NOS 120 TEST QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Perl is a(n) ____ language, which means that statements are read and
immediately executed. - ANSWER interpreted
Another name for window is - ANSWER x11
You currently have four open windows in KDE and are out of space on
your desktop. Because you are feverishly working on a project, you need
to leave all four windows open and start three new windows to access
other data and programs. What can you do to make your work easier? -
ANSWER Open the new windows on another desktop.
Name a file manager in either GNOME or KDE and suggest five things
you can accomplish with it. - ANSWER GNOME has Nautilus and KDE
has Konqueror. Common actions you can accomplish via both include,
view files and folders, create folders, delete or move files and folders,
copy and paste files and folders, configure permissions, open a
document or program, and access the Internet.
When you have the default GNOME desktop set up, how can you
quickly access the contents of your home directory? - ANSWER Double-
click the icon that is labeled with your account name and the word
Home.
Sometimes when you walk away from your desk and come back you find
your work associate from a nearby cubicle using the Internet on your
computer, because he says your connection is faster. How can you best
protect your computer from this type of intrusion? - ANSWER Set up a
screensaver and have it lock your computer when it is activated.
Your new colleague is tuning the performance of her computer and is
planning to set the runlevel to 6 to speed it up.What is your advice? -
ANSWER The runlevel should never be set to 6.
, Once in a while after your system has been improperly shut down, such
as during a power outage, it reboots into the command line. After you log
in, what command can you use to start XWindow and your desktop? -
ANSWER startx
You want to use a more lively desktop background than the one installed
by default via KDE. How can you set up a new desktop background? -
ANSWER Right-click an open spot in your current desktop background
and click Configure Desktop.
Your department is developing its own set of marketing applications. In a
meeting, a member of the department asks whether a menu can be set
up in the GNOME desktop for easy access to the new applications
.What is your response? - ANSWER A menu can be set up and
launched from a Panel in GNOME.
Comments lines begin with an - ANSWER #
The ____ file is run each time you log in or give the command to set
Bash as your current shell, but not when you run a subshell. - ANSWER
.bash_login
A .bash_logout file in each Bash user's home directory executes
commands when the user logs out - ANSWER True
Shell scripts run more quickly than compiled programs. - ANSWER
False
You use the chexec command to indicate that a (shell script) file can be
executed. - ANSWER False
If a source file contains ____ errors, it cannot be converted into an
executable file. - ANSWER False
Shell scripts can automatically access variables created and assigned
on the command line. - ANSWER False
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