A technician is troubleshooting a system that powers on but shows nothing on the screen and emits no beeps. The power LED is on and the CPU fan spins. Which component is most likely at fault?

The kernel is panicking before console output is initialized.

The bootloader (GRUB) is corrupted and cannot load.

The initramfs is missing and cannot mount the root filesystem.

The system is failing POST (Power-On Self-Test) due to a hardware issue.

LPI LPIC-2:Linux Engineer (201-450)

Domain 3Objective 1

202.1 Customizing System Startup (weight: 3) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Topic 202: System Startup domain, which makes up ~8% 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 1–2 from this objective — we provide 34 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
In Upstart, where are job definition files typically located?
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22foundation · easy
In SysVinit, which file defines the default runlevel and the actions to take for each runlevel?
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23foundation · easy
Which command is used to enable a SysVinit service to start at boot on Debian-based systems?
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24application · medium
A technician is troubleshooting a system that powers on but shows nothing on the screen and emits no beeps. The power LED is on and the CPU fan spins. Which component is most likely at fault?
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25foundation · easy
On a SysVinit system, where would you place a custom script to run at the end of the boot process?
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202.1 Customizing System Startup (weight: 3) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

In Upstart, where are job definition files typically located?

In SysVinit, which file defines the default runlevel and the actions to take for each runlevel?

Which command is used to enable a SysVinit service to start at boot on Debian-based systems?

A technician is troubleshooting a system that powers on but shows nothing on the screen and emits no beeps. The power LED is on and the CPU fan spins. Which component is most likely at fault?

On a SysVinit system, where would you place a custom script to run at the end of the boot process?

Keep studying — Topic 202: System Startup