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1. Can you put your /boot partition on a RAID 5 array?






2. How would you go about creating a static route?






3. What is the name of the package that allows you to install VNC?






4. Are additional packages besides httpd required for a secure website - If so - what are they?






5. FTP is one of three protocols ______________. The other two protocols are NFS and HTTP.






6. What is the /var/lib/nfs/etab file used for?






7. How can you display all virtual guests after they're connected to a hypervisor?






8. How do you run a command with elevated privileges?






9. What command disables the SSH service from running when the system boots?






10. What does the rdnc-confgen command do?






11. What is NAT - How is it used?






12. What is the rndc utility used for?






13. If a package is built on an RHEL6 system and deployed to a custom RHEL5 repository - are RHEL5 systems able to use it?






14. Where are Yum repository config files located?






15. What three components are needed to fully automate a kickstart installation?






16. What is the superblock used for?






17. Should you allow remote root access - Why or why not?


18. What is the name of the package used to install an FTP?






19. What protocols are used with Dovecot?






20. Place all files you want added to a _______________ during creation.


21. Editing the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file and enabling the service are the same as running the chkconfig tftp on command. Both of these actions...






22. What command is used to show all services being controlled by the xinetd daemon?






23. Does a DHCP server allow reserved IP addresses - If so - how?






24. What does it mean if you ping a host and you receive the response Destination Unreachable?






25. What command can you use to monitor and troubleshoot network connections?






26. What command can you use to test connectivity to another host?






27. The virt-install package allows you to manage virtual machines _____________. The virt-manager package allows you to manage virtual machines via a GUI interface.






28. What is the xinetd service used for?






29. What command can you use to get information about logical volumes?






30. The INPUT chain being used is the default under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This rule...






31. What port does the Apache web server run on - What about HTTPS?






32. What command can you use to view NFS statistics?






33. What are SELinux Booleans?






34. What is the point of using SELinux?






35. What command-line program can you use to check your mail?






36. What three protocols can you use to perform network installations?






37. What option would you use to query an installed package using the rpm command?






38. What is the difference between an A record and a PTR record?






39. What port does the rndc utility listen on by default?






40. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - SELinux comes set up in enforcing mode. When installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - you have the option to...


41. What is VNC?






42. What are the three items that make up LVM?






43. What is a gateway used for on a network?






44. Can you name the two commands that can be used to view the free space on the system?






45. What is the main config file for the DHCP service?






46. To grow a file system






47. What command can you use to view the current ACL on a file?






48. What is the name of the section used to run scripts after a kickstart installation?






49. What option is used to allow anonymous uploads to the FTP server?






50. What file needs to be edited so that the system will mount a file system at boot time?