LPI LINUX ESSENTIALS 010-160 ACTUAL EXAM
2026//2027
Which of the following directories must be mounted with read and write
access if it resides on its own dedicated file system?
Answer: /var
Which of the following tasks can the command passwd accomplish? (Choose
two.)
Answer: Change a user's password
Answer: Lock a user account
What is the preferred source for the installation of new applications in a
Linux-based operating system?
Answer: The distribution's package repository
What information is stored in /etc/passwd? (Choose three.)
Answer: The numerical user ID (UID)
Answer: The username
Answer: The user's default shell
What can be found in the /proc/ directory?
Answer: One directory per running process
What are the differences between hard disk drives and solid state disks?
(Choose two.)
Answer: Solid state disks provide faster access to stored data than hard disks.
Answer: Hard disks have a motor and moving parts, solid state disks do not.
Members of a team already have experience using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For a small hobby project, the team wants to set up a Linux server without
paying for a subscription. Which of the following Linux distributions allows
the team members to apply as much of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux
knowledge as possible?
Answer: CentOS
Which of the following examples shows the general structure of a for loop in a
shell script?
Answer:
, for file in *.txt
do
echo $file
done
Which of the following commands sets the variable USERNAME to the value
bob?
Answer: USERNAME=bob
Which permissions are set on a regular file once the permissions have been
modified with the command chmod 654 file.txt?
Answer: -rw-r-xr--
What command displays manual pages?
Answer: man
What is true about links in a Linux file system?
Answer: A symbolic link can point to a file on another file system.
Which of the following commands will search for the file foo.txt under the
directory /home?
Answer: find /home -name foo.txt
Which of the following commands creates an archive file work.tar from the
contents of the directory ./work/?
Answer: tar -cf work.tar ./work/
Which of the following values could be a process ID on Linux?
Answer: 21398
Which of the following statements are true regarding a typical shell script?
(Choose two.)
Answer: It has the executable permission bit set.
Answer: It starts with the two character sequence #!.
Where is the operating system of a Raspberry Pi stored?
Answer: On a removable SD card which is put into the Raspberry Pi.
What is true about the dmesg command? (Choose two.)
Answer: It displays the content of the Linux kernel's ring buffer.
2026//2027
Which of the following directories must be mounted with read and write
access if it resides on its own dedicated file system?
Answer: /var
Which of the following tasks can the command passwd accomplish? (Choose
two.)
Answer: Change a user's password
Answer: Lock a user account
What is the preferred source for the installation of new applications in a
Linux-based operating system?
Answer: The distribution's package repository
What information is stored in /etc/passwd? (Choose three.)
Answer: The numerical user ID (UID)
Answer: The username
Answer: The user's default shell
What can be found in the /proc/ directory?
Answer: One directory per running process
What are the differences between hard disk drives and solid state disks?
(Choose two.)
Answer: Solid state disks provide faster access to stored data than hard disks.
Answer: Hard disks have a motor and moving parts, solid state disks do not.
Members of a team already have experience using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For a small hobby project, the team wants to set up a Linux server without
paying for a subscription. Which of the following Linux distributions allows
the team members to apply as much of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux
knowledge as possible?
Answer: CentOS
Which of the following examples shows the general structure of a for loop in a
shell script?
Answer:
, for file in *.txt
do
echo $file
done
Which of the following commands sets the variable USERNAME to the value
bob?
Answer: USERNAME=bob
Which permissions are set on a regular file once the permissions have been
modified with the command chmod 654 file.txt?
Answer: -rw-r-xr--
What command displays manual pages?
Answer: man
What is true about links in a Linux file system?
Answer: A symbolic link can point to a file on another file system.
Which of the following commands will search for the file foo.txt under the
directory /home?
Answer: find /home -name foo.txt
Which of the following commands creates an archive file work.tar from the
contents of the directory ./work/?
Answer: tar -cf work.tar ./work/
Which of the following values could be a process ID on Linux?
Answer: 21398
Which of the following statements are true regarding a typical shell script?
(Choose two.)
Answer: It has the executable permission bit set.
Answer: It starts with the two character sequence #!.
Where is the operating system of a Raspberry Pi stored?
Answer: On a removable SD card which is put into the Raspberry Pi.
What is true about the dmesg command? (Choose two.)
Answer: It displays the content of the Linux kernel's ring buffer.
