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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The root filesystem is at 95% capacity. Which option will free space on the root filesystem?

Exhibit

$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME   FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT
sda          20G
├─sda1 ext4   10G /
├─sda2 swap    2G [SWAP]
└─sda3 ext4    8G /home
sdb           10G
└─sdb1 ext4   10G /mnt/backup
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        10G  9.5G  500M  95% /
/dev/sda3        8G   2G   5.9G  26% /home
/dev/sdb1        10G  1G   9G    10% /mnt/backup
Question 2mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. On boot, which filesystem will be checked first by fsck?

Exhibit

Exhibit: /etc/fstab content:
UUID=abc123 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=def456 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
UUID=ghi789 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
Question 3easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. What is the current default target?

Exhibit

# systemctl get-default
multi-user.target
# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/default.target
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jan 10 10:00 /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
Question 4easymultiple choice
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A user reports that running '/usr/local/bin/myapp' from the command line results in 'bash: /usr/local/bin/myapp: No such file or directory'. The exhibit shows the file exists and is a valid executable. What is the most likely cause of the error?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/myapp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12345 Jan 1 12:00 /usr/local/bin/myapp
$ file /usr/local/bin/myapp
/usr/local/bin/myapp: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/myapp
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe5a3b0000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9a8b200000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9a8b600000)
Question 5mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A user runs 'python --version' and gets 'Python 3.9.1'. Which command would run Python 2 instead?

Network Topology
$ pythonversion$ ls -l /usr/bin/python*Python 3.9.1$ file /usr/bin/python/usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python3
Question 6mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A user tries to write to /mnt/usb/myfile.txt as a non-root user and receives a permission denied error. What is the most likely reason?

Network Topology
-rw-rr$ mount$ ls -la /mnt/usb/total 16
Question 7easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A system administrator runs 'ip route show default' and gets this output. What does it indicate?

Exhibit

default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
Question 8mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. Which file has a special permission that allows a user to execute the file with the privileges of the file owner?

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12345 Jan 1 12:00 /usr/bin/myapp
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 23456 Jan 1 12:00 /usr/bin/su
-rw-rw-rw- 1 user1 user1 0 Jan 1 12:00 /tmp/shared
Question 9hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A user tries to execute a script on a mounted filesystem but gets a permission denied error. The script has execute permissions. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

$ mount | grep /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/data type ext4 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
$ ls -l /mnt/data/script.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100 Jan 1 00:00 /mnt/data/script.sh
$ /mnt/data/script.sh
bash: /mnt/data/script.sh: Permission denied
Question 10hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. Why does the cron job fail?

Network Topology
-rw-rrRefer to the exhibit.$ cat /etc/cron.d/backup$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/backup.sh$ su -c '/usr/local/bin/backup.sh' --bash: /usr/local/bin/backup.sh: Permission denied
Question 11mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The system administrator notices the /var/log partition is nearly full. The syslog file is 2GB. Which command will safely reduce the size of this log file without stopping the logging daemon?

Network Topology
-rw-rr$ df -h /var/log$ ls -lh /var/log/syslog
Question 12easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. When will the cron job execute?

Exhibit

The output of 'cat /etc/crontab' shows:
* * * * * root /usr/local/bin/backup.sh
Question 13hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. An admin attempts to execute a shell script located in /tmp but gets 'Permission denied'. Which mount option is most likely causing this?

Exhibit

$ mount
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
Question 14hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The /var partition is nearly full. Which of the following is the most appropriate first step to free up space?

Exhibit

$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name
   8        0   52428800 sda
   8        1     524288 sda1
   8        2   51873792 sda2
   8       16   10485760 sdb
   8       17    1048576 sdb1
   8       18    9437184 sdb2
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2        50G   20G   30G  40% /
/dev/sda1       512M  100M  413M  20% /boot
/dev/sdb2       9.0G  8.5G  500M  95% /var
$ lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4          a1b2c3d4-...                       /boot
└─sda2 ext4          e5f6g7h8-...                       /
sdb
├─sdb1 swap          1234-5678-...                      [SWAP]
└─sdb2 ext4          i9j0k1l2-...                       /var
Question 15mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The system has a single disk with three partitions. Which partition contains the root filesystem?

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Refer to the exhibit.

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0    16G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3   8:3    0 207.1G  0 part /

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