Distinguishing rescue and emergency targets | LinuC Level 1 101 Exam original practice question

1.01.3Basic

Investigate a severe root-filesystem boot problem in a state even more minimal than rescue.

Which target is generally the most minimal?

Hint 1: Focus on the requirement

Identify what must change and what must remain unchanged. Then choose the command whose scope matches that requirement.

Hint 2: Check each command's role

Separate commands that display information, change state, remove data, or affect a child process.

graphical.target: Incorrect. graphical.target is a full GUI-oriented state.
multi-user.target: Incorrect. multi-user.target starts a broader multi-user environment.
rescue.target: Incorrect. rescue.target provides more services than emergency.target.
emergency.target: Correct. emergency.target is the minimal emergency environment.

Detailed explanation

Incorrectgraphical.target

Incorrect. graphical.target is a full GUI-oriented state.

Incorrectmulti-user.target

Incorrect. multi-user.target starts a broader multi-user environment.

Incorrectrescue.target

Incorrect. rescue.target provides more services than emergency.target.

Correctemergency.target

Correct. emergency.target is the minimal emergency environment.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

systemctl cat emergency.target 2>/dev/null | head || true

emergency.targetのunit定義の一部

Foundation review

Check whether the command acts on the current shell, a new process, an existing process, or a file.

Use the supplied command and compare the output with the expected result.

Question IDKL-101-346

Environmentsystemd unit定義の読み取り

Last technical review2026-08-13