EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: Where can you set global shell environment variables for all users independent of their shell?

Question2: Where should modifications to the logrotate configuration be saved?

Question3: You want to install the gvim RPM package that is available on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation media. Which command installs the gvim package, and resolves
dependencies as needed?

Question4: In the bash shell, which command can be used to create a MY_NAME variable containing the value Joe?

Question5: Which file contains information about the filesystems to be mounted automatically when the system is booted?

Question6: What does the command "vgcreate" do?

Question7: Next to SLES and SLED, which of the following products is also built on the SLE common code base?

Question8: What does the directory /srv contain?

Question9: Which command installs most rpm packages?

Question10: Which command shows you the default shell of a user?

Question11: Using wicked, how can you bring up the network interface eth0?

Question12: You would like to run command2 only if command1did not complete successfully. Which command accomplishes this task?

Question13: What system command switches to a single user system without network?

Question14: Which command will update an rpm package? (Choose two.)

Question15: What action does the jobs command perform?

Question16: You have a test directory with the following permissions: rwx......
You want to change the permissions to the following values: r-xr-xr-x.
Which command accomplishes this?

Question17: What GRUB2 configuration file is used to configure user settings?

Question18: Which command will install the gvim package from a repository?

Question19: Which statement about symmetric encryption is correct?

Question20: What command lists the registered PolKit actions?

Question21: What is the following command doing: brct1delif br1 eth1

Question22: Which directory contains configuration files?

Question23: Which command creates a RAID container?

Question24: You have a /tmp/data directory containing the files file, filel, and file2.
You want to copy the filel and file2 files only to the /data-old directory that already exists. In a terminal window, which command accomplishes this?

Question25: How can you list the registered software repositories?

Question26: You want to add user tux to the southpole group without changing his primary group membership. Which command do you use for this purpose?

Question27: Which RAID level is described by the following sentence?
This level improves the performance of your data access, however, it does not provide redundancy.

Question28: You want to remove a repository called "new" from the repository list. Which command will
accomplish this?

Question29: Within less, how do you search for a string downwards from where the cursor is positioned?

Question30: What does the following line of the sudo configuration file mean? geeko ALL = /sbin/shutdown

Question31: The useradd command is used to create new users.
Which file contains information on the primary group, shell, and other parameters to be used by useradd when not specified on the command line?

Question32: From command mode in vi, what do you have to do to entertext?

Question33: What is the command mkinitrd is used for?

Question34: Which command is suitable for displaying the CPU load as a percentage?

Question35: Which does not belong to the Logical Volume Manager?

Question36: You want to copy the mytext file from your computer to the /tmp/ directory on the remote computerda20.digitalairlines.com. Which command would you use to accomplish this?

Question37: In a terminal window, which command shows you the groups you are a member of?

Question38: Using the rsync command, you want to mirror the directories, including any hidden files and directories within /home (not the /home directory itself) to the /backup directory.
Which command accomplishes this?

Question39: You want to redirect both output and error messages of the find command to the find-output file. Which command accomplishes this task?

Question40: What does the ntpd drift file include?

Question41: What does the following command do? tar -czvf /tmp/backup.tgz /etc/HOSTNAME