Objectives for Quiz 2


These objectives can be used by the student to prepare for the second quiz to be administered in early February.  The questions on the quiz will b multiple choice and short answers.  They will assess the student mastery of skills taught to this point in the course.  During the quiz each student will work independently and will have access to their computer as a reference.  The quiz will be timed so don't come unprepared.  Use these objectives to sharpen your skills and knowledge.

The student shall be able to explain and use the following commands;

Overcome a forgotten password
Change login to command line from desktop
Conduct system maintenance at runlevel 1
Modify your environment PATH
vi editor
Demonstrate and ability to open a file in a vi edting session
Enter the insert mode of the vi editor
Exit the insert mode of the vi editor
Save a file while exiting the vi editor after modifying it
Ownerships and permissions
Be able to identify the owner and group properties of a file/directory
Be able to identify the permissions of a file/directory
Be able to modify the ownership and/or permissions of a file/directory
How to modify system wide environment
Check one's command history

The student shall be able to start, stop, restart and check the status of a service
The student shall be able to disable/enable services controlled by the super daemon, xinetd
The student shall be able to determine the status of their computer's firewall