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






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






3. What command can you use to create a file system?






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






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






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

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7. What command can you use to view mounted Samba shares?






8. What is the xinetd service used for?






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






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






11. If you want a specific action to take place when user01 logs in to the system - which file would you edit?






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






13. What benefit does a web proxy provide to your network?






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






15. Before you work with ACLs - what do you need to do to the file system?






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






17. What does the following firewall rule accomplish: iptables -I INPUT 5 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT?






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






19. What are the five required directories when building RPMS?






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






21. What is the last rule in the iptables file?

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22. The package selection screen allows you to install any software you want during the installation process as long as...






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






24. 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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25. What is the point of using SELinux?






26. What command is used to create an RPM package?






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






28. What command can you use to query Boolean values?






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






30. Samba servers can...






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






32. The ____________ is available for each share.






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






34. What are the three different types of RAID described in this chapter?






35. A slave DNS server provides...






36. Which file contains all messages generated during installation that can be used for troubleshooting if the need arises?






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






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






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






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






41. What option at the GRUB boot menu can you use to append something to a kernel?






42. What is the /etc/hosts file used for?

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






44. What command and option do you use to view the description of Boolean values?






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






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






47. What is PAM used for?






48. What happens to jobs that are scheduled to run while the system is off?






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






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