Tips for the exercise

This is a list of general recommendations for any test, most of which are common sense, but it's always interesting to keep them in mind:

• Read the questions in their entirety before starting the exam.
• Specific words have specific meanings that give hints about the requirements or ways to accomplish the exercise. That's why, again, reading everything first might add or remove possibilities.
• Make yourself comfortable: install your favorite editor, run updatedb so that you have a fresh database of packages and files ready for you, and define your keyboard layout. Install and learn the basics of how to use tmux so that you can open new tabs and name them without requiring extra windows.
• Locate dependencies between requests. Some goals depend on others for completion, so find those dependencies to see how you can build up the solution without having to go back and redo some steps because of taking the wrong path.
• Use a timer. It&apos...