CS228 Midterm Review Guide
There are no questions which are purely from the book. The exam will be closed book, with a page of notes will be allowed. There will be a manual reading question.
A lot of the questions require you to know how a Linux system functions in general. Creativity and reasoning will go a long way toward a good score.
Commands which appear somewhere on the test:
- cd
- pwd
- ls
- who
- cat
- ssh
- export
- grep
- find
- sed
- nmap
- w
- file
- mv
- shutdown or something else in the manual-reading question
- sleep
- man
- chmod
For some commands, the mention is as a multiple choice answer, and others are involved in short answer questions. Given that a page of notes is allowed, it may be to your benefit to make a list with a brief description of what each of these commands does.
Pipes and backticks are mentioned in multiple questions, so be familiar with how to use these.
Here is an overview of what the test was like last time:
- Cover Page
- 8 Multiple Choice, 24 points, General
- 2 Short Answer, 16 points, nmap, w, grep, pipes
- 3 Short Answer, 24 points, background processes, file permissions, behavior of cd, shell variables
- 1 Very Short Answer, 2 Short Answer, 18 points, services, ssh, file command and file types
- None, Documentation (man page)
- None, Documentation (man page)
- 1 Very Short Answer, 2 Short Answer, 18 points, Reading man pages, backticks