LPI 201-450 Free Practice Questions

Q1. What mechanism does collectd use to gather monitoring information on systems?

A. It uses a library of plugins.

B. A master server connects to a collectd service on each machine to retrieve the information.

C. It collects its own information on each server and sends that to a master server.

D. It makes SNMP queries to the clients being monitored.

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Q2. In capacity planning exercises, which tools assist in listing and identifying processes of interest? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

A. acpid

B. lsof

C. pstree

D. telinit

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Q3. What keyword is missing in the following line from /etc/fstab in order to make a USB flash device writeable by the user fred when mounted:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash vfat defaults,users, _____ =fred,umask=022, 0 0 (Provide the option name only without any settings)

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Q4. The main configuration file for autofs has this entry:

/home /etc/auto.home

What is the meaning of the /etc/auto.home file?

A. It has the indirect maps for the mounting of file systems.

B. It has configuration information, such as passwords and keys, for the remote file server.

C. It has configuration information on settings for the /home mount point.

D. It is the holds the SSL key to allow authentication to the remote file server.

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Q5. Please enter the complete path to the main SysV init process configuration file.

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Q6. How is the source code for the main Linux kernel modules distributed?

A. It is included with the Linux kernel source code.

B. The kernel modules are downloaded on demand as they are used during compilation.

C. The kernel modules have their own release cycle and can be maintained separately from the Linux kernel source.

D. It is provided as a separate download alongside the Linux kernel source code of the same version.

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Q7. Which command turns an existing ext2 filesystem non-destructively into an ext3 filesystem? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)

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Q8. What information does the file modules.dep provide?

A. A list of all modules, compiled or not, that are available to the kernel.

B. A list of modules trusted by the installed kernel.

C. A list of devices and their module name.

D. A list of all compiled modules and their dependencies.

E. A list of modules the kernel needs to run.

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Q9. When is historical data of resource usage important? (Select THREE correct answers.)

A. Predicting when resources will need to be increased.

B. Selecting a computer vendor.

C. Identifying processes killed during out of memory occurrences.

D. Diagnosing capacity problems.

E. Troubleshooting a software problem.

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Q10. Which file tells GRUB the paths of the filesystem partitions in both Linux format and in the GRUB syntax? (Specify the file name only with no path information)

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