010-160 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What are the differences between hard disk drives and solid state disks? (Choose two.)

A. Hard disks have a motor and moving parts, solid state disks do not.

B. Hard disks can fail due to physical damage, while solid state disks cannot fail.

C. Solid state disks can store many times as much data as hard disk drives.

D. /dev/sda is a hard disk device while /dev/ssda is a solid state disk.

E. Solid state disks provide faster access to stored data than hard disks.

Which of the following outputs comes from the command free?

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

E. Option E

What is a Linux distribution?

A. The Linux file system as seen from the root account after mounting all file systems.

B. A bundling of the Linux kernel, system utilities and other software.

C. The set of rules which governs the distribution of Linux kernel source code.

D. An operating system based on Linux but incompatible to the regular Linux kernel.

E. A set of changes to Linux which enable Linux to run on another processor architecture.

Which package management tool is used in Red Hat-based Linux Systems?

A. portage B. rpm

C. apt-get

D. dpkg

E. packagectl

Which of the following programs is a graphical editor for vector graphics?

A. Python

B. NGINX

C. Samba

D. Inkscape

E. MySQL

Which of the following characters in a shell prompt indicates the shell is running with root privileges?

A. !

B. #

C. *

D. and

E. $

Which of the following commands shows the absolute path to the current working directory?

A. who

B. cd ..

C. pwd

D. ls -l

E. cd ~/home

Which of the following commands sets the variable USERNAME to the value bob?

A. set USERNAME bob

B. $USERNAME==bob

C. var USERNAME=bob

D. USERNAME<=bob

E. USERNAME=bob

Which of the following commands extracts the contents of the compressed archive file1.tar.gz?

A. tar -czf file1.tar.gz

B. ztar file1.tar.gz

C. tar -xzf file1.tar.gz

D. tar --extract file1.tar.gz

E. detar file1.tar.gz

How is a new Linux computing instance provisioned in an laaS cloud?

A. The standard Linux installer has to be run through a remote console.

B. After buying a Linux distribution, its vendor delivers it to a cloud instance.

C. The installation has to be prepared in a local virtual machine which is then copied to the cloud.

D. The cloud hosting organization provides a set of pre-prepared images of popular Linux distributions.

E. A provider-specific configuration file describing the desired installation is uploaded to the cloud provider.