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Create content collections and execution environments practice questions

This domain covers Ansible content collections and execution environments on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. You must know how to build, version, and publish collections to Automation Hub or a private automation hub, and how execution environments package collections, Python dependencies, and ansible-core into container images. Questions test real commands, versioning rules, and the roles of ansible-galaxy and ansible-builder.

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20 questionsDomain: Create content collections and execution environments
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What the exam tests

What to know about Create content collections and execution environments

Be able to build and publish a collection with ansible-galaxy, bump its version before republishing, and build an execution environment with ansible-builder. The single most important thing: a published collection version is immutable, so update the version in galaxy.yml before publishing again.

Using ansible-galaxy collection build and ansible-galaxy collection publish to package and upload collections

Incrementing the collection version in galaxy.yml before republishing an already-published collection

Uploading collections to a private automation hub with ansible-galaxy collection publish and an API token

Building execution environments with ansible-builder and an execution-environment.yml definition file

Watch out for

Common Create content collections and execution environments exam traps

  • ▸Trying to republish a collection with the same version already on Automation Hub instead of bumping the version in galaxy.yml first
  • ▸Confusing collection publishing commands with execution environment build commands, or forgetting the required API token and server URL
  • ▸Assuming execution environments only contain collections, ignoring Python dependencies and ansible-core pinned in the definition file

Practice set

Create content collections and execution environments questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1mediummultiple choice
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An organization uses custom Ansible plugins stored in a collection. A junior admin reports that after updating the collection to version 2.0.0, a playbook that uses a custom filter plugin fails with 'undefined filter'. What is the most likely cause?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A user wants to run a playbook that uses a module from 'myorg.mycollection'. The playbook is located in /home/user/projects. Which of the following is true about the collection discovery?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

$ ansible-galaxy collection list

# /home/user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection                       Version
-------------------------------- -------
community.general                5.0.0
myorg.mycollection               1.2.3

# /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection                       Version
-------------------------------- -------
redhat.insights                  1.0.0
Question 3hardmultiple choice
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What is the most likely cause of the build failure?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

$ cat execution-environment.yml
---
version: 3
images:
  base_image:
    name: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-22/ee-minimal-rhel8:latest
options:
  package_manager_path: /usr/bin/microdnf
dependencies:
  galaxy: requirements.yml
  python: requirements.txt
  system: bindep.txt

$ cat requirements.txt
ansible
requests

$ cat bindep.txt
python3-devel [platform:rpm]
gcc [platform:rpm]

$ ansible-builder build -f execution-environment.yml

Build fails with: 'Error: No matching package to install: python3-devel'.
Question 4hardmultiple choice
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You are an automation engineer at a large enterprise. The company uses Ansible Automation Platform 2.x and has a private Automation Hub server. The security team mandates that all execution environments must be built from a hardened base image that has been approved by the security team. The base image is stored in a private container registry at registry.internal.company.com/hardened-ee:latest. You need to create an execution environment that includes a custom collection 'company.tools' which is hosted on the private Automation Hub. Additionally, the execution environment must include the Python library 'cryptography' version 3.4.8. You have created the following files:

execution-environment.yml: --- version: 3 images: base_image: name: registry.internal.company.com/hardened-ee:latest options: package_manager_path: /usr/bin/microdnf dependencies: galaxy: requirements.yml python: requirements.txt

requirements.yml: --- collections: - name: company.tools source: https://automationhub.company.com/api/galaxy/content/private/

requirements.txt:

cryptography==3.4.8

When you run 'ansible-builder build -f execution-environment.yml', the build fails with an error: 'Error: Failed to resolve dependency cryptography==3.4.8'. Based on this scenario, what is the most likely cause of the failure?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A user runs the commands shown in the exhibit. The execution environment (EE) builds successfully but the playbook run fails with the error. What is the most likely cause?

Network Topology
ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS: "pre"$ ansible-navigator run playbook.ymleei my-ee:latestpp neverce path/to/collectionsRefer to the exhibit.$ ansible-builder build -f execution-environment.ymlversion: 1build_arg_defaults:ansible_config: ansible.cfg...$ cat ansible.cfg[defaults]collections_path = ./collections$ ls collections/ansible_collections/community.general/
Question 6easymultiple choice
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You are a Red Hat Certified Engineer tasked with creating a content collection for your organization. The collection will contain roles and modules used by multiple teams. The requirements are: (1) The collection must follow the Ansible community structure. (2) It must include a module that manages network devices. (3) The collection must be versioned and published to Automation Hub. (4) You must provide a minimal working example for other developers. After initial development, you run 'ansible-galaxy collection build' and it fails with 'ERROR! Unknown file type in collection: .gitkeep'. The collection directory contains:

- galaxy.yml - plugins/modules/network_config.py - roles/network/ - tests/ - .gitkeep (in tests/)

What single action should you take to resolve the build error?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A developer creates a collection and wants to ensure it includes a required Python library for a module. Where should this dependency be declared?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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An organization uses a private Git repository to store Ansible content collections. They want to automate the building of execution environments that include these collections. Which approach is recommended?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
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An execution environment fails to start because the container image is missing the ansible-runner package. Which step in the build process should have included it?

Question 10hardmulti select
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Which THREE actions are required to successfully publish a collection to Automation Hub?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A user includes this in the execution-environment.yml. The build process fails because the second collection cannot be resolved. What is the most likely reason?

Exhibit

collections:
  - name: namespace.collection
    version: ">=1.0.0,<2.0.0"
  - name: other.collection
    source: https://internal.galaxy.example.com/api/
Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A developer is building an execution environment using `ansible-builder` and encounters the error: 'Error: Failed to pull base image: manifest for registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ansible-builder-rhel8:2.0.0 not found: manifest unknown.' The developer checks the registry and verifies that the image exists with a different tag. Which action should the developer take to resolve the issue?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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An organization wants to share a collection internally across multiple teams while ensuring that each team can only use specific modules from the collection. Which approach best supports this requirement?

Question 14easymultiple choice
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A developer has created a collection and needs to publish it to a private Automation Hub. Which command should be used to upload the collection archive?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A team uses `ansible-navigator` to run playbooks with an execution environment. The playbook requires a collection that is not included in the execution environment. Which approach allows the team to use the collection without rebuilding the execution environment?

Question 16mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are required in a valid Ansible collection directory structure?

Question 17hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are valid directives that can be used in an `execution-environment.yml` file for `ansible-builder`?

Question 18easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid methods to install a collection from a private Automation Hub?

Question 19hardmultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, which collection provides modules for managing Red Hat Insights subscriptions?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
$ ansible-galaxy collection list

# /home/user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection                   Version
---------------------------- -------
community.general             5.0.0
redhat.insights               1.0.0
ansible.posix                 1.3.0
```
Question 20hardmultiple choice
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An execution environment is built using ansible-builder. The definition file includes a base image from registry.redhat.io. After building, the container runs but ansible-navigator can't find the EE. What is the most likely cause?

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What does the EX294 exam test about Create content collections and execution environments?
Be able to build and publish a collection with ansible-galaxy, bump its version before republishing, and build an execution environment with ansible-builder. The single most important thing: a published collection version is immutable, so update the version in galaxy.yml before publishing again.
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