Which of the following commands display a list of jobs in the print queue? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• Acups --list
• Blprm -l
• Clpstat
• Dlpr -q
• Elpq

• A
  12% (3)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  81% (21)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Both lpstat (C) and lpq (E) display the print queue - lpstat shows the status of the CUPS print spooler including queued jobs, while lpq (line printer queue) is the classic BSD-style command that lists pending jobs for a printer queue.

The distractors are all invalid: cups --list is not a real command (the CUPS daemon is controlled via cupsd or systemctl, not a --list flag); lprm -l is wrong because lprm is used to remove jobs from the queue, not list them; and lpr -q is wrong because lpr submits jobs to the queue - the -q flag queues a job quietly, it doesn't display the queue.

Memory tip: Think "lpq = query the queue" and "lpstat = status of the printer." Both are read-only inspection commands, while lpr (submit) and lprm (remove) change the queue - if a command modifies something, it won't be the answer for displaying the queue.

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