1) What does SCM stand for?

A) System Configuration Management

B) Steve’s Comedy Manager
C) Source Code Management
D) Solidly Confusing Maniac
Answer: C
2) What is SCM commonly used for?
A) Keeping track of documentation, configuration and source code files
B) Remote system configuration
C) Storing large movies across multiple devices
D) Steve’s laundry list
Answer: A
3) The most commonly used SCM tool?
A) steviethetv
B) git
C) hg
D) gg
Answer: B
4) Which shell doesn’t exist?
A) Ksh
B) bash
C) csh
D) ubtnshell
Answer: D
5) What should every script have at the beginning of it?
A) Bang
B) Sha-bang
C) Exclamation point
D) Password for your email
Answer: B
6) When should you avoid writing bash scripts?
A) If you’re trying to automate backups
B) Windows…? I’m sorry.
C) If you’re trying to do simple math
D) If you need a GUI
Answer: D
7) How can you run a script without enabling the executable bit on it?
A) ./script.sh
B) script.sh
C) bash script.sh
D) .script.sh
Answer: C
8) Which bash environment file is system-wide?
A) /usr/etc/profile
B) /etc/../$HOME/.bashrc
C) /etc/steves.movies
D) /etc/../../../etc/../etc/profile
Answer: D
9) What command can be used to “re-import” changes to your bash configuration
files?
A) import
B) getfile
C) reset
D) source
Answer: D
10) What does the character # do at the beginning of a line when the second
character is NOT ! (#!)?
A) spawns a subshell
B) starts a comment
 C) acts as a placeholder for a macro
D) is the magic number that indicates a script
Answer: B
11) What is the problem with the following code: case=value0 ?
A) = needs to be surrounded by spaces like this: case = value0
B) the value of the variable case must be either value or 0, cannot hold
the value "value0"
C) a variable cannot have the name case
D) the case=value0 must be terminated with a ; at the end like this
"case=value0;"
Answer: C
12) You want to declare a variable named var1 with the value 23. How do you do
this?
A) var1=23
B) var1 = 23
C) var1=23;
D) $var1=23
Answer: A
13) = and -eq are both used for comparing values. What is the difference between
them?
A) There is no difference between = and -eq
B) = compares integers and -eq compares literal variables/strings
C) Only -eq can be used to compare values
D) = compares literal variables/strings and -eq compares integers
Answer: D
14) What does the special character ; do?
A) It is a command separator and allows you to run two or more commands on
the same line
B) It is the way to start a comment in your script
C) It terminates an option in a case statement
D) It is used to source files into your current script
Answer: A
15) What does the following code do? echo HEJ! > t.txt
A) It writes the text HEJ! to the file t.txt and erases any existing text
in the file
B) It appends the text HEJ! to the file t.txt saving any existing text in
the file
C) It results in a syntax error due to faulty syntax
D) It writes the text t.txt to the file HEJ!
Answer: A
16) What is the definition of a regular expression?
A) Regular Expressions are sets of metaphorical characters that uniquely
embrace systems
B) Regular Expressions is a single character that match (or specify)
patterns
C) Regular Expressions are sets of characters and/or metacharacters that
exclude (or limit) pattern constructs
D) Regular Expressions are sets of characters and/or metacharacters that
match (or specify) patterns
Answer: D
17) In regular expressions you will frequently encounter ^ and $. What do they
mean?
A) ^ matches 0 or more characters and $ invokes a variable
B) ^ means the end of a line and $ means the beginning of a line
C) ^ means the beginning of a line and $ means the end of a line
D) ^ means invoking a variable and $ matches only numbers
Answer: C
18) What does the following code do? files=$(ls)
A) Stores the output of the command ls in the variable files
 B) Stores the value of the variable ls in the variable files
C) Stores the value "$(ls)" in the variable files
D) Stores the value of the exit code of the command ls in the variable file
Answer: A
19) What is the value of an uninitialized variable?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) null
Answer: D
20) Name two ways of working with SCM?
A) Centralized and federated
B) Federated and circumscribed
C) Distributed and centralized
D) Centralized and federated
Answer: C