20+ practice questions focused on Operate running systems — one of the most tested topics on the Red Hat Certified System Administrator EX200 exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Operate running systems PracticeA system administrator needs to ensure that a specific process continues to run even if it crashes. The process is started by a systemd service unit. Which approach ensures the process is automatically restarted by systemd, with a delay of 30 seconds after each crash, and does not count restarts towards the failure limit?
Explanation: Restart=always ensures restart after any crash, RestartSec=30 adds the 30-second delay, and StartLimitIntervalSec=0 disables the start rate limiting entirely, preventing any failure limit from stopping restarts. StartLimitBurst=0 is unnecessary when the interval is 0, so option C is equally correct as option A. The original explanation incorrectly implies that StartLimitBurst=0 is required to disable rate limiting while also acknowledging only the interval is needed.
Arrange the steps to configure a static IPv4 route in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Explanation: Static routes in RHEL are configured in interface configuration files by specifying GATEWAY and NETMASK, then restarting the network service.
Order the steps to configure a new user 'jdoe' with UID 2000, home directory /home/jdoe, and secondary group 'staff'.
Explanation: To create user jdoe with UID 2000, home /home/jdoe, and secondary group staff, you must use -G to assign the supplementary group. The correct order is: create the group if needed, then run useradd -u 2000 -G staff -m -d /home/jdoe jdoe, then set the password with passwd jdoe, then verify. No listed option is fully correct because option A uses -g, making staff the primary group, not secondary.
Refer to the exhibit. Which command would free up the most space immediately?
Explanation: journalctl --vacuum-size=500M directly reduces the systemd journal size, which is typically the largest consumer of disk space on a RHEL system. In contrast, yum clean all clears only package caches (relatively small), logrotate -f rotates logs but does not delete old ones by default, and rm -rf /var/log/* is destructive and not recommended even though it could free space; the exhibit (if shown) would confirm that the journal dominates disk usage, making C the most appropriate and immediate space-freeing command.
Refer to the exhibit. The web server fails to start. What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The exhibit shows that the web server fails to start, but the SELinux context is correctly set to `httpd_sys_content_t` for the web content files. The most likely cause is that the `httpd` service is not enabled, meaning it is not set to start automatically at boot or has not been started manually. This is a common operational oversight where the service is installed and configured but not activated via `systemctl enable httpd` or `systemctl start httpd`.
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