UNIX Skills
All Seven Layers
Regular Expressions
Information Security
Old Computer Trivia
100

Shows file listing in a directory

What is the "ls" command

100

Name one layer of the OSI model

Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Link, Physical

100

Name one regular expression

. * " \ ^

100

What does C I A stand for?

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

100

If you had 9600 baud, you used what?

A modem

200

grep -v "Matt"

Shows all results EXCEPT "Matt"

200

This layer makes sure packets get to their destination.

Network layer

200

What does * match in UNIX?

Zero or more characters

200

You have a public key and a private key for your Linux server to run SSH.  What do you do with the public key?

Safeguard it carefully.

200

This was popular for early personal home computers and for use in boomboxes during the early 1980s

A cassette tape

300

#!/bin/bash

The first line of a shell script that tells the shell to run using bash

300

Twisted pair would live at this layer

Layer 1, Physical layer

300

The caret ^ matches what?

The start of the line

300

Name one encryption protocol used for a site to site IP-SEC VPN?

Shared key, AES-256

300

Which of these were NOT personal computers in the 1980s? TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II, Vector, Osborne, IBM

They were all PCs in the 1980s

400

Name one way to make a loop in a shell script

While true do , for 1 2 3 4 in .. 

400

This device translates all seven layers of the OSI stack.

What is a gateway

400

If you want to "escape" a character, use this character first.

What is a "\" or backslash

400

What is one system log you would evaluate in Linux or UNIX to detect system access and system issues?

syslog

400

Which of these is NOT computer storage? Tape, RAM memory, ROM memory, hard disk drive, drum memory, paper, iron ferrites

They are all computer storage.

500

What does the | symbol do?

It connects standard output from one command to standard input of another command

500

Name four network routing protocols

RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS

500

What would [A-Z][a-z] match?

One uppercase letter followed by one lower case letter

500

You notice a system is listening on port tcp 21. You find out it is an FTP server.  What are some security risks?

Open access.  Clear text protocol, password transmitted in clear text

500
AWK is short for...

Aho, Weinberg, and Kernigan-- the authors/inventors of AWK programming utlity