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20 questionsDomain: Scripting, Containers and Automation
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What the exam tests

What to know about Scripting, Containers and Automation

Scripting, Containers and Automation questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Common Scripting, Containers and Automation exam traps

  • ▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Scripting, Containers and Automation questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that a containerized web application always restarts automatically if the container exits unexpectedly. Which Docker run option should be used?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A system administrator wants to create a new user and set a password in a single command as part of a provisioning script. Which command accomplishes this?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A Linux server that hosts a critical database application has been experiencing occasional kernel panics. The administrator wants to ensure the system automatically reboots after a panic and logs the crash dump. Which sysctl parameter should be set?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A developer wants to run a container with a specific command that overrides the default entrypoint. Which Docker command should be used?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A senior administrator is troubleshooting a shell script that fails to execute properly. The script starts with #!/bin/bash and has execute permissions. Which of the following could cause the script to fail to run when invoked as ./script.sh?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A cloud engineer needs to automate the deployment of a new virtual machine with a specific configuration using Ansible. Which file format is typically used for Ansible playbooks?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A developer is writing a Bash script that must be portable across different Linux distributions. The script needs to check if a package is installed. Which command should be used to achieve this portability?

Question 8easymultiple choice
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A junior administrator needs to view the logs of a running container named 'webapp'. Which command should be used?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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A Linux administrator is writing a script that must wait for a background process to finish before continuing. The process ID is stored in a variable. Which command should be used to wait for this process?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A systems administrator wants to build a custom Docker image from a Dockerfile located in the current directory. Which command should be used?

Question 11mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid methods to pass environment variables to a Docker container at runtime?

Question 12hardmulti select
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A Linux administrator needs to implement a cron job that runs a script every day at 2:30 PM. Which TWO cron schedule expressions are equivalent?

Question 13easymulti select
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Which THREE of the following are valid systemd unit types?

Question 14hardmulti select
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A developer is writing a shell script that needs to handle errors. Which THREE of the following are best practices for robust script error handling?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause of the repeated connection refused errors?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ cat /var/log/containers/web.log | grep "ERROR" | head -5
[2024-03-21 10:15:23] ERROR: Connection refused to database at 10.0.0.1:3306
[2024-03-21 10:15:24] ERROR: Connection refused to database at 10.0.0.1:3306
[2024-03-21 10:15:25] ERROR: Connection refused to database at 10.0.0.1:3306
[2024-03-21 10:15:26] ERROR: Connection refused to database at 10.0.0.1:3306
[2024-03-21 10:15:27] ERROR: Connection refused to database at 10.0.0.1:3306
```
Question 16hardmultiple choice
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After building and running the container as shown in the exhibit, the administrator tries to access http://localhost:8080 but receives a connection refused error. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ cat Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu:22.04
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y nginx
COPY index.html /var/www/html/
EXPOSE 80
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
$ docker build -t webapp .
$ docker run -d -p 8080:80 webapp
```
Question 17easymultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, how often does the healthcheck.sh script run?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ crontab -l
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/healthcheck.sh
```
Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A company runs a critical web application on a single Linux server. The application consists of a Node.js backend and a PostgreSQL database. The server is running out of disk space frequently due to application logs. The administrator wants to implement a log rotation solution that is automated, minimizes data loss, and compresses old logs. The administrator has root access and wants to use built-in tools. Currently, logs are written to /var/log/app/access.log and /var/log/app/error.log. The application never closes its log files. Which of the following is the best course of action?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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A development team uses Git for version control and wants to automate the testing of every commit pushed to the repository. They have a Jenkins server running on a Linux machine. The team wants to automatically trigger a Jenkins pipeline job whenever a push is made to the main branch of their Git repository. The Jenkins server is behind a firewall and cannot be accessed from the internet. The Git repository is hosted on a private GitHub repository. Which of the following is the best approach to trigger the Jenkins job automatically?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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An administrator needs to deploy a containerized web application on a Linux server. The application requires port 8080 to be mapped to host port 80. Which command will run the container in detached mode with this port mapping?

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What does the XK0-005 exam test about Scripting, Containers and Automation?
Scripting, Containers and Automation questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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