Linux System Administration
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Course Introduction
Linux System Administration is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of managing and maintaining Linux-based systems in a professional environment. The course covers essential topics such as system installation, user and group management, file system architecture, process monitoring, and the configuration of critical services like networking, security, and resource sharing. Students will learn command-line techniques, scripting for automation, system updates and patches, backup strategies, and troubleshooting common issues. Through hands-on labs and practical exercises, participants will gain the skills required to efficiently administer Linux servers, ensuring system reliability, security, and performance in a multi-user enterprise context.
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Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification 3rd Edition by Jason Eckert
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Linux
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Q1) A service that requests outside Internet resources on behalf of a computer inside of a company.
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: C
Q2) ____________________ consists of the physical components inside a computer that are electrical in nature.
Answer: Hardware
Q3) Linux is based on the Windows operating system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Linux Installation and Usage
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Q1) Shares password databases among Linux systems
A)boot loader
B)dual booting
C)ext3
D)ext2
E)terminal
F)Network Information Service (NIS)
G)options
H)arguments
I)poweroff
Answer: F
Q2) The ____ filesystem is compatible with the Windows FAT filesystem.
A) ext3
B) REISER
C) ext2
D) VFAT
Answer: D
Q3) ____________________ divides a hard disk into adjacent sections, each of which can contain a separate filesystem used to store data.
Answer: Partitioning
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Chapter 3: Exploring Linux Filesystems
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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) In a file listing, the 9 characters following the file type (for example, -rwxr-xr-x) refer to the file's ____________________.
Answer: permissions mode
Q3) An alternative to the vi editor that offers an equal set of functionality is the GNU ____________________.
Answer: Emacs editor
Q4) To display the contents of a file called data, use the command ____.
A) disp data
B) ls data
C) ls -l data
D) cat data
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Linux Filesystem Management
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Q1) Describe the SUID. Give an example of a command that typically has this permission set.
Q2) You can use wildcard metacharacters with the find command.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The chgrp command takes ____ argument(s) at minimum.
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
Q4) When using the chmod command for a specific file, the ____ argument would add read permission and remove write permission for the group permissions.
A) u+r+w
B) g-r+w
C) g+r-w
D) o+r-w
Q5) To copy a directory full of files in Linux, you must tell the cp command that the copy will be ____________________ (involve files and subdirectories too) by using the -R option
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Chapter 5: Linux Filesystem Administration
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Q1) Device files that represent disks, such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, USB flash drives, and hard disks, are typically character device files because a fast data transfer rate is preferred. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q2) The more filesystems that are used on a system, the less likely a corrupted filesystem will interfere with normal system operations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If you find a corrupted device file, or accidentally delete a device file, the ____________________ command can be used to re-create the device file if you know the type, major, and minor numbers.
Q4) The ____ device file represents the second serial port on the system (COM2).
A) /dev/ttyS0
B) /dev/tty2
C) /dev/tty1
D) /dev/ttyS1
Q5) Creating a filesystem on a device is commonly referred to as
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Chapter 6: Advanced Installation
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Q1) When you use disk imaging software to write a Linux ISO image onto a USB flash drive, the filesystem existing on the flash drive is maintained.
A)True
B)False
Q2) If a Linux installation ends abnormally and the screen displays a "fatal signal ____" error message, it indicates an error known as a segmentation fault.
A) 0
B) 1
C) 10
D) 11
Q3) Normally, kickstart files are text files. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q4) A Fedora 13 CD installation requires ____ CDs.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) ten
Q5) What is System Rescue? Explain how you would activate this tool.
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Chapter 7: Working With the Bash Shell
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Q1) Given the syntax command && command, the command on the left of the && construct is executed only if the command on the right of the && construct completed successfully.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most commands that are run by the shell are run in a separate ____________________, which is created by the current shell.
Q3) What are shell scripts? Why and how are they executed?
Q4) What are file descriptors? What are the three file descriptors are available to each command that can be manipulated by the BASH shell, and what is the purpose of each?
