Linux Online Test
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The Linux online test assesses knowledge of the Linux operating system, its kernel, and programming Bash scripts. This test includes live coding tasks that are executed on the Ubuntu server.
The assessment includes work-sample tasks such as:
- Managing permissions and authorization to prevent misuse of resources.
- Partitioning disks to control how data is stored and retrieved in a file system.
- Writing Bash scripts to automate tasks.
A good backend developer or Linux system administrator should be familiar with Linux as it's the most widely used server operating system.
Sample public questions
You ran a script that wrongly put its output image files in the 'work' directory inside the current directory.
Create a bash script that removes all the files in the 'work' directory that start with either 'out_0' or 'out_1' and end with '.png'.
For example, if the 'work' directory contains the following files:
After running your script, both out.png and out_0.pdf should exist in the 'work' directory but out_0a.png and out_1.png should no longer exist.
See the example case for more details.
You are the sysadmin of a Linux server that uses local passwords for authentication.
Two members of the team were assigned to work on the server: Ashley, who needs to change her username, and Peter, who already has a user account but forgot his password.
What steps should you do so Ashley and Peter are able to login to the server using their new credentials?
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Skills and topics tested
- Linux Administration
- Permissions
- Processes
- Bash
- File
- Strings
- Authorization
- File System
- Random
- Firewall
- Logging
- DNS
- Environmental Variable
- Searching
- Unix Pipelines
- Compression
- Symbolic Links
- Conditional Statements
- Iteration
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Conditions
- Disk Partitioning
For job roles
- Back-End Developer
- Bash Developer
- Linux System Administrator
- Network Administrator
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