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1. What command do you use to change the permissions on a file or directory - To change ownership?






2. What are the side effects of shrinking a volume group or logical volume?






3. What client-side command can you use to test your FTP server connection?






4. Before you work with quotas - what do you need to do to the file system?






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






6. What command can be used to easily list all the options in the FTP main config file?






7. How can you check the currently mounted file systems?






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






9. What is a swap? Is it created as a partition or device file?






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






11. A slave DNS server provides...






12. What port does the DHCP server listen on by default?






13. What port does the SMTP service run on?






14. What command can you use to check the config file of the DHCP server?






15. What happens if you call the command from question 3 with the -c option after it has already been run?






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






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






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






19. A service needs to have _______________ to be able to use it.






20. Which file shows you all the client IP addresses?






21. Can you name three utilities that can be used for network or DNS client troubleshooting?






22. What command can you use to query information from the kernel about RAID arrays?






23. How can you change the security context of a directory to work with Apache?






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






25. To export directories as resources - what file needs to be edited?

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






27. 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...

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






29. What does the partprobe command do?






30. What command can you use to change the context of files?






31. What two ports should be opened on the firewall for the FTP server to function properly?






32. Do you need to write changes to the disk when using the parted command? What about fdisk?






33. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - the default for SELinux is _______________ (which can be changed after the installation completes). For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - you were able to choose what mode you wanted SELinux to start in.






34. What options with the yum command would you use to remove a package?






35. It is possible to run scripts before a kickstart installation. This is done by...






36. There are four types of DNS servers. Name them.






37. What port does NFS use by default?






38. What are the two config files for Postfix called?






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






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






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






42. What command can you use to validate the syntax of the Apache config file?






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






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






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






46. What command and options can you use to update the time?






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

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48. The firewall service is...






49. Runlevel 0 ___________. Runlevel 6 reboots the system.






50. How would you install a group of packages all at a single time?