104.6 Create and Change Hard and Symbolic Links LPIC-1 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   You create a symbolic link with the command ln -s /var/lib/data /home/user/data-link. Later, you move the /home/user directory to /mnt/user. Which statement is true about the symbolic link?

   • AThe link now points to /mnt/user/var/lib/data.
   • BThe link breaks because the target path is relative.
   • CThe link breaks because the link itself was moved.
   • DThe link still works because it uses an absolute target path.
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2. 7application · medium

   An administrator attempts to create a hard link to a directory using the command ln /etc /root/etc-link. What will happen?

   • AThe command creates a symbolic link instead.
   • BThe command fails because hard links cannot point to directories.
   • CThe command succeeds but the link is broken.
   • DThe command succeeds and creates a hard link to the directory.
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4. 8application · medium

   You are in the directory /home/user and run the command ln -s ../docs /home/user/docs-link. What is the target of this symbolic link?

   • A/home/docs, because the path is resolved from the current directory
   • BThe link is broken because the target does not exist.
   • C../docs, which resolves relative to the link's location (/home/user)
   • D/home/user/../docs, which resolves to /home/docs
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5. 9application · medium

   An administrator runs the command ln /data/file.txt /backup/file.txt and receives an error. The /data and /backup directories are on different filesystems. What is the most likely reason for the failure?

   • AThe destination directory does not exist.
   • BThe source file is a symbolic link.
   • CHard links cannot span filesystems.
   • DThe target file does not have write permission.
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6. 10application · medium

   You run ls -l and see the following output for two files: -rw-r--r-- 2 user group 1024 Jan 1 12:00 file1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 5 Jan 1 12:00 file2 -> file1 What can you conclude about file1 and file2?

   • Afile1 is a hard link (link count 2) and file2 is a symbolic link.
   • Bfile1 is a symbolic link and file2 is a hard link.
   • CBoth files are symbolic links.
   • DBoth files are hard links to the same inode.
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