Lpi Linux Essentials 010-150 Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  When typing a long command line at the shell, what single character can be used to split a command

  across multiple lines?

  Correct Answer: \

• Question 2:

  What two character sequence is present at the beginning of an interpreted script? (Please specify the

  TWO correct characters only)

  Correct Answer: #!

• Question 3:

  What is the usual absolute path of the personal directory for the user foo?

  Correct Answer: /home/foo, /home/foo/

• Question 4:

  Which of the following will change the group that is associated with a file?

  A. chmod

  B. chmod -w

  C. chown

  D. ls -g

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 5:

  Which command displays the list of groups to which a user belongs?

  A. whoami

  B. lsgroup

  C. who

  D. id

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 6:

  You have a program called /usr/bin/foo. You wish to create a symbolic link, /home/user/foo, that points to it. Which command will do this task?

  A. ln -sym /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo

  B. ln -s /usr/bin/foo /home/user/foo

  C. ln /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo

  D. ln /usr/bin/foo /home/user/foo

  E. ln --symlink /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 7:

  When a new user is added, where does the user ID get stored?

  A. /etc/users

  B. /etc/realm

  C. /etc/pass

  D. /etc/shpasswd

  E. /etc/passwd

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 8:

  Which statement about users and user groups is correct?

  A. A group can only have one main user.

  B. There can be only one user group on a system.

  C. Users do not have to belong to a user group.

  D. Every user belongs to a least one user group.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 9:

  What are the three sets of permissions for a file?

  A. user, group, others

  B. administrator, group, others

  C. user, standard user, others

  D. administrator, standard user, others

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 10:

  Given the following directory permissions:

  drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 36864 2012-03-02 11:17 /tmp

  What does the letter t at the end of drwxrwxrwt indicate?

  A. It is the sticky bit that causes all commands in this directory to be launched as root.

  B. It means that even though the directory is globally writable only the owner can delete their own files.

  C. It makes the directory accessible for everybody.

  D. It indicates that this directory contains only temporary files that may be deleted.

  E. It is a temporary bit that prevents launching commands in this directory.

  Correct Answer: B