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Scenario guide

How to approach drag and drop ordering questions

Drag-and-drop ordering questions ask you to arrange steps, commands, or events into the correct sequence. They test procedural knowledge — can you execute a Cisco IOS configuration task in the right order? These appear across Cisco, CompTIA, AWS, and Microsoft exams.

Quick answer

Drag and Drop Ordering Questions 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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Practice set

Practice scenarios

Question 1mediumdrag order
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Arrange the steps to configure a new user account with sudo privileges on a Linux system.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 2mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to set up a LVM logical volume from a new disk.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 3mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to mount an ext4 filesystem from an external USB drive automatically at boot.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 4mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to create a new partition on a disk using fdisk.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 5mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to troubleshoot a DNS resolution issue from a Linux client.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 6mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to configure a cron job that runs a script every day at 2 AM.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 7mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to set up passwordless SSH key-based authentication.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 8mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to recover a forgotten root password on a Linux system using single-user mode.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

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Question 9mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to configure a static IP address on a CentOS/RHEL 7 system using ifcfg files.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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Question 10mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to create a systemd service unit that runs a script at boot.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
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