Verified Test Bank Ch8 Linux on the Desktop

Survey of Operating Systems, 6e (Holcombe)

Chapter 8 Linux on the Desktop

1) What organization was created in 1988 to lobby for an open UNIX?

A) GNU

B) OSF

C) OpenSUSE

D) X Consortium

2) Despite his key role in the development of Linux, this person receives no direct financial gain.

A) Linus Torvalds

B) Steve Jobs

C) Dennis Ritchie

D) Fred Linux

3) This is a bootable image of the operating system that will run from disc or other bootable media without requiring that the OS be installed on the local computer.

A) boot image

B) disk image

C) live image

D) distribution

4) What is the generic term for the user interface to an OS that accepts commands and displays error messages and other screen output?

A) CLI

B) shell

C) GNOME

D) X Window System

5) This GUI shell standard was developed in 1984 at MIT.

A) CLI

B) shell

C) GNOME

D) X Window System

6) This group formed in 1980s to continue the development of a standard for GUI interfaces.

A) GNU

B) OSF

C) OpenSUSE

D) X Consortium

7) Which of the following is an implementation of the X Window System?

A) Linux

B) GNOME

C) macOS

D) Ubuntu Linux

8) Using a special symbol, such as the tilde (~) or two dots (..), as a parameter to certain shell commands, you can move around directories in Linux using ________.

A) Root account

B) Relative path

C) Absolute path

D) Command-line history

9) The command line cd/usr/sbin is an example of the use of a/an ________.

A) Root account

B) Relative path

C) Absolute path

D) Command-line history

10) Which one of these commands will display the current directory?

A) chgperm

B) pwd

C) chmod

D) cp

11) At the Linux command shell, when an ordinary user is logged on, the prompt ends with which of the following characters?

A) $

B) ?

C) #

D) >

12) Which of the following is the short name for a very popular Web server first developed for UNIX, but available for Linux and other operating systems?

A) Sudo

B) Launcher

C) Apache

D) RHEL

13) Which of the following would you enter at the Linux command line to shut down Linux immediately and to power off the computer?

A) shutdown

B) sudo shutdown now

C) exit -r

D) shutdown -r

14) Shortly after installing Linux Ubuntu you will be prompted to ________.

A) shutdown

B) create a new user

C) create a live image

D) install updates

15) Which of the following will result in an error message if you enter it at the Linux command prompt?

A) shutdown-h now

B) shutdown -h now

C) man ls

D) date

16) Everything in Linux is a ________.

A) driver

B) program

C) mode

D) file

17) This is the one place in Linux where an ordinary user has full control.

A) $ prompt

B) mode

C) home directory

D) GNOME

18) What directory contains settings and configuration data and is one of the directories created by default in Linux?

A) /etc

B) /bin

C) /home

D) /

19) This default Linux directory contains many of the Linux commands.

A) /etc

B) /bin

C) /home

D) /

20) Use this shell command to modify file permissions.

A) chgperm

B) pwd

C) chmod

D) cp

21) Use this shell command to copy files.

A) chgperm

B) pwd

C) chmod

D) cp

22) Which of the following options for the ls command will show a listing of all files, including hidden files?

A) -F

B) -l

C) -a

D) -S

23) Which command will change focus to the user's home directory, regardless of the current directory?

A) cd..

B) cd ~

C) cd/

D) cd root

24) What command displays the entire contents of a file, pausing when the screen is full and waiting for a keystroke to continue?

A) cd

B) sudo

C) cp

D) more

25) The KDE GUI in Fedora discussed in this chapter has a screen object resembling the Windows desktop Start menu. What is the name of this object?

A) Dash

B) Kickoff Application Launcher

C) Spotlight

D) Workspace Switcher

26) Precede a Linux shell command with this command when you are logged on as an administrator, and you can temporarily run the command, even if it normally requires root-level privileges.

A) cd

B) sudo

C) cp

D) userdel

27) A distribution of Ubuntu Linux labeled ________ will be supported for up to five years with free updates.

A) LTS

B) Live image

C) GNOME

D) Unity

28) Which command will delete a user?

A) su

B) sudo

C) useradd

D) userdel

29) Which of the following is true when you delete a user in Linux?

A) The user's home directory is deleted.

B) The user's home directory is not deleted.

C) The user's home directory is moved.

D) The user's home directory is renamed.

30) What permissions are assigned by the access mode number 6?

A) read only

B) read and write

C) read and execute

D) read, write, and execute

31) GNU was formed to develop a commercial version of a UNIX-like operating system.

32) Ubuntu and Fedora are sources of Linux distributions.

33) It is impossible to start a live image of Linux in a virtual machine.

34) Because Linux is basically a non-GUI OS, the Ubuntu Linux distribution does not include a GUI.

35) When working in a live image of Linux, you are logged in with an administrator user account.

36) Linux is case sensitive.

37) The various versions of Linux have little in common with one another.

38) The Ubuntu shell command, sudo, does not require the root password, even though it will give you temporary root account privileges for administrative tasks.

39) As in Windows, if you are logged on to Ubuntu Linux as an administrator-type account, you must provide your own password before doing an administrative task.

40) The word burn is used to describe the act of creating a bootable image on a hard drive.

41) Explain Ken Thompson's role in the evolution of Linux.

42) What two organizations were involved in something the trade press called the "UNIX wars?"

43) Defend or dispute this statement: When you start Linux, if you do not see a Login page you are not logged in as a user.

44) You have installed Linux Ubuntu with the GNOME GUI. Briefly explain what command-line interface (CLI) you would use in this GUI.

45) Describe how you would shut down Linux from the Ubuntu GNOME GUI.

46) What is a traditional Linux CLI shell?

47) Describe where Linux stores command-line history and briefly describe a feature that takes advantage of this history.

48) Describe the Livepatch service for Ubuntu and the problem it solves.

49) A file has the permissions rwxr-xr-x. Describe what these permissions are and to whom they apply.

50) In Linux, who is the owner of a file?