When do you need the su command?

What will be an ideal response?


You need the su command to run a program as a different user. This is most often used to run as
the “super-user” (username root) in order to perform some system administration task.

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The data member declarations of a class are found in the _________________.

A. public section B. private section C. function definitions D. function prototypes

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A ________ box alerts you to a potential problem and gives you the options of continuing or stopping the process

A) message B) dialog C) warning D) window

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List the variations of the 802.11 standard used in Wi-Fi wireless networks.

What will be an ideal response?

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Which statement is false?

a) Whitespace characters such as tabs, newlines and spaces are gen-erally ignored by the C compiler. b) The statements in an if statement must be indented. c) Placing a blank line before and after every control structure can improve program readability. d) There can be (but should not be) more than one statement per line.

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