51. Messages from programs are not appearing in the user’s native language. What environment variable must be set
for this to happen?
A. LANG
B. I18N
C. MESSAGES
D. MSGS
E. LC_MSGS
Answer: A
52. What backup arrangement should be used for an intranet web server the contents of which is updated fairly regularly
by different staff?
A. Daily incremental backups with a weekly full [...]
46. What command is used to permanently set the options in the kernel when making a boot disk?
A. blockdev
B. kconfig
C. lilo
D. rdev
E. dd
Answer: D
47. What happens when the Linux kernel can’t mount the root filesystem when booting?
A. An error message is shown, showing which device couldn’t be mounted or informing that init couldn’t be found.
B. [...]
41. What needs to be done to enable 32 bit I/O transfer mode for (E)IDE disks, on a system running a 2.4 series Linux
kernel?
A. The Linux kernel must be recompiled.
B. The sysctl utility must be used.
C. The hdparm utility must be used.
D. This feature isn’t supported in 2.4 series kernels.
E. This feature is enabled by [...]
36. What command is used to re-add a partition to a software RAID setup?
A. raidhotadd
B. raidadd
C. addraid
D. raidaddhot
Answer: A
37. Which command displays information about connected USB devices?
A. cat /proc/usbdevices
B. cat /proc/usb/devices
C. cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
D. cat /proc/usbbus/devices
E. cat /proc/hotplug/usb
Answer: C
38. Considering that a 2.4 series Linux kernel is being used, which kernel module must be loaded to [...]
31. What command is used to force a file-system check, when rebooting?
A. reboot -f
B. shutdown -f now
C. shutdown -c -r now
D. fsck -r
E. shutdown -F -r now
Answer: E
32. What command can be used on an existing (formatted) partition, to configure the interval between disk checks when
mounting partitions?
A. mke2fs
B. e2fsck
C. e2fsckconfig
D. config2fs
E. tune2fs
Answer: E
33. How can [...]
26. Which of the following is a valid location in the automount configuration, when a Windows share needs to be made
available to the system?
A. \\server\sharename
B. ://server/sharename
C. server:/sharename
D. :server/sharename
E. \\\\server\\sharename
Answer: B
27. The swap usage on a system needs to be checked. Which TWO commands can be used to display a swap usage
summary?
A. cat /proc/swaps
B. swapon -s
C. [...]
16. How must Samba be configured, so that it can check passwords against the ones in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?
A. Set the parameters “encrypt passwords = yes” and “password file = /etc/passwd”.
B. Set the parameters “encrypt passwords = yes”, “password file = /etc/passwd” and “password algorithm = crypt”.
C. Delete the smbpasswd file and create a symbolic [...]
11. What script is included with the kernel source to patch a kernel?
A. patch
B. patch-kernel
C. apply-patch
D. update-kernel
Answer: B
12. Before compiling a new kernel, what needs to be done?
A. Compile kernel modules.
B. Configure the kernel options.
C. Delete old kernel sources.
D. Change to runlevel 1.
E. All of the above.
Answer: B
13. To remove the patch patch-2.4.28.tar.bz2 from a [...]
6. Your routing configuration relies on eth0 being a 3com card that requires the 3c59x module. What line must be
added to modules configuration file, to ensure that eth0 always uses this module?
A. eth0=3c59x
B. alias eth0=3c59x
C. alias eth0 3c59x
D. set eth0 3c59x
E. set eth0=3c59x
Answer: C
7. Which command would you use to apply a diff file to [...]
1. Which TWO statements about crontab are true?
A. Every user may have their own crontab.
B. Changing a crontab requires a reload/restart of the cron deamon.
C. The cron daemon reloads crontab files automatically when necessarly.
D. hourly is the same as “0 * * * *”.
E. A cron daemon must run for each existing crontab.
Answer: AC
2. What [...]