LFCS Practice Questions: Domain Sample Task

LFCS Practice Questions
This document is designed to help Candidates prepare for the Linux Foundation Certified
System Administrator (LFCS) exam. The document does not include answers.
The document is not meant to be inclusive of all exam topics, but rather to encourage further
study and practice. The sample tasks provided will not appear on the LFCS exam.
To familiarize yourself with the format and types of tasks candidates are requested to perform,
we recommend you attempt these sample tasks on a Linux CLI system, using a distribution
supported by the exam. Please check the F andidate Handbook for distributions currently
AQ or C
supported by the exam .
Domain Sample Task
Open the file under

Essential Commands
/home/student/textreferences/editme.txt and
complete the following tasks:
1. Move line 7777 to line 1.

2. Remove line 7000.
3. Replace every occurrence of the word Earth shown with
an uppercase E, with the word Globe.
4. Add a new line at the very end of the document that
contains Auctores Varii.
Operation of Running System Create a bash shell script named certscript.sh under
/home/student/apps/.
● Make sure the script can be invoked as

./certscript.sh.
● The first line of output from the script should consist of the
name of the user who invoked it.
● The second line of output should contain the IP address
of the default gateway.
Operation of Running System Install the tmux package on your system.
Operation of Running System Alter the init boot sequence so that the rc.local or
boot.local script (depending on the distribution that you have
selected) is executed at boot time.
LFCS Practice Questions v1.0

Operation of Running System Create a cron job that kills all processes named
scan_filesystem which is owned by root, every minute.
User & Group Management Linux administrators are responsible for the creation, deletion,
and the modification of groups, as well as the group membership.
Complete the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to create
and manage groups and group membership:
1. Create the computestream group.

2. Create a computestream folder in /exam/.
3. Make the computestream group the owner of the
/exam/computestream folder.
User & Group Management Create a candidate user account with the password cert456.
Modify the sudo configuration to let the candidate account
access root privileges with no password prompt.
User & Group Management Configure the system so that an empty NEWS file is automatically
created in the home directory of any new user.
User & Group Management Create a group called students.
User & Group Management Create a new user account with the following attributes:
● Username is harry.
● Password is magic.
● This user’s home directory is defined as
/home/school/harry/.
● This new user is a member of the existing students
group.
● The /home/school/harry/binaries/ directory is
part of the PATH variable.
User & Group Management Create a user account with username sysadmin with the
following attributes:
● Use a password of science.

● This user’s home directory is defined as /sysadmin/.
● sysadmin has sudo privileges and will not be prompted
for a password when using the sudo command.
● The default shell for this user is zsh.
User & Group Management Ensure that all users can invoke the last command and access
a list of users who previously logged in.
User & Group Management Correct the projectadmin user account so that logins are
possible using the password _onetime43_. Set the home

directory to /home/projectadmin.
User & Group Management Alter the devel user account so that it can log into the system
with a working bash shell environment.
Networking Find the name of the service which uses TCP port 2605, as
documented in /etc/services, and write the service name to
the file /home/student/port-2605.txt. Find all of the ports
used for TCP services IMAP3 and IMAPS, again as documented
in /etc/services, and write those port numbers to the file
/home/student/imap-ports.txt.
Storage Management The following tasks may be achieved using the user student’s
sudo privileges:
1. Temporarily mount the filesystem available on

/dev/xvdf2 under /mnt/backup/.
2. Decompress and unarchive the
/mnt/backup/backup-primary.tar.bz2 archive
into /opt/. This should result in a new directory (created
from the archive itself) named /opt/proddata/.
Storage Management Configure the swap partition /dev/xvdi1 so that it does not*
become attached automatically at boot time.
Storage Management Configure the system so that the existing filesystem that
corresponds to /staging gets persistently mounted in read-only
mode.
Essential Commands Working with archives and compressed files is an integral part of
the System Administrator’s job.
Perform the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to work

with archives and compressed files:
1. Extract all files from archive file /opt/SAMPLE001.zip

into target directory /opt/SAMPLE001
2. Create a tar archive file /opt/SAMPLE0001.tar
containing all files in the directory /opt/SAMPLE001
3. Compress the tar archive file /opt/SAMPLE0001.tar
using the bzip2 compression algorithm
4. Compress the tar archive file /opt/SAMPLE0001.tar
using the xz compression algorithm
Make sure that the uncompressed archive file

/opt/SAMPLE0001.tar is not removed after creating the
compressed versions of the archive file!

Essential Commands A data directory is not used anymore and is about to be archived.
You have been asked to identify and remove some files,before
archiving takes place.
Perform the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to search

for files given various criteria:
1. Find all executable files in the directory

/srv/SAMPLE002 and remove them
2. Find all files in the directory /srv/SAMPLE002, which
have not been accessed during the last month and
remove them
3. Find all empty directories in the directory
/srv/SAMPLE002 and remove them
4. Find all files in the directory /srv/SAMPLE002 with a file
extension of .tar. Write a list of matching filenames, one
per line, to the file
/opt/SAMPLE002/toBeCompressed.txt, which has
already been created. Ensure that you specify a relative
path to each file, using /srv/SAMPLE001 as the base
directory for the relative path

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Domain Sample Task

Open the file under

1. Move line ​7777​ to line ​1​.

● Make sure the script can be invoked as

Operation of Running System Install the ​tmux​ package on your system.

LFCS Practice Questions v1.0

1. Create the ​computestream​ group.

User & Group Management Create a group called ​students​.

● Use a password of ​science​.

LFCS Practice Questions v1.0

1. Temporarily mount the filesystem available on

Perform the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to work

1. Extract all files from archive file ​/opt/SAMPLE001.zip

Make sure that the uncompressed archive file

LFCS Practice Questions v1.0

Perform the following tasks to demonstrate your ability to search

1. Find all executable files in the directory

LFCS Practice Questions v1.0

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1. Move line 7777 to line 1.

Operation of Running System Install the tmux package on your system.

1. Create the computestream group.

User & Group Management Create a group called students.

● Use a password of science.

1. Extract all files from archive file /opt/SAMPLE001.zip