Free 101-500 Sample Questions — LPIC-1 Exam 101

Running chmod 640 filea.txt as a regular user doesn't update filea.txt's permission. What might be a reason why chmod cannot modify the permissions? (Choose two.)

• A. filea.txt is owned by another user and a regular user cannot change the permissions of another user's file
• B. filea.txt is a symbolic link whose permissions are a fixed value which cannot be charged
• C. filea.txt has the sticky bit set and a regular user cannot remove this permission
• D. filea.txt is a hard link whose permissions are inherited from the target and cannot be set directly
• E. filea.txt has the SetUID bit set which imposes the restriction that only the root user can make changes to the file

Which of the following statements is correct for a command ending with an & character?

• A. The command's output is redirected to /dev/null
• B. The command is run in background of the current shell
• C. The command's output is executed by the shell
• D. The command is run as a direct child of the init process
• E. The command's input is read from /dev/null

Which of the following commands creates or, in case it already exists, overwrites a file called data with the output of ls?

• A. ls 3> data
• B. ls >& data
• C. ls > data
• D. ls >> data
• E. ls >>> data

Which of the following commands can be used to determine how long the system has been running? (Choose two.)

• A. uptime
• B. up
• C. time --up
• D. uname -u
• E. top

Which of the following commands reads a file and creates separate chunks of a given size from the file's contents?

• A. ar
• B. cat
• C. break
• D. split
• E. parted

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

• A. Hard links are not available on all Linux systems because traditional filesystems, such as ext4, do not support them
• B. Each hard link has individual ownership, permissions and ACLs which can lead to unintended disclosure of file content
• C. Hard links are specific to one filesystem and cannot point to files on another filesystem
• D. If users other than root should be able to create hard links, suln has to be installed and configured
• E. When a hard linked file is changed, a copy of the file is created and consumes additional space

After a power outage, the XFS file system of /dev/sda3 is inconsistent. How can the existing file system errors be fixed?

• A. By using mount -f to force a mount of the file system
• B. By running xfsck on the file system
• C. By mounting the file system with the option xfs_repair
• D. By running xfsadmin repair on the file system
• E. By running xfs_repair on the file system

Which of the following commands determines a file's format by using a definition database file which contains information about all common file types?

• A. type
• B. file
• C. magic
• D. pmagic
• E. hash

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

• A. history
• B. setsh
• C. bashconf
• D. set
• E. envsetup

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

• A. echo "${PWD}"
• B. echo "${WD}"
• C. printwd
• D. pwd
• E. echo "${pwd}"

What is true regarding the command ls > files if files does not exist?

• A. The output of ls is printed to the terminal
• B. files is created and contains the output of ls
• C. An error message is shown and ls is not executed
• D. The command files is executed and receives the output of ls
• E. Any output of ls is discarded

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. -maxdepth
• B. -dirmax
• C. -maxlevels
• D. -s
• E. -n

Which of the following apt-get subcommands installs the newest versions of all currently installed packages?

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

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.)

• A. chmod g+s sales
• B. setpol -R newgroup=sales sales
• C. chgrp -p sales sales
• D. chown --persistent *.sales sales
• E. chmod 2775 sales

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

• A. tr -d '\r' < userlist.txt > newlist.txt
• B. tr -c '\n\r' '' userlist.txt
• C. tr '\r\n' '' newlist.txt
• D. tr '\r' '\n' userlist.txt newlist.txt
• E. tr -s '/^M/^J/' userlist.txt newlist.txt

Which of the following tools can show the complete path of an executable file that the current shell would execute when starting a command without specifying its complete path? (Choose two.)

• A. find
• B. pwd
• C. which
• D. locate
• E. type

Which of the following commands display the IDs of all processes owned by root? (Choose two.)

• A. pgrep -c root
• B. pgrep -u root
• C. pgrep -f root
• D. pgrep -U 0
• E. pgrep -c 0

Which of the following Linux filesystems preallocate a fixed number of inodes when creating a new filesystem instead of generating them as needed? (Choose two.)

• A. JFS
• B. ext3
• C. XFS
• D. ext2
• E. procfs

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

• A. 10%
• B. 3%
• C. 15%
• D. 0%
• E. 5%

Given a log file loga.log with timestamps of the format DD/MM/YYYY:hh:mm:ss, which command filters out all log entries in the time period between 8:00 am and 8:59 am?

• A. grep -E ':08:[09]+:[09]+' loga.log
• B. grep -E ':08:[00]+' loga.log
• C. grep -E loga.log ':08:[0-9]+:[0-9]+'
• D. grep loga.log ':08:[0-9]:[0-9]'
• E. grep -E ':08:[0-9]+:[0-9]+' loga.log