117-201 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A GRUB boot loader installed in the MBR was accidentally overwritten. After booting with a rescue CDROM, how can the lost GRUB first stage loader be recovered?

A. Use dd to restore a previous backup of the MBR

B. Install LILO since there is no easy way to recover GRUB

C. Running mformat will create a new MBR and fix GRUB using info from grub.conf

D. Run grub-install after verifying that grub.conf is correct.

E. Run fdisk --mbr /dev/had assuming that the boot harddisk is /dev/hda.

What is the command to add another IP address to an interface that already has (at least) one IP address?

A. ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.2

B. ifconfigeth0192.168.1.2

C. ipconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.2

D. ipconfig eth0 192.168.1.2

E. ifconfigeth0:sub1192.168.1.2

If the command arp -f is run, which file will be read by default?

A. /etc/hosts

B. /etc/ethers

C. /etc/arp.conf

D. /etc/networks

E. /var/cache/arp

Which TWO archiving formats are used to create an initramfs image?

A. gzip

B. tar

C. rar

D. cpio

E. bzip2

Which script, in the linux/scripts directory, can be used to add up grades or updated code to the 2.6.xx kernel source code?

A. patch

B. patch-kernel

C. kernel-update

D. upgrade-kernel

E. upgrade

After unpacking source code, what file is used by configure to create a final Makefile?

A. configure.in

B. configure.ac

C. Makefile.in

D. Makefile.tmpl

In order to find all library dependencies of /usr/bin/foo, which of the following statement is true?

A. Running ldconfig against /usr/bin/foo will show the required libraries

B. Running ldd against /usr/bin/foo will show the required libraries

C. It's necessary to compile the program again to check the library dependencies of foo.

D. The ls -la command has to be run in the /usr/bin directory, to show all library dependencies of foo.

E. Library dependencies are shown in the /usr/lib directory.

A 2.6.9-acl kernel would be

A. an alpha kernel.

B. someone's patch to a stable kernel.

C. a stable kernel.

D. an unstable kernel.

E. someone's patch to an unstable kernel.

Journalling doesn't appear to be working on an ext3 file-system. When booting, the following line appears:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

What could be causing the problem?

A. An old version of e2fsprogs is installed.

B. The kernel does not contain ext3 support.

C. The file-system is specified as ext2 in/etc/fstab.

D. The system was not shut down cleanly.

Consider the following /etc/fstab file:

/dev/hdal swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 11 /dev/hda3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat user，noauto 0 0 What command can an ordinary (non-root) user use to mount a floppy disk in this system? (Please enter the command with all parameters and/or options)