System Network & Administration MSc IT 4th Term 2018 Past Paper UOS

University of Sargodha
M. Sc. 4th Term Exam 2018
Subject: I.T
Paper: System & Network Administration (IT: 451)

Time Allowed: 2:30 Hours

Objective Part (Compulsory)

Q.No. 1. Write short answers of the following in 2-3 lines each on your answer sheet. (2*16)
i. What are integrated multiple operating systems?
ii. Write the scope of system and network administration.
iii. Which file contains information about password policies such as expiry?
iv. What is fragmentation?
v. Write some tips for improving system administration?
vi. What are the differences between Local and Universal Groups?
vii. Why mountable racks are important while buying servers for the networks?
viii. Define data integrity?
ix. How windows and Linux trace route do differ?
x. What is meant by authentication and authorization?
xi. Discuss about the need for bash shell.
xii. What are three time-saving policies?
xiii. How SA will keep customer and manager happy?
xiv. What is meant by hot-swapping?
xv. Why IP tables are needed?
xvi. How administrator assign disk quota to users?

Subjective Part (4*12)

Q.No. 2. Explain in detail the advanced File System Management in Red Hat Linux.
Q.No. 3. How can we access the server remotely? What will be the issues in remote access?
Q.No. 4. Explain scenarios for picking appropriate maintenance contracts for server?
Q.No. 5. What are firewall? What different types of firewalls exist? Give commands for Filtering.
Q.No. 6. Write different steps of configuring DNS.
Q.No. 7. Give the configuration of FTP server in Linux.