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NDG Linux Essentials 2.0 Chapter 9 Exam Answers
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Compression of a file works by:
- Eliminating gaps within the file
- Consolidating multiple files into one
- Removing redundant information
- Storing most of the data on removable media and just leaving a pointer
- Removing the high order bit from each byte
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In general, for which of the following would you want to use lossless compression?
- An mp3 audio file
- An encrypted email
- A JPEG image
- A log file
- A movie
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Lossy compression:
(choose three)- Usually results better compression than lossless
- Is often used with images
- Is often used with documents
- Decompresses to an identical version as the original
- Sacrifices some quality
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You type
gzip myfile.tar
. What happens?(choose two)
- myfile.tar is unarchived into the current directory
- An error; you forgot to pass the name of the output file
- myfile.tar.gz holds a compressed version of myfile.tar
- An error; you forgot to specify the file with -f
- myfile.tar is removed
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How would you obtain output similar to the following?
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name 278168 1016950 72.6% tags
- gzip –l tags
- gunzip –t tags
- file tags
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Which command would you use to archive the
Documents
directory and compress it withbzip2
compression?- tar –fzc Documents documents.tbz
- tar –cf Documents documents.tbz
- tar –cjf Documents
- tar –cjf documents.tbz Documents
- tar –czf documents.tbz
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Which flag would you pass to
tar
in order to have it make a new archive?- -t
- -c
- -n
- -x
- -j
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Which command will show what is inside the compressed tarball with a name of
foo.tar.gz
?- tar –tjf foo.tar.gz
- tar –lf foo.tar.gz
- tar –tf foo.tar.gz
- tar –xf foo.tar.gz
- tar –tzf foo.tar.gz
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In the command
tar -cvjf foo.tbz a b c
, what area
,b
, andc
?- Nothing; -cvjf only expects one parameter
- File names to be added to the archive
- a is the directory that will be prepended to files; b and c are files inside it
- Matching operators; anything starting with a, b, or c will be added
- Extra flags passed to tar
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Given the command
tar –cvjf homedirs.tbz /home
, which of the following are true?(choose two)
- Only files starting with /home will be extracted from the archive
- The command will print out each filename as it is processed
- The /home directory will be restored with the contents of homedirs.tbz
- Files that are present in the archive might overwrite files in /home
- The output file will be compressed
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You archived your users’ directories into a file called
backup.tar.gz
. You then view the archive and see the filenames follow this convention:home/username/somefile
How will you extract just the files for the user called fred?
- tar –xzf backup.tar.gz home/fred/
- tar –tjf backup.tar.gz /home/fred
- tar –xjf backup.tar.gz home/fred/
- tar –xzf backup.tar.gz fred
- tar –tzf /home/fred < backup.tar.gz
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Which of the following commands will create a zipfile with the contents of your
Documents
directory?- zip –f mydocs.zip Documents
- zip -r mydocs.zip Documents
- zip –c mydocs.zip Documents
- zip mydocs.zip Documents
- zip -cf mydocs.zip Documents
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Given a file called
documents.zip
, how can you see what’s in it without extracting the files?- zip -lf documents.zip
- unzip -l documents.zip
- unzip –list documents.zip
- zip -l documents.zip
- showzip documents.zip
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Given a file called
documents.zip
, how can you extract just the files under ProjectX?- unzip documents.zip ProjectX/*
- unzip documents.zip | grep ProjectX
- unzip documents.zip ProjectX
- zip -x documents.zip ProjectX
- unzip -t documents.zip ProjectX
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You try to compress a file that is already compressed. Which of the following statements is true?
- The file will not be compressed any further than it already was
- The compression algorithm needs to be set to the “currently compressed” mode for it to be compressed further
- The file changed while you were compressing it
- The file will be deleted
- The file will actually be uncompressed
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Which of the following commands can be used to compress a file?
(choose three)
- bunzip2
- cat
- zip
- bzip2
- gzip
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The three main modes of
tar
are:(choose three)
- List
- Create
- Compress
- Copy
- Extract
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In the command
tar -czf foo.tar.gz bar
, what is the purpose of thef
flag?- Tells tar to copy only files, and not directories
- Tells tar to read from the file that follows the flag
- Tells tar to write to the file that follows the flag
- Tells tar to print the name of each file as it is processed
- Specifies extra compression is to be used
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Which two commands do the same thing?
(choose two)
- tar -czf foo.tar.gz foo
- tar -tzf foo.tar.gz
- tar -c foo | gzip > foo.tar.gz
- tar -x foo | gzip
- tar -xzf foo.tar.gz
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Which two programs use the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm?
(choose two)
- xz
- lossless
- lossy
- bzip
- gzip
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By default, the
zip
command replaces uncompressed files with compressed files.True or False?
- True
- False