used in a Linux environment to create a new directory? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.) 

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Q4. - (Topic 4) 

Which of the following commands shows the definition of a given shell command? 

A. where 

B. stat 

C. type 

D. case 

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Q5. - (Topic 3) 

What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent? 

A. Match the preceding qualifier one or more times. 

B. Match the preceding qualifier zero or more times. 

C. Match the preceding qualifier zero or one times. 

D. Match a literal ? character. 

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Q6. - (Topic 4) 

Instead of supplying an explicit device in /etc/fstab for mounting, what other options may be used to identify the intended partition? (Choose TWO correct answers.) 

A. FIND 

B. ID 

C. LABEL 

D. NAME 

E. UUID 

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Q7. - (Topic 4) 

What does the command mount -a do? 

A. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option noauto in /etc/fstab are mounted. 

B. It shows all mounted file systems that have been automatically mounted. 

C. It opens an editor with root privileges and loads /etc/fstab for editing. 

D. It ensures that all file systems listed with the option auto in /etc/fstab are mounted. 

E. It ensures that all file systems listed in /etc/fstab are mounted regardless of their options. 

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Q8. - (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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Q9. - (Topic 4) 

Which of the following commands can be used to locate programs and their corresponding man pages and configuration files? 

A. dirname 

B. which 

C. basename 

D. query 

E. whereis 

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Q10. - (Topic 3) 

Which of the following characters can be combined with a separator string in order to read from the current input source until the separator string, which is on a separate line and without any trailing spaces, is reached? 

A. << 

B. <| 

C. !< 

D. &< 

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