ACE-P-ALE1.04 Online Practice Questions and Answers

In /etc/shadow, what indicates a locked password?

A. !

B. !!

C. *LK

D. *

E. All of these

According to the UNIX design paradigm, what is a file?

A. Something that stores data

B. An inode

C. A directory

D. Everything

On an Arista switch, where in the filesystem is the flash drive mounted?

A. /root

B. /boot

C. /mnt

D. /etc

Which of these is true about the MBR?

A. it contains the kernel

B. it is not OS-specific

C. it requires the Volume Boot Record

D. it is always stored in memory

What is the two-character sequence at the top of scripts, which tells the kernel what interpreter to use, called?

A. Scripthash

B. Bangscript

C. Hashscript

D. Shebang

On an Arista switch, you can use zcat and zmore to do what?

A. View compressed text files from bash

B. View compressed text files from Cli

C. View any file from bash

D. View any file from Cli

E. Those commands don't exist on Arista switches

Where will the whereis command look to locate files?

A. The system binary directories

B. Your $PATH

C. Root's $PATH

D. Recursively starting at/

In regular expressions, to what does greedy vs. lazy refer?

A. How many lines in a file the pattern will match

B. How many times the pattern will match on a line

C. How strict the pattern is required to be

D. Whether the pattern quantifiers will stop at whitespace

The init system in Linux has been replaced by what?

A. SysDB

B. systemd

C. ProcMgr

D. Lauchner

What was the first widely adopted commercial UNIX?

A. ATandT System V

B. Berkeley Software Distribution

C. Linux

D. Sun Solaris