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Unix Administration interview questions part 2
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Total Questions: 20
1. The SUID for any file can be set by the administrator using ____
A. chmod
B. chmod u+s filename
C. chmod s filename
D. chmod us filename
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Correct Answer is :
chmod u+s filename
2. The superuser can set the sticky bit.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
D.
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Correct Answer is :
TRUE
3. Which of the following commands are used for the maintenance of user accounts?
A. useradd
B. usermod
C. userdel
D. useradd, usermod, userdel
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Correct Answer is :
useradd, usermod, userdel
4. _____ command is used for creating a new group.
A. chgrp
B. chown
C. addgrp
D. groupadd
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Correct Answer is :
groupadd
5. For adding a new user to the system, we have to use ____ command.
A. grpadd
B. useradd
C. uadd
D. adduser
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Correct Answer is :
useradd
6. All the user information is stored in _____
A. etc/passwd
B. bin/passwd
C. bin/users/passwd
D. etc/shadow
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Correct Answer is :
etc/passwd
7. Which of the following is not a field stored in /etc/passwd?
A. username
B. password
C. UID, GID
D. encrypted password
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Correct Answer is :
encrypted password
8. Which command is used by the administrator to modify some parameters of existing users?
A. userdel
B. userchange
C. useradd
D. usermod
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Correct Answer is :
usermod
9. userdel is used for removing users from the system.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
D.
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Correct Answer is :
TRUE
10. shutdown command is used by the administrator for shutting down the system.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
D.
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Correct Answer is :
TRUE
11. Which option is used with shutdown command to override the default waiting time?
A. -g
B. -e
C. -s
D. -i
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Correct Answer is :
-g
12. Which one of the following command will shutdown and reboot the system?
A. shutdown -g2
B. shutdown -g2 i6
C. shutdown -g2 -g0
D. shutdown -y -g0 -i6
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Correct Answer is :
shutdown -y -g0 -i6
13. Which command is used for reporting free space on the disk?
A. fd
B. df
C. du
D. sg
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Correct Answer is :
df
14. ___ option is used with df command for displaying the total amount of disk space in the file system.
A. -a
B. -d
C. -t
D. -e
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Correct Answer is :
-t
15. ___ option is used with df command for displaying the total amount of disk space in the file system in terms of Kilobytes.
A. -a
B. -d
C. -t
D. -k
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Correct Answer is :
-k
16. Which command is used to find out the consumption of a specific directory?
A. du
B. df
C. mem
D. dv
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Correct Answer is :
du
17. Which option is used with du command for finding only the summary of disk usage by a specific directory?
A. -e
B. -f
C. -e
D. -s
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Correct Answer is :
-s
18. du command can also be used for reporting the disk space consumed by each user.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
D.
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Correct Answer is :
TRUE
19. A device file contains no data.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
C.
D.
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Correct Answer is :
TRUE
20. All the device files are stored in _____
A. kernel
B. /home/usr
C. /dev
D. /home
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Correct Answer is :
/dev
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