Online Free Questions For LPIC-1: System Administrator 101-400 Exam

1. Which type of file system is created by mkfs when it is executed with the block device name only and without any additional parameters?

2. Which umask value ensures that new directories can be read, written and listed by their owning user, read and listed by their owning group and are not accessible at all for everyone else?

3. Which of the following commands changes the number of days before the ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1 has to run through a full filesystem check while booting?

4. Which is the default percentage of reserved space for the root user on new ext4 filesystems?

5. Which of the following is true when a file system, which is neither listed in /etc/fstabnor known to system, is mounted manually?

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Which program updates the database that is used by the locate command? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters).

7. What does the command mount –bind do?

8. Consider the following output from the command ls Ci:

How would a new file named c.txt be created with the same inode number as a.txt (Inode 525385)?

9. Consider the following directory:

drwxrwxr-x 2 root sales 4096 Jan 1 15:21 sales

Which command ensures new files created within the directory sales are owned by the group sales? (Choose two.)

10. In order to display all currently mounted filesystems, which of the following commands could be used? (Choose two.)

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Which command displays the current disk space usage for all mounted file systems? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

12. Which chown command changes the ownership to dave and the group to staff on a file named data.txt?

13. When considering the use of hard links, what are valid reasons not to use hard links?

14. In compliance with the FHS, in which of the directories are man pages found?

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Which file in the /proc filesystem lists parameters passed from the bootloader to the kernel? (Specify the file name only without any path.)

16. What is the process ID number of the init process on a System V init based system?

17. Which daemon handles power management events on a Linux system?

18. Which of the following statements are true about the boot sequence of a PC using a BIOS? (Choose two.)

19. What is true regarding UEFI firmware? (Choose two.)

20. A faulty kernel module is causing issues with a network interface card.

Which of the following actions ensures that this module is not loaded automatically when the system boots?

21. When is the content of the kernel ring buffer reset? (Choose two.)

22. What is the first program the Linux kernel starts at boot time when using System V init?

23. A Debian package creates several files during its installation.

Which of the following commands searches for packages owning the file /etc/debian_version?

24. What is contained on the EFI System Partition?

25. Which of the following directories on a 64 bit Linux system typically contain shared libraries? (Choose two.)

26. Which of the following files exist in a standard GRUB 2 installation? (Choose two.)

27. Which of the following commands installs all packages with a name ending with the string foo?

28. Which of the following properties of a Linux system should be changed when a virtual machine is cloned? (Choose two.)

29. Which of the following commands installs GRUB 2 into the master boot record on the third hard disk?

30. Which of the following partition types is used for Linux swap spaces when partitioning hard disk drives?

31. What is true regarding the configuration of yum? (Choose two.)

32. Which of the following apt-getsubcommands installs the newest versions of all currently installed packages?

33. Which command uninstalls a package but keeps its configuration files in case the package is re-installed?

34. Which of the following commands lists the dependencies of the RPM package file foo.rpm?

35. What is the maximum niceness value that a regular user can assign to a process with the nice command when executing a new process?

36. Which of the following commands list all files and directories within the /tmp/ directory and its subdirectories which are owned by the user root? (Choose two.)

37. Which of the following are valid stream redirection operators within Bash? (Choose two.)

38. Which of the following vi commands deletes two lines, the current and the following line?

39. The command dbmaint & was used to run dbmaintin the background.

However, dbmaint is terminated after logging out of the system.

Which alternative dbmaint invocation lets dbmaint continue to run even when the user running the program logs out?

40. From a Bash shell, which of the following commands directly execute the instructions from the file /usr/local/bin/runme.shwithout starting a subshell? (Choose two.)

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Which program runs a command in specific intervals and refreshes the display of the program’s output? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

42. Immediately after deleting 3 lines of text in vi and moving the cursor to a different line, which single character command will insert the deleted content below the current line?

43. Which of the following commands changes all CR-LFline breaks in the text file userlist.txtto Linux standard LF line breaks and stores the result in newlist.txt?

44. Given the following input stream:

txt1.txt atxt.txt txtB.txt

Which of the following regular expressions turns this input stream into the following output stream?

txt1.bak.txt atxt.bak.txt txtB.bak.txt

45. Which command must be entered before exiting vi to save the current file as filea.txt?

46. Which of the following signals is sent to a process when the key combination Ctrl+C is pressed on the keyboard?

47. Which of the following commands displays the output of the foo command on the screen and also writes it to a file called /tmp/foodata?

48. What output will be displayed when the user fred executes the following command?echo ‘fred $USER’