Question 1

How is a symbolic link called bar.conf pointing to foo.conf created?

Accepted Answer

A)   ln -s foo.conf bar.conf
B)   ln foo.conf bar.conf
C)   ln -s bar.conf foo.conf
D)   ln bar.conf foo.conf

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

What is the process ID number of the init process on a SysV init based system?

Accepted Answer

A)   -1
B)   0
C)   1
D)   It is different with each reboot.
E)   It is set to the current run level. C

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of SIMULATION Which signal is missing from the...

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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 8

What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?

Accepted Answer

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 9

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

Accepted Answer

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 C

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)   inode
B)   ls
C)   ln
D)   cp

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

Which of the following commands changes the ownership of file.txt to the user dan and the group staff?

Accepted Answer

A)   chown dan/staff file.txt
B)   chown dan:staff file.txt
C)   chown -u dan -g staff file.txt
D)   chown dan -g staff file.txt

Question 13

Which of the following is a limitation of the cut command?

Accepted Answer

A)   The cut command can only select output by field position. The command can only select output by field position.
B)   The cut command cannot reorder fields. command cannot reorder fields.
C)   The cut command only works on ASCII text. command only works on ASCII text.
D)   The cut command cannot use different input and output delimiters. command cannot use different input and output delimiters.

Question 14

How many fields are in a syntactically correct line of /etc/fstab?

Accepted Answer

A)   3
B)   4
C)   5
D)   6
E)   7

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

Which of the following commands will change the quota for a specific user?

Accepted Answer

A)   edquota
B)   repquota
C)   quota -e
D)   quota

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

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 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

Which of the following commands converts spaces in a file to tab characters and prints the result to standard output?

Accepted Answer

A)   iconv
B)   expand
C)   unexpand
D)   tab

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

How is a symbolic link called bar.conf pointing to foo.conf created?

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

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

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What is the process ID number of the init process on a SysV init based system?

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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

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

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

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What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?

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

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

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

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Which of the following commands changes the ownership of file.txt to the user dan and the group staff?

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Which of the following is a limitation of the cut command?

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How many fields are in a syntactically correct line of /etc/fstab?

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

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

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Which of the following commands will change the quota for a specific user?

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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?

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

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Which of the following commands converts spaces in a file to tab characters and prints the result to standard output?

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