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Manage users and groups questions

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Question 1hardmultiple choice
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A system administrator needs to ensure that a user named 'bob' can access a shared directory '/data' owned by group 'developers'. The directory has permissions 2775 and is owned by root:developers. Bob is a member of the 'developers' group. However, when Bob tries to create a file in '/data', it fails with 'Permission denied'. What is the most likely cause?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A company policy requires that when a user is deleted, all files owned by that user in /home should be reassigned to a 'guest' account. Which command accomplishes this?

Question 3easymultiple choice
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An administrator wants to add the user 'jane' to the supplementary groups 'wheel' and 'docker' without removing her from other groups. Which command should be used?

Question 4hardmultiple choice
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A server has a requirement that all users in the 'finance' group must have a password aging policy that forces password change every 90 days. Which approach best achieves this for existing users?

Question 5mediummulti select
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Which TWO commands can change the primary group of an existing user?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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Given the exhibit, which statement is true about the file /project/report.txt?

Exhibit

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[root@server ~]# id alice
uid=1002(alice) gid=1002(alice) groups=1002(alice),10(wheel),50(staff)
[root@server ~]# ls -ld /project
 drwxrws---. 2 root staff 4096 Mar 15 14:22 /project
[root@server ~]# ls -l /project
 total 0
 -rw-rw----. 1 alice staff 0 Mar 15 14:23 report.txt
Question 7hardmultiple choice
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You are managing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 server that hosts a shared development environment. The server has a directory /projects owned by root:developers with permissions 2770. There are three users: dev1, dev2, and dev3, all members of the 'developers' group. Developers need to create and edit files in /projects, and any new file should be writable by all members of the developers group. However, you notice that when dev1 creates a file, the permissions are 644 instead of 664, and the group is set to dev1's primary group (dev1) instead of 'developers'. After investigating, you find that the setgid bit is set on /projects, but the directory's ACLs are not configured. What is the most efficient way to ensure that new files in /projects inherit the group 'developers' and have group-writable permissions by default?

Question 8easymultiple choice
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A system administrator needs to ensure that the user 'jdoe' cannot log in via SSH but can still use other services like FTP. Which approach should the administrator take?

Question 9mediummulti select
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Which TWO commands can be used to add the user 'alice' to the supplementary group 'developers'?

Question 10hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. A web server runs as user 'apache'. The directory /var/www/html is owned by root:root with permissions 755. The administrator wants to allow the user 'webuser' to upload files to /var/www/html via SFTP. Which step is necessary to achieve this?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

[root@server ~]# getent passwd webuser
webuser:x:1001:1001:Web User:/home/webuser:/sbin/nologin
[root@server ~]# ls -ld /var/www/html
 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 10 10:00 /var/www/html
[root@server ~]# ls -lZ /var/www/html
 drwxr-xr-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /var/www/html
[root@server ~]# id webuser
 uid=1001(webuser) gid=1001(webuser) groups=1001(webuser)
[root@server ~]# groups webuser
 webuser : webuser
Question 11mediumdrag order
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Arrange the steps to configure a network bond (mode 1) using two interfaces (eth0, eth1) in RHEL.

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 12mediummatching
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Match each firewall zone to its default trust level.

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

Concepts
Matches

Low trust; only allow selected incoming connections

Moderate trust; for private networks

High trust; accept all connections

For publicly accessible systems isolated from internal network

Question 13easymultiple choice
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A company needs to create a user account for a temporary contractor who will work for exactly 90 days. The account must be automatically disabled after 90 days. Which command should the administrator use?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A user named jdoe is receiving 'Permission denied' errors when trying to access a file owned by root with permissions 644. The user is a member of the root group. What is the most likely cause?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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After being added to a new supplementary group with usermod -aG, a user logs out and back in but still cannot access files owned by that group. Which command should the user run to verify current effective group membership?

Question 16easymultiple choice
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A new employee named asmith needs a user account with a home directory and a specific UID of 1500. Which command accomplishes this?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A system administrator needs to change the primary group of an existing user to a group that already exists. Which command should be used?

Question 18easymultiple choice
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A server has been compromised, and the administrator suspects an unauthorized user account may have been created. Which file should be examined to list all local user accounts?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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An administrator wants to ensure that any new user accounts created on the system have a default primary group matching the username. What change is needed?

Question 20hardmultiple choice
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A user reports that they can log in but cannot change their password. Which file might be misconfigured?

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