Linux Midterm Review

Which keyboard signal typically interrupts a running process in a command-line environment by sending SIGINT?

• CTRL-C

• CTRL-Z

• CTRL-D

• TAB

In a shell, which key combination is used to suspend a foreground process and place it into the background (stopped state)?

• CTRL-D

• CTRL-C

• CTRL-Z

• TAB

What is the usual effect of pressing CTRL-D at an interactive shell prompt when reading from standard input?

• Terminate the shell by sending SIGTERM

• Send end-of-file (EOF) to the program

• Suspend the program

• Trigger command completion

Which key is commonly used for command or path completion in many command-line interfaces?

• CTRL-C

• CTRL-Z

• CTRL-D

• TAB

In Linux, which command is used to create a swap space on a disk or partition?

• swapon

• swapoff

• mkswap

• mkfs

Swap is best described as which of the following?

• Permanent storage for logs

• Virtual memory using hard drive space as RAM

• A journaling filesystem

• A bootloader configuration

Which command enables a prepared swap volume so the system can start using it?

• mkfs

• fsck

• swapon

• tune2fs

Which command disables an active swap volume?

• swapoff

• swapon

• mkswap

• dump2fs

Which ext filesystem lacks a journal and is faster than ext3 as a result?

• ext3

• ext4

• ext2

• xfs

ext2 and ext3 filesystems can be no larger than approximately which size?

• 1 TiB

• 16 TiB

• 1 EiB

• 32 TiB