NDG Linux Essentials 2.

0 Chapter 14 Exam Answers

1. Which of the following would be considered a host?
 A printer attached to the network via an IP address
 A network cable
 A CD-ROM
 The computer’s hard drive
2. A service is…
 …like an IP address.
 …a file that contains configuration information.
 …another name for a computer’s hostname.
 …a feature provided by one computer to another.
3. A network packet contains …
(choose two)
 …the IP address of the source machine.
 …a hard drive partition.
 …the name of the router.
 …the IP address of the destination machine.
4. Only servers have hostnames.
True or False?
 True
 False
5. Which of the following protocols defines how network
communication functions?
 DHCP
 DNS
 TCP/IP
 SSH
6. Which of the following are valid IPv4 addresses?
(choose two)
 192.105.10.10.2
 192.301.25.25
 10.33.55.77
 192.105.10.10
7. Which of the following commands will display the IP address on
a Linux system?
 ifconfig
 dig
 route
 ipconfig
8. Which of the following commands will display the routing table?
(choose two)
 dig
 netstat -r
 ifconfig
 route
9. Which of the following commands will allow you to log into a
remote machine?
 dig
 netstat
 route
 ssh
10. What option to the netstat command has information
shown as numbers rather than names?
 –name
 -r
 -t
 -n
11. Which of the following commands will allow you to log into
the machine server1 with the account name nick?
 ssh nick&server1
 ssh nick-server1
 ssh nick@server1
 ssh nick->server1
12. The RSA key fingerprint allows the dig command to
connect to remote systems.
True or False?
 True
 False
13. When looking at the primary IPv4 configuration file, if the
device was configured to be a DHCP client, then the
BOOTPROTO value would be set to none.
True or False?
 True
 False
14. When issuing the service network restart command, which
of the following occurs?
 …brings up all network interfaces, re-reads all related configuration files and then the
networking for the system is restarted.
 …the networking for the system is stopped and then started back up.
  …takes down all network interfaces, re-reads all related configuration files and then the
networking for the system is restarted.
15. Which of the following files contains the IP addresses of
the name servers the system should consult in any attempt to
resolve names to IP addresses?
 /etc/nsswitch.conf
 /etc/resolve.conf
 /etc/hosts
 /etc/resolv.conf
16. Which of the following commands can be used to display
socket statistics, and supports all major packet and socket
types?
 ss
 ifconfig
 route
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