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- The Samba application is a:
- File Server*
- Web Server
- Security Server
- Mail Server
- Which of the following are examples of desktop software? (choose two)
- Web server
- File share
- Web browser*
- Music player*
- Compiler
- If you wanted to set up a blog, which software would be most helpful?
- WordPress*
- MySQL
- Samba
- Postfix
- Dovecot
- Which of the following pieces of software deal with file sharing? (choose three)
- Netatalk*
- NFS*
- X-Windows
- Samba*
- PostgreSQL
- If you wanted to create and print an invoice, which software could you use?
- Evolution
- Firefox
- GNOME
- Compiz
- LibreOffice*
- POP and IMAP are related to:
- Sharing files
- Email*
- Reading and writing music
- Serving web pages
- Letting users log in to multiple servers with 1 set of credentials
- When a computer boots, it can get its network information through:
- X11
- DNS
- DHCP*
- LDAP
- SMTP
- Which of the following are examples of text editors? (choose four)
- pico*
- emacs*
- yum
- vim*
- nano*
- A package manager: (choose two)
- Downloads software from the Internet*
- Emails you when software is out of date
- Keeps track of which files belong to which packages*
- Can optionally repartition your disk to make room for Linux
- Performs a fresh install of Linux
- An interpreted programming language: (choose two)
- Takes fewer resources to run than a compiled language
- Tends to offer more features than compiled languages*
- Is converted into machine specific instructions as the program runs*
- Requires a linking step but no compilation step
- Requires a compilation step but no linking step
- Which of the following are true about compiled programming languages?
- Compiled languages are great for system administration tasks like scripting
- C is a compiled language*
- Ruby is a compiled language
- Perl is a compiled language
- A programmer is usually more productive when using a compiled language
- Which package manager is used in Fedora, a Red Hat derived system?
- vim
- tar
- apt-get
- bash
- yum*
- The Linux shell: (choose three)
- Has a scripting language*
- Has a built in text editor
- Is responsible for tracking the location of configuration files
- Is customizable*
- Allows you to launch programs*
- Which application would you use to edit and piece together sound files to make podcast?
- GIMP
- Bash
- Thunderbird
- Audacity*
- Audiolicious
- The two main families of Linux shells are: (choose two)
- Python Shell
- Korn shell
- emacs
- Bourne Shell*
- C Shell*
- Which server software would you use to create a company directory that you could search and authenticate against?
- ISC DHCP
- Netatalk
- OpenLDAP*
- bind
- Samba
- A Mail Transfer Agent’s primary purpose is to:
- Filter out spam
- Manage the end user’s inbox
- Serve email to end clients
- Deliver mail between servers*
- Act as a gateway between faxes and email
- Which of the following are examples of a web server? (choose two)
- postfix
- NFS
- Nginx*
- WordPress
- Apache*
- If you wanted to let a Linux machine share files with Windows clients and servers, you would use:
- Netatalk
- DNS
- Samba*
- NFS
- bind
- Richard Stallman is associated with:
- The Open Source Initiative
- Microsoft
- The Free Software Foundation*
- BSD Unix
- The Apache foundation
- A “copyleft provision” in a software license means:
- If you redistribute the software, you must distribute the source to any changes you make*
- You may not link against third party closed source software
- You must provide free copies of the software if you use it
- You must provide support for your modifications
- You give up your copyright to the software
- The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is:
- GPLv2 is not approved by the OSI
- Only BSD allows commercial use
- Nothing, they are virtually identical
- BSD has no copyleft provision*
- GPLv2 requires assigning copyright to the FSF
- The Free Software Foundation believes that: (choose two)
- Software should be free to modify*
- No money should ever change hands
- Software should be free to share*
- People should write software with no expectation of making money
- Software should not have copyright
- Which of the following licenses was made by the FSF?
- MIT
- BSD
- GPLv3*
- Creative Commons
- Apache
- A permissive free software license: (choose two)
- Means you can use the software for anything you want*
- Does not allow the software to be locked to certain hardware
- Places no restrictions on sharing modifications*
- Places the software in the public domain
- Requires you share software changes but not binaries
- Linux is distributed under which license?
- Linux Foundation
- MIT
- BSD
- GPLv2*
- GPLv3
- Who founded the Open Source Initiative? (choose two)
- Richard Stallman
- University of California at Berkeley
- Eric Raymond*
- Linus Torvalds
- Bruce Perens*
- A generic term for Open Source and Free Software is:
- SLOFF
- Libre Software
- FLOSS*
- GPL
- OS/FS
- Which are examples of permissive software licenses? (choose two)
- GPLv3
- GPLv2
- LGPLv3
- MIT*
- BSD*
- What does it mean when a work is placed in the public domain?
- The work was done by a government agency
- The author has died
- You must redistribute changes to the software
- You may not use the work for commercial purposes
- The author has relinquished the copyright on the work*
- Creative Commons licenses allow you to: (choose three)
- Specify whether or not people may distribute changes*
- Receive royalties on the use of the work
- Specify whether or not changes must be shared*
- Allow or disallow commercial use*
- Get a veto on where the work is used
- If a podcast is licensed under the CC BY-ND license, you may: (choose two)
- Use an interview or song from it for your own podcast
- Post it to your website*
- Add ads to it and post it to your website.
- Share it as long as you give credit to the author*
- Sell it as part of a compilation
- How can you make money from open source software? (choose three)
- Charge a yearly fee for the right to use the software
- Take payments for fixing bugs*
- Sell hardware that’s built to work with the software*
- Provide paid consulting services for users*
- Unlock premium features for people that pay
- To place software under an open source license, you must give up your copyright.True or False?
- True
- False*
- The difference between the GPL and LGPL licenses are:
- LGPL is shorter than GPL
- LGPL allows linking to non GPLed software*
- LGPL applies to web services
- LGPL was made by the OSI while GPL was made by the FSF
- LGPL allows you to distribute the software in binary-only form
- Permissive free software licenses: (choose three)
- Are not approved by the OSI
- Are not approved by the FSF*
- Include the GPLv2 and BSD
- Can allow software to be used inside closed source software*
- Don’t have a copyleft provision*
- The Creative Commons version of Public Domain licensing is:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Attribution-NonCommercial
- Attribution
- NoAttribution-ShareAlike
- No Rights Reserved*
- Your company makes a hardware firewall that runs a custom Linux kernel. What are your obligations under GPLv2?
- You must ensure your custom kernel runs on a regular Intel machine
- You must make the source to your kernel available*
- There are no requirements
- You must make the source to your custom web interface available
- You must make your hardware designs available
- Participating in open source projects can improve your technical skills, even if it is not your day job.
True or False?- True*
- False
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