GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies
Domain 2Objective 1
Linux Foundations GFACT Practice Questions (Page 5)
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 21–25
- 21
An administrator wants to change the group ownership of a file to 'developers'. Which command should they use?
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A developer wants to write a program that interacts with the kernel to read system information like CPU load. Which interface is most appropriate for this task?
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Which component of the Linux architecture is responsible for managing hardware resources and providing core services to applications?
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A server has two network interfaces: eth0 with a public IP and eth1 with a private IP. The administrator needs to ensure that all outgoing traffic uses eth0. Which command or configuration achieves this?
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A Linux administrator needs to give the owning group read and write access to a configuration file, while removing all permissions for others. The file is currently owned by the user 'svcapp' and group 'appgrp'. Which command accomplishes this using symbolic mode?
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