IST346 Lab Exam 1 – Question Pool

Exam Format

·  In class exam, open book – you may use any class resources to take the exam – no help from other people.

·  I expect you will wish to use your virtual machines to assist with answering the questions. In every case you will need to execute a shell command from the operating systems command line to complete the question.

·  Covers everything up to and including this week’s material.

·  For full credit you must answer the question and include the command you used to answer the question.

·  You will be given the full 1:20 to complete the exam, which should be more than enough time.

·  You will be given 7 questions total. You must choose 5 of the 7 questions you wish to answer.

·  5 Questions 10 points each 50 points total

·  You will either receive full credit (10) half credit (5) or no credit (0) for each question part, depending on whether your question is correct nor not.

·  In the event you answer more than 5 questions, and do not designate which ones you would like graded, the first 5 answers will be used.

·  The 7 questions you will be assigned on this exam will come from the following pool of questions. These questions will not be the exact questions, but will be similar in spirit.

Question Pool

NOTE: Stuff in boldface will change on the exam date.

1.  (Example) what is the IP address of www.syr.edu?
Answer: 128.230.18.35 Command to get answer (for full credit): nslookup www.syr.edu

2.  For clock.syr.edu what is the hostname (not CNAME)?

3.  Is the host mafudge.syr.edu responding to pings?

4.  Is a web server (http) running on hg.ischool.syr.edu?

5.  What port numbers are open on hg.ischool.syr.edu?

6.  How many hops from your Win7 virtual machine to www.syracuse.com?

7.  What is the command to create the user smurf on Windows (Win7/win2008)? Or on Linux (Centos5)?

8.  What is the command to check is a user bob exists on Windows (Win7/win2008)? Or on Linux (Centos5)?

9.  Is the service httpd running on your Centos5 host?

10.  Is the bits service running on your Win2008 host?

11.  What is the command to stop the bits service on your Win2008 host?

12.  What is the command to start the smb service on your Centos5 host?

13.  Demonstrate use of the pipe | operator to display startup options for the smb service.

14.  Which user accounts are members of the Administrators group on your Win7 host?