John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. He is working as
a root user on the Linux operating system. He is installing a new Debian package named my_package.deb. However, he
wants to ensure that while upgrading my_package.deb, one of the parts of my_package.deb named fglrx-driver does not
upgrade. Which of the following actions can he perform to accomplish his task?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. John is using a
dual-CPU system with an Adaptec dual-AIC7895 SCSI controller. He wants to add new hardware to the existing Linux
operating system. However, before doing so, he wants to verify which resources are being used by the existing devices so that
he can check whether adding any new hardware can be a cause of a hardware/software conflict or not. Which of the following
commands can John use to accomplish his task?

You want to verify the PGP signature of all headers and
signatures associated with an RPM package. Which of the
following commands will you use to accomplish the task?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all
that apply.

John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. He is working as
a root user on the Linux operating system. He wants to remove a debian packet foobar from his computer and have it
maintained so that whenever he wants to install it from the stored files, he can do so. Which of the following commands can
John use to accomplish his task?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

John works as a Network Administrator for Perfect Solutions
Inc. The company has a Linux-based network. John is working
as a root user on the Linux operating system. You want to run
two programs, foo and bar. You also want to ensure that bar is
executed if and only if foo has executed successfully. Which of
the following command sequences will John use to accomplish
the task?

Yesterday, you installed Samba from source. After reading all documentation on www.samba.org you now want to configure some network shares. Unfortunately, you can’t find samba’s configuration file smb.conf anywhere. Which of the following commands have the best chance of success to find your smb.conf file ? (choose the best 2 answers)

Some rogue process has created thousands of files with extension .foo in /tmp, filling up the entire filesystem. After you kill the process and remove the homedirectory of the user who started this process you want to clean up /tmp. But you get the following error:

rm: argument list too long

Which of the following commands will allow you to remove all *.foo files in /tmp ? (choose the best answer)

While running a program to compute the Biggest Prime Known To Men you discover that your system is getting a bit unresponsive. Running ‘top’ gives you the following information:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9519 test 15 0 236 236 192 R 98.4 83.5 1228:55 primefind

Since the program has allready been running a long time and you’re sure it will spit out the answer soon, you don’t want to kill it. What other option do you have ? (choose the best answer)

You’re processing a file ‘allmostempty.txt’ with lots of empty lines. You want to get rid of these empty lines as they are totally useless for your purpose. Which command would you use? (choose the best answer)

In Linux (and Unix in general) there’s often more than one way to get a job done. Which of the following command sequences is NOT a common way to leave the vi editor? (choose the best answer)