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RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer

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1. What parts of rhel6 should be installed to separate volumes?






2. The RPM database also maintains an MD5 checksum of each file. With the checksum - you can use the ____ package command to determine whether any file from that RPM package has changed.






3. Run the ____ command to find the device associated with the USB key.






4. To verify integrity of an rpm package - ____/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release






5. Where is the config dir for vsftpd?






6. rpm ____ verifies the installed zip rpm against the rpm database






7. I just ran rpm -ivh zip-2.3-8.i386.rpm .. whooops - now I don't want this on my system so to get it off via rpm I type ____






8. Use grep to count how many repositories have been configured in the file server1.repo


9. How to disable the firewall on the current system?






10. Where is the vsftp pub dir?






11. Virtual Host Configuration: Specifies an IP address for multiple virtual hosts.






12. How to install vsftpd?






13. To list under which run levels the web service will start






14. This line placed in /etc/hosts.deny sends a customized error message for Telnet users on the crack.org domain saying sorry [insert client info] - access denied






15. ____ prints superblock and block group information.






16. httpd ___ to update the httpd package - automatically answering yes to all the questions






17. ____ is used to modify file system parameters






18. To update a kernel - 1) ____ 2) boot new kernel to test 3) revert to old kernel if problems 4) yum remove kernel-oldversion if no problems






19. You can use the ____ tool after installation to add any package groups that you missed.






20. When you configure Squid on your system - you need to allow access through appropriate ports and SELinux settings. The simplest approach with respect to Squid configuration assumes that all clients use the default Squid port 3128 - using TCP - where






21. The rpm ____ option installs the package - if it isn't already installed.






22. Virtual Host Configuration: Sets a root directory for the virtual host.






23. For linux ext2 there is an easier way than using resize2fs. LVM 1 ships with a utility called __________ which does the lvextend and resize2fs for you (it can also do file system shrinking)






24. ______ will show me volume info including vg - size - etc of /dev/rootvg/tmplv






25. Use parted to display disk geometry for /dev/hda and end up in shell






26. rpm option to show me the package files






27. ____ configuration is not available via text mode RHEL installation.






28. I just finished editing my /etc/yum.repos.d/*repo file and want yum to use the new info - so I run ____






29. What is the first post installation step?






30. How to start the vsftp service?






31. To select a different device without having to restart parted - use the ____ command . Then - you can view its partition table or configure it.






32. What is the standard directory for file sharing with vsFTP?






33. As you may not have access to the GUI during the Red Hat exams - you need to know how to use text-based browsers. The standard is ____






34. rpm ____ to import the rpm key for integrity checking






35. It's much more difficult and much more time-consuming to revise partitions with utilities such as ____ or parted after RHEL is installed.






36. For http - if you implement 'UserDir public_html' - you need to also ____ /home/michael if you want /home/michael/public_html accessible






37. ___ http://devmon.dev.schwab.com/index.html will make a local copy of the index.html file from devmon






38. The main Squid configuration file is ____/squid.conf






39. To check status of ftp daemon






40. Some computers built before 1998 may have a BIOS that limits access to hard disks beyond the 1024th cylinder. Some older BIOSs report only 1024 cylinders on a hard drive no matter how many actual cylinders are present. Computers that are subject to t






41. rpm ____ verifies all installed rpms against the rpm database






42. After you edit /etc/exports - run service ___ stop...






43. You need to configure firewalls and allow SELinux access in appropriate ways. Firewalls must allow access to the standard HTTP port - 80. SELinux must be configured to 'Allow HTTPD To Read Home Directories'. Finally - the ACL must be revised accordin






44. output from ____ is: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB - 36414750720 bytes... plus listing of partitions - for each physical drive






45. Where is the main apache data directory?






46. You can check the status of your share. If it's working - you should see the contents of the /etc/exports directory when you run the following command:






47. I ran 'e2label /dev/sda' and got 'bad magic number' Why?






48. If you want to create a database file named webpass in the /etc/httpd directory - for user 'e' - you'd start with the following command:






49. rpm options include rpm -q [package name] or rpm -qf [path/file] or rmp -q____






50. How to install apache?