LPI Linux Essentials (010-160)
Domain 5Objective 3
5.3 Managing File Permissions and Ownership (weight: 2) LINUX-ESSENTIALS Practice Questions (Page 3)
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 22 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 11–15
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A file has permissions rw-r--r--. Which statement about the 'others' class is true?
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A file `notes.txt` has permissions `-rw-r--r--`. The owner wants to give the group write permission and remove read permission for others. Which chmod command achieves this?
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Which command recursively changes the group ownership of a directory and all its contents to 'staff'?
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A developer created a shell script `deploy.sh` for the ops team. The script must be executable by the owner and the group, but the group should only be able to run it, not read or modify it. The owner needs full read/write/execute access. Others should have no access at all. Which chmod command sets these permissions?
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A file `config.ini` is owned by user `root` and group `root`. The administrator wants to change the owner to `www-data` and the group to `www-data`. Which command should be used?
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