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Q1. - (Topic 1)
During a system boot cycle, what program is executed after the BIOS completes its tasks?
A. The bootloader
B. The inetd program
C. The init program
D. The kernel
Answer: A
Q2. - (Topic 1)
Which of the following information is stored within the BIOS? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. Boot device order
B. Linux kernel version
C. Timezone
D. Hardware configuration
E. The system's hostname
Answer: A,D
Q3. - (Topic 3)
In a nested directory structure, which find command line option would be used to restrict the command to searching down a particular number of subdirectories?
A. -dirmax
B. -maxdepth
C. -maxlevels
D. -n
E. -s
Answer: B
Q4. - (Topic 2)
Which of the following commands overwrites the bootloader located on /dev/sda without overwriting the partition table or any data following it?
A. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512
B. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
C. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
D. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440
Answer: C
Q5. - (Topic 4)
What is the purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard?
A. It is a security model used to ensure files are organized according to their permissions and accessibility.
B. It provides unified tools to create, maintain and manage multiple filesystems in a common way.
C. It defines a common internal structure of inodes for all compliant filesystems.
D. It is a distribution neutral description of locations of files and directories.
Answer: D
Q6. - (Topic 2)
Which of the following commands updates the linker cache of shared libraries?
A. mkcache
B. soconfig
C. mkldconfig
D. lddconfig
E. ldconfig
Answer: E
Q7. - (Topic 4)
Which of the following commands will change the quota for a specific user?
A. edquota
B. repquota
C. quota -e
D. quota
Answer: A
Q8. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 2)
What is the name of the main configuration file for GNU GRUB? (Specify the file name only without any path.)
Answer: menu.lst, grub.conf, grub.cfg
Q9. - (Topic 3)
Which of the following commands can be used to determine how long the system has been running? (Choose TWO correct answers.)
A. uptime
B. up
C. top
D. uname -u
E. time–up
Answer: A,C
Q10. - (Topic 3)
Which of the following signals is sent to a process when the key combination CTRL+C is pressed on the keyboard?
A. SIGTERM
B. SIGINT
C. SIGSTOP
D. SIGKILL
Answer: B
Q11. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 3)
CompTIA LX0-103 : Practice Test
Which Bash environment variable defines in which file the user history is stored when exiting a Bash process? (Specify ONLY the variable name.)
Answer: HISTFILE
Q12. - (Topic 1)
Which of the following kernel parameters instructs the kernel to suppress most boot messages?
A. silent
B. verbose=0
C. nomesg
D. quiet
Answer: D
Q13. - (Topic 3)
What does the ? symbol within regular expressions represent?
A. Match the preceding qualifier one or more times.
B. Match the preceding qualifier zero or more times.
C. Match the preceding qualifier zero or one times.
D. Match a literal ? character.
Answer: C
Q14. CORRECT TEXT - (Topic 2)
Which Debian package management tool asks the configuration questions for a specific already installed package just as if the package were being installed for the first time? (Specify ONLY the command without any path or parameters.)
Answer: dpkg-reconfigure
Q15. - (Topic 4)
How many fields are in a syntactically correct line of /etc/fstab?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7
Answer: D
Q16. - (Topic 3)
What is the maximum niceness value that a regular user can assign to a process with the nice command when executing a new process?
A. 9
B. 19
C. 49
D. 99
Answer: B
Q17. - (Topic 3)
Which of the following commands kills the process with the PID 123 but allows the process to "clean up" before exiting?
A. kill -PIPE 123
B. kill -KILL 123
C. kill -STOP 123
D. kill -TERM 123
Answer: D