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

Which of these statements is true?

A. "." And "..." are always used in absolute paths

B. Absolute paths start with a "/"

C. Best practice is to always use absolute paths in scripts and when running commands as root

D. Relative paths can start with a "/"

True or false: an SSH private key should never be shared with other users or host systems.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

What are two primary variants of UNIX?

A. ATandT and Bell Labs

B. Sun and DEC

C. BSD and System V

D. Debian and Fedora

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

Which of the following filesystems are you most likely to see on a Linux system?

A. XFS

B. ext2fs

C. NTFS

D. exFAT

On Arista switches, what object format is used for automation and scripting?

A. JSON

B. Java

C. Plain text files

D. Stream editing

When scripting in bash, it is recommended to always use which symbols around your variables to reference them?

A. {}

B. []

C. ()

D. ` '

E. " "

What tool is awk based on?

A. ed

B. grep

C. sed

D. emacs

In bash scripting, which of the following is NOT valid way of evaluating an arithmetic expression?

A. $(( ))

B. ${}

C. $[]

D. let