Lpi 117-101 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Lpi 117-101 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  What effect does the sticky bit have when set on a directory?

  A. There is no effect because the sticky bit has been deprecated in Linux.
  B. It provides a hint to the kernel that files in this directory should be cached in memory, if possible.
  C. It restricts deletion of files in this directory to only the root user and the file owner regardless of write permissions for other users.
  D. It instructs the kernel to keep the underlying data for the files in the directory intact to allow for undeletion of important files.
  C. It restricts deletion of files in this directory to only the root user and the file owner regardless of write permissions for other users.

• Question 42:

  In the vi editor, which of the following commands will delete the current line at the cursor and the 16 lines following it (17 lines total)?

  17dd

• Question 43:

  What umask value will result in the default access permissions of 600 (rw-------) for files and (rwx ------) for directories? (Provide only the numerical umask value)

  0077

• Question 44:

  In a networked environment, what command will grant anybody permission to display their X applications on a desktop? (Include both the command and argument(s).)

  xhost +

• Question 45:

  You want to install a new software package, but it is only available in RPM format and you are running Debian Linux. Which of the following would help you to install it on your system?

  A. alien
  B. apt-conf
  C. dselect
  D. cpio
  A. alien

• Question 46:

  Which command will disable paging and swapping on a device? (Provide only the command with no additional options or parameters)

  swapoff

  -or- /sbin/swapoff

• Question 47:

  Which of the following commands will find the string foo in the file file1.txt, regardless of foo being in upper or lowercase letters?

  A. cat file1.txt | grep -i foo
  B. cat file1.txt >grep -n foo
  C. grep -i foo | file1.txt
  D. grep -n file1.txt < foo
  E. grep -n foo file1.txt
  A. cat file1.txt | grep -i foo

• Question 48:

  Which 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
  C. /etc/inittab

• Question 49:

  Which of the following GNU commands would be the most likely command you'd use to find the system load average?

  A. top
  B. nice
  C. loadavg
  D. cpustat
  E. ps
  A. top

• Question 50:

  While editing a file in vi, the file changes due to another process. Without exiting vi, how can the file be reopened for editing with the new content?

  A. :r
  B. :n
  C. :w
  D. :e
  D. :e