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Red Hat Certified System Administrator EX200 Practice Test

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Q1Manage securitymedium
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A server's firewall is managed by firewalld. The admin adds a rule to allow HTTPS traffic to the public zone, but clients still cannot connect. What is the most likely cause?

The rule was added with --permanent but firewall-cmd --reload was not run.Correct
BThe rule must be added as a rich rule, not a simple service.
CThe default zone is not set to public.
Dfirewalld is just a wrapper for iptables, so iptables rules must be cleared.

When a rule is added with the `--permanent` flag in firewalld, it is written to the configuration files but not applied to the runtime firewall. Until `firewall-cmd --reload` is executed, the runtime configuration remains unchanged, so the new rule allowing HTTPS traffic is not a…Read full explanation

Q2Manage securityeasy
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A junior admin needs to ensure that the 'apache' user (UID 48) cannot log in via SSH or console. Which command achieves this?

usermod -s /sbin/nologin apacheCorrect
Bpasswd -l apache
Cchage -l apache
Dusermod -e 1 apache

Setting the user's login shell to `/sbin/nologin` prevents the user from obtaining an interactive shell via SSH or console login. When the user attempts to log in, the system executes `/sbin/nologin`, which prints a polite message and exits immediately, effectively denying shell …Read full explanation

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