XK0-004 Exam Questions
501 real XK0-004 exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 6 of 11.
- Question #269Security
A Linux administrator recently reprovisioned a new corporate web server to replace a legacy one. To minimize the impact on the company's users, the administrator modified the netwo...
SSHknown_hostshost key verificationremote access - Question #270Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A server administrator notices that one of the servers cannot connect to its gateway, which has the IP 10.10.10.1. Which of the following commands should the administrator execute...
route commanddefault gatewayrouting tablenetwork diagnostics - Question #271Security
A Linux user uses a VPN to securely access the company's systems from a laptop. Which of the following protocols are MOST likely used to secure the VPN connection? (Choose two.)
VPNIPSecSSL/TLSnetwork security protocols - Question #272Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
Joe, a user, reports there is data missing after a reboot of the system he is using. The data he was working on was located in /opt/data/user1. A Linux administrator runs the follo...
disk mountingfstabstoragefilesystem persistence - Question #273System Management
A systems administrator notices several intensive tasks executing from users Joe and Ann. These processes are impacting server operations but must be allowed to continue running. W...
reniceprocess prioritynice valueresource management - Question #274System Management
A Linux administrator needs to prevent the Postfix mail transfer agent from starting on boot. Which of the following commands will accomplish this task?
systemctl disableservice managementboot servicesPostfix - Question #275System Management
A systems administrator manually added a new library to the server. The administrator wants to rebuild the library cache for immediate use. Which of the following commands should t...
ldconfigshared librarieslibrary cachedynamic linking - Question #276Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
An administrator is troubleshooting to determine why backups are failing on a particular server. The administrator runs the ps command and analyzes the following output. The admini...
zombie processkill commandprocess statesps command - Question #277Scripting, Containers and Automation
A junior systems administrator needs to schedule a backup script named /scripts/backup.sh and make the correct changes to the crontab. Which of the following crontab entries would...
crontabschedulingcron syntaxtask automation - Question #278Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A user is unable to write data to an NFS datastore at /mnt/storage. A df command indicates 50% free inodes. Which of the following commands should the user attempt NEXT to diagnose...
NFSdf commandinodesstorage troubleshooting - Question #279System Management
A systems administrator clones copies of a Linux VM every time a new Linux server is needed. The administrator notices the command prompt always states localhost.localdomain. Which...
hostnamectlhostname configurationVM cloningsystem identity - Question #280Scripting, Containers and Automation
A systems administrator uses a remote execution engine to iterate through each IP address in a network and run a script on remote hosts. The script captures the remote system's hos...
inventory managementremote executionagentless automationconfiguration management - Question #281Security
A Linux administrator receives the following while attempting to remove a file: Which of the following commands will resolve the issue?
chattrimmutable flagfile attributesfile security - Question #282System Management
A systems administrator logs into a Linux server and must identify whether the server is a physical or virtual machine. Which of the following commands should the administrator run...
dmidecodehardware detectionvirtual machinesystem info - Question #283Scripting, Containers and Automation
After cloning a remote repository, a new feature of that project needs to be developed and integrated into the next major release. Which of the following is the first Git operation...
Gitbranchingversion controlworkflow - Question #285Security
A Linux administrator is configuring a server to log security events for the ping command while allowing the request to occur. The Linux server is using AppArmor to manage its secu...
AppArmoraa-complainaudit modesecurity profiles - Question #286Scripting, Containers and Automation
Which of the following BEST describes the difference between a container and a VM?
containersvirtual machineskernel sharingvirtualization - Question #287Server Side & Network Concepts
A systems administrator wants to verify the DNS information of a system that is in production. Which of the following will provide this information?
DNSdigreverse lookupname resolution - Question #288System Management
A systems administrator wants to disable the isofs module on the server. Which of the following will allow the administrator to check if the module is currently in isofs use?
lsmodkernel modulesisofsmodule management - Question #289Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A user cannot write files to the directory. The junior Linux administrator runs the /home/user following commands: Which of the following BEST represents why the user cannot write...
filesysteminodesinode exhaustiondisk usage - Question #290System Management
Which of the following commands allow an administrator to determine if the current system is a virtual machine?
lspcivirtual machinehardware detectionPCI devices - Question #292Security
When logging in, an administrator must use a temporary six-digit code that is displayed on a key fob. Which of the following has been implemented?
