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The LPIC-2 201-450 exam has 60 questions and runs 1 hours 30 minutes.
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An eight-vCPU server has a load average near 14 and slow application responses. These representative one-second vmstat samples exclude the initial since-boot report: r b si so us sy id wa st 1 12 0 0 6 4 20 70 0 1 13 0 0 5 3 18 74 0 2 11 0 0 7 4 21 68 0 The measurements most strongly support which explanation?
Correct answer: C - Blocked tasks are accumulating because storage requests are completing slowly.
A capacity review records 540 GiB of stored data two months ago and 660 GiB today. The volume provides 1,200 GiB of usable space, but operations requires new capacity to be available by the time usage reaches 900 GiB. Procurement and deployment together take three months. Assuming the observed linear growth continues, how long can the team delay placing the order?
Correct answer: A - About one month.
The installed fat and vfat modules match the running kernel. Neither is loaded, and the module dependency indexes are current. From the directory containing vfat.ko, insmod vfat.ko fails with unknown fat_* symbols. To load vfat and its required dependency in one operation, use:
Correct answer: C - modprobe vfat
The previous kernel boots normally, but a newly installed kernel cannot find the root block device. GRUB successfully loads the selected kernel and initramfs. The root UUID is correct. The required storage driver was built as a module and installed under the new kernel's /lib/modules directory on the root filesystem, but it is absent from the initramfs. What repair targets the failed boot stage?
Correct answer: A - Rebuild the new kernel's initramfs with the required storage driver.
A packaged ingest.service is enabled and currently processing uploads. No other unit activates or requires it. The next boot should leave it stopped, but current uploads must continue and administrators must remain able to start it manually. Choose the command that satisfies all three requirements.
Correct answer: B - systemctl disable ingest.service
During an incident, an ext4 data filesystem reports metadata errors. It is still mounted read-write at /srv/data, and applications are writing to it. A verified backup is available, and a maintenance interruption has been authorized. Before allowing e2fsck to repair the filesystem, which preparation is required?
Correct answer: B - Stop writers, unmount /srv/data, then run e2fsck on its device.
An MD RAID 5 array has four active 2 TiB disks and one additional 2 TiB hot spare. Ignore metadata and filesystem overhead. Assess both its usable capacity and the maximum number of simultaneous active-member failures it can survive before any rebuild has completed.
Correct answer: D - 6 TiB usable; one simultaneous active-member failure.
A host's main routing table contains these routes: 10.24.0.0/16 via 192.0.2.1 dev eth0 metric 5 10.24.6.0/24 via 198.51.100.1 dev eth1 metric 90 10.24.0.0/16 via 203.0.113.1 dev eth2 metric 1 10.24.6.0/24 via 192.0.2.254 dev eth0 metric 40 No policy-routing rules apply, and all listed next hops are reachable. Which next hop is selected for a packet addressed to the remote host 10.24.6.37?
Correct answer: A - 192.0.2.254
An inventory daemon works when tested locally, but clients cannot connect to 192.0.2.20:8443. Packet capture confirms that their connection attempts reach the server, and filtering has been ruled out. The daemon's only listening socket appears in ss -ltn as: State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port LISTEN 0 128 127.0.0.1:8443 0.0.0.0:* Which change addresses the cause shown here?
Correct answer: B - Configure the daemon to listen on the server's 192.0.2.20 address.
An hourly job runs: rsync -a --delete /srv/design/ /backup/current/ A recovery drill finds that an accidentally overwritten file has also been overwritten in the mirror, and a deleted file is gone from both locations. Every job reported success. The team needs to recover overwritten and deleted files from before any of the last seven runs while keeping the current mirror synchronized. Which change provides that retention?
Correct answer: D - Add --backup-dir=/backup/history/RUN_ID, retaining a unique RUN_ID directory for each run.
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