Description: This exam test general familiarity with UNIX and Linux command line workflow.
Intended audience: This is a “trash holder” test; it separates “serious” from “curious”. To pass this test a person must have an actual working experience with Linux/UNIX. The questions are simple but from many areas and in rapid succession. To pass the exam one must have been using all of the commands before. This exam isn’t a challenge to anyone with an actual working Linux/UNIX experience.
Complexity (on a scale from 1 to 10): 2.
This test does not subject an examinee to any complex subjects. However this test requires close familiarity with command line workflow, knowledge of many essential Linux and UNIX commands, ability to perform all daily routine on data, files, permissions and environment manipulations.
Exam Theme: file & directory manipulations, Linux/UNIX file &directory permissions model and manipulations, user environment model and manipulations, process environment model and manipulation, traditional efficiency tricks and command line shortcuts, traditional editors and filters experience and manipulation, essential networking concepts and commands, essential security methods and concerns, essential performance (process, IO, levels, memory etc.) monitoring and measuring, Linux/UNIX IO model and shortcuts, inter-process command line manipulation, many traditional Linux/UNIX utilities
