Red Hat EX407 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Red Hat EX407 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 111:

  Which of the following are valid default locations for Ansible configuration? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  B. ${HOME}/.ansible.cfg
  C. ${ANSIBLE_CONFIG}
  D. /etc/ansible/config
  A. etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  B. ${HOME}/.ansible.cfg
  C. ${ANSIBLE_CONFIG}

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  etc/ansible/ansible.cfg:This is where Ansible configuration is stored by default. ${HOME}/.ansible.cfg: Ansible will check this file for configuration.

• Question 112:

  Consider the following playbook:

  # playbook name: /home/ansible/web.yml

  -hosts: webservers become: yes

  tasks:

  -name: edit file 1

  lineinfile:

  path: /var/www/content.hml line: "{{ text }}" tags:

  -content

  -name: edit file 2

  lineinfile: path: /var/www/index.hml

  line: "{{ text }}"

  tags:

  -web

  -name: edit file 3 lineinfile: path: /var/www/etc.hml line: "{{ text }}" tags: - content - misc

  Which use of the ansible-playbook command on the provided playbook will result in ONLY editing the file /var/www/index.html?

  A. ansible-playbook /home/ansible/web.yml
  B. ansible-playbook /home/ansible/web.yml --skip-tags web
  C. ansible-playbook /home/ansible/web.yml --skip-tags content
  D. ansible-playbook /home/ansible/web.yml --tags content
  C. ansible-playbook /home/ansible/web.yml --skip-tags content

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  This command skips the two tasks editing other files and only allows the task that is editing /var/www/index.html to run.

• Question 113:

  Where is Ansible's inventory stored by default?

  A. .etc/ansible/hosts
  B. /home/ansible/inventory
  C. etc/ansible/inventory
  D. ${HOME}/inventory for the currently logged in user
  A. .etc/ansible/hosts

• Question 114:

  In what format are ansible playbooks written?

  A. JSON
  B. YAML
  C. XML
  D. Ansible Proprietary Format (APF)
  B. YAML

• Question 115:

  SIMULATION

  Using the Simulation Program, perform the following tasks:

  1.

  Use an ansible ad-hoc command, check the connectivity of your servers.

  2.

  Use an ad-hoc ansible command, find the free space of your servers.

  3.

  Use an ad-hoc ansible command, find out the memory usage of your servers.

  4.

  Do an ls -l on the targets /var/log/messages file.

  5.

  Tail the contents of the targets /var/log/messages file.

  See explanation below.

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  Correct Answer: A

  1.

  ansible all -m ping

  2.

  ansible all -a "/bin/df -h"

  3.

  ansible all -a "/usr/bin/free"

  4.

  ansible all -a "ls -l /var/log/messages"

  5.

  ansible local -b -a "tail /var/log/messages"

• Question 116:

  State whether the following statement is true or false.

  You can change the no of forks ansible uses from the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg file.

  A. True
  B. False
  A. True

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  /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg file is the default location of the configuration file.

• Question 117:

  Which of these are valid as the first thing in a playbook? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. --
  B. - tasks: name=
  C. --- # this is a comment
  D. - hosts: local
  A. --
  C. --- # this is a comment

• Question 118:

  Which of the following are valid flags for the ansible-playbook command? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. --include-tags
  B. --tags
  C. --skip-tags
  D. --tag
  B. --tags
  C. --skip-tags

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  The --skip-tags flag allows specification of tags to identify specific plays for Ansible to skip.

• Question 119:

  Which of the following are sub commands of the ansible-galaxy command? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. find
  B. remove
  C. init
  D. create
  B. remove

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  The command ansible-galaxy remove andlt;roleandgt; deletes a role installed on the system. The command `ansible-galaxy init creates a shell for a new role in $PWD.

• Question 120:

  What does the -f flag in the ansible command allow you to specify?

  A. The playbook file used by ansible
  B. The inventory file used by ansible
  C. The configuration file used by ansible
  D. The forks used by ansible
  D. The forks used by ansible

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  The -f flag allows the user to set the number of forks the ansible process will run.