LPI Quizzes & Trivia

For anyone who’s interested, the Linux Professional Institute is a non-profit organization that provides vendor-independent professional certification for Linux system programmers. Simply put, if you’re a computer buff and what to prove that you have the skills necessary to program and maintain a Linux system, you can obtain certification through the LPI. If this sounds like something that lights up your circuits, why not see if you’re cut out for it with these practice quizzes?

The LPI program has three levels of certification and completion of each level is necessary for certification. Can you name the three levels? What is the LPI a founding member of? Which of the three levels of certification focuses on Linux System Administration? True or false: the third level focuses on security and virtualization? Find out how much you know about the LPI today with these fascinating quizzes.

LPI 101-1

LPI 101 Quiz - Most of the text is from: http://www.happy-monkey.net/LPI/html/ (Copyright (c) 2004-2006 by David Horton - This document is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license)

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 76 | Last updated: Dec 31, 2012

Sample Question
What two commands show the status of processes in a Linux system?

Ps and df

Df and top

Ls and cat

Df and dd

Ps and top

Simulado LPI - 104 - I

Questions: 60 | Attempts: 19 | Last updated: Apr 13, 2018

Sample Question
Which one do you like?What output will the following command sequence produce?

Result: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Result: 6 5 4

Result: 6 5 4 3 2 1

Result: 3 2 1

Result: 3 4 5 6 2 1

Simulado Lpi - 104 - II

Questions: 60 | Attempts: 14 | Last updated: Apr 13, 2018

Sample Question
What is true regarding the command sendmail?

The sendmail command prints the MTAs queue history of which mails have been sent successfully.

It is only available when the sendmail MTA is installed.

All MTAs, including Postfix and Exim, provide a sendmail command.

With any MTA, the sendmail command must be run periodically by the cron daemon.

Simulado I - LPI

Questions: 60 | Attempts: 7 | Last updated: Nov 13, 2017

Sample Question
Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete key combination? Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete keycombination?

/proc/keys

/etc/inittab

/proc/inittab

/etc/reboot

/etc/keys

LPI Questions and Answers

What two commands show the status of processes in a Linux system?

ps and df

df and top

ls and cat

df and dd

ps and top

LPI question from

LPI 101-1

Take Quiz
You are working with your hardware vendors technical support people to troubleshoot a network card problem. The technical support representative wants to know which IRQ channel the card is using. Which file would tell you the IRQ channel for the card?

/proc/interrupts

/proc/ioports

/proc/irqs

/proc/sysconfig

LPI question from

LPI 101-1

Take Quiz
Management has finally approved the budget for you to buy your first high-capacity SCSI tape drive and SCSI host adapter. You install the host adapter in PCI slot 4 and set the tape drives SCSI ID to 5. What Linux device would you use to access the new tape drive?

/dev/st0

/dev/st1

/dev/st4

/dev/st5

LPI question from

LPI 101-1

Take Quiz
Which one do you like?What output will the following command sequence produce?

result: 1 2 3 4 5 6

result: 6 5 4

result: 6 5 4 3 2 1

result: 3 2 1

result: 3 4 5 6 2 1

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - I

Take Quiz
which of the following statements is true?

It is the process ID of the echo command.

It is the process ID of the current shell.

It is the exit value of the command executed immediately before echo.

It is the exit value of the echo command.

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - I

Take Quiz
Which command makes the shell variable named VARIABLE visible to subshells?

set VARIABLE

env VARIABLE

export $VARIABLE

export VARIABLE

set $VARIABLE

set $VARIABLE

set $VARIABLE

set $VARIABLE

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - I

Take Quiz
What is true regarding the command sendmail?

The sendmail command prints the MTAs queue history of which mails have been sent successfully.

It is only available when the sendmail MTA is installed.

All MTAs, including Postfix and Exim, provide a sendmail command.

With any MTA, the sendmail command must be run periodically by the cron daemon.

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - II

Take Quiz
Why is the correct configuration of a system’s time zone important?seenagapeSeptember 29, 2015Why is the correct configuration of a system’s time zone important?

Because the conversion of Unix timestamps to local time relies on the time zone configuration.

Because the time zone is saved as part of the modification times of files and cannot be changed after a file is created.

Because the environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES are, by default, set according to the time zone.

Because NTP chooses servers nearby based on the configured time zone.

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - II

Take Quiz
Which of the following parameters are used for journalctl to limit the time frame of the output?seenagapeSeptember 29, 2015Which of the following parameters are used for journalctl to limit the time frame of the output? (Choose TWO correctanswers.)

–from=

–since=

–until=

–upto=

–date=

LPI question from

SIMULADO LPI - 104 - II

Take Quiz
Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete key combination? Which SysV init configuration file should be modified to disable the ctrl-alt-delete keycombination?

/proc/keys

/etc/inittab

/proc/inittab

/etc/reboot

/etc/keys

LPI question from

Simulado I - LPI

Take Quiz
what program is executed after the BIOS completes its tasks? During a system boot cycle, what program is executed after the BIOS completes its tasks?

The init program

The kernel

The inetd program

The bootloader

LPI question from

Simulado I - LPI

Take Quiz
Which run levels should never be declared as the default run level when using SysV init? Which run levels should never be declared as the default run level when using SysV init?(Choose TWO correct answers.)

1

3

6

0

LPI question from

Simulado I - LPI

Take Quiz

‹ ›