LPI 010-150 Exam Questions

Questions for the 010-150 were updated on : Dec 01 ,2025

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Question 1

Which of the following will change the group that is associated with a file?

  • A. chmod
  • B. chmod -w
  • C. chown
  • D. ls -g
Answer:

C

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Question 2

You have a program called /usr/bin/foo. You wish to create a symbolic link, /home/user/foo, that
points to it. Which command will do this task?

  • A. ln -sym /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo
  • B. ln -s /usr/bin/foo /home/user/foo
  • C. ln /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo
  • D. ln /usr/bin/foo /home/user/foo
  • E. ln --symlink /home/user/foo /usr/bin/foo
Answer:

B

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Question 3

Which command displays the list of groups to which a user belongs?

  • A. whoami
  • B. lsgroup
  • C. who
  • D. id
Answer:

D

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Question 4

What are the three sets of permissions for a file?

  • A. user, group, others
  • B. administrator, group, others
  • C. user, standard user, others
  • D. administrator, standard user, others
Answer:

A

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Question 5

Which statement about users and user groups is correct?

  • A. A group can only have one main user.
  • B. There can be only one user group on a system.
  • C. Users do not have to belong to a user group.
  • D. Every user belongs to a least one user group.
Answer:

D

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Question 6

CORRECT TEXT
What is the usual absolute path of the personal directory for the user foo?

Answer:

/home/foo,
/home/foo/

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Question 7

When a new user is added, where does the user ID get stored?

  • A. /etc/users
  • B. /etc/realm
  • C. /etc/pass
  • D. /etc/shpasswd
  • E. /etc/passwd
Answer:

E

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Question 8

Given the following directory permissions:
drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 36864 2012-03-02 11:17 /tmp
What does the letter t at the end of drwxrwxrwt indicate?

  • A. It is the sticky bit that causes all commands in this directory to be launched as root.
  • B. It means that even though the directory is globally writable only the owner can delete their own files.
  • C. It makes the directory accessible for everybody.
  • D. It indicates that this directory contains only temporary files that may be deleted.
  • E. It is a temporary bit that prevents launching commands in this directory.
Answer:

B

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Question 9

The following line is found in which system file?
root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash

  • A. /etc/user.conf
  • B. /etc/shadow
  • C. /etc/passwd
  • D. /usr/bin/shadow
  • E. /etc/password
Answer:

C

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Question 10

Which statements about the directory /etc/skel are correct? (Choose TWO answers)

  • A. The personal settings of root are in this directory.
  • B. The files from the directory are copied to the home directory of the new user when starting the system.
  • C. The files from the directory are copied to the home directory of a new user when the account is created.
  • D. The directory contains a default set of configuration files used by the useradd command.
  • E. The directory contains the global settings for the Linux system.
Answer:

C,D

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Question 11

What permissions are set on a file with the command chmod 654 file.txt?

  • A. drw-r-xr-
  • B. d--wxr-x-
  • C. --wxr-x--x
  • D. -rwxrw---x
  • E. -rw-r-xr—
Answer:

E

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Question 12

Which of the following files holds the definition of the local user accounts?

  • A. /etc/secret
  • B. /etc/users
  • C. /etc/passwd
  • D. /etc/id
  • E. /etc/home
Answer:

C

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Question 13

Which of the following commands can be used to determine the time of the last login of a given
user?

  • A. showlog
  • B. recent
  • C. last
  • D. history
  • E. login
Answer:

C

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Question 14

Which permissions should be given to a file that needs to be opened and edited by the file's owner
and opened read-only by the file's group?

  • A. 0751
  • B. 0466
  • C. 0540
  • D. 0640
  • E. 0444
Answer:

D

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Question 15

Which of the following filesystems is most commonly used for Linux distributions?

  • A. HFS+
  • B. ext4
  • C. FAT32
  • D. NTFS
Answer:

B

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