University of South Florida Linux Questions Sample questions: Q1. A system administrator has connected a new external “Hard Drive” to his Linux System. He

University of South Florida Linux Questions Sample questions:

Q1. A system administrator has connected a new external “Hard Drive” to his Linux System. He wants to check all PCI device information. How would he complete this task? Discuss with an example and write your answer with at least 50 words. 
Q2. You have changed the monitor and graphic card on your system. Now you want to check the monitor, graphic card manufacturer and other hardware information. Discuss any one GUI utility and a command, would you use to get required information?
Q3. A system administrator wants to copy files from an archive file. Which “” mode would he use to complete this task? Discuss with an example and write your answer with at least 50 words.CPIO

a total of 29 questions 
check the below file for all the questions HIGHER COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT: Information Technology
Final Assignment
Semester: 2
Assignment Posted
Date: 01 June 2020
Time: 01.00 PM
Platform
(e.g. E-Learning, Microsoft
Teams, etc.)
E-Learning
Course Code
Course Name
Level
ITNT403
Linux Administration I
Bachelor
A. Y.: 2019/2020
Submission Deadline
Date: 03 June 2020
Time: 01:00 PM
GENERAL COLLEGE GUIDELINES
1) All students are given 48 hours to complete and submit their assignment from the day, date and time
the assignment is uploaded.
2) Only one assignment is given to the students within the 48-hour period given. Student should contact
their respective department if more than one assignment is given within the same period (As indicated
in point 7).
3) Assignment answer scripts will be uploaded through any of the following platforms or combinations of
the following: e learning, Moodle and or any course specific platform identify by the course tutor.
However, students may submit their assignment through HCT emails in case if they have encountered
any technical issue with the platform stated above.
4) Student’s submissions will be checked through Turnitin software to ensure academic integrity, if
applicable. “According to Turnitin article on interpreting Turnitin originality report, “a high percentage
of plagiarism would probably be anything over 25%”.
5) Students who fail to submit their assignment as per the deadline given; will be granted “Zero” unless
otherwise justified.
6) If students encounter any problem in submitting their course assignment, they should communicate
immediately via email to their course lecturer. The student must attach proof of their inability to submit
their course assignment.
7) Students will be allowed to submit an online appeal regarding failure of assignment submission issue
within three days from the date of submission deadline. The appeals will only be accepted if the student
provides genuine excuse for the submission failure with attached evidence.
8) Student may need to ask for support assistant with two related matters as following:
a) Technical issues; will be tackled by the specialized technicians from Educational Technology Center
(ETC).
b) Course specific inquiries/support issue; students who require any clarifications on the assignments
can immediately contact their respective course tutors /lecturers through emails (within the 48hour period given). Course tutors/ lecturers should respond promptly to the student’s doubts and
queries.
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– For technical support please contact the below e mail as follow:
Office365support@hct.edu.om
Any Issue Related: E-mails accounts and Microsoft
TEAMS
Any Issue Related: E-Learning Moodle
Any Other IT Troubleshooting
Support.elearning@hct.edu.om
Helpdesk2@hct.edu.om
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identify below:
Mr. Roby Surendran
Mr. Mohammed Mushtaq
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roby.surendran@hct.edu.om
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Higher College of Technology
Information Technology Department
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FOR ASSIGNMENT
DEPARTMENT GUIDELINES: TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Never share or post the test questions or answer scripts for any purpose.
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to submit their answers.
At the end of the 48 hours, the submission link shall be deleted or deactivated. NO EXTENSION
WILL BE GIVEN. Failure to submit the answer within the 48-hour period will result to ZERO
mark.
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chat message in MS Teams, at least two (2) hours before the expiration of the 48-hour period.
4. For IT exams, there is a separate Answer Script Template where students should type their
answers.
For Math exams, handwritten answers are allowed. Make sure to include Student Name on each
page and the question number to avoid confusion.
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5. Do the proper citation in every answer taken from other sources, if applicable.
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can use any available mobile app scanner if in case you do not have a scanner device.]
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appropriate platform/tool as written on the exam paper.
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https://www.hct.edu.om/pdf/pms/academic-integrity-and-honesty-policy.pdf.
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disciplinary action or get ZERO mark, as the case may be.
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materials explicitly acknowledged by proper citations.
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Section A
[40 Marks]
Please read the instruction carefully and answer the given tasks accordingly. It is an
individual Final Exam Assessment.
 Download the “Answer Sheet” word file from the e-learning and change the
file name to Your ID and Name such as “yourID_Name_FExam.docx”. You
are required to “SIGN” the given declaration form.
 Write your answers and steps in this word file and upload on the given elearning link.
 Plagiarism is not allowed. Do not use or copy words from the learning material.
In case of copy, 0 marks will be given. Write the answer in your own words.
Q1. A system administrator has connected a new external “Hard Drive” to his Linux System.
He wants to check all PCI device information. How would he complete this task? Discuss
with an example and write your answer with at least 50 words.
[1 Mark]
Q2. You have changed the monitor and graphic card on your system. Now you want to check
the monitor, graphic card manufacturer and other hardware information. Discuss any one
GUI utility and a command, would you use to get required information?
[0.5 + 0.5 = 1 Mark]
Q3. A system administrator wants to copy files from an archive file. Which “CPIO” mode
would he use to complete this task? Discuss with an example and write your answer with at
least 50 words.
[2 Marks]
Q4: “xargs” is one of useful Linux utility. Do the following in this context: [1 + 1 = 2 Marks]
a) Discuss the use of “xargs” utility with an example and write your answer with at least
50 words.
b) Observe the following picture and explain the command output in detail.
Q5. A user has created a “log.txt” file which contains a large number of duplicated lines.
How would he remove the duplicated lines from the “log.txt”?
[1 Mark]
Q6. A system administrator wants to install “sysinfo” on his Linux System but when he runs
the appropriate command he received the following error. Observe the below picture and
propose a solution to resolve this issue.
[1 Mark]
Q7: A user has created a text file named “ASort.txt” with given Data. He wants to sort the
file Data in “Ascending Order”. Write down the appropriate command, he would use to
complete this task.
[1 Mark]
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Q8. A system administrator has created two files “Countries.txt” and “SickPeople.txt” with
the given data fields.
[1 Mark]
a) Observe the below given output and discuss which command, he has used to mixed
the both files data?
Q9. Observe the following picture and explain the output of the command in detail. [1 Mark]
Q10. Discuss the benefits of using “grep” over “sed” with an example and write at least 50
words.
[1 Mark]
Q11: As a system administrator, you noticed that the Email Server service is not running
properly on your server, which causes some delay in sending and receiving the emails. How
would you change the Email service to high priority without disrupting its current
operation? Justify your answer with proper example and write at least 50 words. [2 Marks]
Q12: You have noticed that a “310” process ID is appearing in the background and
consuming a lot of system memory. You want to kill the process without closing the service.
How would you complete this task? Justify your answer with proper example.
[1 Mark]
Q13: As a system administrator, you are managing two branch services with a Linux server.
You have created separate directories to store branches files. Now, you want to move a file
name “move.txt” from /home/Branch1/Files to the desktop location. How would you
complete this task?
[1 Mark]
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Q14: A system administrator is managing a Muscat Branch Server, he noticed some bad
sectors on the Server Hard Drive. Therefore, he wants to create a Backup copy of entire hard
drive using “DD” utility. Discuss the complete process of creating Backup and “DD” utility
with appropriate command justification. Write your answer with at least 100 words.
[2 Marks]
Q15: Your IT Manager has asked you to configure “Symbolic Permissions” with given
permission level on two directories “SaleData” and “HRData”. Write down the commands
to assign the following permissions:
[0.5 + 0.5 = 1 Mark]


