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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:25:02 +1000

LPI Linux Certification Exam Questions

Hi,

here is some information on the types of questions you are likely to see in
the LPI Exam:

1. Command line stuff

   - How to edit previous commands to correct them
   - What does an IO redirection example do:

        foo < bar.baz | grog

   - What does ~user mean?

2. How do you change the priority of running processes

3. What is the effect of your umask

4. How to remove users

5. What types of disk quotas are there

6. Find vs grep

7. What do the head and tail commands do

8. Inodes and how to find out how many there are?

9. Filesystem questions, how to find out how many and what type etc, what 
   fstab is used for, etc.

10. What the files /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc

11. Permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

12. Which processes are running

13. How to get information on commands (using man and info and apropos)

14. What /etc/syslog.conf is used for

15. What /etc/crontab us used for and what some of the fields are used for.

16. X11 startup questions

17. How to shutdown the sustem to do maintenance

18. What happens when you delete a file that symbolic links point to.

19. Usenet groups that mention Linux and who officially looks after the 
    HOWTOs.

20. LILO questions

21. Mounting file systems ...

HTH

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
Author: First Australian 2-day, intensive, hands-on Samba course

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