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Chapter 3 Getting Help Complete Test Bank

Linux Essentials for Cybersecurity (Rothwell/Kinsey)

Chapter 3 Getting Help

1) To discover additional information about a Linux command or configuration file, you can use the __________ page.

A) man

B) auto

C) config

D) info

2) When viewing the content on a man page, you can use the __________ to navigate.

A) toolbar

B) help menu

C) keyboard keys

D) mouse

3) When referring to the man page for finding help information on Linux commands, “man” is short for which of the following?

A) Manage

B) Manual

C) Manipulate

D) Manager

4) Which of the following commands is the same as the whatis command in Linux?

A) man -k

B) passwd

C) man -f

D) man ls

5) When viewing a man page, which movement command moves forward one page in the current document?

A) Enter

B) b

C) Up arrow

D) Spacebar

6) Which man page section for the ls command is for system calls?

A) 2

B) 4

C) 6

D) 8

7) Which man page section for the ls command is for kernel routines?

A) 3

B) 5

C) 7

D) 9

8) Which of the following commands is the same as the apropos command?

A) man -f

B) mandb

C) man -k

D) man ls

9) When viewing a man page, which movement command is used to display a help screen (a summary of man page movement commands)?

A) h

B) q

C) b

D) Enter

10) Which of the following commands is used to build or update the database that holds a list of man pages and descriptions?

A) man -M

B) man cd

C) mandb

D) man -f

11) If you want to specify an alternate location for man pages, you can use which of the following options with the man command?

A) -f

B) -M

C) -b

D) -k

12) Which of the following options is often used with some Linux commands to provide basic help features?

A) -H

B) --help

C) --H

D) -help

13) You can display a list of all the built-in shell commands by running which of the following commands?

A) help -s

B) h -s

C) help -S

D) h -S

14) Whereas each man page is a single text document, __________ pages are more like reading content from a website that has hyperlinks to provide more structure.

A) help

B) search

C) view

D) info

15) Which movement command for the info command is used to move up to the parent node?

A) p

B) u

C) b

D) t

16) Which movement command for the info command is used to move to the last node (the node you were last in)?

A) n

B) p

C) l

D) q

17) Which of the following is not true when comparing man pages and info pages?

A) Info pages are more user friendly, but also require more work for developers to create.

B) Man pages are easier to print than info pages.

C) Info pages often read more like a tutorial; man pages read more like documentation.

D) Often a command will have an info page but not a man page.

18) You can find additional user documentation in which of the following directories?

A) /usr/share/doc

B) /share/doc/usr

C) /doc/usr/share

D) None of the above

19) Which of the following is commonly found in documentation subdirectories for a software package?

A) README file

B) Copyright notifications

C) A changelog

D) All of the above

20) Man pages have been around since the early days of __________ in the early 1970s.

A) Linux

B) Unix

C) DOS

D) Windows

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Chapter Number:
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Aug 21, 2025
Chapter Name:
Chapter 3 Getting Help
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William Rothwell

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