Essential system services — page 3
Objective 108 of LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, worth 18.33% of the exam. This is page 3 of 3 of its question list; page one carries the full objective summary.
- Share of the exam
- 18.33%
- Questions in a real sitting
- roughly 11 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 4 LPI exam objectives (108.1, 108.2, 108.3, 108.4) and 26 manual pages (adjtime(5), aliases(5), cancel(1), chrony.conf(5), cupsd.conf(5), date(1), hier(7), hwclock(8), journalctl(1), journald.conf(5), local(8), logrotate(8), lp(1), lpadmin(8), lpmove(8), lpstat(1), mailx(1), ntpdate(8), ntpq(8), postfix(1), rsyslog.conf(5), sendmail(1), services(5), systemd-cat(1), timedatectl(1), tzfile(5)).
They break down as 41 single-answer questions, 10 type-the-answer questions and 9 choose-several 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.
Practise Essential system services
Questions on this objective (page 3 of 3)
- Which TWO statements about syslog priorities and how rsyslog selectors match them are correct? (Choose two.) machine-checked
- Type the absolute path of the directory in which systemd-journald keeps the journal once persistent storage is in effect. machine-checked
- Mail addressed to support on a departmental server must be handed to a ticketing script, which expects to read the whole message on its standard input. Which entry in /etc/aliases arranges that? machine-checked
- A team lead who has no root access must be able to change who receives mail sent to the address oncall, without an administrator being involved each time. Which /etc/aliases entry gives them that, assuming the lead owns the referenced file? machine-checked
- On a sendmail-style system, the user emma wants her incoming mail copied to emma@example.net while a copy is still filed in her own mailbox on this host. Listing her plain login name in the file would send that local copy back through alias and .forward expansion again. Which single line in ~emma/.forward names her local delivery in the form that stops the re-expansion? machine-checked
- You have changed a setting in Postfix's main.cf on a busy server and the change must take effect without the mail system going down even briefly. Type the command, with its subcommand, that makes the running Postfix re-read its configuration files. machine-checked
- A desktop mail client must both hand new messages to the company server and download the messages already waiting in the user's server-side mailbox. Which TWO of the following protocols are used for the download direction rather than for submitting or relaying mail? machine-checked
- Postfix ships a compatibility layer so that administrators and scripts written for Sendmail keep working unchanged. Which THREE of the following command names does Postfix provide for exactly that purpose? machine-checked
- A nightly backup script must mail the contents of /var/log/backup.log to ops@example.com with the subject line Backup report, without any interactive prompting. Which command does that? machine-checked
- A remote site was unreachable for an hour and messages for it accumulated in the local queue. The link is now restored and you do not want to wait for the next scheduled queue run. Which sendmail-emulation command asks the MTA to attempt delivery of the queued messages immediately? machine-checked
- On a host using traditional mbox delivery, a message has been accepted and delivered to the local account carol. In which file does that delivered message now sit? machine-checked
- /etc/aliases contains the line `dave: dave@newjob.example.com`, and at the same time ~dave/.forward on the server contains `\dave`. Mail arrives for dave@thishost. What happens? machine-checked
- A user reports that a message they sent an hour ago never arrived, and the queue listing shows the message is gone. Where should you look next to find out what the MTA did with it? machine-checked
- A network printer reachable at ipp://printer.example.com/ipp/print must be added to CUPS as a queue named laser, ready to accept and print jobs at once. Which command creates it? machine-checked
- A user wants to stop the job that is currently printing on their default destination, without first looking up its job id. Type the System V style CUPS command, with no options or arguments, that does this. machine-checked
- CUPS implements both the BSD and the System V printing command sets. Type the System V command, with no options, that reports printer and job status: the counterpart of the BSD command lpq. machine-checked
- Jobs submitted with no destination named are coming out on the wrong printer. Which command reports which destination CUPS currently treats as the default? machine-checked
- The printer behind the queue laser has failed and will be off for days. Several jobs are already queued on it and must be printed today on the identical device behind the queue laser2, without asking the users to submit them again. Which command does that? machine-checked
- An old script prints with `lpr -P accounts report.ps`. You are rewriting it to use the System V command lp instead. Which option of lp names the destination? machine-checked
- You are taking a backup of a print server's CUPS configuration before an upgrade. Which THREE of the following are found under /etc/cups on a standard installation? machine-checked
Practise Essential system services
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
- 107. Administrative tasks — 20% of the exam
- 109. Networking fundamentals — 23.33% of the exam
- 110. Security — 16.67% of the exam