Sunday, February 18, 2018

Practice Questions for LPIC 101

These are some questions for you to practice before you sit for your LPIC 101


Q1. Which of the following commands can be used to partition up a disk in preparation for installing the Linux operating system, or creating a disk for data storage?

a) admin
b) fdisk
c) format
d) mkfs

Q2. What command is used to reload the /etc/inittab file after it has been updated? Choose the most appropriate answer:

a) /sbin/init  q
b) /sbin/init  r
c) /sbin/init  s
d) /sbin/init  6


Q3. What kind of hardware is represented by the device name /dev/hda?

a) Sound Card
b) Modem
c) IDE Hard Drive
d) SCSI Hard Drive
e) SATA Hard Drive

Q4. Which process is referred to as the “mother of all processes” and always has
PID 1?

a) mother
b) admin
c) administrator
d) init
e) bios

Q5. What command line would reboot a running Linux system immediately, forcing
an fsck of every drive on reboot?

a) /sbin/shutdown –r –F now
b) /sbin/shutdown –h –F now
c) /sbin/shutdown
d) /sbin/shutdown –r –f now
e) /sbin/shutdown –t –f

Q6. If my current directory is /opt and I wish to run the command /opt/runme, what
command(s) could I type (assuming /opt is not in your $PATH)? (Choose two)

a) /opt/runme
b) ./runme
c) runme
d) opt/runme
e) ~/runme

Q7. Which commands can be used to perform a search and replace on a file or a
text stream?

a) sed
b) tr
c) search
d) cat
e) more

Q8. You need to troubleshoot a hardware issue. Which command would let you view the kernel ring buffer to see what hardware was just added?

a) cat /var/log/boot.log
b) head /var/log/messages
c) dmesg | less
d) tail lastlog

Q9. What character is used after a command line to indicate that the command
 should run in the background and return shell control to the user?

a) *
b) +
c) &
d) -
e) .

Q10. Which option to umask would set my default file permissions such that files are
created with these permissions: user has read/write, group has read/write, and
everyone else has read only?

a) umask 002
b) umask 022
c) umask 200
d) umask 220
e) umask 775


ANSWERS:

1) fdisk (b).
2)  /sbin/init  q (a).
3)  IDE Hard Drive (c).
4) init (d).
5) /sbin/shutdown –r –F now (a).
6) /opt/runme,./runme (a),(b).
7) sed (a).
8) dmesg | less (c).
9) & (c).
10) umask 022 (b).

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Practice Questions for LPIC 101

These are some questions for you to practice before you sit for your LPIC 101 Q1. Which of the following commands can be used to partit...