Deck 3: LPI Level 1 Exam 101, Junior Level Linux Certification, Part 1 of 2

Question 1

Which of the following information is stored within the BIOS?

A) Boot device order
B) Linux kernel version
C) Timezone
D) Hardware configuration
E) The system's hostname

Answer 1

Boot device order
Hardware configuration

Question 2

During a system boot cycle, what program is executed after the BIOS completes its tasks?

A) The bootloader
B) The inetd program
C) The init program
D) The kernel

Answer 2

The bootloader

Question 3

Which of the following are init systems used within Linux systems?

A) startd
B) systemd
C) Upstart
D) SysInit
E) SysV init

Answer 3

systemd
Upstart
SysV init

Question 4

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

A) apt-cache depends-on package
B) apt-cache dependencies package
C) apt-cache depends package
D) apt-cache requires package

Question 5

What is the first program that is usually started, at boot time, by the Linux kernel when using SysV init?

A) /lib/init.so
B) /sbin/init
C) /etc/rc.d/rcinit
D) /proc/sys/kernel/init
E) /boot/init

Question 6

Which of the following commands is used to update the list of available packages when using dpkg based package management?

A) apt-get update
B) apt-get upgrade
C) apt-cache update
D) apt-get refresh
E) apt-cache upgrade

Question 7

Which of the following options for the kernel's command line changes the systemd boot target to rescue.target instead of the default target?

A) systemd.target=rescue.target
B) systemd.runlevel=rescue.target
C) systemd.service=rescue.target
D) systemd.default=rescue.target
E) systemd.unit=rescue.target

Question 8

What of the following statements are true regarding /dev/ when using udev?

A) Entries for all possible devices get created on boot even if those devices are not connected.
B) Additional rules for udev can be created by adding them to /etc/udev/rules.d/.
C) When using udev, it is not possible to create block or character devices in /dev/ using mknod.
D) The /dev/ directory is a filesystem of type tmpfs and is mounted by udev during system startup.
E) The content of /dev/ is stored in /etc/udev/dev and is restored during system startup.

Question 9

What information can the lspci command display about the system hardware?

A) Device IRQ settings
B) PCI bus speed
C) System battery type
D) Device vendor identification
E) Ethernet MAC address

Question 10

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

Question 11

Which of the following commands will write a message to the terminals of all logged in users?

A) bcast
B) mesg
C) print
D) wall
E) yell

Question 12

Which of the following kernel parameters instructs the kernel to suppress most boot messages?

A) silent
B) verbose=0
C) nomesg
D) quiet

Question 13

Which of the following commands reboots the system when using SysV init?

A) shutdown -r now
B) shutdown -r "rebooting"
C) telinit 6
D) telinit 0
E) shutdown -k now "rebooting"

Question 14

Which run levels should never be declared as the default run level when using SysV init?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5
E) 6

Question 15

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

A) All changes to files in /proc/ are stored in /etc/proc.d/ and restored on reboot.
B) All files within /proc/ are read-only and their contents cannot be changed.
C) All changes to files in /proc/ are immediately recognized by the kernel.
D) All files within /proc/ are only readable by the root user.

Question 16

SIMULATION Which command will display messages from the kernel that were output during the normal boot sequence?

Question 17

After modifying GNU GRUB's configuration file, which command must be run for the changes to take effect?

A) kill -HUP $(pidof grub)
B) grub-install
C) grub
D) No action is required

Question 18

Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete key combination?

A) /etc/keys
B) /proc/keys
C) /etc/inittab
D) /proc/inittab
E) /etc/reboot

Question 19

Which of the following options is used in a GRUB Legacy configuration file to define the amount of time that the GRUB menu will be shown to the user?

A) hidemenu
B) splash
C) timeout
D) showmenu

Question 20

Which of the following commands brings a system running SysV init into a state in which it is safe to perform maintenance tasks?

