LPIC-1 System Administrator Exam 101-500 Dumps

1. In which directory must definition files be placed to add additional repositories to yum?

Solution: /etc/yum.repos.d, /etc/yum.repos.d/, yum.repos.d, yum.repos.d/

Determine whether the given solution is correct?

2. Which of the following commands will print the last 10 lines of a text file to the standard output?

3. Which of these will list all libraries currently stored in cache?

4. In compliance with the FHS, in which of the following directories are documentation files found?

5. Which command can you use to send a message to all users who are currently logged into a system?

6. What is the effect of the following command?

$ pr report.txt | lpr

7. Typing ls -ld wonderjaye reveals a symbolic file mode of drwxr-xr-x.

Which of the following are true? (Select two.)

8. What happens after issuing the command vi without any additional parameters?

9. You’ve just installed Linux on a new computer with a single SATA hard disk.

What device identifier will refer to the disk?

10. Which of these will create at least one new file?

11. What is the command to display the default target on a computer running systemd?

12. Which of the following best describes the difference between HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in Bash?

13. Which of the following will remove an entire line in Vim Normal mode?

14. What is the prefix used to denote a Debian source repository in /etc/apt/sources.list?

15. Which of the following will find the location of any file the quickest?

16. You want to move a file from your hard disk to a USB flash drive.

Which of the following is true?

17. Which of these will display all current system processes?

18. Which of the following commands adds /usr/local/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH when using Bash shell?

19. Which of the following commands writes an image called from the current directory named raspbian.img to the SD card mounted at /dev/sdc?

20. Which of the following commands will display the inode usage of each mounted filesystem?

21. A user accidentally created the subdirectory dir in his home directory.

Which of the following commands will remove that directory?

22. How can the list of files that would be installed by the RPM package file apache-xml.rpm be previewed?

23. Which of the following regular expressions will match the strings dog, dug, and various other strings but not dig?

24. Which option to quotacheck is used to create the files for the first time?

25. Which of the following commands prints a list of usernames (first column) and their primary group (fourth column) from the /etc/passwd file?

26. Which of the following commands enables the sticky bit for a user on a file called homescript.sh?

27. Which of the following commands is implemented as an internal command in bash?

28. What is an advantage of a journaling filesystem over a conventional (non-journaling) filesystem?

29. Where might the BIOS find a boot loader?

30. Which of the following commands will mount a USB device at /dev/sdb1 into the /media/usb directory, assuming a VFAT filesystem for the USB drive?

31. Which of the following is true of Linux swap space?

32. You have been troubleshooting a system issue that may be related to the driver in use for a PCI device in the system.

Which command and option will display the PCI devices and the drivers being used for those devices?

33. Which of the following is true for hard linked files? (Choose three.)

34. When troubleshooting a problem, you look through .bash_history to determine commands that you’ve recently executed.

However, the file does not contain information from your current session.

Which command can you use to view the commands that have been executed during the current session?

35. Which option to both mv and cp will cause the command to prompt before overwriting files that already exist?

36. Adding rw init=/bin/bash to your boot parameters in GRUB will:

37. The current hierarchy on the server contains a directory called /usr/local. You need to create additional directories below that called /usr/local/test/october.

Which command will accomplish this task?

38. Which command is used to load a module and its dependencies automatically?

39. Which of the following describes a primary difference between ext2 and ext3 filesystems?

40. Which chown command will change the ownership to dave and the group to staff on a file named data.txt?

41. What is the purpose of the xargs command?

42. Which option for yum performs a search of the package cache?

43. Which of the following commands will provide the usernames in a sorted list gathered from the /etc/passwd file?

44. What is the first program that the Linux kernel runs once it’s booted in a normal boot process?

45. Which option within GRUB Legacy is used to indicate that a root partition contains a non-Linux kernel?

46. Which of the following environment variables overrides or extends the list of directories holding shared libraries?

47. Which of the following shell commands makes the already defined variable TEST visible to new child processes? (Choose two.)

48. In the vi editor, how can commands such as moving the cursor or copying lines into the buffer be issued multiple times or applied to multiple rows?

