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Drag and Drop Matching Questions

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Scenario guide

How to approach drag and drop matching questions

Matching questions give you two columns — concepts, commands, or protocols on the left, and their definitions or use-cases on the right. You drag each left item to its correct match. These appear on most certification exams and punish superficial memorisation.

Quick answer

Drag and Drop Matching Questions questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Practice set

Practice scenarios

Question 1mediummatching
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Match each Linux runlevel to its typical description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Halt

Single-user mode

Multi-user with networking

Multi-user with GUI

Reboot

Question 2mediummatching
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Match each Linux signal to its default action.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Terminate process immediately (cannot be caught)

Terminate process gracefully

Hangup; often reloads configuration

Interrupt from keyboard (Ctrl+C)

Stop process (cannot be caught or ignored)

Question 3mediummatching
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Match each file system type to its typical description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Journaling file system, default on many Linux distros

High-performance 64-bit journaling file system

Copy-on-write file system with snapshots

Used for virtual memory paging

Compatible with Windows FAT32

Question 4mediummatching
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Match each package manager to its associated distribution family.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Debian, Ubuntu

RHEL, CentOS 7

Fedora, RHEL 8+

openSUSE

Arch Linux

Question 5mediummatching
Read the full NAT/PAT explanation →

Match each device file naming pattern to its device type.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

First SCSI/SATA disk

First NVMe SSD

First serial port (COM1)

First loopback device

First software RAID device

Question 6mediummatching
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Match each Linux command to its primary function.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Search text using patterns

Change file permissions

Report snapshot of current processes

Archive files

Stream editor for filtering and transforming text

Question 7mediummatching
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Match each Linux directory to its standard purpose.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

System configuration files

Variable data (logs, databases)

User-installed software and libraries

Temporary files (often cleared on reboot)

Virtual file system for process and kernel info

Question 8mediummatching
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Match each networking tool to its primary use.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Test network connectivity to a host

Display network connections, routing tables, etc.

Capture and analyze network packets

Query DNS for domain name or IP

Configure network interfaces and routing

Question 9mediummatching
Study the full ACL explanation →

Match each ACL term to its meaning.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Permissions for a specific user

Permissions for a specific group

Maximum permissions for named users and groups

Permissions for everyone else

Inherited ACL for new files/directories

Question 10mediummatching
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Match each SELinux context component to its purpose.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

SELinux user identity

Role-based access control component

Type enforcement (most common)

Multi-Level Security sensitivity level

Combined sensitivity and category set

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