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Actual exam question from CompTIA's 220-1002
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A technician is having issues with the WiFi connection while working on a Mac. The technician wants to check which SSID the computer is connected to and some statistics about the connection. Which of the following terminal commands should the technician use?

  • A. apt-get
  • B. iwconfig
  • C. sudo
  • D. ifconfig
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
by Rick123 at Aug. 28, 2020, 4:02 a.m.

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Rick123
Highly Voted 1 year, 11 months ago
answer is ifconfig, and there is no command iwconfig for mac
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BobE1
1 year, 11 months ago
I can also confirm that there doesn't seem to, unfortunately, be any iwconfig operation on a mac but seemingly only on a Linux. If this actually the case I do hope the situation can be resolved in suitable appropriate ways.
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DrDoMe
Most Recent 3 months ago
Update-its Definitely D
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DrDoMe
3 months ago
Crazy enough correct answer seems to be B Iwconfig is similar to ifconfig, but is dedicated to the wireless interfaces. It is used to set the parameters of the network interface that are specific to the wireless operation (the wireless frequency, for example). Iwconfig may also be used to display those parameters, and the wireless statistics (extracted from /proc/net/wireless).
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iLikeBeagButt
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
D. ifconfig I have a MacOS and entered iwconfig and this is the output below: -bash: iwconfig: command not found
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asheee_x
4 months, 4 weeks ago
mac commands aren't even part of 1002's objective....right ? .... THIS QUESTION SHOULDNT EXIST HERE
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sonny2
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mac uses the same shell as Linux. If a question appears about Mac's command line, you can safely assume a Linux command will work.
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xFlow777
1 month, 2 weeks ago
If so then the answer should be iwconfig because that's how you check wireless adapter information in Linux, but iwconfig doesn't exist in MacOS
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backdooranon
5 months ago
iwconfig doesn't exist in Mac.
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TripeV
7 months ago
iwconfig is similar to ifconfig, but is dedicated to wireless networking interfaces. It is used to set the parameters of the network interface which are specific to the wireless operation (eg. frequency, SSID). ... iwconfig is part of the wireless-tools for Linux package maintained by Jean
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Nebulise
1 year ago
B is correct, see below: The ifconfig and iwconfig commands are used to configure network interfaces. While the ifconfig command is dedicated to wired connections, the iwconfig command is used on wireless interfaces. Source: Sybex A+ Review Guide
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Copextel77
1 year ago
Iwconfig is similar to ifconfig, but is dedicated to the wireless interfaces
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KIng16
1 year, 1 month ago
B is correct!!
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dnbly
1 year, 4 months ago
Mac OS X has ifconfig for general lan/wlan details and airport -I for detailed WLAN view I think. Iwconfig is only on Linux. Just because MacOS is based on Linux does not mean they have the same command syntax (I have experience using different Linux distro so I know the commands aren't necessarily exactly the same).
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notarobot4296
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Actually, MacOS and Linux are both based on granddaddy UNIX.
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Clavan
1 year, 9 months ago
Please note that the command exits and the answer is actually right. https://linux.die.net/man/8/iwconfig
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Ava1
1 year, 8 months ago
They question about a Mac, not Linux..
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Simdiddy
1 year, 6 months ago
The command line interface in macOS is the same as the one mostly used in Linux i.e Terminal. macOS is built on a UNIX kernel known as Darwin.
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Ava1
1 year, 5 months ago
I was wrong, you are right :)
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dnbly
1 year, 4 months ago
No, you were right. A distro does not necessarily have the exact same commands and syntax as the original. Iwconfig is not on the list of available Terminal commands. https://ss64.com/osx/
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ep0ch
9 months, 3 weeks ago
mac os terminal does not have iwconfig https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/80187/is-there-a-mac-os-x-equivalent-of-the-linux-iwconfig-command
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YettiSpider
1 year, 10 months ago
ifconfig en1 gives information for WLAN and the answer is D
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