LPI Level 1 Exam 101, Junior Level Linux Certification, Part 1 of 2

Question 1

Which of the following commands can be used to create a USB storage media from a disk image?

A. cc

B. gdisk

C. mount

D. fdisk

E. dd

Correct Answer: E

Question 2

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

A. SIGSTOP

B. SIGKILL

C. SIGTERM

D. SIGINT

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

After running the command umount /mnt, the following error message is displayed:
umount: /mnt: device is busy.
What is a common reason for this message?

A. The kernel thinks that a process is about to open a file in /mnt for reading.

B. A user has a file open in the /mnt directory.

C. Another file system still contains a symlink to a file inside /mnt.

D. The files in /mnt have been scanned and added to the locate database.

E. The kernel has not finished flushing disk writes to the mounted device.

Correct Answer: B

Question 4

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Which command will disable paging and swapping on a device? (Provide only the command with no additional options or parameters)

Correct Answer:

swapoff, /sbin/swapoff

Question 5

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

A. cat /proc/self/mounts

B. lsmounts

C. mount

D. free

E. cat /proc/filesystems

Correct Answer: A,C

Question 6

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Which command will disable swapping on a device? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

Correct Answer:

swapoff, /sbin/swapoff

Question 7

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To prevent users from being able to fill up the / partition, the ____________ directory should be on a separate partition if possible because it is world writeable.

Correct Answer:

/tmp, tmp

Question 8

What effect does the sticky bit have when set on a directory?

A. It provides a hint to the kernel that files in this directory should be cached in memory, if possible.

B. It restricts deletion of files in this directory to only the root user and the file owner regardless of write permissions for other users.

C. There is no effect because the sticky bit has been deprecated in Linux.

D. It instructs the kernel to keep the underlying data for the files in the directory intact to allow for undeletion of important files.

Correct Answer: B

Question 9

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?

A. tune2fs -n 200 /dev/sda1

B. tune2fs -d 200 /dev/sda1

C. tune2fs --days 200 /dev/sda1

D. tune2fs -c 200 /dev/sda1

E. tune2fs -i 200 /dev/sda1

Correct Answer: E

Question 10

Select the line that best represents what permissions the /etc/passwd file should have.

A. all answers listed are not correct

B. -rw------- 1 root root 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

C. -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

D. all answers listed are correct

E. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

Correct Answer: E

Question 11

Which signal is sent to a suspended process in order to have it resume execution?

A. RESM

B. CONT

C. UNSP

D. EXEC

Correct Answer: B

Question 12

Which of the following explanations are valid reasons to run a command in the background of your shell?

A. The command can run at a lower priority than normal commands run on the command line.

B. The system is being shut down and the command needs to restart execution immediately after the reboot.

C. The command has to run immediately but the user needs to log out.

D. The command does not need to execute immediately.

Correct Answer: C

Lpi LPI Level 1 Exam 101, Junior Level Linux Certification, Part 1 of 2 - 101-350 Exam Practice Test

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