LPI LPIC-1:Linux Administrator (101-500)
Domain 4Objective 5
104.6 Create and Change Hard and Symbolic Links LPIC-1 Practice Questions (Page 3)
Part of the Topic 104: Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard domain, which makes up ~14% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~5–8 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 27 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 11–15
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A developer asks you to create a second name for an existing configuration file, /etc/app/config.ini, so that the application can read it from a new location, /opt/app/current/config.ini, without duplicating the file contents. The application must see changes made to the original file immediately, and the two paths must be on the same filesystem. Which command should you run?
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You need to create a link that can point to a file on a different filesystem. Which type of link should you create?
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You create a hard link with the command ln /data/file /data/file-hard. What is the link count of the inode after this command?
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You create a symbolic link with a relative target: ln -s ../data /home/user/data-link. The link is in /home/user. What does the link point to?
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If a file has a link count of 3 and you remove one hard link, what is the new link count?
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