NDG Linux Essentials 2.0 Midterm Exam (Chapter 1-9) Online

The most popular Linux platform for mobile phones is:

The release cycle:

What does a distribution provide to add and remove software from the system?

A maintenance cycle:

When choosing a distribution of Linux, you should consider:
(choose five)

Which of the following are examples of desktop software?
(choose two)

Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing?
(choose three)

The Linux shell:
(choose three)

Virtualization means:

In graphical mode, you can get to a shell by running which applications?
(choose two)

Source code refers to:

Open source means:
(choose two)

A copyleft provision in a software license means:

Linux is distributed under which license?

Creative Commons licenses allow you to:
(choose three)

Which environment variable contains a list of directories that is searched for commands to execute?

Select the command that can report the location of a command:

True or False?

The shell program interprets the commands you type into the terminal into instructions that the Linux operating system can execute.
True or False?

The acronym CLI stands for:

The most common shell used for Linux distributions is the ________ shell.

Which two pager commands are used by the man command to control movement within the document?
(choose two)

To search the man page sections for the keyword example, which of the following command lines could you execute?
(choose two)

The statement that describes the difference between a man page and an info page is:

The following sections commonly appear on a man page:
(choose three)

The top-level directory on a Linux system is represented as:

What command will allow you to change your current working directory?

Which of the following commands can be used to rename a file?

(choose two)

Which of the following are glob characters?
(choose three)

The main purpose of using glob characters is to be able to provide a list of filenames to a command.
True or False?

The asterisk character is used to represent zero or more of any character in a filename.
True or False?

Compression of a file works by:

Lossy compression:
(choose three)

Which of the following commands can be used to compress a file?
(choose three)

(choose three)