200-901 Question #479: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer develops an Ansible playbook to perform tasks that automate the provisioning of a server. What occurs on the server after the playbook is run?

Options

• AThe Vim, Git, and Pip packages are removed.
• BThe Vim, Git, and Pip packages are backed up.
• COnly the Vim package is installed as the most recent package.
• DThe most relevant versions of the Vim, Git, and Pip packages are installed.

Explanation

An Ansible playbook using 'state: latest' installs or upgrades all listed packages to their most current available version.

Common mistakes.

• A. The 'state: latest' directive installs or upgrades packages rather than removing them; the value 'state: absent' is required to uninstall packages.
• B. Ansible package modules have no built-in backup state; the supported states are 'present', 'absent', 'latest', and 'fixed' depending on the module, none of which create file backups.
• C. The task lists all three packages - Vim, Git, and Pip - so the module processes all three, not only Vim.

Concept tested. Ansible package module with state: latest for multiple packages

Reference. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/apt_module.html

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