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LPI LPIC-1:Linux Administrator (101-500)

Domain 8Objective 1

108.1 Maintain System Time LPIC-1 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Topic 108: Essential System Services domain, which makes up ~9% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~3–5 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 18 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 6–10

  1. 6foundation · easy

    What is the purpose of storing the hardware clock in UTC on a Linux system?

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  2. 7foundation · easy

    An administrator needs to set the hardware clock to the current system time. Which command accomplishes this?

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  3. 8expert · hard

    An administrator is troubleshooting a time synchronization issue on a server running `chronyd`. The `chronyc tracking` command shows the server is synchronized, but the offset is consistently around 500 milliseconds. The server is a VM running on a hypervisor that is heavily loaded. What is the most likely cause of this persistent offset?

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  4. 9foundation · easy

    Which command is used to enable and start the systemd-timesyncd service?

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  5. 10application · easy

    A server's time is incorrect. The administrator suspects the hardware clock is wrong. They want to set the hardware clock to the current system time. Which command should they use?

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