LPI Linux Essentials (010-160)
Domain 5Objective 2
5.2 Creating Users and Groups (weight: 2) LINUX-ESSENTIALS Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Topic 5: Security and File Permissions domain, which makes up ~17% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~4–7 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 19 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Which command adds an existing user to an existing group?
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Which command is used to create a new user account on a Linux system?
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An administrator is migrating users to a new system. They need to preserve the UIDs and GIDs of existing users. They have copied `/etc/passwd`, `/etc/shadow`, and `/etc/group` to the new system. However, when they run `useradd` to create a new user, the system assigns a UID that conflicts with an existing user's UID. What is the most likely cause?
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Which file stores encrypted user password hashes?
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In the /etc/group file, what does the third field represent?
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