CNIT 340 Exam 1 58 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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CNIT 340 Exam 1| 58 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
what is unix?
what are the two major divisions of unix?
what kind of operating system is UNIX typically?
what is the structure of a UNIX command?
what is the superuser account in UNIX?
what is the file and command that controls who can ru...
CNIT 340 Exam 1| 58 QUESTIONS| WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1). What is unix?
Ans: a collection of related operating systems
2). What are the two major divisions of unix?
Ans: BSD & SysV/SVR4
3). What kind of operating system is unix typically?
Ans: command line only
4). What is the structure of a unix command?
Ans: command -flags operand
5). What is the superuser account in unix?
Ans: root
6). What is the file and command that controls who can run programs as root
Ans: /etc/sudoers; visudo
7). T/f: is it possible to create a root equivalent account?
Ans: false
8). How does one interact with the system?
Ans: via the command line parser
9). What are some things the command line parser can do?
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, Ans: manage processes, manage files
10). What are the two ways commands can be entered?
Ans: manually and via shell scripting
11). Login shell
Ans: program that provides the user's command line prompt when they log into the
system
12). Where is the login shell specified?
Ans: /etc/passwd
13). Where are the startup scripts the login shell generally stored?
Ans: user's home directory
14). Interactive shell
Ans: a non-login shell into which the user enters commands
15). Non-interactive shell
Ans: usually contains a script and inherits environment variables from the parent shell
16). C shell (csh)
Ans: /bin/csh; uses C language syntax for scripting
17). Korn shell (ksh)
Ans: /bin/ksh; introduced command line history and tab completion
18). Bash
Ans: /bin/bash; standard scripting shell for most Linux distributions
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, 19). What is everything managed as in unix?
Ans: a file under a single filesystem (root "/")
20). What is the only hard mount point in unix?
Ans: the root "/"
21). /bin directory
Ans: executable files requied for basic operations
22). /dev directory
Ans: placeholders for devices
23). /etc directory
Ans: configuration information and files
24). /sbin directory
Ans: system binaries
25). /lost+found directory
Ans: where lost files are put
26). /proc directory
Ans: holds the placeholders for running processes
27). /usr directory
Ans: contains installed applications used by all users
28). /home directory
Ans: contains the home directories for each user
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