3.8 Setting Up an ASCII Terminal

3.9 Quiz

The following questions are designed to help you verify your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. The marketing group within the Widget Company plans to implement a new database to house their demographic data. The administrator has requested a tape drive and an additional disk to support the installation of this new database. The IBM hardware engineer has connected the new equipment, and the machine has been rebooted. Which of the following commands should be used to verify the tape device is installed correctly?
    A.
    lspv
    B.
    lsdev
    C.
    lstape
    D.
    lsdisk

  2. The marketing group within the Widget Company plans to implement a new database as in question one. The new tape drive appears to be installed and functioning correctly. However, while attempting to perform a mksysb utilizing the new drive, it fails. What would be the first recommended action to take to determine the cause of the failure?
    A.
    Replace the tape drive.
    B.
    Run cfgmgr to reconfigure the tape device.
    C.
    Check the error log for tape drive errors.
    D.
    Use SMIT to change the compression attribute on the tape device.

  3. A system administrator has just set up an new machine with two external hard disks in a SCSI chain. One is a 2.2 GB SE disk, and the other is a 4.5 GB Differential disk. The system administrator reboots the machine and notices that only the SE disk is available. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
    A.
    The SE disk is most likely experiencing hardware problems.
    B.
    There is most likely a SCSI conflict between the two drives.
    C.
    The SE and Differential drives are on the same chain.
    D.
    The Differential disk is most likely experiencing hardware problems.

  4. Which of the following commands can be used to determine the serial port settings?
    A.
    lscfg -vl ttyXX
    B.
    ls -l /dev/ttyXX
    C.
    lsattr -El /ttyXX
    D.
    lsdev -C |grep ttyXX

3.9.1 Answers

The following are the answers to the previous questions:

  1. B

  2. C

  3. C

  4. C

3.10 Exercises