Administrative tasks — page 2
Objective 107 of LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, worth 20% of the exam. This is page 2 of 3 of its question list; page one carries the full objective summary.
- Share of the exam
- 20%
- Questions in a real sitting
- roughly 12 of 60
- Questions in this bank
- 60
- Signed for by a person
- 0
- Machine-checked only
- 60
Partly checked. None of the 60 questions here has been read against the cited source by a person. 60 questions have been checked against their cited clause by an automated pass — which is not the same thing, and is not a signature.
Only questions a person has signed for are used in mock exams here. That is the whole difference between the two kinds of checking above.
How these questions are written — where each question comes from, what the verification ledger records, and what happens when one is found wrong.
What this objective covers
The 60 questions written for this objective cite 3 LPI exam objectives (107.1, 107.2, 107.3) and 25 manual pages (at(1), atq(1), chage(1), chfn(1), crontab(1), crontab(5), date(1), getent(1), gpasswd(1), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), iconv(1), locale(1), locale(7), login.defs(5), nologin(8), passwd(1), passwd(5), run-parts(8), systemd-run(1), systemd.timer(5), timedatectl(1), tzset(3), useradd(8), usermod(8)).
They break down as 40 single-answer questions, 9 choose-several questions and 11 type-the-answer questions.
Drill this objective
The trainer can run a short practice set drawn from this objective alone, which is what the weight column above is for: revise the heavy objectives first.
Questions on this objective (page 2 of 3)
- Select the TWO true statements about locale environment variables. machine-checked
- On a systemd-based distribution, which command sets the system's time zone to Europe/Berlin, updating /etc/localtime accordingly? machine-checked
- Which statement correctly compares ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8? machine-checked
- The file notes.txt is encoded in ISO-8859-1 and you want the converted UTF-8 text printed on standard output (not written to a file). Type the complete iconv command, using the exact charset names ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. machine-checked
- You run `useradd dana` on a Debian system and the account appears in /etc/passwd, but /home/dana does not exist and dana's first login lands in a directory that is not there. Which option to useradd would have created the directory? machine-checked
- Every line in /etc/passwd on a healthy modern system has a lone `x` in its second field. What does that `x` mean? machine-checked
- A daemon you are packaging must run under its own unprivileged account. The account should never be logged into, should not appear in the graphical login list, and should take a UID from the range reserved for system accounts. Which useradd option expresses that intent? machine-checked
- The account `jsmith` must be renamed to `jbrown`, and the home directory must move from /home/jsmith to /home/jbrown with all of its contents. Which single command does both? machine-checked
- A contractor's account `pkumar` must stop working entirely after 31 December 2026, whatever the state of their password at that date. Which command sets that? machine-checked
- `groupdel projectx` fails with a complaint that the group cannot be removed. The group has no supplementary members listed in /etc/group, and you are running the command as root. What is the most likely cause? machine-checked
- The team lead alice should be able to add and remove members of the group `developers` herself, without being granted root and without sudo rules. Which command delegates that, and where is the delegation recorded? machine-checked
- You have just reset the password of the account `erin` to a temporary value and now want her forced to choose a new one the very next time she logs in, while leaving the account otherwise usable. Select the TWO commands that achieve this. machine-checked
- Some of this host's groups come from a directory service, so `grep developers /etc/group` returns nothing even though the group exists. Type the complete command, with its database and its key, that prints the entry for the group `developers` as the system resolves it. machine-checked
- A group was created as `devs` and must now be called `developers`, keeping its existing GID and every member. Type the complete command that renames it (assume you are already root). machine-checked
- Your site standard is that ordinary user accounts start at UID 5000 rather than the distribution's default of 1000, so that the numbering does not clash with a directory service. Which file holds UID_MIN and UID_MAX? machine-checked
- To align a workstation with a central directory you run `usermod -u 5001 frank`, changing frank's UID from 1001. He also owns files in /srv/data and a crontab under /var/spool/cron. What is the state of file ownership afterwards? machine-checked
- Reviewing /etc/passwd you find some service accounts with /usr/sbin/nologin as their shell and others with /bin/false. Both prevent an interactive login. What does nologin do that /bin/false does not? machine-checked
- The GECOS field of the account `alice` currently reads `alice` and should read `Alice Okafor`. Select the TWO commands that write that name into the fifth field of her /etc/passwd line. machine-checked
- On a Debian system you drop an executable script named backup.sh into /etc/cron.daily/. Days pass and it never runs, although other scripts in the same directory clearly do. What is the most likely reason? machine-checked
- A user crontab contains the entry `0 6 1 * 1 /usr/local/bin/report`. On which days does the job actually run? machine-checked
The other objectives in LPIC-1 Exam 102-500
- 105. Shells and shell scripting — 15% of the exam
- 106. User interfaces and desktops — 6.67% of the exam
- 108. Essential system services — 18.33% of the exam
- 109. Networking fundamentals — 23.33% of the exam
- 110. Security — 16.67% of the exam