EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following programs is not a graphical web browser?

Question2: Which of the following commands can be used to extract files from an archive?

Question3: Which of the following commands will output all of the lines that contain either the string Fred or fred?
(Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question4: Which of the following is a combined audio/video interface for transmission of digital data?

Question5: Which of the following will change the group that is associated with a file?

Question6: Which statements about the directory /etc/skel are correct? (Choose TWO answers)

Question7: Which of the following commands can be used to create a file?

Question8: Which of the following commands can be used to extract content from a tar file?

Question9: Which of the following Linux distributions use the dpkg package management system? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question10: Which of the following commands can be used to determine the time of the last login of a given user?

Question11: Which of the following applications are used to play an MP3 file on a Linux system? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

Question12: Which of the following commands will create an archive file, named backup.tar, containing all the files from the directory /home?

Question13: Which one of the following is true about Open Source software?

Question14: What is the first character for file or directory names if they should not be displayed by commands such as ls unless specifically requested?

Question15: Which command lists all files in the current directory that start with a capital letter?

Question16: Which of the following filesystems is most commonly used for Linux distributions?

Question17: Which of the following commands can be used to view a file and do search operations within it while viewing the contents?

Question18: Which is a suitable command to find the next appearance of the word hidden in a man page being viewed from the command line?

Question19: Which of the following files holds the definition of the local user accounts?

Question20: How can the normal output of a command be written to a file while discarding the error output?

Question21: What is the output of the following command?
tail -n 20 test.txt

Question22: Which command line can be used to search help files that mention the word "copy"?

Question23: Which of the following software packages is an e-mail server?

Question24: Which of the following commands are used to view memory usage? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question25: SIMULATION
What two character sequence is present at the beginning of an interpreted script? (Please specify the TWO correct characters only)

Question26: Which criteria are useful when deciding which operating system to use? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

Question27: Which of the following statements may be used to access the second command line argument to a script?

Question28: What keyword is missing from the following segment of the shell script?
for i in *; _____
cat $i
done

Question29: Which of the following directories is often used to store log files?

Question30: When a new user is added, where does the user ID get stored?

Question31: A Linux computer has no access to the internet. Which command displays information about the network gateway for the system?

Question32: Which one of the following statements concerning the General Public License (GPL) is true?

Question33: Which of the following commands increases the number of elements in a directory? (Choose TWO answers)

Question34: Where is the BIOS located?

Question35: Which of the following commands moves the directory ~/summer-vacation and its content to ~/ vacation/2011?

Question36: You have a program called /usr/bin/foo. You wish to create a symbolic link, /home/user/foo, that points to it.
Which command will do this task?

Question37: Which statement about users and user groups is correct?

Question38: How could one search for the file foo.txt under the directory /home?

Question39: Which command will display running process information in real time?

Question40: Which of the following is a requirement of the GPL license but not the BSD license?

Question41: Which of the following Ubuntu releases is considered most stable and fit to use for business purposes?

Question42: Which of the following is a Linux based operating system for use on mobile devices?

Question43: Which command is used to make a shell variable known to subsequently executed programs?

Question44: Which Linux distribution is used as a basis for the creation of Ubuntu Linux?

Question45: The following line is found in which system file?
root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash

Question46: Which commands provide help for a specific Linux command? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question47: Which option will cause the echo command NOT to output a trailing newline?

Question48: Which of the following commands will set the variable text to olaf is home? (Select TWO answers)

Question49: What command would you use to get comprehensive documentation about any command in Linux?

Question50: After installing a new package, in which directory are you most likely find its configuration file?

Question51: While deleting all files beginning with the letter a there was still the file Access.txt left. Assuming that it had the correct ownership, why was it not deleted?

Question52: What is the number called that is used to identify a process?

Question53: Which command displays the list of groups to which a user belongs?

Question54: Identify the proper device for the third partition, on the second hard disk, on the first IDE controller on a PC system.

Question55: What does LAMP mean?

Question56: What are the three sets of permissions for a file?

Question57: What permissions are set on a file with the command chmod 654 file.txt?

Question58: Which of the following answers are true for cloud computing? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question59: Which function does a shell program serve?

Question60: SIMULATION
What is the usual absolute path of the personal directory for the user foo?

Question61: Which of the following commands is used to look up the current IP address of a system?

Question62: Which permissions should be given to a file that needs to be opened and edited by the file's owner and opened read-only by the file's group?

Question63: Which of the following commands will display a list of all files in the current directory, including those that may be hidden?

Question64: Which command shows if /usr/bin is in the current shell search path?

Question65: Which commands will archive /home and its content to /mnt/backup? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

Question66: Which command will display the last line of the file foo.txt?

Question67: What is the output of the following command?
for token in a b c; do
echo -n ${token};
done

Question68: What is the preferred source for the installation of new applications?

Question69: Which network interface always exists in a Linux system?

Question70: The output of the program date should be saved in the variable actdat. What is the correct statement?

Question71: SIMULATION
When typing a long command line at the shell, what single character can be used to split a command across multiple lines?

Question72: How can the current directory and its subdirectories be searched for the file named MyFile.xml?

Question73: Which of the following hardware devices links a number of computers together to form an Ethernet LAN?

Question74: Which of the following are correct commands for changing the current directory to the user's home?
(Choose TWO answers)

Question75: Which one of the following statements concerning Linux passwords is true?

Question76: How is it possible to determine if an executable file is a shell script which is read by Bash?

Question77: Which of the following can be used to access the command line?

Question78: Given the following directory permissions:
drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 36864 2012-03-02 11:17 /tmp
What does the letter t at the end of drwxrwxrwt indicate?