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ITN 170

Fall 2024
Midterm Exam Study Guide

The exam will cover Modules 1 through 7. It will be a mixture of short answer and multiple
choice questions. To prepare, you should go through this study guide and make sure that you
are familiar with all of the material. If you see a Bash command, you should know why it is used,
and be prepared to give examples of actually writing one.

For any topics that you are unfamiliar with: reread the book chapters, homework assignments,
look through the lecture slides, and review the in-class activities.

Format: The midterm exam will take place using Lockdown Browser in class.You’ll have 70
minutes. You may bring a single standard size piece of paper (8.5x11, front and back) with
hand-written notes.Please come to class on time, as you will not be granted any extra time if
you arrive late.

Linux History and OS Fundamentals (Module 1)


● Open Source software
● Creator of Linux
● UNIX
● Operating Systems
● Hardware vs Software
● Memory
● Storage
● Hard Drives
● Kernel
● Server
○ Examples of different types of servers
● GNU
● Distributions
○ Examples of Linux distributions
● GUI
● Package Manager
● IP Address

Linux Installation (Module 2, 5 & 6)


● Virtualization
○ Virtual Machine
○ Hypervisor
○ Host
○ Guest
○ KVM
○ Thick vs Thin provisioning
● Bare Metal
● ISO
● BIOS
● SCSI
● RAID
○ Fault Tolerance
○ Parity
○ Difference between RAID levels
● ZFS, BTFS
● Partitions
● Logical Drives
● Logical Volume Manager
● Swap memory
● Terminal
● Shell
● BASH
● Using Devices
○ Device Files
○ Mounting Devices
■ Know the commands associated with this (fuser, mount, lsblk)
○ /dev directory
○ fuser command
● Disk space commands
○ df
○ du

Linux Filesystem and Permissions (Modules 3 & 4)


● Directory structure
○ Subdirectories, Root Directory, Home directory
● Absolute vs Relative pathnames
● Commands, Options and Arguments
○ Examples of each
● Navigation Commands
○ ls
○ cd
○ pwd
○ ../
○ .
● Directory Commands
○ mkdir, rmdir, cp -r
● File commands
○ cp, mv, touch
● File display commands
○ cat, more, head, tail
● man command
● Permissions
○ User
○ Group
○ Other
○ Read, Write, Execute
● chmod command
○ Examples of each
○ Shorthand (e.g chmod 777, chmod 641)
● Links
○ Soft Links vs Hard Links
○ ln

Text Operations & Bash Scripting (Module 7)


● Text operations
○ grep command
■ egrep
○ awk
○ cut
○ wc
○ uniq
○ Sort
● Pipe operator and chaining commands
● Bash Script Creation
○ Creating a script
○ Granting execute permissions
○ Running a script
● Variables
● Environment Variables
● Bash Scripting
○ Comments
○ Input (Read)
○ If statements
○ Else statements
○ &&
○ ||
○ Conditionals
■ -eq, -gt, -lt, !=, =

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