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RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer

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1. Logical partitions on a hard drive always start with number ____; on the first PATA/IDE hard drive on a PC - that is hda____.






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






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






5. Virtual Host Configuration: Creates an custom log; the location is based on the DocumentRoot. (from http://www.books24x7.com/book/id_18196/viewer.asp?bookid=18196&chunkid=218985502)






6. _____ will change the size of /dev/rootvg/tmplv to 4 gig






7. To check status of ftp daemon






8. 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:






9. 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 ____






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






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






12. '____ /var/www' will tell you the ACL settings of /var/www






13. This line placed in /etc/hosts.deny denies all services except TFTP to computers in the example.org domain






14. Where is the vsftp pub dir?






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






16. If you want to add an iptables command to forward TCP port 80 traffic to TCP port 3128 - you would use the following:






17. How to start the vsftp service?






18. what port needs to be open to access ftp?






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






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






21. Where is vsftpd.conf?






22. Perform a simple check of the file system. minor-num is x.






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






24. Virtual Host Configuration: Assigns an e-mail address for the specified virtual host.






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






26. The default Red Hat Enterprise Linux firewall blocks access to an NFS server. While inelegant - the following command 'flushes -' or turns off - the standard Linux firewall from the local computer.






27. 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:






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

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






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






31. 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 ____






32. Create the basic cache directories in /var/spool/squid with the following command:






33. OS from http.conf - this line looks deceptively simple; it limits what readers see about your Web server when you browse to a nonexistent page. If you don't use this command - outsiders can see whether you've loaded modules such as Perl - Python - an






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






35. If you configure other directories for Web services - you'll need to change their ACL settings. For example - if you create and then use the /www directory - run the following commands:






36. Where is the config dir for vsftpd?






37. How do you restart the apache web server?






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






39. rpm ____ to install kernel updates






40. If rhel6 is in the /media directory - where is the XML file on that DVD with a database of packages and package groups?






41. 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)






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






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






44. In httpd.conf - '____ None' disables any .htaccess files. Otherwise - .htaccess can allow others to administer your server - starting from the DocumentRoot directory. If .htaccess is in a subdirectory - such as /var/www/html/data/ - the additional di






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






46. How to start the vsftp service automatically on boot?






47. Create a usb boot disk if the usb stick is /dev/sdc and the file you need is in your present directory






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






49. ____ prints superblock and block group information.






50. Where is the main apache data directory?