A) shutdown -R 1 now
B) shutdown -single now
C) init 1
D) telinit 1
E) runlevel 1

Question 21

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

Question 22

Which of the following commands updates the linker cache of shared libraries?

A) mkcache
B) soconfig
C) mkldconfig
D) lddconfig
E) ldconfig

Question 23

SIMULATION Which option to the yum command will update the entire system? (Specify ONLY the option name without any additional parameters.)

Question 24

When removing a package, which of the following dpkg options will completely remove the files including configuration files?

A) --clean
B) --delete
C) --purge
D) ­remove

Question 25

SIMULATION What is the name of the main configuration file for GNU GRUB? (Specify the file name only without any path.)

Question 26

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

A) LD_LOAD_PATH
B) LD_LIB_PATH
C) LD_LIBRARY_PATH
D) LD_SHARE_PATH
E) LD_RUN_PATH

Question 27

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

A) yum download --no-install kernel
B) yumdownloader kernel
C) rpm --download --package kernel
D) rpmdownload kernel

Question 28

When using rpm --verify to check files created during the installation of RPM packages, which of the following information is taken into consideration?

A) Timestamps
B) MD5 checksums
C) Inodes
D) File sizes
E) GnuPG signatures

Question 29

SIMULATION Which Debian package management tool asks the configuration questions for a specific already installed package just as if the package were being installed for the first time? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

Question 30

What can the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) be used for?

A) To create RAID 9 arrays.
B) To dynamically change the size of logical volumes.
C) To encrypt logical volumes.
D) To create snapshots.
E) To dynamically create or delete logical volumes.

Question 31

Which RPM command will output the name of the package which supplied the file /etc/exports?

A) rpm -F /etc/exports
B) rpm -qf /etc/exports
C) rpm -Kl /etc/exports
D) rpm -qp /etc/exports
E) rpm -qi /etc/exports

Question 32

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

A) standard error to standard input.
B) standard input to standard error.
C) standard output to standard error.
D) standard error to standard output.
E) standard output to standard input.

Question 33

Which of the following is correct when talking about mount points?

A) Every existing directory can be used as a mount point.
B) Only empty directories can be used as a mount point.
C) Directories need to have the SetUID flag set to be used as a mount point.
D) Files within a directory are deleted when the directory is used as a mount point.

Question 34

SIMULATION Which world-writable directory should be placed on a separate partition in order to prevent users from being able to fill up the / filesystem? (Specify the full path to the directory.)

Question 35

What command will generate a list of user names from /etc/passwd along with their login shell?

A) column -s : 1,7 /etc/passwd
B) chop -c 1,7 /etc/passwd
C) colrm 1,7 /etc/passwd
D) cut -d: -f1,7 /etc/passwd

Question 36

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

A) gdisk
B) dd
C) cc
D) fdisk
E) mount

Question 37

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

Question 38

Which of the following commands lists all currently installed packages when using RPM package management?

A) yum --query --all
B) yum --list --installed
C) rpm --query --all
D) rpm --list ­installed

Question 39

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

A) /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
B) /etc/apt/apt.conf
C) /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
D) /etc/apt/sources.list
E) /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg

Question 40

Which of the following commands overwrites the bootloader located on /dev/sda without overwriting the partition table or any data following it?

A) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512
B) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
C) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
D) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440

Question 41

What is the output of the following command? echo "Hello World" | tr -d aieou

A) Hello World
B) eoo
C) Hll Wrld
D) eoo Hll Wrld

Question 42

Which of the following commands will NOT update the modify timestamp on the file /tmp/myfile.txt?

A) file /tmp/myfile.txt
B) echo "Hello" >/tmp/myfile.txt
C) sed -ie "s/1/2/" /tmp/myfile.txt
D) echo -n "Hello" >>/tmp/myfile.txt
E) touch /tmp/myfile.txt

Question 43

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

A) 9
B) 19
C) 49
D) 99

Question 44

What is the default nice level when a process is started using the nice command?

