Linux Quiz

/home is an example of

• relative path

• absolute path

If you want to know your current working directory, you can use which command

• ps

• pwd

• pd

• cd

Your current present working directory is /home/jon/documents/. You just entered cd into the command line without specifying any directories and then typed pwd. What output do you receive?

• /home/jon/documents/..

• /home

• /home/jon

• /home/jon/documents/

Which of the following is used to redirect the standard output of a command to a file?

• &2

• &1

• 2>

• 1>

How would you represent rwxr-xr-- in octal notation?

• 624

• 724

• 742

• 754

Which file contains a list of the user's secondary groups?

• /etc/group

• /etc/user

• /etc/shadow

• /etc/passwd

Where are the passwords stored for users on a Linux system?

• /etc/group

• ​/etc/skel

• /etc/shadow

• /etc/passwd

Which of the following commands would be used to display the value of the HOME variable to the terminal's display?

• ​echo "HOME"

• echo &HOME

• echo HOME

• echo $HOME

Which command-line tool will create a filename that ends in .gz?

• gzip

• xz

• bzip2

• zip

Which directory contains configuration files?

• /usr

• /bin

• /var

• /etc