GAQM Linux Certified Professional (LCP) LCP-001 Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  What is the purpose of the xargs command?

  A. It will read standard input and execute command lines with the read input.

  B. It will get user input from the graphical environment.

  C. It will clean up command line arguments and verify syntactic correctness.

  D. It will pass arguments on the command line to a new graphical application.

  E. It will allow users to specify long options for commands that normally only accept short options.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 12:

  Which of the following commands can be used to locate programs and their corresponding man pages and configuration files?

  A. locate

  B. which

  C. find

  D. query

  E. whereis

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 13:

  Which of the following commands enables the setuid (suid) permission on the executable called /bin/foo?

  A. chmod 1755 /bin/foo

  B. chmod 4755 /bin/foo

  C. chown u-s /bin/foo

  D. chmod 755+s /bin/foo

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 14:

  Instead of supplying an explicit device in /etc/fstab for mounting, what other options may be used to identify the intended partition? (Select TWO correct answers)

  A. FIND

  B. ID

  C. LABEL

  D. NAME

  E. UUID

  Correct Answer: CE

• Question 15:

  Which of the following statements is a TRUE difference between GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2?

  A. GRUB 2 no longer requires a configuration file.

  B. Partition numbers start at 0 in GRUB Legacy and 1 in GRUB 2.

  C. grub-mkconfig only works with GRUB Legacy if the -version 1 option is used.

  D. The configuration file menu.lst (and grub.conf) have been replaced with grub.config.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 16:

  Identify the proper device for the third partition on the only SCSI drive on the system.

  A. /dev/hda3

  B. /dev/sd0a3

  C. /dev/sda3

  D. /dev/sd1p3

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 17:

  Which command displays the contents of the Kernel Ring Buffer on the command line? (Provide only the command name without any options or path information) Answer:

  A. dmesg

  B. /bin/dmesg

  Correct Answer: AB

• Question 18:

  The system configuration file named _______ is commonly used to set the default runlevel. (Please provide the fill name with full path information) Answer:

  A. /etc/inittab

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 19:

  What is the name of the main configuration file for GRUB? (Please specify the file name with no path information)

  A. menu.lst

  B. grub.conf

  C. grub.cfg

  Correct Answer: ABC

• Question 20:

  When should grep -F or the fgrep command be used to search the content of text files?

  A. When files need to be searched that contain non-ASCII text.

  B. When only the presence of the search pattern needs to be reported and not every line that matches the search.

  C. When the text being searched for does not contain any regular expression patterns.

  D. When the text files will be searched multiple times. Subsequent calls to fgrep will run faster.

  Correct Answer: C