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Cloud Computing introduces students to the fundamental concepts, architecture, and delivery models of cloud-based systems. The course covers topics including virtualization, cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (public, private, hybrid), and cloud security. Students will gain hands-on experience with leading cloud platforms, understand cloud infrastructure management, and explore applications and scalability in cloud environments. The course also addresses current trends and challenges in cloud computing, preparing students to efficiently design, implement, and manage cloud solutions in various organizational settings.
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Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification 3rd Edition by Jason Eckert
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Q1) Combining several smaller computers.
A)source code
B)software
C)proxy server
D)GNOME
E)clustering
F)package manager
G)firewall
H)fully qualified domain name
I)database
Answer: E
Q2) A(n) ____ service provides an efficient method for transferring files over the Internet.
A) FTP
B) DNS
C) Web
D) Mail
Answer: A
Q3) The ____________________ is the core component of the Linux operating system.
Answer: Linux kernel

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Q1) Which Linux command gets you out of your current shell?
A) exit
B) stop
C) reset
D) clear
Answer: A
Q2) Allows you to choose the operating system to boot upon system startup
A)boot loader
B)dual booting
C)ext3
D)ext2
E)terminal
F)Network Information Service (NIS)
G)options
H)arguments
I)poweroff
Answer: B
Q3) To print the current date and time, type the command ____________________.
Answer: date
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Q1) Using wildcard metacharacters, how can one indicate a number is either 1, 2, 3, or 4?
A) 1-4
B) [1-4]
C) [1234]
D) [1,2,3,4]
Answer: B
Q2) When you first open the vi editor, you are placed in edit mode.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The command strings /bin/echo displays the binary characters inside the /bin/echo binary executable program.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The file .file.dat is an example of a(n) ____________________ file. Answer: hidden
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Q1) Command used to change the ownership of a file or directory.
A)chgrp
B)groups
C)alias
D)touch
E)chmod
F)chown
G)ping
H)whoami
I)umask
Q2) Command used to change the group owner of a file or directory.
A)chgrp
B)groups
C)alias
D)touch
E)chmod
F)chown
G)ping
H)whoami
I)umask
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Q1) To format a filesystem with a specified filesystem type, you can use the ____ option with the mkfs command.
A) -t
B) -f
C) -c
D) -o
Q2) To mount all filesystems in the /etc/fstab file that are intended to mount at boot time, you can simply type the ____ command.
A) mount -o
B) mount -f
C) mount -u
D) mount -a
Q3) After a typical Fedora Linux installation, over 700 different device files are in the /dev directory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are character devices and block devices? What is the difference between them? What types of devices are represented by block device files?
Q5) What is filesystem corruption? What factors may lead to filesystem corruption?
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Q1) What is a SCSI ID and why is it used? List the priorities, from highest to lowest, of the SCSI IDs on a SCSI controller that supports 15 devices.
Q2) Any line in a kickstart file that starts with a(n) ____ symbol is a comment line and is ignored by the installation program.
A) *
B) #
C) $
D) %
Q3) RAID level 3 requires a minimum of three hard disk drives to function.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If you have an installed Linux system, you can use the ____________________ command to write an ISO image to a USB flash memory drive.
Q5) To prevent signals from bouncing back and forth on a SCSI cable, each end of the cable must have a(n) ____________________ to stop signals from being perpetuated.
Q6) What is System Rescue? Explain how you would activate this tool.
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Q1) Most commands that are run by the shell are run in a separate ____________________, which is created by the current shell.
Q2) If you have ____ permission to a shell script, you can execute the shell script like any other executable program on the system.
A) read
B) write and read
C) execute
D) read and execute
Q3) The BASH shell assumes stdout in the absence of a numeric file descriptor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ____ environment file is always executed immediately after login for all users on the system, and sets most environment variables, such as HOME and PATH.
A) ~/.bash_profile
B) ~/.bash_login
C) /etc/profile
D) ~/.profile
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Q1) Which utility can be used to modify runtime configuration files so that they start and stop daemons when entering a particular runlevel?
A) ntsysv
B) chkconfig
C) Service Configuration
D) runlevel
Q2) To configure your keyboard, you can use the ____ command from either a GUI or terminal environment and restart X Windows.
A) sys-conf-kb
B) system-config-kb
C) sys-config-keyboard
D) system-config-keyboard
Q3) In the /etc/lilo.conf file, the ____ keyword specifies the file that contains the physical layout of the disk drive.
A) boot=
B) default=
C) install=
D) root=
Q4) The first daemon process on a system is called the ____________________ daemon.
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Q1) The ____________________ can be used to affect the process priority indirectly.
Q2) When you append a(n) ____ to a command, the command is run in a background process.
A) &
B) $
C) #
D) %
Q3) When there are multiple background processes executing in the shell, the jobs command indicates the most recent one with a(n) ____ symbol.
A) *
B) +
C) -
D) /
Q4) While a process is waiting for its parent process to release the PID, the process is said to be in a(n) zombie state. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q5) A(n) ____________________ refers to a program that is running in memory and on the CPU.
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Q1) Accepting print jobs into a print queue.
A)facility
B)LPD
C)rsyslogd
D)primary group
E)logrotate
F)GID
G)spooling
H)CUPS
I)UID
Q2) A printing system used by many older Linux computers.
A)facility
B)LPD
C)rsyslogd
D)primary group
E)logrotate
F)GID
G)spooling
H)CUPS
I)UID
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Q1) If no level of compression is specified, the gzip command assumes the number
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7
Q2) Because its primary use is to back up files in case of system failure, cpio uses absolute pathnames by default when archiving. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q3) The average compression ratio for gzip is ____%.
A) 40-50
B) 50-60
C) 60-70
D) 70-80
Q4) Most Linux distributions today use ____ as their package manager.
A) RPM
B) PRM
C) MPR
D) RMP
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Q1) ____ is a remote administration tool that encrypts information that passes across the network.
A) Telnet
B) Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
C) Remote commands
D) Secure Shell (SSH)
Q2) Remote computers can connect to a configured VNC server using the ____ command.
A) vncpasswd
B) vnc
C) vncviewer
D) vncconnect
Q3) The subnet mask for a Class C IP address is ____.
A) 255.0.0.0
B) 255.255.0.0
C) 255.255.255.0
D) 255.255.255.255
Q4) Passwords used by the PPP daemon are stored in two files: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.
A)True
B)False

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Q1) Each computer that participates in NIS belongs to an NIS domain and uses a(n) NIS map for accessing certain information rather than using the local configuration file.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How does DHCP automatically configure IP addresses?
Q3) Databases store information in the form of ____, each of which contains ____.
A) lists; fields
B) fields; records
C) records; tables
D) tables; records
Q4) The use of NFS is less common than the use of FTP to transfer files on public networks.
A)True
B)False
Q5) To share information to Windows client computers, you can use the ____________________ daemon, which emulates the SMB protocol.
Q6) The first DNS server in a zone is called the ____________________ DNS server.
Q7) What is NFS? How do you access files using a configured NFS Server?
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Q1) The mpstat utility measures the flow of information to and from disk devices.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The measures taken when system problems arise.
A)proactive maintenance
B)ulimit
C)/etc/ld.so.conf
D)vmstat
E)/var/log
F)sudo
G)Orca
H)reactive maintenance
I)Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
Q3) The ____ option for the sar command is used to display swap statistics.
A) -B
B) -b
C) -s
D) -q
Q4) How can netfilter/iptables be used to create a firewall service?
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