LCP-001 Linux Certified Professional (LCP) Powered by LPI Questions and Answers

Which command will convert all tab characters in a file to spaces and print that to standard out?

Which shell built-in command can be used to create a shortcut or pseudonym for a longer command?

Assume a modern bourne-like shell, such as bash.

When you start XWindows, which series of programs and/or scripts would most closely describe the start-up process?

When you are looking for brief information about a program in your PATH with its associated man pages, you would use?

An installed package is broken. In order to go back to the previous version of the same package which RPM option should be used?

Which RPM command will output the name of the package which installed the file /etc/exports?

What command with all options and/or parameter will send the signal USR1 to any executing process of program apache2?

What command is used to display a file in octal format?

You just started X for the first time and noticed that the display does not use the entire screen. What program can you use to fix this?

Which of the following commands can be used to perform a full text search on all available packages on a Debian system?

The/etc/ ________ file lists currently mounted devices.

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:

Which of the following commands will load a kernel module along with any required dependency modules?

You want to search the file myfile for all occurances of string containing at least five characters, where character number 2 and 5 are 'a' and character number 3 is NOT 'b'. Which command would you use?

What does the following command do? cat '$TEST'

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

You are the system administrator for a consulting firm where several people use Linux as their desktop operating system. One of your users has installed a commercial publishing program that works under X on a variety of UNIX and Linux platforms. The user made a series of configuration changes regarding the initial window size, location and color. Now, he is having difficulty undoing these changes and is asking for your help. In which file would you think you would most likely find the configuration settings you are seeking to change?

What umask value will result in the default access permissions of 600 (rw-------) for files and 700

(rwx ------) for directories? (Provide only the numerical umask value)

When installing XWindows the monitor wasn't recognised but now a data sheet with its specification is available. Which xorg.conf section must be edited to specify the correct values for several variables?

What command should be invoked to give the user sally read and write, but not execute, access to the file strategy.txt using Extended ACL entries?

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?

Which of the following commands will find the string foo in the file filel.txt, regardless of foo being in upper or lowercase letters?

You are running X in networked environment. You want to allow anyone on your network to display their X applications on your desktop. What command can you use to disable all access control for X?

Which chown command will change the ownership to foo and the group to bar on a file named biglist?

The _____________ command displays ISA plug-and-play devices resource information.

What command changes the priority of the process running with process id of 12345 to the highest priority?

Which of the following commands is equivalent to kill 1234?

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

What tool can you use to print shared library dependencies?

You need to install a fax server. Which type of fax/modem should you install to insure Linux compatibility?

In the vi editor, which of the following commands will delete the current line at the cursor and the 16 lines following it (17 lines total)?

Keyboards and mice are members of which class of USB devices?

When reading man pages, a lot of extra characters are shown on screen. Which of the following commands can help to deal with this problem?

You have just set up the Gnome Display Manager as your default display manager. What file should you edit to change the default greeting for it?

The dpkg-____ command will ask configuration questions for a specified package, just as if the package were being installed for the first time. Answer:

A Makefile typically contains which targets?

Consider the following output:

prompt> myapp

[1]+ Stopped myapp

This output was the result of the user pressing the keyboard combination of the Ctrl key and what

letter key? Enter only the single (1) letter as your answer

What key combination is used to forcibly halt the X server in the event of the graphical session becoming unusable (e.g., desktop manager or full screen application hanging)?

You suspect that a new ethernet card might be conflicting with another device. Which file should you check within the /proc tree to learn which IRQs are being used by which kernel drives?

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?