Free 101-400 Sample Questions — LPI Level 1 Exam 101 Junior Level Linux Certification Part 1 of 2

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

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

Which of the following are filesystems which can be used on Linux root partitions? (Choose two.)

• A. NTFS
• B. ext3
• C. XFS
• D. VFAT
• E. swap

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

Which of the following sequences in the vi editor saves the opened document and exits the editor? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

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

Which of the following are init systems used within Linux systems? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

• A. startd
• B. systemd
• C. Upstart
• D. SysInit
• E. SysV init

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. (uppercase)
• C. p (lowercase)
• D. (uppercase)
• E. u (lowercase)

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

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

Which of the following commands prints all files and directories within the /tmp directory or its subdirectories which are also owned by the user root? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

• A. find /tmp -uid root -print
• B. find -path /tmp -uid root
• C. find /tmp -user root -print
• D. find /tmp -user root
• E. find -path /tmp -user root print

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

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

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

Which of the following information is stored within the BIOS? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

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

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

Which of the following apt-get commands will install the newest versions of all currently installed packages?

• A. auto-update
• B. full-upgrade
• C. dist-upgrade
• D. install
• E. update

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

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

What information can the lspci command display about the system hardware? (Choose THREE correct answers.)

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

When running the command - sed -e "s/a/b/" /tmp/file >/tmp/file While /tmp/file contains data, why is /tmp/file empty afterwards?

• A. The file order is incorrect. The destination file must be mentioned before the command to ensure redirection
• B. The command sed did not match anything in that file therefore the output is empty
• C. When the shell establishes the redirection it overwrites the target file before the redirected command starts and opens it for reading
• D. Redirection for shell commands do not work using the > character. It only works using the | character instead