Hardware Settings

Question 1

What command will show IRQs?

Answer 1

cat /proc/interrupts

Question 2

What command will show the I/O address information?

Answer 2

cat /proc/ioports

Question 3

What command will show the DMA?

Answer 3

cat /proc/dma

Question 4

What types of adapters can only be connected when the power is off?

Answer 4

Coldplug

Question 5

What types of adapters can be connected when the power is on?

Answer 5

Hotplug

Question 6

What is a program classed as that runs as an ordinary program?

Answer 6

User Space

Question 7

What is a program called that connects directly to hardware?

Answer 7

Kernel Space

Question 8

What daemon provide user information for the hardware?

Answer 8

HAL Daemon or hald

Question 9

What utility controls the /dev filesystem?

Answer 9

udev

Question 10

What command lists all PCI devices connected?

Answer 10

lspci

Question 11

What command will list the kernel modules?

Answer 11

lsmod

Question 12

Which program loads modules WITHOUT dependency?

Answer 12

insmod

Question 13

Which program loads a module WITH dependencies?

Answer 13

modprobe

Question 14

What is the path and name of the modprobe configuration file?

Answer 14

/etc/modprobe.conf

Question 15

What command will remove a kernel module?

Answer 15

rmmod

Question 16

What command lists the usb devices?

Answer 16

lsusb

Question 17

What does the package usbmgr do?

Answer 17

Manages usb devices as they are added

Question 18

What does the package hotplug do?

Answer 18

Controls configuration of USB devices

Question 19

Which are the oldest types of hard disks and use parallel cables?

Answer 19

PATA

Question 20

What type of drive would be identified by /dev/hda?

Answer 20

PATA

Question 21

What are the newer disks replacing PATA?

Answer 21

SATA

Question 22

What does SAS stand for?

Answer 22

Serial Attached SCSI

Question 23

What type of drive would be indentified by /dev/sda

Answer 23

SCSI hard drive

Question 24

What type of drive would be indentified by /dev/sta

Answer 24

SCSI tapes

Question 25

What type of drive would be indentified by /dev/scda

Answer 25

SCSI CD drive

Question 26

What command will unmount a drive?

Answer 26

umount

Question 27

What newer virtual file system exports information about various kernel subsystems, hardware devices and associated device drivers from the kernel's device model to user space?

Answer 27

sysfs

Question 28

What newer virtual file system is used by several utilities to access information about hardware and its driver (kernel modules) such as udev or HAL?

Answer 28

sysfs

Question 29

Which newer directory as a virtual filesystem stores and allows modification of the devices connected to the system?

Answer 29

/sys

Question 30

What older virtual filesystem provides process and kernel information as files.

Answer 30

/proc

Question 31

Which directory hosts devices?

Answer 31

/dev

Question 32

What is a technical specification for a inter-process communication (IPC) system, allowing multiple, concurrently-running computer programs (processes) to communicate with one another?

Answer 32

dbus

Question 33

What RAID is block-level striping without parity or mirroring?

Answer 33

RAID 0

Question 34

What RAID is mirroring without parity or striping?

Answer 34

RAID 1

Question 35

What RAID is block-level striping with distributed parity?

Answer 35

RAID 5

Question 36

What RAID is block-level striping with double distributed parity?

Answer 36

RAID 6

Question 37

What RAID is mirroring without parity, and block-level striping?

Answer 37

RAID 1 + 0

Question 38

Describe the image?

Answer 38

Mirroring without parity, and block-level striping

Question 39

Describe the image?

Answer 39

Block-level striping with double distributed parity

Question 40

Describe the image?

Answer 40

Block-level striping with distributed parity

Question 41

Describe the image?

Answer 41

Block-level striping without parity or mirroring

Question 42

Describe the image?

Answer 42

Mirroring without parity or striping

Question 43

What uses IRQ0?

Answer 43

System Timer

Question 44

What uses IRQ1?

Answer 44

keyboard

Question 45

What uses IRQ2?

Answer 45

Redirected

Question 46

What uses IRQ3?

Answer 46

COM2/4

Question 47

What uses IRQ4?

Answer 47

COM1/3

Question 48

What uses IRQ5?

Answer 48

Reserved/Sound

Question 49

What uses IRQ6?

Answer 49

Floppy disk

Question 50

What uses IRQ7?

Answer 50

Parallel comms

Question 51

What uses IRQ8?

Answer 51

Real time clock

Question 52

What uses IRQ9?

Answer 52

Redirected IRQ2

Question 53

What uses IRQ10?

Answer 53

reserved

Question 54

What uses IRQ11?

Answer 54

reserved

Question 55

What uses IRQ12?

Answer 55

PS/2 Mouse

Question 56

What uses IRQ13?

Answer 56

Maths co-processor

Question 57

What uses IRQ14?

Answer 57

Hard disk

Question 58

What uses IRQ15?

Answer 58

reserved