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What to Study for the First Unix Test
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-IAN! idallen@ncf.ca

The First Unix Test takes place in the last hour of your Lab period in
Week 4 of the course.  (See the Course Outline.)

The test is 50 minutes long.  It is worth 5% of your term mark.

It covers Chapters 1-3 in the Linux text.

It also covers the web page "Notes" file week2.txt and the chapter notes
files and Floppix labs mentioned in those weekly files.

What you must bring to the test:

 1. You will need your Floppix diskettes (and your backup copies).
    You must know how to boot Floppix with DHCP networking enabled.

 2. You will need a pencil (only a pencil) to write in answers to
    multiple-choice questions on a mark-sense sheet.

 3. Your name, EMail, and web password must be registered with me at
    least 24 hours before the test begins, using the registration form
    on the course web page.  If you are not registered, you won't have
    a userid on the Linux test machine and won't be able to log in to
    that machine to answer questions.

You will work on Floppix, on ACADAIX, and on a Linux test machine.
You must know how to use telnet on Floppix to telnet to ACADAIX and to
the Linux test machine.  No Windows access is permitted during the test.

The address of the Linux test machine will be given out in the
announcements news group a few days before the test begins.  Make sure
you can login to the machine using the web password you used to register
with me.

Knowing how to switch among the three Floppix consoles will save you
time, since you can have one console logged into ACADAIX and another
logged in to the Linux test machine at the same time.

The test is open-book, open-note, and open-terminal.  You may use any
online or written resources available to you; but, you may not consult
with or communicate with anyone except the instructor in any way.

Answers will be written down on paper.  There is no electronic logging
or uploading required in this first Unix test.

All questions will be multiple-choice.  Some questions will require you
to execute commands on Floppix, on ACADAIX, and on the Linux test machine.

You will not have enough time to try every multiple-choice question on
the computer or to look up all the terms in the textbook.  The test will
appear to be "too long" if you try to type in all the questions to see
the output.  Thinking about the correct answer will be faster.

Most of the questions can be answered quickly from the knowledge
you have acquired in lectures and by doing the weekly readings and
homework material.  Your Floppix lab Exercises and Questions & Answers
are very important.