
LPI LPIC-2:Linux Engineer (201-450)
Domain 3Objective 2
202.2 System Recovery (weight: 4) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 1)
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 28 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 1–5
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What is the primary purpose of using rescue media (e.g., a live USB) on a system that fails to boot?
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A system boots to a black screen with no login prompt. The administrator has removed the 'quiet' and 'splash' parameters from the kernel command line and sees the boot messages stop after 'Reached target Local File Systems'. The administrator suspects a service is hanging. Which command should the administrator run to identify the hanging service?
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Which kernel parameter can be added at the GRUB prompt to boot into single-user mode?
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Which systemd target is equivalent to the traditional single-user mode?
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A company has a critical server that will not boot. The administrator has booted from a live USB and mounted the root filesystem at /mnt. The administrator needs to chroot into the mounted system to run a filesystem check and repair, but the system uses LVM. The administrator has activated the volume group and mounted the logical volume at /mnt. Which additional step is required before chrooting to ensure the filesystem check can run?
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