A company runs a virtual desktop infrastructure where each user gets a 20 GiB logical volume, but most users only use 2–3 GiB. The storage administrator wants to over-allocate storage so that 100 users can be provisioned while only physically consuming about 300 GiB. Which LVM feature should be used, and what is the first step to implement it?

Create a striped logical volume with 100 stripes to distribute the data across multiple disks.

Create a thin pool, then create thin logical volumes from it using `lvcreate --type thin-pool` and `lvcreate --type thin`.

Create a mirrored logical volume for each user to provide redundancy.

Use `lvresize` to shrink each user's LV to 3 GiB and rely on the filesystem to expand automatically.

In LVM, what is the relationship between a physical volume (PV) and a volume group (VG)?

A PV is a container for VGs, and each VG must be on a separate PV.

A VG is composed of one or more PVs, and logical volumes are allocated from the VG's space.

A VG is a filesystem that resides on a PV, and LVs are directories within it.

A PV is created from a VG and contains the logical volumes.

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

Domain 5Objective 3

204.3 Logical Volume Manager (weight: 3) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Topic 204: Advanced Storage Device Administration domain, which makes up ~10% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~4–6 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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12 Concepts in This Objective

LVM architecture
Creating physical volumes
Creating volume groups
Creating logical volumes
Managing logical volumes
Removing LVM components
Displaying LVM information
LVM snapshots
LVM thin provisioning
LVM mirroring and striping
LVM metadata and backup
LVM troubleshooting

Questions 6–10

6foundation · easy
Which command creates a new volume group named 'vgdata' using the physical volume /dev/sdb1?
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7application · medium
A company runs a virtual desktop infrastructure where each user gets a 20 GiB logical volume, but most users only use 2–3 GiB. The storage administrator wants to over-allocate storage so that 100 users can be provisioned while only physically consuming about 300 GiB. Which LVM feature should be used, and what is the first step to implement it?
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8foundation · easy
Which component in thin provisioning acts as the shared storage pool from which thin logical volumes are allocated?
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9foundation · easy
Which LVM feature provides redundancy by maintaining identical copies of data on separate physical volumes?
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10foundation · easy
In LVM, what is the relationship between a physical volume (PV) and a volume group (VG)?
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204.3 Logical Volume Manager (weight: 3) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

Which command creates a new volume group named 'vgdata' using the physical volume /dev/sdb1?

Which component in thin provisioning acts as the shared storage pool from which thin logical volumes are allocated?

Which LVM feature provides redundancy by maintaining identical copies of data on separate physical volumes?

In LVM, what is the relationship between a physical volume (PV) and a volume group (VG)?

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