======================================== What to Study for the Fourth Test (Unix) ======================================== -IAN! idallen@ncf.ca The Fourth Test (Unix) takes place in the last part of your Lab period in Week 10 of the course. (See the Course Outline.) The test is 100 minutes long. It is worth 30% of your term mark. The test covers Chapters 1-5, 7, 8, 10, and 11 in the Linux text, with emphasis on Chapters 10 and 11. (Omit Chapters 6 and 9 and material not covered in the practice questions and weekly lectures.) I will not have time to cover topics in Chapter 14 or 15 this term. The test also covers web page "Notes" files for Weeks 1-8 and the Chapter notes files and Floppix labs mentioned in those weekly files. You need to know how to write the Script Header given in the Week 7-8 notes. Comments, exit codes, and programming style (as given in the Week 7-8 notes) will be considered when your scripts are marked. 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 has been given out in the announcements news group. Make sure you can login to the machine. 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 during the test period. Multiple-choice answers will be written down on mark sense forms. Some questions will require you to execute commands on any of the three machines and save the results into files. You may be asked to download and upload files using FTP between any of the three machines. 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. You must know your material before the test. 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, without a computer, 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. Strategy: 1. Answer the questions you know, first. 2. Come back later to the questions for which you require a computer. 3. Think before you type something into the computer - you could wipe out your files or render your session unusable. If you don't know what it means, don't do it! For more strategy on writing Unix tests see: test_preparation.txt