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Linux Fundamentals

Permissions, processes, filesystems, packages and logs — worked through as ten short quizzes. These are the questions that come up in a screening round for any backend, SRE, DevOps or support role, and the ones that get skipped because nobody sits down and revises them.

Who it is for: Engineers with a Linux box in their day job who have never had to explain it out loud, and candidates with a screening round coming up.

30% OFFUnlock all 10 remaining quizzes on this track at once.50 credits72save 22
Any 2 quizzes free, then 9 credits each.

Quizzes

10 quizzes, in order.

1

Filesystem layout and navigation

10 questions ~12 min1 attempts
2

Files, links and inodes

10 questions ~12 min
3

Users, groups and sudo

10 questions ~12 min
4

Package management

10 questions ~12 min
5

Processes, signals and jobs

10 questions ~12 min
6

systemd and services

10 questions ~12 min
7

Environment variables and startup files

10 questions ~12 min
8

Permissions, ownership and umask

10 questions ~12 min
9

Disks, mounts and space

10 questions ~12 min
10

Logs and journalctl

10 questions ~12 min

What this track covers

Files and directoriesPermissions and ownershipProcesses and signalsUsers and groupsPackage managementFilesystems and mountsText processingLogs and journalsNetworking basicsShell environment
Skill track

Linux Fundamentals

Permissions, processes, filesystems, packages and logs — worked through as ten short quizzes. These are the questions that come up in a screening round for any backend, SRE, DevOps or support role, and the ones that get skipped because nobody sits down and revises them.

Who it is for: Engineers with a Linux box in their day job who have never had to explain it out loud, and candidates with a screening round coming up.

30% OFFUnlock all 10 remaining quizzes on this track at once.50 credits72save 22
Any 2 quizzes free, then 9 credits each.

Quizzes

10 quizzes, in order.

1

Filesystem layout and navigation

10 questions ~12 min1 attempts
2

Files, links and inodes

10 questions ~12 min
3

Users, groups and sudo

10 questions ~12 min
4

Package management

10 questions ~12 min
5

Processes, signals and jobs

10 questions ~12 min
6

systemd and services

10 questions ~12 min
7

Environment variables and startup files

10 questions ~12 min
8

Permissions, ownership and umask

10 questions ~12 min
9

Disks, mounts and space

10 questions ~12 min
10

Logs and journalctl

10 questions ~12 min

What this track covers

Files and directoriesPermissions and ownershipProcesses and signalsUsers and groupsPackage managementFilesystems and mountsText processingLogs and journalsNetworking basicsShell environment