49. In which of these cases will a file called error.txt be created?

50. What command would you type (as root) to change the ownership of somefile.txt from ralph to tony?

51. The system contains an NFS mounted filesystem that has become unreachable.

Which option should be passed to umount in order to force the unmounting of the filesystem?

52. You are having difficulty with shared libraries on the system.

Which of the following commands will print the current directories and libraries in the cache?

53. After moving data to a new filesystem, how can the former path of the data be kept intact in order to avoid reconfiguration of existing applications? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

54. Which command can be run to determine the default priority for processes spawned by the current user?

55. Which option to the dumpe2fs command can be used to display blocks that are reserved because of being marked as bad?

56. Which command and option will output a summary of quota usage across all filesystems that are currently read-write with quotas enabled?

57. Which of the following statements is true about binary RPM packages that are built for a particular distribution?

58. Which command is used in a Linux environment to create a new directory? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

Solution: mkdir, /usr/bin/mkdir

Determine whether the given solution is correct?

59. Which of the following will interpret (hello) as plain text?

60. Which of the following statements is correct when talking about /proc/?

61. Running kill with the value of 2 will send …

62. When using rpm –verify to check files created during the installation of RPM packages, which of the following information is taken into consideration? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

63. Which option added to yumdownloader will also download dependencies?

64. In the vi editor, what vi command will copy (but not paste) from the current line at the cursor and the following 16 lines (17 lines total)? (Specify the correct vi command without spaces.)

Solution: 17yy

Determine whether the given solution is correct?

65. Which of the following commands can be used to display the inode number of a given file?

66. Which of the following commands lists the dependencies of a given dpkg package?

67. What is the purpose of the Bash built-in export command?

68. From a Bash shell, which of the following commands directly executes the instruction from the file /usr/local/bin/runme.sh without starting a subshell? (Please select TWO answers.)

69. Which file should be edited to select the network locations from which Debian installation package files are loaded?

70. Which command is used to install GRUB Legacy into the MBR of your first SATA hard drive?

71. Which option to repquota causes the output to be printed in a human-readable format?

72. As root, you type apt-get update on a Debian system.

What should be the effect of this command?

73. Which of the following commands can be used to locate programs and their corresponding man pages and configuration files?

74. Which SysV runlevels are reserved by init for reboot, shutdown, and single-user mode purposes? (Select three.)

75. Which option within /etc/default/grub is used to configure the default operating system for boot?

76. Which files contain essential system information such as IRQs, direct-memory access channels, and I/O addresses? (Select three.)

77. Within a systemd environment, which service manages udev?

78. What option is used to change the number of lines of output for the head and tail commands?

79. In Bash, inserting 2>&1 after a command redirects:

80. Which of the following commands print the current working directory when using a Bash shell? (Choose two.)

81. Which of the following pieces of information can df not report?

82. Which command is used to create a logical volume with LVM?

83. Which command on a system controlled by Upstart will reload the configuration files?

84. How many SCSI devices are supported per bus?

85. What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?

86. Assume that you have a file called zips.txt that contains several postal zip codes, and you need to determine how many unique zip codes there are in the file.

Which of the following commands can be used for that purpose?

87. Which command and option are used to display basic information about each available package and its dependencies on a Debian system?

88. What can the type command do that whereis can’t?

89. Which of the following are valid stream redirection operators within Bash? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

90. Which of the following commands can be used to download the RPM package kernel without installing it?

91. Which shell built-in command can be used to determine what command will be run?

92. Which of the following commands enables the setuid (suid) permission on the executable /bin/foo?

93. Which of the following commands will display the total size taken up by specified directories and their files?

94. Which explanation best describes the following, gathered with the ls -la command?

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Jul 8 2014 .fetchmailrc -> .configs/fetchmail/.fetchmailrc

95. Which of the following shell redirections will write standard output and standard error output to a file named filename?

96. On Linux systems running systemd, the default run level can be found in:

97. Which of the following is not an advantage of a source package over a binary package?

98. Within which partition will the EFI system partition typically be mounted?

99. Which of the following commands searches each user’s .bash_history file to determine if the user has invoked the sudo command?

100. Within which folder are systemd unit configuration files stored?