I've just taken, and failed, the LPI-101 Exam. I am quite sure I know why I failed, I could not remember a good number of the command/program options. For example:
How would you list the contents of foobar.tar without extracting them?
- tar uvf foobar.tar
- tar cvf foobar.tar
- tar xvf foobar.tar
- tar rvf foobar.tar
- tar tvf foobar.tar
(This question was neither on the Exam I took, and, to the best of my knowledge, is not on any LPI Exam. (The exam has is NDA'ed and Copyrighten))
I cannot remember the correct answer but I know I can easily get the answer if I do:
$ man tar | grep list However this is not allowed in the exam, I am expected to remember it.
What I want to ask is, as System Administrators do you remember the options for commands or do you look them up as you need them?
Also any advise on how I should continue, whether I should take the exam again, or a different exam etc, would be most welcome and appreciated.
Thank you.
P.S I hope this is the correct subreddit to ask this, if not could you point me in the correct direction.
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