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Deploy, configure, and maintain systems questions

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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A system administrator needs to ensure that a specific kernel module 'usb_storage' is not loaded automatically during boot on a RHEL 9 system. Which configuration file should be modified to blacklist this module?

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 system has a logical volume 'lv_data' in the volume group 'vg_data' that needs to be resized from 10G to 15G. The underlying physical volumes have enough free space. Which sequence of commands correctly resizes the logical volume and the ext4 filesystem?

Question 3easymultiple choice
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A technician needs to configure a static IPv4 address on a RHEL 9 network interface 'enp1s0' using NetworkManager. Which command should be used to set the IP address?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A system administrator is tasked with configuring a RHEL 9 system to automatically mount an NFS share from 192.168.1.10:/export/data on /mnt/data at boot. Which entry in /etc/fstab is correct?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A system administrator notices that a RHEL 9 server's /var/log/messages is filling up the /var partition. The administrator wants to ensure log rotation runs daily and keeps 4 weeks of logs. Which configuration file should be modified?

Question 6easymultiple choice
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A user reports that they cannot log in to a RHEL 9 system. The administrator checks /etc/passwd and finds the user's shell is set to /sbin/nologin. What is the most likely cause?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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An administrator wants to install a package 'httpd' but only if it is available in the configured repositories. Which command should be used to check if the package exists?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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A RHEL 9 system has a second disk /dev/sdb that needs to be partitioned with a single partition using all space, formatted with XFS, and mounted persistently at /data. The administrator uses fdisk to create the partition /dev/sdb1. Which filesystem creation command should be used?

Question 9mediummulti select
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Which TWO statements are true about systemd services in RHEL 9? (Choose exactly two.)

Question 10hardmulti select
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Which THREE are valid methods to configure network bonding in RHEL 9? (Choose exactly three.)

Question 11easymulti select
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Which TWO are correct ways to check the SELinux context of a file named 'test.txt'? (Choose exactly two.)

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The service 'example.service' is created but fails to start. The administrator runs 'systemctl start example.service' and gets no output, but 'systemctl status example.service' shows 'active (exited)'. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

# cat /etc/systemd/system/example.service
[Unit]
Description=Example Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/example.sh
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# systemctl daemon-reload
Question 13hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. The administrator wants to add an additional 5GB to the /mnt/data filesystem. There is no unpartitioned space on /dev/sdb. Which is the correct procedure?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0   20G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0    1G  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0    2G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3   8:3    0   17G  0 part /
sdb      8:16   0   10G  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0   10G  0 part /mnt/data

# df -h /mnt/data
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       9.8G  7.5G  2.3G  77% /mnt/data
Question 14hardmultiple choice
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A company has a RHEL 9 server that hosts a critical application. The server has two network interfaces: enp1s0 (192.168.1.100/24) and enp2s0 (10.0.0.100/24). The default gateway is 192.168.1.1. The application listens on a TCP port 8080 and should be accessible from both networks. Recently, the administrator noticed that clients on the 10.0.0.0/24 network can ping the server's 10.0.0.100 address but cannot connect to port 8080. Clients on 192.168.1.0/24 can connect fine. The firewall is configured with the default zone (public) and the service 'http' is allowed, but port 8080 is not specifically allowed. The administrator checks 'firewall-cmd --list-all' and sees that only services 'ssh' and 'http' are listed. The application is running and listening on 0.0.0.0:8080. What is the most likely cause and the correct course of action?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A system administrator needs to ensure that a web server running Apache httpd starts automatically after a system reboot. Which command should the administrator use to enable the httpd service?

Question 16hardmulti select
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Which TWO commands can be used to display the current SELinux mode?

Question 17easymultiple choice
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An administrator runs 'df -h' and sees the output above. The /data partition is nearly full. Which command will help identify the largest files in /data?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        20G   15G  4.6G  77% /
/dev/sdb1        50G   10G   40G  20% /var
/dev/sdc1       100G   90G   10G  90% /data
Question 18mediumdrag order
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Order the steps to configure SELinux to allow Apache to read files in a custom directory /webcontent.

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

Steps
Order
1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
4Step 4
5Step 5
Question 19mediummatching
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Match each SELinux mode to its behavior.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

SELinux policy is enforced and denials are logged

Policy is not enforced but denials are logged

SELinux is turned off completely

Question 20easymultiple choice
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An administrator needs to configure a service to start automatically at boot and also start it immediately without rebooting. Which single command accomplishes both tasks?

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Deploy, configure, and maintain systems questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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