CompTIA CompTIA Linux+ LX0-101 Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Which command lines would an administrator use to restrict the GNU find command to searching a particular number of subdirectories?

  A. -s

  B. -dirmax

  C. --max-dirs

  D. -maxdepth

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 2:

  Which commands will print to standard out only the lines that do not begin with # (pound symbol) in the file foobar?

  A. /bin/grep ^# foobar

  B. /bin/grep #$ foobar

  C. /bin/grep -v ^# foobar

  D. /bin/grep -v #$ foobar

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 3:

  Which is the default process priority when a process is started using the nice command?

  A. 0

  B. -10

  C. -20

  D. 10

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 4:

  Which is the default process priority when a process is started using the nice command?

  A. 16d

  B. 17x

  C. 17dd

  D. d17d

  E. 16dd

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 5:

  In compliance with the FHS, in which of the following places are man pages typically found?

  A. /usr/share/man

  B. /opt/man

  C. /usr/doc/

  D. /var/pkg/man

  E. /usr/local/man

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 6:

  Select the line that BEST represents what permissions the /etc/passwd file should have.

  A. -rw------- 1 root root 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

  B. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

  C. -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1 531 Jun 5 22:45 /etc/passwd

  D. All answers listed are not correct.

  E. All answers listed are correct.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 7:

  Which is the difference between the --remove and the --purge action with the dpkg command?

  A. --remove only removes the program, --purge only removes the config files.

  B. --remove removes the program, --purge also removes the config files.

  C. --remove removes a package, --purge also removes all packages dependent on it.

  D. --remove removes only the package file itself, --purge removes all files related to the package.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 8:

  Which of the following commands will uninstall a package but leave its configuration files in case a package is re-installed?

  A. None, no command will do this.

  B. dpkg -s pkgname

  C. dpkg -L pkgname

  D. dpkg -P pkgname

  E. dpkg -r pkgname

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 9:

  How does an administrator get a list of files that have been installed from a dpkg package?

  A. dpkg -l pkgname

  B. dpkg -C pkgname

  C. dpkg -s pkgname

  D. dpkg -S pkgname

  E. dpkg -L pkgname

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 10:

  Which of the following command line redirection characters instructs the shell to read from the current input source until a specific word, on a separate line and without and trailing spaces, is reached?

  A. <<

  B. <|

  C. !<

  D. and<<

  Correct Answer: A