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Linux Professional Institute101-500AssociateLinux · LPIC-1 · Professional level 1Available
LPIC-1 Linux Administrator — Exam 101
System architecture, installation and package management, GNU and Unix commands, and devices, filesystems and the FHS.
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Domain weights
Share of questions per topic, from the official objective weights (60 points in total). Every sitting draws questions by these weights.
- D1System Architecture13 %10 concepts
- D2Linux Installation and Package Management20 %14 concepts
- D3GNU and Unix Commands43 %33 concepts
- D4Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard23 %18 concepts
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Domain 1: System Architecture
13 %Hardware settings, the boot process, runlevels and systemd targets.
Practice domain 1 →Domain 2: Linux Installation and Package Management
20 %Disk layout, boot managers, shared libraries, Debian and RPM package management, Linux as a virtualization guest.
Practice domain 2 →Domain 3: GNU and Unix Commands
43 %The command line, text filters, file management, streams and pipes, processes and priorities, regular expressions and vi.
Practice domain 3 →Domain 4: Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
23 %Partitions and filesystems, integrity, mounting, permissions and ownership, links and the FHS.
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Domain names and weights come from the official 101-500 exam objectives (checked 2026-10-26). Always check it for the authoritative scope.
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Sources · checked 2026-10-26
Sample questions
Two of this exam's original questions, with the explanation you get after every answer.
Sample 1Select one
A technician wants to browse the kernel's view of devices, buses and drivers as a tree of directories and attribute files. Which pseudo-filesystem is mounted at /sys for this purpose?
- Adevtmpfs
- Bdebugfs
- Csysfs
- Dprocfs
Show answer & explanation
Correct: C. The kernel exports its device model through sysfs, mounted on /sys. procfs on /proc mainly exposes process and kernel runtime information, devtmpfs holds the device nodes in /dev, and tmpfs is a generic RAM-backed filesystem.
Sample 2Select 2
An administrator wants to stop the kernel from automatically loading the nouveau driver. Which actions achieve this? (Select TWO.)
- AUnload it now with 'modprobe -r nouveau' after creating the blacklist entry
- BRename the /sys/module directory
- CAdd 'blacklist nouveau' to a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/
- DRun 'lsmod --disable nouveau'
- EDelete /proc/modules
Show answer & explanation
Correct: A, C. A 'blacklist' line in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf prevents automatic loading by alias, and modprobe -r removes the module that is already loaded. /proc/modules and /sys/module are kernel-generated views that cannot be edited this way, and lsmod has no disable option.