LCP-001 Online Practice Questions and Answers
You have just upgraded your PC to a 60 gigabyte IDE drive. While partitioning the drive, you notice that only 32 gigabytes are available. Which of the following will most likely allow you to use the entire drive?
A. Create two smaller partitions of 30 gigabytes each.
B. Set the PC BIOS to use LBA mode.
C. Create a partition that resides entirely below the first 1024 cylinders.
D. Use GRUB or the latest version of LILO as a bootloader.
E. Upgrade the PC BIOS to the latest version available.
You are logged in as user tux1, but now you want to switch users to tux2 with tux2's environment. How would you do this?
A. su tux2
B. su -e tux2
C. su - tux2
D. su -m tux2
E. su -f tux2
To prevent a command run as root from sending both standard out (stdout) and standard error (stderr) to any terminal or other file or device, which of the following strings should be appended to the command?
A. >/dev/null
B. >/dev/null 1>and2
C. >/dev/null 2>and1
D. 1>and2 >/dev/null
E. 2>and1 >/dev/null
You are formatting a single hard disk for a Linux install. What is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
E. 4
F. 5
After a minor security incident you are instructed by your lead sys-admin to verify the RPM's installed on running system. Which command will create a complete report which you can analyze for changes which may be security related?
A. .rpm-Va>report
B. rpm-Qavy > report
C. rpm-Vqt-- nomd5>report
D. rpm-checkfiles >report
E. rpm-Va-nofiles > report
Which Debian package system command will list all partially installed packages and suggest how to get them correctly installed?
A. dpkg -C
B. apt-get -u
C. dpkg -Dh
D. dpkg -l
E. apt-get -y
USB fax/modems that conform to this subclass of the Communication Device Class (CDC) vendor neutral standard are Linux compatible (answer is a 3 letter acronym)
A. acm
Which key do you press to switch to normal mode in vi?
A. Alt
B. Esc
C. Ctrl
D. Shift
Which command will disable paging and swapping on a device? (Provide only the command with no additional options or parameters)
A. swapoff
B. /sbin/swapoff
What is the process ID number of the init program?
A. -1
B. 0
C. 1
D. It is different with each reboot.
E. It is set to the current run level.