What elements does a Linux distribution bundle that make it unique? Choose all that apply.

1. Kernel
2. Applications
3. User and group accounts
4. GNU utilities
5. Package management utility

What graphical interfaces does Linux support? (Choose all that apply.)

1. macOS
2. GNOME
3. KDE Plasma
4. Metro
5. Cinnamon

True or false: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) advocates free software, which means they believe you should not have to pay money for software.

Which of the following are open source software licenses? (Choose all that apply.)

1. MIT
2. GPL
3. BSD
4. Creative Commons
5. Apache

What are the three common categories for Linux systems?

1. Embedded
2. Graphical
3. Desktop
4. Industrial
5. Server

What are some of the recent changes seen in Linux? (Choose all that apply.)

1. Improvements in the kernel
2. Improvements in support tools
3. Creation of new support tools
4. Creation of new distributions
5. Payment is now required to install Linux.

Which of the following are software suites that allow you to set up a private cloud using Linux? (Choose all that apply.)

1. Nextcloud
2. Zoho
3. ownCloud
4. Castero
5. Kdenlive

True or false: The dpkg and rpm package management utilities are both low-level tools.

True or false: When working in a terminal, the shell prompt often ends in either a dollar sign or a greater-than symbol for ordinary users.

Which of the following commands allow you to search the man pages for the keyword copy? (Choose all that apply.)

1. apropos copy
2. man -k copy
3. whereis copy
4. whatis copy
5. locate copy

Which is the current version of the original ext filesystem?

1. extfs
2. ext2fs
3. ext3fs
4. ext4fs
5. btrfs

What command(s) display(s) information about the CPU that your Linux system is running on? (Choose all that apply.)

1. uname -a
2. lsusb
3. lspci
4. lscpu
5. man cpu

What type of files are typically stored in the /usr folder?

1. User data files
2. Configuration files
3. Critical system files
4. Noncritical system program and data files
5. Program library files

Which wildcard character matches any character or set of characters?

1. *
2. ?
3. []
4. _
5. -

Which of the following are considered characters that can be used for regular expression matching rules? (Choose all that apply.)

1. *
2. []
3. >
4. ?
5. .

Which tar option is used to compress the archive into a tarball using xz compression?

1. -X
2. -j
3. -z
4. -v
5. -J

What commands could you use to see if the MySQL database server is currently running on your system? (Choose all that apply.)

1. ls
2. ps
3. top
4. free
5. yum

What command-line command displays the overall memory usage on your Linux system?

1. ps
2. top
3. free
4. ls
5. yum

Which of the following are text editors you can use at the command line on a text-based tty terminal? (Choose all that apply.)

1. vi
2. nano
3. gedit
4. Kate
5. emacs

The first line of a shell script is #!/bin/bash. What does that mean?

1. The script won’t run on most Linux systems.
2. The script requires the Bash shell to run.
3. The script requires the C shell to run.
4. The script will run on Unix systems.
5. The script can be run without specifying the full pathname to the script file.

What variable can you use to view the exit status of a script after it completes?

1. $?
2. $0
3. $1
4. $PATH
5. $exit

Which of the following typically holds user account passwords on a modern Linux 
distribution?

1. /etc/passwd
2. /bin/bash
3. /etc/shadow
4. /etc/group
5. /sbin/nologin

A(n) _____ account is one that most common users have as their account type.

1. home
2. system
3. administrative
4. standard
5. root

When you create a new account with the useradd utility, if you did not set a password with an option the account will be locked. What command should you use with super user privileges to unlock it?

1. usermod -u username
2. password username
3. passwd username
4. useradd -p password username
5. unlock username

True or false: When a user account is created, it is automatically assigned a primary group.

Which commands can you use to change the group a file is assigned to? (Choose all that apply.)

1. chmod
2. chgrp
3. chage
4. chown
5. groupadd

What command would you use to make the file myfile.txt a hidden file?

1. chmod 755 myfile.txt
2. mv myfile.txt ~myfile.txt
3. cp myfile.txt ./myfile.txt
4. mv .myfile.txt myfile.txt
5. mv myfile.txt .myfile.txt

If your Linux server doesn’t have a graphical desktop installed, what two tools could you use to configure network settings from the command line?

1. nmcli
2. iwconfig
3. ip
4. netstat
5. ping

What tool allows you to send ICMP messages to a remote host to test network connectivity?

1. netstat
2. ifconfig
3. ping
4. iwconfig
5. ss