LPI Linux Essentials (010-160)
Domain 3Objective 1
3.1 Archiving Files on the Command Line (weight: 2) LINUX-ESSENTIALS Practice Questions (Page 2)
Part of the Topic 3: The Power of the Command Line domain, which makes up ~16% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~4–6 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 28 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 6–10
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A small company wants to send a complete project folder with hundreds of files to a client. The client should receive a single file that preserves the directory structure and can be easily transferred. What is the primary reason to use tar for this task?
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Which tar command adds the file newfile.txt to an existing archive named archive.tar?
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A user downloaded a file named archive.tar.bz2 and needs to extract its contents. Which command should the user run?
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A user has an existing uncompressed archive data.tar that contains several files. The user wants to add a new file, notes.txt, to this archive without recreating it from scratch. Which command accomplishes this?
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A user has an existing archive project.tar that contains a file called config.old. The user wants to add a new file, README.md, and also update config.old with a newer version from the current directory. The user wants to avoid having duplicate copies of config.old in the archive. Which command should the user run?
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