010-160 Practice Test 3 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Which THREE of the following are components of a standard Linux file path?

Accepted Answer

Root directory (/). Root, directories, and filenames are components of a path.

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Terminal color

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User password

Question 2

You are configuring a temporary directory where multiple users save files. To ensure that users can only delete their own files and not files created by others, what must you set?

Accepted Answer

chmod +t /tmp/shared. The sticky bit (represented by the 't' in the others permission field) restricts file deletion to the owner of the file, the directory owner, or root.

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chown root /tmp/shared

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chmod 777 /tmp/shared

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umask 077

Question 3

You want to delete a user account named 'baduser' and also remove their home directory. Which command is correct?

Accepted Answer

userdel -r baduser. The '-r' flag with 'userdel' removes the user's home directory and mail spool.

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deluser --remove baduser

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userdel -f baduser

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rm -rf /home/baduser && userdel baduser

Question 4

A startup company is deciding between a Community-driven distribution and an Enterprise distribution. Which scenario best justifies choosing an Enterprise distribution?

Accepted Answer

The company needs long-term stability and guaranteed vendor support for critical infrastructure.. Enterprise distributions offer vendor-backed support, security patches, and lifecycle guarantees crucial for business environments.

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The development team wants zero cost for the distribution and documentation.

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The company wants to actively contribute to the kernel source code directly.

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The project requires the absolute latest software features released daily.

Question 5

You need to set an environment variable named 'MYVAR' to 'hello' so that it is available to child processes. Which command is correct?

Accepted Answer

export MYVAR=hello. The export command is required to make an environment variable available to child shells.

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set MYVAR=hello

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MYVAR=hello

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env MYVAR=hello

Question 6

Which THREE of the following represent ways to manipulate command output in a pipe?

Accepted Answer

grep. grep, sed, and wc are standard stream processing tools.

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cd

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pwd

Question 7

Which TWO of the following commands help in identifying hardware on a system?

Accepted Answer

lspci. lspci and lsusb are used to list hardware devices connected to their respective buses.

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pwd

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whoami

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date

Question 8

Which THREE of the following represent ways to refer to the home directory?

Accepted Answer

~. ~, $HOME, and the absolute path are all ways to reference home.

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..

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/

Question 9

Which TWO of these tools can modify file ownership or permissions?

Accepted Answer

chown. chmod changes permissions, chown changes ownership.

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groupdel

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useradd

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usermod

Question 10

What is the purpose of the 'tee' command?

Accepted Answer

To split output to both screen and file.. tee reads from standard input and writes to both standard output and one or more files.

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To format text columns.

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To terminate a process.

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To compress files.