Exam 3

1.    What is the difference between a mail transfer agent (MTA) and a mail user agent (MUA)?

 

2.    What is the common GUI subsystem that is "behind" both KDE and GNOME?

 

3.    What is the advantage of using journaling in a (Linux) file system?

 

4.    What file contains a list of partitions that will be mounted at start-up located?

 

5.    What does the sudo command do?

 

6.    What does the command "ls a?" do?

 

7.    What does the command "ls a*" do?

 

8.    What does the command "cd ~" do?

 

9.    What does the command "cd .." do?

 

10.  What does the command "cd ." do?

 

11.  What does the /etc/exports file do?

 

12.  What does the "umask" command do?

 

13.  What does the "man" command do?

 

14.  What command is used to rename a file in Linux?

 

15.  What command is used to perform a verify a partition has no (logical) errors on it?

 

16.  What command can be used to temporarily change the IP adddress of a Linux system?

 

17.  What character separates the various fields in /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd?

 

18.  What are the three types of permissions in Linux?

 

 

1    What are the three groups of permissions in Linux?

 

20.  The program cpio can be used to...

 

21.  In terms of disk quotas, what is a "soft limit"?

 

22.  In terms of an operating system, what is an ISO file?

 

23.  In terms of Linux, what is a shell?

 

24.  In terms of Linux (and Unix), what is an inode?

 

 

25.  Which command can be used to back up a directory in Linux?

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