Lpi Level 1 Exam 101(with rpm) Sample Questions:

1. Which command will show you the contents of a gzip compressed tar archive?

A) tar cf archive.tgz
B) gzip -darchive.tgz | tar tvf
C) tar ztf archive.tgz
D) gzip archive.tgz | tar xvf

2. You want to preview where the package file, apache-xml.i386.rpm, will install its files before installing it. What command do you issue?

A) rpm -ql apache-xml.i386.rpm
B) rpm -qv apache-xml.i386.rpm
C) rpm -qpl apache-xml.i386.rpm
D) rpm -qp apache-xml.i386.rpm

3. You are using an application that you want to appear on the screen of another machine. What environment variable would you have to set or edit to achieve this?

A) REMOTE_XWINDOW
B) SCREEN
C) REMOTE
D) DISPLAY

4. You have two shell scripts, foo and bar. You wish to have bar execute if foo returns an exit status of 0 Select the correct command:

A) foo && bar
B) foo % bar
C) foo; bar
D) foo || bar

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

A) To allow disks to be mounted remotely.
B) To save variable settings for future shell invocations.
C) To automate the export of variables for subsequently executed commands.
D) To run a command as a process in a sub-shell.
E) To make the command history available to sub-shells.

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