EMT Practice Test

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Question1: In the bash shell, which command can be used to create a MY_NAME variable containing the value Joe?

Question2: You would like to run command1 and then command2, whether or not command1 completed successfully.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question3: Which statements about the Linux boot process are correct? (Choose two.)

Question4: What does the command "vgcreate" do?

Question5: Which statement about the Set User ID bit on executable files is correct?

Question6: Where can you set global shell environment variables for all users independent of their shell?

Question7: What does SLED stand for?

Question8: What GRUB2 configuration file is used to configure user settings?

Question9: You would like to run command2 only if command1 did not complete successfully.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question10: 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?

Question11: You have set the following permissions on a test directory rwxrwxrwx.
Which statement about files in the test directory is correct?

Question12: Which command verifies the signature of an RPM package?

Question13: You want to redirect both output and error messages of the find command to the find-output file.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question14: What updates are provided only in a service pack and not in a general update?

Question15: Where is the software package documentation located?

Question16: You have a /tmp/data directory containing the files file, file1, and file2.
You want to delete the directory and its content. In a terminal window, which command accomplishes this?

Question17: You want to run the /usr/local/sbin/myscript script at 6.00 a.m. every Friday.
Which crontab entry is suitable for this?

Question18: What does the directory /srv contain?

Question19: How long is the base support lifespan for a major SUSE Linux Enterprise release?

Question20: What is the purpose of the ssh-agent command?

Question21: In which file is the name resolution configured?

Question22: In which file are global configurations for users who use bash as their login shell set?

Question23: The /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-XXX configuration file contains a BOOTPROTO option.
Which are possible values of BOOTPROTO?

Question24: Where are the SuSEfirewall2 service definition files located?

Question25: Which statement is not true about symbolic links?

Question26: In a terminal window, which command shows you the groups you are a member of?

Question27: Which symbol represents the BtrFS root subvolume?

Question28: You want to redirect the output of the ls command to the ls-output file which already exists. The output should be appended to the file, it should not overwrite the existing content.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question29: Where would you normally find user data?

Question30: What is the Multiple Device RAID configuration file?

Question31: How is the GNOME file manager called?

Question32: You want to add user tux to the southpole group without changing his primary group membership.
Which command do you use for this purpose?

Question33: You do not want to see any error messages when using the find command; you want to see only the results.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question34: How large is the MBR?

Question35: What is the output of the echo '$HOME' command when user geeko (home directory /home/geeko) enters it at the bash shell prompt?

Question36: Which directory contains configuration files?

Question37: In a terminal window, which command can you enter to change to your home directory (/home/geeko)?
(Choose two.)

Question38: Which group name or group ID is stored in /etc/passwd?

Question39: What is the result of the following command?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=1

Question40: You need to find the files in the /etc directory that contain the word DocumentRoot in a terminal window.
Which command will help you find it?

Question41: What does the ntpd drift file include?

Question42: Which command is suitable for displaying the CPU load as a percentage?

Question43: What systemd target represents a runlevel as known from System V?

Question44: What does the following sentence describe?
"Multiple file names referencing to the same inode."

Question45: Which range of User IDs is used *or normal (unprivileged) users on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server?

Question46: Which statement is correct?

Question47: When you connect to an ssh server with your ssh client, the pubic key of the server is compared to the keys stored in a file on the client computer.
Which file is this?

Question48: Which command installs most rpm packages?

Question49: Which does not belong to the Logical Volume Manager?

Question50: What does the command lvscan do?

Question51: What systemd command switches to a single user system without network?

Question52: Which file contains information about the filesystems to be mounted automatically when the system is booted?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: What does the following line of the sudo configuration file mean?
geeko ALL = /sbin/shutdown

Question56: What is described as follows:
If content of a block changes, the changed block is put beside the non-changed block.

Question57: What is the "users" option in /etc/fstab used for?

Question58: Where should modifications to the logrotate configuration be saved?

Question59: You wonder which installed RPM package the /etc/exports file belongs to.
Which command will give you the desired information?

Question60: What command disables the ssh service on a systemd system?

Question61: What is the following command doing:
brctl delif br1 eth1

Question62: How do you start a YaST module (for instance, the sw_single module used to install software) directly from the command line? (Choose two.)

Question63: You want to find out if files from the wget package were altered since they were installed.
Which command will give you this information?

Question64: What is the file /etc/grub.d/10_linux doing?

Question65: What command encrypts a boot password for GRUB2?

Question66: What is the type command used for?

Question67: From command mode in vi, what do you have to do to enter text?

Question68: Which statement about the sudo command is correct?

Question69: You want to use the ip command to set a new address for your network device eth0. It is a Standard class C network. The broadcast address and network route should be set accordingly.
Which command is correct?

Question70: You want to copy the mytext file from your computer to the /tmp/ directory on the remote computer da20.digitalairlines.com.
Which command would you use to accomplish this?

Question71: Which modes does the vi editor run in? (Choose two.)

Question72: Which option do you use to write the output of the 'hwinfo' command to a log file?

Question73: You would like to run command2 only if command1 completed successfully.
Which command accomplishes this task?

Question74: You want to create the new user account tux with the password penguin (password hash:
TvqBFhQWgeSho) and a default home directory.
Which command can be used to create the account with the above parameters?

Question75: What does the following command do?
tar -tzvf /tmp/backup.tgz etc/HOSTNAME

Question76: Using hwinfo, how can you probe just for BIOS information?

Question77: What is the naming format for RPM packages?

Question78: What does the directory /srv contain?

Question79: Which command creates a RAID container?

Question80: You are viewing the manual page of crontab, but it does not contain the information you are looking for.
You suspect there is another crontab manual page.
Which command could you use to find out if another crontab manual page exists? (Choose two.)

Question81: You want to view the status (locked, valid password, etc.) of the account tux.
Which command displays the desired information?

Question82: How can you list the updates that are available for your system?

Question83: 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?

Question84: What command lists the registered PolKit actions?

Question85: How do you start q YaST module (for instance, the sw_single module used to install software} directly from the command tine? (Choose two.)

Question86: What command displays hardware information?