Q5) The ____ command can be used to replace characters in a file sent via Standard Input.
A) tr
B) rt
C) ts
D) st
Q6) Any command that can take standard input and transform it into standard output is called a(n) ____________________ command.
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Chapter 8: System Initialization and X Windows
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Q1) The init daemon uses its configuration file, ____________________, determine the number of daemons that need to be loaded on the system to provide system services.
Q2) A system process that performs useful tasks, such as printing, scheduling, and operating system maintenance.
A)active partition
B)Display Settings
C)X client
D)ELILO
E)window manager
F)initstates
G)daemon
H)virtualization software
I)Grand Unified Bootloader
Q3) You can see whether a daemon script was executed successfully at boot time by checking the contents of the ____________________ file after the system has fully initialized.
Q4) When a computer first initializes, the system BIOS performs a(n)
Q5) List and describe the seven Linux runlevels. Mention the common name of each.
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Chapter 9: Managing Linux Processes
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Q1) To create or edit a user cron table, you can use the ____ option to the crontab command.
A) -u
B) -c
C) -f
D) -e
Q2) To display a list of at Job IDs, you can specify the ____ option to the at command.
A) -l
B) -u
C) -a
D) -d
Q3) The ____________________ can be used to affect the process priority indirectly.
Q4) Describe the purpose the process state column displayed by the ps -l command. What values may appear in this column, and what do these values indicate?
Q5) If the /etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny files do not exist, only the root user is allowed to schedule tasks using the at daemon.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Common Administrative Tasks
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Q1) The ____________________ facility used by the System Log Daemon specifies messages from the Linux kernel.
Q2) 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
Q3) CUPS contains versions of the lpr, lpc, lpq, and lprm commands.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most printers are Plug and Play compatible and must be manually configured when they are plugged into the system.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the process of sending information to a printer using the CUPS daemon.
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Chapter 11: Compression, System Backup, and Software
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Q1) When using the gzip utility, the -1 option is also known as best compression and results in a higher compression ratio.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ____ option, when used with the gzip command, causes the compression ratio for files that have been compressed to be listed.
A) -c
B) -f
C) -r
D) -l
Q3) It is good form to read the Makefile after you run the configure script.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ____ option can be used with the tar command to extract a specified archive.
A) -s
B) -e
C) -x
D) -a
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Q5) Describe the basic steps involved in compiling source code into a program.
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Chapter 12: Network Configuration
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Q1) The /etc/resolv.conf file can contain up to ____ DNS servers.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Q2) A utility that can be used to obtain graphical utilities from a remote Linux computer in order to perform system administration.
A)SSH
B)DNS
C)ISP
D)FQDN
E)telnet
F)CIDR
G)WANs
H)X Windows
I)LANs
Q3) The IP address of the network interface on the router to which you send packets is called the ____________________.
Q4) Describe the telnet and SSH utilities. What is the difference between them?
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Chapter 13: Configuring Network Services
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Q1) What is NIS? What is a master and slave NIS server? Give examples of configuration files that NIS is commonly used to coordinate.
Q2) 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
Q3) The first DNS server in a zone is called the ____________________ DNS server.
Q4) A DNS resolution request that was resolved with the use of top-level DNS servers.
A)DNS cache file
B)SQL
C)Network File System (NFS)
D)forward lookup
E)document root
F)zone
G)directive
H)recursive query
I)reverse lookup
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Chapter 14: Troubleshooting, Performance, and Security
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Q1) By default, sar commands are scheduled using the cron daemon to run every ____ minutes in Fedora 13.
A) two
B) five
C) ten
D) thirty
Q2) The ____________________ command is used to view the current SELinux status.
Q3) How can netfilter/iptables be used to create a firewall service?
Q4) All Linux problems can be divided into ____ categories.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Q5) If some users, such as software developers, need to run certain commands as the root user in certain situations, it is best to allow them to log on to the root user account via the su command.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the two golden rules that should guide you during any troubleshooting process? Describe each rule.
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