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What you will practice
- Which of the following is the act of creating a virtual version of components such as storage devices and com…
- What does GUI stand for?
- What directly controls hardware and translates the commands from a piece of software into something the hardw…
- Which of the following is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work…
- What is the generic name given to the action of protecting shell meta-characters from being treated specially…
- Which option will cause the echo command NOT to output a trailing newline?
Answers and explanations
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Q1. Which of the following is the act of creating a virtual version of components such as storage devices and computer network resources called?
Answer: A. Virtualization
Virtualization is the process of creating virtual representations of physical resources, such as storage or networks. On the exam, expect virtualization to map directly to hypervisor concepts and resource abstraction.
Q2. What does GUI stand for?
Answer: D. Graphical User Interface
GUI stands for Graphical User Interface, allowing users to interact with a system using visual icons and windows. Do not confuse this with a command line interface, which relies entirely on typed text commands.
Q3. What directly controls hardware and translates the commands from a piece of software into something the hardware can understand and act upon?
Answer: C. Kernel
The kernel acts as the core bridge between software and physical hardware, managing all system resources directly. Finder and Explorer are graphical file managers, not core system components managing hardware.
Q4. Which of the following is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share?
Answer: C. Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides standardized copyright licenses that allow creators to specify how others can legally share and build upon their work. Remember this for open source licensing objectives alongside GPL and MIT.
Q5. What is the generic name given to the action of protecting shell meta-characters from being treated specially by the shell?
Answer: B. Quoting
Quoting prevents the shell from interpreting special metacharacters, treating them as standard text instead. Use backslashes for single characters or quotes for longer strings to avoid unwanted globbing or expansion.
Q6. Which option will cause the echo command NOT to output a trailing newline?
Answer: B. -n
The -n option suppresses the trailing newline, modifying the default behavior of the echo command. On the exam, associate -n with no newline, while the printf command handles formatting.
Q7. Which of the following commands will output a list of all of the file names under your home directory and all subdirectories with file names ending with .pdf?
Answer: D. find ~ -name '*.pdf'
Using find with the tilde searches the home directory, and the -name flag matches the pdf pattern recursively. Remember that ls lacks this recursive name matching capability.
Q8. What is the set of pages that explains every command available on the system?
Answer: A. Man pages
Manual pages provide comprehensive documentation for commands, configuration files, and system calls. If you need detailed command syntax, man is the standard utility to use.
Q9. Your current working directory is /home/jason/documents/. You just entered cd .. into the command line and then entered pwd. What output do you receive?
Answer: B. /home/jason
The double dot represents the parent directory, so cd .. moves up one level to the jason folder. Printing the working directory then outputs the absolute path of that location.
Q10. Which of the following options must be used to remove a directory and its subdirectories?
Answer: B. rm -r
The rm command with the recursive flag deletes both the directory and its contents completely. Remember that rmdir only works on directories that are already empty.
Q11. Which of the following is NOT a valid rule in naming a variable?
Answer: B. Variable names must start with numbers
Variables cannot start with a number, though numbers are allowed elsewhere in the name. They must begin with a letter or an underscore, making this the correct choice.
Q12. What is the proper command to compress the file filename.txt into a zip archive called myfile.zip?
Answer: A. zip myfile.zip filename.txt
The correct syntax places the intended output archive name before the source file name. The unzip command extracts archives, so it is the wrong utility for compression.
Q13. What statement is used to get input from the terminal when a shell script is being run?
Answer: C. read
The read command captures standard input from the terminal during script execution, assigning it to a variable. Commands like input or scan are not built-in shell commands.
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