Final Exam

Please submit a url for the finished exam to bennett@mcs.kent.edu.

Please answer all questions thoughtfully and carefully.

Please keep in mind that your answers should reflect 15 weeks of instruction in systems administration.

1. List three personality traits that you feel are important for a systems administrator to possess. Please explain why you listed each trait.
2. There is a security risk in running Bind 8.2.2-PL3. Please provide a summary of the problem(s), a list of possible software that can be used to exploit the problem(s), and a course of action that can be taken to remedy the problem(s) on forrestal, nimitz and aegis.
3. Can an email message become "lost in the ether" and "live" forever without being delivered? Explain your answer.
4. Discuss all aspects of setting up a system to back up the machines in the systems lab. Assume you have a tape drive that will hold 120M dat tapes, and 40 such tapes. You have no funds for a commercial product for this project.
5. Compare and contrast inetd and init.