Examen 101 - LPI Chapter 3: Configuring Hardware

What tool would you use to disable a motherboard's sound hardware if you don't want to use it?

What is purpose of udev?

You've just installed Linux on a new computer with a single SATA hard disk. What device identifier will refer to the disk?

The fdisk -l /dev/sda on a Linux computer with an MBR disk produces a listing of four partitions: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6. which of the following true?

Which of the following directories is most likely to be placed on its own hard disk partition?

What mount point should you associate with swap partitions?

Which of the folllowing options is used with fsck to force it to use a particular filesystem type?

What does the following command accomplish?
#mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda4

Which of the following pieces of information can df not report?

To access file on a USB flash drive, you type mount /dev/sdc1 /media/flash as root. Which types of filesystems will this command mount?

What is the preferred method of adding a directory to the library path for all users?

Which of the following commands creates a display of processes, showing the parent-child relationships through links between their names?

What command is used at the beginning of a command line to detach tha process from a terminal, allowing it to continue running after the user has logged out?

What command will display a full-screen, updated list of all running processes?

What command can be used to kill processes by name, rather than process ID?

What command is used to display the number of free inodes on an ext2 or ext3 partition?

What command is used to convert an existing ext2 partition (/dev/sda1) to an ext3 (journaled) partition?

Which file defines what partitions are mounted at boot time?

Which of the following is a reasonable size for a swap partition for a Linux workstation with 128 MB RAM? Select one

Which of the following is the text file that contains directories where the dynamic linker should look for libraries? Select one.

What two commands display the status of processes on a Linux system?

In response to fhe df command, the system reports a use% of 98% for the filesystem mounted on /home. Which one of the following best describes the significance of this information?

Which one of the following commands would be best suited to mount a CD-ROM containing a Linux distribution, without depending on any configuration files?

What character is used after a command line to indicate that tha command should run in the background and return shell control to the user?

A process with PID 4077 is misbehaving on your system. As superuset, you enter the following command:
#kill 4077
However, nothing changes as a result. What can you do to terminate the process? Select one

How many IDE devices can be installed and simultaneously used in a typical Intel-Based system? Select one

Which of the following commands changes the number of days before the ext3 filesystem on /dev/sda1 has to run through a full filesystem check while booting?

Creating a hard link to an ordinary file returns an error. What could be the reason for this?

Which of the following environment variables overrides or extends the list of directories holding shared libraries?

Which of the following is the device file name for the second partition on the only SCSI drive?

When starting a program with the nice command without any additional parameters, which nice level is set for the resulting process?

Which of the following commands overwrites the bootloader located on /dev/sda without overwriting the partition table or any data following it?