Linux Practice Quiz 4

Which of these commands will create a new shell logged in as the root user?

• sudo

• su

The ls command without options or arguments...

• ...generates an error as this command

• • …lists the contents of a user’s home.

• …generates an error as this command.

• • …lists the contents of the current directory.

Which of the following is NOT an example of an absolute path?

• Documents

• /

• /home/sysadmin

Which command will allow you to change your current directory?

• chdir

• cd

• ls

• ch

Commands are case-sensitive:

• True

• False

The ping command uses IP addresses to identify a computer on a network

• True

• False

Which of the following commands will display the last five lines of a file called file1.txt?
(choose two)

• • head -n 5 file1.txt

• • tail -5 file1.txt

• • tail file1.txt

• • tail -n 5 file1.txt

The > character is used for which of the following file descriptors?

• • STDERR

• • STDIN

• • STDOUT

Which option can be used to view status information about the current user’s password?

• -S

• -s

• -l

• -i

The root user can change the password of any user:

• True

• False