Arista ACE-P-ALE1.04 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Arista ACE-P-ALE1.04 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  If there are three arguments on the command line to a bash script, what will be the contents of $# builtin variable?

  B. 1
  C. 2
  D. 3
  E. 4
  D. 3

• Question 2:

  What are two primary variants of UNIX?

  A. ATandT and Bell Labs
  B. Sun and DEC
  C. BSD and System V
  D. Debian and Fedora
  C. BSD and System V

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://earthsci.stanford.edu/computing/unix/overview/unixoverview.php

• Question 3:

  Which if these is NOT true of symbolic, or soft, links?

  A. Has its own inode
  B. Is just a directory entry
  C. Can cross mount points
  D. Can point to a directory
  C. Can cross mount points

• Question 4:

  RHEL is a popular distribution from which core tree?

  A. Fedora
  B. Linux
  C. Debian
  D. Slackware
  B. Linux

• Question 5:

  What tool is awk based on?

  A. ed
  B. grep
  C. sed
  D. emacs
  A. ed

• Question 6:

  Which of the following filesystems are you most likely to see on a Linux system?

  A. XFS
  B. ext2fs
  C. NTFS
  D. exFAT
  B. ext2fs

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://recoverhdd.com/blog/linux-file-systems-what-you-need-to-know.html

• Question 7:

  Which commands can be used to copy a file locally?

  A. cp only
  B. scp pnly
  C. rsync only
  D. both cp and scp
  E. cp, scp and rsync
  A. cp only

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-a-CP-and-an-SCP-command- in-Unix

• Question 8:

  When scripting in bash, it is recommended to always use which symbols around your variables to reference them?

  A. {}
  B. []
  C. ()
  D. ` '
  E. " "
  E. " "

• Question 9:

  Which answer best describes three important system performance monitoring indicators?

  A. Load avg, idle CPU and swapping
  B. Uptime, load avg and idle CPU
  C. Load avg, idle CPU and free memory
  D. System CPU, user CPU and load avg
  E. Uptime, system CPU and free memory
  C. Load avg, idle CPU and free memory

• Question 10:

  Why shouldn't you use standard package and dependency management on an Arista switch?

  A. Arista switches can't run package managers
  B. Arista modifies the kernel to disallow it
  C. Running an install could update dependencies required for the base EOS install
  D. There is no reason not to use them on an Arista switch
  C. Running an install could update dependencies required for the base EOS install