LCP-001 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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.

What umask will set the file permissions on a newly created file to -rw-r--r-- (644)?

A. 0002

B. 0022

C. 0224

D. 0246

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

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

B. --remove only removes the program, --purge only 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

A Makefile typically contains which targets?

A. CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LIBS, LDFLAGS

B. clean, install, uninstall

C. PATHS, DESTDIR, LIBS, LDFLAGS

D. prefix, exec_prefix, bindir, mandir

Which of the following is a limitation of the cut command?

A. The cut command can only select output by field position.

B. The cut command cannot reorder fields.

C. The cut command only works on ASCII text.

D. The cut command will always print one line of output for every line of input.

Which command will convert an RPM package file to a cpio archive? (Provide only the command with no options or parameters)

A. rpm2cpio

Given the following output: prompt> myapp [1]+ Stopped myapp prompt> Which of the following commands will resume executing the stopped process and make it the current job?

A. bg myapp

B. continue myapp

C. exec myapp

D. fg myapp

E. myapp and

What is the purpose of the Bash built-in export command?

A. To allow disks to be mounted remotely.

B. To automate the export of variables for subsequently executed commands.

C. To make the command history available to sub-shells.

D. To run a command as a process in a sub-shell.

E. To save variable settings for future shell invocations.

The GRUB_TIMEOUT parameter specifies a timeout period when booting in what unit of time?

A. milliseconds

B. tenths of seconds

C. seconds

D. minutes

Which of the following commands will print the amount of disk space used by files specified on the command line?

A. dc

B. dd

C. df

D. du