A) -10
B) 10
C) 20
D) 0

Question 45

What is the difference between the i and a commands of the vi editor?

A) i (interactive) requires the user to explicitly switch between vi modes whereas a (automatic) switches modes automatically.
B) i (insert) inserts text before the current cursor position whereas a (append) inserts text after the cursor.
C) i (independent rows) starts every new line at the first character whereas a (aligned rows) keeps the indentation of the previous line.
D) i (interrupt) temporarily suspends editing of a file to the background whereas a (abort) terminates editing.

Question 46

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

A) /usr/share/man
B) /opt/man
C) /usr/doc/
D) /var/pkg/man
E) /var/man

Question 47

What is the effect of the egrep command when the -v option is used?

A) It enables color to highlight matching parts.
B) It only outputs non-matching lines.
C) It shows the command's version information.
D) It changes the output order showing the last matching line first.

Question 48

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?

A) i (lowercase)
B) P (uppercase)
C) p (lowercase)
D) U (uppercase)
E) u (lowercase)

Question 49

Which of the following commands kills the process with the PID 123 but allows the process to "clean up" before exiting?

A) kill -PIPE 123
B) kill -KILL 123
C) kill -STOP 123
D) kill -TERM 123

Question 50

Which of the following commands will send output from the program myapp to both standard output (stdout) and the file file1.log?

A) cat < myapp | cat > file1.log
B) myapp 0>&1 | cat > file1.log
C) myapp | cat > file1.log
D) myapp | tee file1.log
E) tee myapp file1.log

Question 51

Which of the following commands moves and resumes in the background the last stopped shell job?

A) run
B) bg
C) fg
D) back

Question 52

Which of the following characters can be combined with a separator string in order to read from the current input source until the separator string, which is on a separate line and without any trailing spaces, is reached?

A) <<
B) <|
C) !<
D) &<

Question 53

What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?

A) Match the preceding qualifier one or more times.
B) Match the preceding qualifier zero or more times.
C) Match the preceding qualifier zero or one times.
D) Match a literal ? character.

Question 54

In a nested directory structure, which find command line option would be used to restrict the command to searching down a particular number of subdirectories?

A) -dirmax
B) -maxdepth
C) -maxlevels
D) -n
E) -s

Question 55

A user accidentally created the subdirectory \dir in his home directory. Which of the following commands will remove that directory?

A) rmdir '~/\dir'
B) rmdir "~/\dir"
C) rmdir ~/'dir'
D) rmdir ~/\dir
E) rmdir ~/\\dir

Question 56

What is the default action of the split command on an input file?

A) It will break the file into new files of 1,024 byte pieces each.
B) It will break the file into new files of 1,000 line pieces each.
C) It will break the file into new files of 1,024 kilobyte pieces each.
D) It will break the file into new files that are no more than 5% of the size of the original file.

Question 57

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

A) It allows disks to be mounted remotely.
B) It runs a command as a process in a subshell.
C) It makes the command history available to subshells.
D) It sets up environment variables for applications.
E) It shares NFS partitions for use by other systems on the network.

Question 58

Which of the following statements is correct regarding the command foo 1> bar?

A) The stdout from the command foo is appended to the file bar.
B) The stdout from the command foo overwrites the file bar.
C) The command foo receives its stdin from the file bar.
D) The command foo receives its stdin from the stdout of the command bar.
E) The stderr from the command foo is saved to the file bar.

Question 59

SIMULATION Which command displays a list of all background tasks running in the current shell? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

Question 60

SIMULATION Which signal is missing from the following command that is commonly used to instruct a daemon to reinitialize itself, including reading configuration files? killall -s _______ daemon

Question 61

Which of the following commands will reduce all consecutive spaces down to a single space?

