Comments on: Linux Basic Questions: Test Your Linux Skills – [Quiz 4] https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: SomeDude https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-1588439 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:27:56 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=16695#comment-1588439 In reply to Ravi Saive.

You’re wrong. He’s right. “Macintosh” is NOT an architecture. It’s a software/hardware platform that uses the “PowerPC” architecture.

But OK then. Sure. Keep the wrong answer if you want. Just because you saw it in a wiki doesn’t mean it was right.

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By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-700768 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 05:36:54 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=16695#comment-700768 In reply to oshunluvr.

@Stuart,

I really appreciate your suggestions, but the answers are taken from wiki and other sources on the internet and all of them are correct, except that print jobs to the queue question, which was our mistake and was corrected as per your suggestions in the last comment. Also as per your suggestions I changed to loopback for question 9 and added “#!” for 5th question.

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By: oshunluvr https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-700549 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:12:06 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=16695#comment-700549 In reply to Ravi Saive.

Certainly, and thank you for responding;

3) Which hardware architectures are not supported by Red Hat?
The answer: “Macintosh” is wrong. Macintosh is not a hardware architecture, it’s a product line. The correct choices for architecture that is or has been used in Macintoshes might include Motorola 86000 (and variants), PowerPC, or x86 – all three of which have been used over the years. x86 CPUs are supported by Red Hat the others are not. Bad question and incorrect answer.

Change “Macintosh” to “PowerPC” and you have a valid question and a correct answer.

5) #!/bin/bash is commonly called as
The question is flawed because their answer: “shebang” would be (only partially) correct if the question was about “#!” not “#!/bin/bash”. You could argue that including the interpreter (there are many) along with the shebang doesn’t disqualify the question, however “hashbang” is also correct so the answer is incorrect regardless. Both “shebang” and “hashbang” are acceptable as are pound-bang and hash-pling

Change the answer to “Both a and b” and the question to “#!” and you have a better question and a correct answer.

8) What command is used to add printing jobs to the queue?
I see you already corrected this one. The original “lpq” was incorrect because lpq is the print queue status command. “lpr” adds print jobs to the print queue.

9) http://127.0.0.1 is the address of?
This one might be just me, but I have never heard the term “Own Machine” and have no idea what it means. “Own Machine” sounds like you’re buying a PC on credit and you’ve paid it off or something.

Change the answer to localhost, home, loopback, or current machine or even this machine. All would all be acceptable but localhost is the most correct in my opinion. Furthermore, knowing the term localhost would indicate a more knowledgeable respondent.

10) Macintosh is a variant of?
The answer: “Unix” is incorrect in at least two ways. First, “Macintosh” isn’t an operating system, it’s hardware, so it can’t be compared to Unix at all; an apples-to-oranges comparison (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun). Second, OS X – the current Macintosh OS, is based on BSD, not Unix. BSD is derivative of Unix, so maybe you could stretch that one – but only if you asked about OS X or one of the two other names Apple has used for their operating system (System and Mac OS).

Either make the correct answer “Apple” – thus making it a trick question, since Macintosh is hardware, or change to question “The current Macintosh operation system” or more simply “OS X” and change UNIX to BSD for a more correct question/answer.

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By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-700347 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 05:00:09 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=16695#comment-700347 In reply to Alan Carbutt.

@Alan,
We’re sorry that was a mistake from us in selecting answers, we apologize for the mistake. We’ve corrected the answer in the quiz and thanks for pointing out..

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By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/linux-basic-questions-test-your-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-700343 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 04:55:42 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=16695#comment-700343 In reply to Andrew St.Martin.

@Andrew,
Sorry, that was a mistake from us in selecting the answers, We’ve corrected the answers as you pointed and thanks for pointing out.

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