GAQM lcp-001 online test

Question 1

You suspect that a new ethernet card might be conflicting with another device. Which file should you
check within the /proc tree to learn which IRQs are being used by which kernel drives?

Answer:

interrupts
/proc/interrupts

Question 2

How many SCSI ids for peripherals can SCSI-1 support?

• A. 5
• B. 6
• C. 7
• D. 8

Answer:

C

Explanation:
SCSI-1 support total 7 peripherals. There are several different types of SCSI devices. The original SCSI
specification is commonly referred to as SCSI-1. The newer specification, SCSI-2, offers increased
speed and performance, as well as new commands. Fast SCSI increases throughput to more than
10MB per second. Fast-Wide SCSI provides a wider data path and throughput of up to 40MB per
second and up to 15 devices. There there are Ultra-SCSI and Ultra-Wide-SCSI

Question 3

You need to install a fax server. Which type of fax/modem should you install to insure Linux
compatibility?

• A. External Serial Fax/modem
• B. External USB Fax/modem
• C. Internal ISA Fax/modem
• D. Internal PCI Fax/modem

Answer:

A

Question 4

You are running Linux 2.0.36 and you need to add a USB mouse to your system. Which of the
following statements is true?

• A. You need to rebuild the kernel.
• B. You need to upgrade the kernel.
• C. You need to load the USB modules for your existing modular kernel.
• D. USB support is no available in Linux.

Answer:

B

Question 5

You have just upgraded your PC to a 60 gigabyte IDE drive. While partitioning the drive, you notice
that only 32 gigabytes are available. Which of the following will most likely allow you to use the
entire drive?

• A. Create two smaller partitions of 30 gigabytes each.
• B. Set the PC BIOS to use LBA mode.
• C. Create a partition that resides entirely below the first 1024 cylinders.
• D. Use GRUB or the latest version of LILO as a bootloader.
• E. Upgrade the PC BIOS to the latest version available.

Answer:

E

Question 6

The lspci command can display information about devices except the following:

• A. Card bus speed (e.g. 66Mhz)
• B. Card IRQ settings
• C. Card vendor identification
• D. Card AGP rate (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)
• E. Card Ethernet MAC address

Answer:

E

Explanation:
lspci is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected
to them. To display the MAC address of Ethernet, we use the ifconfig command.

Question 7

If Linux detects an ACPI BIOS on bootup, what does it automatically deactivate?

• A. PnP
• B. PCI
• C. ATA
• D. APM

Answer:

D

Question 8

What command would help you identify the I/O address range being used by the network card?

• A. cat/proc/modules
• B. cat/proc/devices
• C. cat/proc/meminfo
• D. cat/io/dma
• E. cat/proc/ioports

Answer:

E

Question 9

What program is needed to establish a PPP link to another computer?

• A. pppd
• B. wvdial
• C. papd
• D. kppp

Answer:

A

Explanation:
wvdial - PPP dialer with built-in intelligence. wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it
dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the chat(8)
program, except that it uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into your server rather than
forcing you to write a login script.

Question 10

The___________command allows you to view or change serial port configuration.

Answer:

setserial
/bin/setserial