
GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies
Domain 2Objective 1
Linux Foundations GFACT Practice Questions (Page 3)
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 11–15
- 11
A user wants to change their current directory to the /etc directory. Which command should they use?
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A file has permissions 4755. What does the '4' indicate?
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An administrator needs to grant a specific user read and write access to a file without changing the file's group ownership. Which command should they use?
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A user wants to see the disk usage of the /var directory to understand if it is filling up. Which command should they use?
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A file has permissions -rw-r----- and is owned by user1:group1. Another user, user2, is a member of group1. What can user2 do with the file?
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