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

• Question 271:

  What program is needed to establish a PPP link to another computer?

  A. pppd

  B. wvdial

  C. papd

  D. kppp

  Correct Answer: A

  wvdial - PPP dialer with built-in intelligence. wvdial is an intelligent PPP dialer, which means that it dials a modem and starts PPP in order to connect to the Internet. It is something like the chat(8) program, except that it uses heuristics to guess how to dial and log into your server rather than forcing you to write a login script.

• Question 272:

  What is the disadvantage of using the command kill -9 ?

  A. A core dump file will be created.

  B. It affects the entire process group.

  C. It makes excessive use of system resources.

  D. The action can be blocked by buggy or malicious processes.

  E. The affected process is unable to clean up before exiting.

  Correct Answer: E

• Question 273:

  How many SCSI ids for peripherals can SCSI-1 support?

  A. 5

  B. 6

  C. 7

  D. 8

  Correct Answer: C

  SCSI-1 support total 7 peripherals. There are several different types of SCSI devices. The original SCSI specification is commonly referred to as SCSI-1. The newer specification, SCSI-2, offers increased speed and performance, as well as new commands. Fast SCSI increases throughput to more than 10MB per second. Fast-Wide SCSI provides a wider data path and throughput of up to 40MB per second and up to 15 devices. There there are Ultra-SCSI and Ultra-Wide-SCSI

• Question 274:

  What key sequence will suspend the current process and return you to a shell prompt?

  A. Ctrl-z

  B. Ctrl-c

  C. Ctrl-x

  D. Ctrl-d

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 275:

  You are installing Linux on a workstation for a new employee. Which partition should be largest?

  A. /

  B. /boot

  C. /lib

  D. /usr

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 276:

  The lspci command can display information about devices except the following:

  A. Card bus speed (e.g. 66Mhz)

  B. Card IRQ settings

  C. Card vendor identification

  D. Card AGP rate (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)

  E. Card Ethernet MAC address

  Correct Answer: E

  lspci is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them. To display the MAC address of Ethernet, we use the ifconfig command.

• Question 277:

  You are about to install a new program on an RPM based Linux system. Which of the following would be the best way to accomplish this?

  A. Get the source code in a tarball and install from that source.

  B. Get a source RPM and use rpm to install it.

  C. Use rpm to install the program's binaries from an RPM package.

  D. Use cpi to extract the binaries from a source RPM and use rpm to install those sources.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 278:

  Which command 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 -v ^# foobar

  C. /bin/grep #$ foobar

  D. /bin/grep -v #$ foobar

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 279:

  As root you have navigated to directory /B. You wish to move all of the files and directories from directory / A to directory /B. Which of the following options would be the most appropriate command line to execute this task?

  A. cp /a/* .

  B. mv -f /A/* .

  C. mv -Rf /a/* .

  D. cp -f /a/* ..

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 280:

  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

  Correct Answer: A

  The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system summary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable and that configuration can be made persistent across restarts.