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






2. What are the two types of back-end authentication mechanisms discussed in this chapter?






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. The firewall service is...






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






11. What happens if a host changes its IP address and the keys don't match?


12. Which remote management service is installed by default?Can you name the port that it uses?






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






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






15. What command is used to change the mail server from Sendmail to Postfix (useful only if you have both installed)?






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






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






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






19. What is the top command used for?






20. What two commands are used for package management?






21. What port must be opened on the firewall for DNS?






22. What is PAM used for?






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






24. What port does NFS use by default?






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






26. SSH does...






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






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






29. What is a virtual host?






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






31. What are the three modes in which the rpm command can operate?






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






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






34. What is the superblock used for?






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


36. How would you view all Boolean options for the HTTP service?






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






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






39. To create a RAID or LVM partition using kickstart






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






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






42. What is SSH used for?






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






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






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






46. Where are Yum repository config files located?






47. What does virsh reboot Client04 do?






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






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






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