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NIS System Conclusion
NIS Client Networking - Quiz
Obtain Network Information - Exercise
Obtaining information about the network
NIS command matching
Objective:
Match the NIS command names with their functions.
Scoring
This exercise is unscored. It's an opportunity for you to practice matching NIS command names with their functions. When you're finished with the exercise, click the
Submit
button to receive credit for completing the exercise.
Instructions
Match items in the left column with the items in the right column. In the left column below are five commands; their corresponding definitions are listed in the right column.
When you think you have all of the terms and their definitions matched correctly, click the Done button and you'll see whether or not you have matched the terms correctly, green lines mean the match is correct, red lines mean the match is incorrect. If you didn't get the matches right the first time, click Clear to erase your matches and try again.
yppoll
ypmatch
ypcat
ypwhich
ypbind
Returns the server name and NIS version for a given database
Lists the values of keys within a database
Lists the entire contents of a given database
Returns the name of the NIS server used, or the master server for a given database
The client-side NIS daemon