ITN 170: Linux System Administration - Ch. 11

  1. You have created a full backup and four incremental backups using dump. In which order must you restore these backups based on their dump level?




    A. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

    [Full backups are taken first and have a dump level 0. Each subsequent incremental backup is numbered starting from 1. After a system failure, backups must be restored in the same order they were taken.]
  2. Which of the following commands creates an archive?




    A.  tar –zcvf /dev/st0 *

    [The -c option to the tar command creates an archive. At minimum the tar command requires two arguments: the location of the archive, and the files to add to the archive.]
  3. Files that have been compressed using the xz utility typically have the _____ extension.




    C. .xz

    [The xz utility uses the .xz for compressed files.]
  4. Which command can be used to create an image backup of a partition?




    D.  dd

    [The dd command can create an image backup from a partition.]
  5. Which of the following are package managers that can be used to install sandboxed applications? (Choose all that apply.)




    • C. Snap
    • c. Flatpak

    [Snap and Flatpak are sandbox package managers, while RPM and DPM are not.]
  6. AppImage applications have a .app extension and can be executed directly on a system.
    False

    [AppImage applications have a .appimage extension.]
  7. Which of the following commands should be run following the installation of a shared library to update the /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.cache files?




    B.  ldconfig

    [The ldconfig command updates the information stored within the /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.cache files.]
  8. The Debian Package Manager (DPM) is the default package manager used by Ubuntu Linux.
    True

    [Ubuntu systems use the DPM by default.]
  9. Which filename extension indicates a tarball?




    C. .tar.xz

    [Tarballs are compressed tar archives. A tar archive compressed using xz often has a .tar.xz extension.]
  10. Which option to the dpkg command can be used to list the files that comprise a package?




    C.  –L

    [The -L option to the dpkg command displays files within a DPM package.]
  11. Which of the following commands extracts an archive?




    D.  cpio –vicdu –I archive.cpio

    [The -I option to cpio indicates an input device when extracting an archive, while the -i option performs the extraction. The -t option displays the contents of the archive instead of extracting it.]
  12. Which option to the rpm command can be used to remove a package from the system?




    D.  –e

    [The -e option to the rpm command can be used to remove (erase) an RPM package.]
  13. Most source code is typically available on the Internet in tarball format or as a git repository.
    True

    [Most source code is distributed via Git repos or tarballs hosted on websites.]
  14. To install a new program from RPM software repositories on the Internet, you can use the dnf get programname command.
    False

    [You can use dnf install programname to install RPM software from an Internet repository.]
  15. Which of the following commands can be used to search for packages that contain the word "oobla" on RPM software repositories?




    A.  dnf search oobla

    [You can use the search option of the dnf command to search for RPM packages in an online software repository.]
  16. Which of the following commands can be used to list the files contained within an installed RPM package?




    B.  rpm –ql packagename

    [You can use the -ql (query, list files) options to the rpm command to list files within an installed RPM package.]
  17. Which of the following commands can be used to remove the test DPM package, including any test configuration files?




    B.  apt purge test

    [The purge option of the apt command (or the -P option to the dpkg command) can be used to remove a package and its configuration files.]
  18. When compiling source code into a binary program, which command does the compiling of the program itself?




    B.  make

    [The make command compiles the source code using the compiler specified in the Makefile.]
  19. Which command will list the Flatpak applications available on a remote Flatpak repository?




    D.  flatpak remote-ls

    [The remote-ls option to flatpak displays the contents of a remote Flatpak repository.]
  20. The -9 option to the gzip command results in a higher compression ratio.
    True

    [The -9 or --best option to gzip provides the maximum compression ratio.]
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