Red Hat EX407 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Red Hat EX407 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  Which of the following attributes specifies how a handler can be notified? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. name
  B. service
  C. listen
  D. handle
  A. name
  C. listen

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  While using the handler's name attribute is not encouraged, it does work.

• Question 22:

  What Ansible variable allows access to internal Ansible data?

  A. Ansible Facts
  B. Magic Variables
  C. Dictionary Variables
  D. Environment Variables
  B. Magic Variables

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  Magic variables allow access to internal Ansible data such as host groups and inventory hosts.

• Question 23:

  Where are custom facts defined on a host?

  A. /etc/ansible/facts.d/
  B. /etc/ansible//*.fact
  C. /etc/ansible/facts.d/*.fact
  D. /etc/ansible/facts.db
  C. /etc/ansible/facts.d/*.fact

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  Custom facts are gathered from all files with the .fact extension in /etc/ansible/facts.d.

• Question 24:

  Consider the following playbook.

  -hosts: webservers become: yes

  -name: install httpd yum: name: httpd state: latest

  Which line includes a syntax error?

  A. become: yes
  B. yum:
  C. The file does not end with end-playbook.
  D. The playbook does not include the task directive.
  D. The playbook does not include the task directive.

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  The "task:" directive is required at the prior to providing the tasks of a playbook. Without it, Ansible will not throw an error.

• Question 25:

  Is there a syntax error in the following excerpt? If so, what is it?

  vars: package: httpd tasks:

  -

  name: Deploy {{ package }}

  yum:

  name:

  {{ package }}

  state: present

  A. No, there are no syntax errors in the provided excerpt.
  B. Yes, the variable package is not defined correctly.
  C. Yes, the name parameter for the yum module should have a quoted value.
  D. Yes, the name keyword (below tasks) should have a quoted value.
  C. Yes, the name parameter for the yum module should have a quoted value.

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  Whenever a variable leads a value, it must be quoted to avoid parse errors.

• Question 26:

  A dynamic inventory must return data in what format?

  A. JSON
  B. XML
  C. YAML
  D. INI
  A. JSON

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  Dynamic inventories must return JSON output.

• Question 27:

  What is the primary difference between the shell and command module?

  A. The shell module is for executing shell commands, and the command module is for Ansible internal commands.
  B. The shell module sets up a shell environment and the command module only runs the provided command.
  C. The shell module sets a default shell whereas the command module executes a shell command.
  D. There is no difference.
  B. The shell module sets up a shell environment and the command module only runs the provided command.

• Question 28:

  State whether the following statement is true or false.

  The correct structure for use with roles has the various portions of the role under a central folder. E.g. if the role is called apache then the location of the tasks would be the following:

  apache - tasks - main.yml

  A. True
  B. False
  A. True

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  This is the format for the file system used for roles:

  project/ defaults main.yml files handlers main.yml meta main.yml README.md tasks main.yml templates

  tests

  inventory test.yml vars main.yml

• Question 29:

  Which command ships with Ansible and provides module documentation on your system?

  A. ansible-documentation
  B. ansible-help
  C. ansible-doc
  D. ansible-module-doc
  C. ansible-doc

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  The ansible-doc command provides documentation on ansible modules.

• Question 30:

  What are the minimum configurations that must be made to install Ansible Tower?

  A. You must provide a target host and set some key user passwords.
  B. You must generate an SSL certificate for the Ansible Tower web frontend.
  C. You must specify a few key user passwords.
  D. PROJECTS_ROOT must be configured.
  D. PROJECTS_ROOT must be configured.

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  This is the only required configuration change needed prior to installation.