ITSYAM - System Administration and Maintenance Quiz 1

What is System Administration?

• This entails a knowledge of operating systems and applications, as well as hardware and software troubleshooting, but also knowledge of the purposes for which people in the organization use the computers.

• Includes computer systems and the ways people use

  them in an organization.

• It is a field in Information Technology (IT) which is responsible for maintaining reliable computer systems in a multi-user environment.

• All of the choices

A system administrator has many responsibilities except one.

• Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.

• Adding, removing, or updating user account information, resetting passwords, etc.

• Hacking a website of other company

• Installing and configuring new hardware and software.

Types of system Administrator except one.

• Database Administrator

• Software Developer

• Security Administrator

• Web Administrator

The one who maintains web server services (such as IIS or Apache) that allow for internal or external access to web sites.

• Software Developer

• Web administrator

• Network Administrator

• Software Administrator

The one who respond to individual users' difficulties with computer systems, provide instructions and sometimes training, and diagnose and solve common problems.

• Web Administrator

• Technical support staff

• Software Administrator

• Computer Operator

Who developed the Minix, a simplified version of UNIX that runs on PC?

• Linus Tovards

• Andrew Tanenbaum

• Steve Jobs

• Steve Wozniak

A second year student of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, developed the preliminary kernel of Linux, known as Linux version 0.0.1

• Andrew Tanenbaum

• Linus Tolvards

• Steve Wozniak

• Richard Stallman

Types of Linux, except one.

• Red Hat Linux

• Debian GNU/Linux

• SuSE Linux

• Microsoft windows

_____ was recently purchased by Novell.

• SuSE Linux

• Debian GNU/Linux

• Red Hat Linux

• Gentoo Linux

___________ is a specialty distribution meant for programmers.

• Gentoo Linux

• Mandrake Linux

• SuSE Linux

• Debian GNU/Linux