Most 305-300 candidates know what a hypervisor is and still miss the question, because the paper asks what a specific host is doing right now. The three free questions below are written that way.
LPIC-3 305 — Three virtualization terms the exam expects you to keep separate. Watch on YouTube · CertCrafter What do these free LPIC-3 305 questions test?
One question comes from each of the exam’s three topics: Full Virtualization, Container Virtualization and VM Deployment and Provisioning. Each one hands you a small piece of a real system, such as a command line, a bridge setting or a config file, and asks what follows from it. That is how an administrator thinks on the job, and it is how the questions are framed.
They come from the free sample behind the scored LPIC-3 305-300 quiz. Take them cold, commit to an answer, and only then open the explanation. The channel has a short clip on three virtualization terms the exam expects you to keep separate, a good warm-up before you start.
How is the 305-300 exam built?
LPI describes the exam as 90 minutes, 60 multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. That is an average of 90 seconds each. The score is scaled from 200 to 800 with a pass at 500, and LPI states that the number of correct answers behind 500 depends on the exact set you get.
An active LPIC-2 certification is required before LPIC-3 is awarded, and the certification is valid for five years. Check the status of your LPIC-2 before you book, because a pass without it will not produce the certificate.
The fill-in-the-blank items matter most for how you study. You type a command, an option or a path, so recognizing it in a list is not enough. A habit worth building early: write the command on paper before you look at any options.
Which objectives carry the most questions?
LPI assigns every objective a weight and says higher weights get more questions. The thirteen weights sum to 60, the same as the number of questions on the paper, so a weight of 9 is close to nine questions. The five heaviest:
| Objective | Weight |
|---|---|
| 351.4 Libvirt Virtual Machine Management | 9 |
| 352.3 Docker | 9 |
| 352.1 Container Virtualization Concepts | 7 |
| 351.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory | 6 |
| 352.2 LXC | 6 |
The two nines are where lab hours pay back first. On the job it is the same story: you spend far more of your week in libvirt and Docker than in Packer.
What does the virtualization question look for?
It sits in the QEMU objective, which asks you to understand QEMU’s architecture including KVM. LPI’s list for that objective names the kvm, kvm-intel and kvm-amd kernel modules and the /dev/kvm device. Those are not trivia. In practice they are the first things you check when a guest runs slowly: is the module loaded, does the device exist, and is the guest really using the accelerator?
The exam version of that habit is to ask which component does which job. Decide what runs in userspace and what runs in the kernel before you read the options, and the wrong answers stop looking plausible.
What does the container question look for?
Containers are where candidates reason by analogy with virtual machines and get hurt. LXC and LXD work with system containers, and the objective expects you to manage instances, networking and storage through LXD. On a real project the networking is where tickets come from: an instance that cannot reach the outside, a bridge with the wrong address range, a profile that was never applied.
The question asks you to follow a setting down to the mechanism it triggers on the host. Think about what the host has to do for the traffic to leave, not about which feature sounds right.
What does the provisioning question look for?
Topic 353 is small, 10 of the 60 weighted points, which is exactly why people skip it. The cloud-init objective lists user-data and /var/lib/cloud/ among its terms. In the field, cloud-init decides what a new machine does on its first boot and on every boot after it, and teams get bitten when a directive they assumed ran once runs every time, or the reverse.
The exam asks you to separate the stages. When two similar directives appear side by side, ask when each one runs and how often.
The LPIC-3 305 common mistakes post covers the habit of skipping this topic in more detail, and the command walkthroughs post shows a command from start to finish.
How should you use three free questions?
Not as a readiness test. They expose habits. Read every explanation, including on the ones you got right, because the wrong options show you what the exam writers consider a believable mistake.
When you miss one, log it by objective number and by the kind of slip: a command you could not type, a stage you mixed up, a setting you skimmed past. Then reproduce the situation on a lab host. Ten minutes at a prompt beats an hour of rereading, and the fill-in-the-blank items reward exactly that familiarity.
LPI says the objectives should sit at the core of any study plan, so keep them open beside you and tick off what you have actually run, not only read. The LPIC-3 305-300 guide has the full fact sheet and the hub of 305-300 guides lists the rest.
What these questions will not do
None is copied from a live exam. They are original, written from LPI’s published objectives, and no practice set replaces time on a real host.
The LPIC-3 305-300 practice test bundle picks up where these three stop, with six tests and 720 questions, every answer explained. Next step: open the first question below and commit to an answer before you read the explanation.
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