Administrative tasks — page 3
Objective 107 of LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, worth 20% of the exam. This is page 3 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 3 of 3)
- A colleague queued a job with at before going on leave. You can see it as job 7 in the queue, but you need to know exactly which commands it will execute before deciding whether to keep it. Which command shows you that? machine-checked
- Type the single command, with no options and no arguments, that lists your own pending at jobs. machine-checked
- Every entry in root's crontab writes progress messages to standard output, so root's mailbox fills up with one message per run. You want the jobs to keep running and keep writing their output, but you want cron to stop mailing it. Which line, placed near the top of that crontab, achieves this? machine-checked
- Which crontab special string is equivalent to the time specification `0 0 * * 0`? machine-checked
- A workstation runs a systemd timer with `OnCalendar=*-*-* 02:00:00`, but staff shut the machine down each evening, so the 02:00 activation is missed every night. Which directive in the [Timer] section makes systemd run the missed activation as soon as the machine boots again? machine-checked
- A systemd host has no atd installed and no package installation is permitted. You must run /usr/local/bin/report.sh exactly once, fifteen minutes from now, without writing any unit files. Which command does it? machine-checked
- Select the THREE statements that are true about systemd timer units. machine-checked
- Type the complete command, including its option, that a user runs to open their own crontab in an editor so that cron installs the result when the editor exits. machine-checked
- Select the TWO true statements about /etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny. machine-checked
- A shell script that sorts a list of names produces one order on a developer's German desktop and a different order on the build server. The two machines differ only in their locale settings. Which locale category governs the order sort produces? machine-checked
- Before writing a conversion script you need to confirm that the local iconv installation knows the encoding named CP1252. Which command lists every encoding iconv can convert between? machine-checked
- Type the command, including the option, that prints the names of all locales that are available on the system. machine-checked
- A shared server is configured for UTC and must stay that way. One analyst wants every timestamp printed in her own shell session, and by the commands she starts from it, to appear in Tokyo local time. What should she do? machine-checked
- A machine with no working time synchronisation is running four minutes fast, and you must correct the system clock by hand to 2026-03-01 09:00:00. Which command does that? machine-checked
- You are fixing the time zone on a minimal system that has no systemd and no timedatectl. The machine must use Europe/Lisbon. Which action configures it correctly? machine-checked
- You are writing a provisioning script on a systemd host and need the exact spelling of the zone name for Auckland so you can grep for it. Which command prints the full list of valid time zone names to standard output? machine-checked
- Select the THREE true statements about time zone configuration on a Linux system. machine-checked
- Type the absolute path of the directory that holds the system's compiled time zone data files, from which /etc/localtime is taken. machine-checked
- Converting a UTF-8 address list to plain ASCII fails as soon as iconv meets a character such as e-acute. You want those characters approximated by similar ASCII ones, for example e, rather than dropped or fatal. Which command does that? machine-checked
- An administrator works on a host where LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. She wants command output and error messages in untranslated English so that she can search for them online, while keeping German number, date and currency formatting. Which environment setting achieves exactly that? 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