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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Linux

What command displays disk usage of files and directories?

Answer

du

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Linux

What command creates a hard link to a file?

Answer

ln

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Linux

What package manager is used by Fedora Linux?

Answer

dnf

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Linux

What command searches for patterns in files?

Answer

grep

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Linux

What is the name of the Linux kernel's implementation of POSIX threads?

Answer

NPTL

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Linux

What is the name of the Linux kernel's internal tracing framework?

Answer

ftrace

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Linux

Who originally created the GNOME desktop environment?

Answer

Miguel de Icaza

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Linux

What is the name of the Linux kernel's kernel-based virtual machine?

Answer

KVM

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Linux

What system call maps files into memory in Linux?

Answer

mmap

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Linux

What system call creates a new process in Linux?

Answer

fork

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Linux

What is the name of the Linux kernel's packet filtering framework that succeeded iptables?

Answer

nftables

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Linux

What is the name of the Linux kernel's container control group mechanism?

Answer

cgroups

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