Sales Data = User and Group will have read, write and exe permission only
HR Data = Group will not have exe permission, other will have only read permission
Q16: As a system administrator, how would you configure to get a report when any file
ownership is changed on your Linux server? Write down the proper command with
appropriate example.
[1 Mark]
Q17: You have been given a task to change two files “T1.txt” and “T2.txt” and a directory
“Data” ownership to an “IT” user using a single line command. How would you complete
this task? Justify your answer with appropriate example.
[1 Mark]
Q18: As a network administrator, you are managing the Dell Data Center in Oman. Your
Manager asked you to create and implement a group quota service at Branch1 for Group1
users. Do the following in the context:
[3 Marks]
a)
b)
c)
d)
Write a command to create a User group for Branch1 = Group1
Write a command to create a User = Test1 inside Group1
Write a command to enable permanent 2GB quota for Group1 users
Write a command to initialize the group quota
[0.5 Mark]
[0.5 Mark]
[1 Mark]
[1 Mark]
Q19: Discuss the usability of “systemctl” service in Linux OS. Write a script to create a
Backup of “/home/” user directory every Sunday 10pm and run it “systemctl” service.
[1 + 1 = 2 Marks]
Q20. Write down the appropriate command to display the “Kernel Ring Buffer” information
and redirect the output to save in a file “Kernalinfo.txt”.
[1 Mark]
Q21: Why “SYSTEMCTL” utility is considered beneficial over Shell scripts? Justify your
answer with proper example. Write your answer with at least 50 words.
[1 Mark]
Q22: Linux OS has many flexibilities and features, one of them is managing Users and
Groups. Discuss how users and groups arrangements are defined in the Linux OS with
appropriate example? Write your answer with at least 50 words.
[1 Mark]
Q23: Your IT Manager has asked you to verify the groups and users detail on your Linux
OS and delete the “ITManager” user group.
[1.5 + 0.5 = 2 Marks]
a) Discuss the process to verify users and groups account on Linux OS. Write your
answer with at least 50 words.
b) How would you delete “ITManager” user group?
Q24: As a system administrator, write a bash script to run automatic tasks on the Linux OS.
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[0.5 x 4 = 2 Marks]
a) Create a script file with the name Test1.sh that will have an executable permission for
all users
b) Display a login user name and current date
c) Display hostname and current working directory path
d) Save the output into a Result.txt file
Q25: Write a bash script as per given instruction using conditional “for loop” statement.
[0.5 x 4 = 2 Marks]
a) Create a script file with the name PrintNo.sh that will have an executable permission
for all group users
b) The program will accept two numbers from the user as input and store them into two
variables such as “V1” and “V2”.
c) It will print all numbers between V1 and V2. For example, if V1 is 1 and V2 is 5. The
program will print 1 to 5 all numbers.
d) At the end of the outputs, display your name and save the output into a Result2.txt
file.
Q26: Your IT Manager has asked you to install and configure the Network Time Protocol
(NTP) on your Linux Server to manage the network devices time. How would you complete
this? Explain all steps and benefits of using NTP with proper justification.
[2 Marks]
Q27: Linux is very flexible to use multiple services and functions. Your Manager has asked
you to perform a research on usability of Linux Email Server setup and configuration to
brief him. How and what would you recommend him regarding this? Explain your choice
with proper justification.
[1 Mark]
Q28. An administrator wants to configure a static IP address on the Linux server. How would
he add a default gateway “IP Address: 192.168.0.1” on the host IP “Address: 192.168.0.10”?
[1 Mark]
Q29. A root user wants to install a DHCP server on the Linux server. How would he complete
this task?
[1 Mark]
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