010-160 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following commands can be used to resolve a DNS name to an IP address?

A. dnsname

B. dns

C. query

D. host

E. iplookup

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

Which permissions are set on a regular file once the permissions have been modified with the command chmod 654 file.txt?

A. drw-r-xr-

B. d--wxr-x-

C. -wxr-x--x

D. -rwxrw---x

E. -rw-r-xr-

What is true about the owner of a file?

A. Each file is owned by exactly one user and one group.

B. The owner of a file always has full permissions when accessing the file.

C. The user owning a file must be a member of the file's group.

D. When a user is deleted, all files owned by the user disappear.

E. The owner of a file cannot be changed once it is assigned to an owner.

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 of the following are typical services offered by public cloud providers? (Choose three.)

A. Platform as a Service(PaaS)

B. Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)

C. Internet as a Service(IaaS)

D. Graphics as a Service (GaaS)

E. Software as a Service (SaaS)

Which of the following DNS record types hold an IP address? (Choose two.)

A. NS

B. AAAA

C. MX

D. A

E. CNAME

A new server needs to be installed to host services for a period of several years. Throughout this time, the server should receive important security updates from its Linux distribution.

Which of the following Linux distributions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Ubuntu Linux LTS

B. Fedora Linux

C. Debian GNU/Linux Unstable

D. Ubuntu Linux non-LTS

E. Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What is true about links in a Linux file system?

A. A symbolic link can only point to a file and not to a directory.

B. A hard link can only point to a directory and never to a file.

C. When the target of the symbolic link is moved, the link is automatically updated.

D. A symbolic link can point to a file on another file system.

E. Only the root user can create hard links.

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 puts the lines of the file data.csv into alphabetical order?

A. a..z data.csv

B. sort data.csv

C. abc data.csv

D. wc -s data.csv

E. grep --sort data.csv

Which of the following commands creates the ZIP archive poems.zip containing all files in the current directory whose names end in .txt?

A. zip *.txt > poems.zip

B. zcat *.txt poems.zip

C. zip poems.zip *.txt

D. zip cfz poems.zip *.txt

E. cat *.txt | zip poems.zip

Which of the following statements are true regarding a typical shell script? (Choose two.)

A. It has the executable permission bit set.

B. It starts with the two character sequence #!.

C. It is located in /usr/local/scripts/.

D. It is located in /etc/bash/scripts/.

E. It is compiled into a binary file compatible with the current machine architecture.

Which of the following programs are web servers? (Choose two.)

A. Apache HTTPD

B. Postfix

C. Curl

D. Dovecot

E. NGINX

What are the differences between a private web browser window and a regular web browser window? (Choose three.)

A. Private web browser windows do not allow printing or storing websites.

B. Private web browser windows do not store cookies persistently.

C. Private web browser windows do not support logins into websites.

D. Private web browser windows do not keep records in the browser history.

E. Private web browser windows do not send regular stored cookies.