System Management Questions
Practice questions for System Management topic in CompTIA Linux+. 24 questions covering this domain.
Which bootloader is the default on most modern Linux distributions and is loaded immediately after BIOS or UEFI hands off control to the storage media...
An administrator needs to create a Linux software RAID 1 (mirrored) array using the block devices `/dev/sdc` and `/dev/sdd` and name it `/dev/md0`. Wh...
A Linux administrator needs to display all network interfaces along with their assigned IP addresses, prefix lengths, and interface states on a modern...
A Linux administrator needs to list all kernel modules that are currently loaded into the running kernel. Which command should they use?
An administrator is setting up LVM and needs to initialize the disk `/dev/sdb` as an LVM physical volume before adding it to a volume group. Which com...
An administrator needs to extend the logical volume `/dev/vg0/lv_data` by 10 GB and simultaneously resize the underlying XFS filesystem to use the new...
Which filesystem type is the default root filesystem for most Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) installations, known for its scalability and support for...
A UEFI-based Linux server fails to boot after a firmware update. The administrator suspects the UEFI boot entries were removed. Which filesystem path ...
An administrator needs to provision a new KVM virtual machine using an ISO installation image with 4 GB of RAM and 2 virtual CPUs. Which command-line ...
An administrator needs to create a compressed archive of the `/etc` directory using gzip compression, saving it to `etc_backup.tar.gz`. Which tar comm...
A Linux system drops to an emergency root shell after failing to mount a required filesystem. The root filesystem is mounted read-only. The administra...
An administrator uses NetworkManager on a RHEL server and needs to set the DNS server to `8.8.8.8` for a connection named `ens3` using the command lin...
An administrator manages KVM virtual machines using libvirt and needs to list all defined virtual machines including those that are powered off. Which...
Which command displays all currently mounted filesystems along with their size, used space, available space, and mount points in a human-readable form...
After a GRUB2 configuration file is corrupted, an administrator boots from a live USB, mounts and chroots into the installed RHEL system, and needs to...
An administrator needs to add the disk `/dev/sdc` to the existing LVM volume group `vg_storage` to expand its capacity. Which sequence of commands is ...
An administrator configures a static IP address using `nmcli` and needs to set the addressing method to manual (static). Which value for the `ipv4.met...
An administrator reviews system logs and sees SCSI timeout errors for `/dev/sdb`. Which command retrieves S.M.A.R.T. health data for the disk to check...
An administrator needs to extract the compressed archive `backup.tar.bz2` into the directory `/restore`. Which tar command is correct?
Which init system is used as PID 1 on most modern Linux distributions and is responsible for starting and managing all system services?
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