GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies
Domain 2Objective 1
Linux Foundations GFACT Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Operating System Fundamentals domain, which makes up ~21% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~11–17 in this domain), expect 6–9 from this objective — we provide 39 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 1–5
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A user wants to move a file from their home directory to the /tmp directory. Which command should they use?
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An administrator wants to add a user to the 'sudo' group to grant administrative privileges. Which command should they use?
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Which directory is the standard location for system log files?
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A junior admin created a script that needs to be executed by the owner and group, but not by others. The script is currently owned by root:developers with permissions 0644. Which command should the admin run to meet the requirement?
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A developer is writing a C program that needs to perform a system call to read a file. Which component of the Linux architecture handles the system call?
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