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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 three items that make up LVM?






3. What three commands can you use to help verify that the DNS server is functioning properly?






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






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






6. What command can you use to manage system services?






7. What commands can you use to add a client machine to an LDAP server?






8. What does the rdnc-confgen command do?






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






10. What is the rndc utility used for?






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






12. What command is used to create a user for Samba?






13. The default SMTP service has been changed from _________ to Postfix in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.






14. What is the biggest benefit to using LVM over basic partitions?






15. What command do you use to report information on quota usage?






16. What is PAM used for?






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






18. What command and option can you use to enable a service to start on boot?






19. What critical step must you take after updating the kernel to a newer version?






20. How can virtual hosts be used?






21. What option is used with both the fdisk and parted commands to display the current partition tables?






22. What two commands are special for dealing with user login events?






23. Most boot issues can be resolved by...






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






25. 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...






26. GRUB has three stages. Can you name them?






27. What two commands are used for package management?






28. What is VNC?






29. What command (and options) can be used to create a user named George with the description "Jr Admin"?






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






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






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






33. What directory is used to represent the virtual file system created by the kernel?






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






35. What is a virtual host?






36. You must dictate the ____________ you want allocated to your virtual machine when you create it.






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






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






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






40. What command can you use to test the config files before starting the DNS service?






41. What is the point of using SELinux?






42. What does S12rsyslog in the /etc/rc.d/rc2.d directory mean?






43. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is the only version that officially supports _______






44. What port on the firewall needs to be open for the TFTP server to work?






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






46. By default - what is the path to a user's home directory?

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






48. What command can you use to create a new SSL certificate?






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






50. What command can be used to view the queue for at service jobs?