ACE-P-ALE1.04 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What term is used for the beginning of time for UNIX?

A. Epoch

B. Zero-hour

C. Birth

D. Dawn

E. Awakening

Which of these shells are POSIX compliant?

A. bash

B. ksh

C. csh

D. zsh

On older Fedora Core systems, which dependency manager is used?

A. apt

B. deb

C. rpm

D. yum

E. dnf

On an Arista switch, you can use zcat and zmore to do what?

A. View compressed text files from bash

B. View compressed text files from Cli

C. View any file from bash

D. View any file from Cli

E. Those commands don't exist on Arista switches

Which commands can be used to copy a file to or from remote host?

A. scp only

B. rsync only

C. scp and rsync

D. both cp and scp

E. cp, scp and rsync

Which of the following filesystems are you most likely to see on a Linux system?

A. XFS

B. ext2fs

C. NTFS

D. exFAT

To kill all of the jobs you have access to kill, use which command?

A. kill -1 1

B. kill 1

C. kill -9 1

D. kill -9 -1

If the 1-minute load average is greater than 4xCPU cores (in other words, the run queue is very large), what might the system need to improve performance?

A. Faster CPUs

B. More CPUs

C. More memory

D. Faster hard drives

In bash, a for loop will iterate over a list of strings separated by what?

A. quotes

B. single quotes

C. backticks

D. whitespace

What is the MBR?

A. Microcomputer Boot Resistor

B. Master Boot Relocator

C. Master Boot Record

D. Megabyte Barometric Recombinator