A) tr '\s' ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
B) tr -c ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
C) tr -d ' ' < a.txt > b.txt
D) tr -r ' ' '\n' < a.txt > b.txt
E) tr -s ' ' < a.txt > b.txt

Question 62

When starting a program with the nice command without any additional parameters, which nice level is set for the resulting process?

A) -10
B) 0
C) 10
D) 20

Question 63

Which of the following commands displays the contents of a gzip compressed tar archive?

A) gzip archive.tgz | tar xvf -
B) tar ztf archive.tgz
C) gzip -d archive.tgz | tar tvf -
D) tar cf archive.tgz

Question 64

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

A) cat -n 10 filename
B) dump -n 10 filename
C) head -n 10 filename
D) tail -n 10 filename

Question 65

Which of the following commands is used to change options and positional parameters for a running Bash?

A) history
B) set
C) bashconf
D) setsh
E) envsetup

Question 66

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

A) vi starts and loads the last file used and moves the cursor to the position where vi was when it last exited.
B) vi starts and requires the user to explicitly either create a new or load an existing file.
C) vi exits with an error message as it cannot be invoked without a file name to operate on.
D) vi starts in command mode and opens a new empty file.
E) vi starts and opens a new file which is filled with the content of the vi buffer if the buffer contains text.

Question 67

Which grep command will print only the lines that do not end with a / in the file foo?

A) grep '/$' foo
B) grep '/#' foo
C) grep -v '/$' foo
D) grep -v '/#' foo

Question 68

Which character, added to the end of a command, runs that command in the background as a child process of the current shell?

A) !
B) +
C) &
D) %
E) #

Question 69

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

A) fmt -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
B) split -c 1,4 /etc/passwd
C) cut -d : -f 1,4 /etc/passwd
D) paste -f 1,4 /etc/passwd

Question 70

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?

A) By using the command :repeat followed by the number and the command.
B) By specifying the number right in front of a command such as 4l or 2yj.
C) By selecting all affected lines using the shift and cursor keys before applying the command.
D) By issuing a command such as :set repetition=4 which repeats every subsequent command 4 times.

Question 71

Which of the following sequences in the vi editor saves the opened document and exits the editor?

A) esc ZZ
B) ctrl :w!
C) esc zz
D) esc :wq!
E) ctrl XX

Question 72

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

A) 2>&1 >filename
B) >filename 2>&1
C) 1>&2>filename
D) >>filename
E) 1&2>filename

Question 73

SIMULATION Which Bash environment variable defines in which file the user history is stored when exiting a Bash process? (Specify ONLY the variable name.)

Question 74

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?

A) source /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
B) . /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
C) /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
D) /usr/local/bin/runme.sh
E) run /usr/local/bin/runme.sh

Question 75

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

A) SIGTERM
B) SIGINT
C) SIGSTOP
D) SIGKILL

Question 76

In the vi editor, which of the following commands will copy the current line into the vi buffer?

A) c
B) cc
C) 1c
D) yy
E) 1y

Question 77

Which of the following files, located in the user home directory, is used to store the Bash history?

A) .bash_history
B) .bash_histfile
C) .history
D) .bashrc_history
E) .history_bash

Question 78

Regarding the command: nice -5 /usr/bin/prog Which of the following statements is correct?

A) /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of -5.
B) /usr/bin/prog is executed with a nice level of 5.
C) /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of -5.
D) /usr/bin/prog is executed with a priority of 5.

Question 79

Which of the following commands replaces each occurrence of 'bob' in the file letter with 'Bob' and writes the result to the file newletter?

A) sed '/bob/Bob' letter > newletter
B) sed s/bob/Bob/ letter < newletter
C) sed 's/bob/Bob' letter > newletter
D) sed 's/bob/Bob/g' letter > newletter
E) sed 's/bob, Bob/' letter > newletter

Question 80

Which shell command is used to continue background execution of a suspended command?

A) &
B) bg
C) cont
D) exec
E) :&