LPIC-1 Quick Quiz — 10 Questions

Question 1

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to reduce boot time on a Linux system? (Select exactly 2.)

Accepted Answer

Disable unnecessary systemd services.. Disabling unnecessary systemd services reduces the number of processes that must be started during boot, directly decreasing the time spent in the target phase of systemd's parallel service activation. Each disabled service eliminates its own dependency resolution, unit loading, and execution overhead, which is especially impactful on systems with many enabled services.

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Use an initramfs with minimal drivers.

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Increase the kernel log level to debug.

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Use ext2 instead of ext4 as the root filesystem.

Question 2

A small business uses a Linux server running CUPS to share a network printer. For several months, all employees could print successfully. Today, an employee in a different subnet reports that printing does not work. The administrator checks the server: cupsd is running, the printer is configured with an IPP URI pointing to the printer's IP address, and the printer is idle. The administrator can ping the printer from the server. The administrator checks the CUPS error log and sees the following line multiple times: 'E [04/Oct/2024:10:15:22 -0400] [Client 5] client-error-not-authorized'. Which of the following actions should the administrator take to resolve the issue?

Accepted Answer

Add 'Allow from 192.168.2.0/24' to the appropriate policy in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. The error 'client-error-not-authorized' in CUPS indicates that the client's request was denied due to access control restrictions in cupsd.conf. Since the employee is in a different subnet (e.g., 192.168.2.0/24), the default CUPS policy likely only allows local subnet access. Adding 'Allow from 192.168.2.0/24' to the appropriate policy (e.g., under <Policy default>) grants printing access from that subnet, resolving the authorization failure.

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Change the printer's URI from ipp:// to socket://

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Add the employee's username to the lpadmin group

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Restart the cupsd service with 'systemctl restart cupsd'

Question 3

A user 'jdoe' already exists. The administrator needs to add 'jdoe' to the 'staff' and 'admin' groups without changing other group memberships. Which command accomplishes this?

Accepted Answer

usermod -a -G staff,admin jdoe. The `usermod -a -G` command appends the user 'jdoe' to the supplementary groups 'staff' and 'admin' without altering existing group memberships. The `-a` (append) flag is essential; without it, `-G` would replace all current supplementary groups with only those listed. This matches the requirement to add the user to new groups while preserving other group memberships.

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sed -i 's/^staff:.*/&jdoe/' /etc/group

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usermod -G staff,admin jdoe

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useradd -G staff,admin jdoe

Question 4

Refer to the exhibit. The root filesystem is nearly full. The administrator needs to increase its size. Which steps should be performed?

Accepted Answer

Use lvextend to extend the logical volume and then resize2fs to resize the filesystem. The root filesystem is on an LVM logical volume, as indicated by the exhibit (e.g., /dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv). To increase its size, you must first extend the logical volume using lvextend, then resize the filesystem with resize2fs. This two-step process ensures the underlying block device and the filesystem are both enlarged to utilize the newly available space.

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Use parted to resize the root partition and then mount it

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Use fdisk to increase the size of /dev/sda1 and then run resize2fs

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Create a new filesystem on /dev/sda2 and mount it to /

Question 5

Refer to the exhibit. On boot, which filesystem will be checked first by fsck?

Accepted Answer

The root filesystem (/). The root filesystem (/) is checked first by fsck because it is mounted read-only during the initial boot phase, and fsck must verify its integrity before the system can proceed to mount other filesystems. The order of filesystem checks is determined by the fs_passno field in /etc/fstab, where the root filesystem typically has a passno of 1, ensuring it is checked before any filesystem with a higher passno value.

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The swap partition

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The CD-ROM device

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The /boot filesystem

Question 6

A system administrator needs to schedule a recurring maintenance task that runs every Monday at 3 AM. Which crontab entry is correct?

Accepted Answer

0 3 * * 1 /script.sh. The crontab syntax is minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week. Setting minute=0, hour=3, day of week=1 runs the script at 3:00 AM every Monday (day 1 represents Monday in cron).

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3 0 * * 1 /script.sh

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0 3 * * 0 /script.sh

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0 3 * * 7 /script.sh

Question 7

Arrange the steps to configure a static IP address on a Linux system using the command line.

Accepted Answer

Step 1: Open the network configuration file (e.g., /etc/network/interfaces).
Step 2: Configure the interface with static IP, netmask, gateway, and DNS.
Step 3: Save and exit the file.
Step 4: Restart the networking service.. Static IP configuration requires editing the appropriate config file, then restarting networking to apply changes.

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Step 1: Restart the networking service.
Step 2: Open the network configuration file.
Step 3: Configure the interface with static IP, netmask, gateway, and DNS.
Step 4: Save and exit the file.

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Step 1: Open the network configuration file.
Step 2: Save and exit the file.
Step 3: Configure the interface with static IP, netmask, gateway, and DNS.
Step 4: Restart the networking service.

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Step 1: Configure the interface with static IP, netmask, gateway, and DNS.
Step 2: Restart the networking service.
Step 3: Open the network configuration file.
Step 4: Save and exit the file.

Question 8

An administrator needs to find all files in the /var/log directory that have been modified in the last 24 hours. Which command should be used?

Accepted Answer

find /var/log -mtime 0. The `find` command with `-mtime 0` searches for files whose data modification time is within the last 24 hours. The `-mtime` option uses a 24-hour period, and a value of 0 means modified less than 24 hours ago, which matches the requirement to find files modified in the last 24 hours in /var/log.

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find /var/log -ctime 0

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find /var/log -atime 0

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find /var/log -mmin 1440

Question 9

A developer needs to ensure a bash script exits immediately if any command fails, and also prints each command before executing it. Which set of shell options should be used at the beginning of the script?

Accepted Answer

set -ex. `set -ex` combines two essential shell options: `-e` (errexit) causes the script to exit immediately if any command returns a non-zero exit status, and `-x` (xtrace) prints each command (after expansion) to stderr before executing it. This is the standard way to achieve both behaviors in a single line, as required by the question.

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set -e

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set -vx

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set -ux

Question 10

Which TWO tools can be used to query DNS records? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

nslookup. A is correct because nslookup is a classic DNS query tool that sends DNS queries to name servers to resolve domain names to IP addresses or vice versa. It directly queries DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, etc.) using the DNS protocol (UDP/TCP port 53).

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ss

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ping

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traceroute