HOTPOTPmulti-factor authenticationkey fob - Question #293Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A customer reports a Linux production server is randomly suffering degraded performance. The administrator verifies that the package is installed and enabled on the server. sysstat...
sarsysstatperformance monitoringhistorical data - Question #294System Management
A directory called /employee is shared with many employees in a company. New hardware was acquired, and the systems administrator needs to back up all files in /employee before the...
tarcompressionbackuparchiving - Question #295Server Side & Network Concepts
Which of the following is used on the client to boot a Linux system from a TFTP server?
PXETFTPnetwork bootbooting - Question #296System Management
A Linux administrator has downloaded and installed the httpd package. Which of the following commands will start the service immediately and allow the service to start on system bo...
systemctlchkconfigservice managementboot services - Question #297Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A Linux administrator is checking connectivity between two servers in separate subnets: Server A: 10.1.2.20 (source) Server B: 10.2.1.10 (destination on port 8080) The administrato...
netcatnmapport testingnetwork connectivity - Question #298Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A newly installed desktop is unable to connect to networked resources. The systems administrator executes various commands and reviews the following output snippets: Which of the f...
ip linknetwork interfaceinterface stateconnectivity - Question #299System Management
A Linux administrator has downloaded the network-tools-12.1-17.i386.rpm package for installation to a local system. The administrator issues the rpm -ivh nerwork-cools-12.1- 17.i38...
rpmpackage removalpackage managementrpm flags - Question #300Scripting, Containers and Automation
An administrator is using a configuration management tool to define a system's configuration. The defined configuration can be used to provision new systems, rebuild existing syste...
infrastructure as codeconfiguration managementautomationprovisioning - Question #301Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
When a technician plugs a USB flash drive into a server, the drive does not mount automatically. Which of the following commands will provide the information needed to mount the dr...
USBmanual mountdevice detectionstorage - Question #302Security
Which of the following techniques would BEST allow a client computer to connect to a server that is not normally accessible because the server's application port is blocked by a fi...
SSH port forwardingfirewall bypassTCP tunnelingnetwork access - Question #303Security
Which of the following default files are typically used to contain a list of public keys from other computers? (Choose two.)
SSH keysauthorized_keysknown_hostspublic key authentication - Question #304Scripting, Containers and Automation
The following tools help maintain consistency across different systems in an infrastructure: SUSE Manager Red Hat Satellite Spacewalk If a system file is changed, the tools roll ba...
configuration managementinfrastructure automationdrift remediationcompliance enforcement - Question #305System Management
A systems engineer scheduled an job that will reboot a critical server. A developer states the at processes will not complete for another three hours. Which of the following will h...
at commandatqjob schedulingtask management - Question #306Scripting, Containers and Automation
A systems administrator installed Git on a new workstation and wants to ensure all Git projects on this machine are initialized with the same username and email address. Which of t...
Git configurationglobal settingsversion controluser identity - Question #307Security
An administrator is trying to access a server in a cloud via SSH but is unable to log in. The administrator determines the company's IP address has been blocklisted on the server....
TCP wrappershosts.allowSSH access controlIP allowlisting - Question #308System Management
A user tries to log in to the Linux console and receives the following message: Your account has expired; Please contact your system administrator. Which of the following commands...
account expirationchagepassword aginguser management - Question #309System Management
Joe, a user, asks a systems administrator to schedule the daily execution of a custom script. Which of the following commands will allow the systems administrator to set up Joe's c...
croncrontabjob schedulingtask automation - Question #311Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
While installing third-party software, a technician wants to monitor logs on the system continuously. Which of the following commands should the technician issue to monitor the log...
tail -flog monitoringreal-time logssystem logs - Question #312Server Side & Network Concepts
An administrator completed the configuration of the in-addr.arpa zone files for an organization. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to verify the configur...
reverse DNSdig commandin-addr.arpaDNS verification - Question #313System Management
The command is used to: dracut
dracutinitramfsRAMDiskboot process - Question #314System Management
An administrator receives a USB drive and wants to make an exact copy of the disk before starting to work on it. One of the partitions on the USB drive was mounted as /dev/sdc1. Wh...
dd commanddisk imagingblock copyforensic copy - Question #315Server Side & Network Concepts
Which of the following server roles is MOST appropriate to route files to multifunction devices?
print serverserver rolesmultifunction devicesnetwork printing - Question #316System Management
A systems administrator wants to increase the existing drive space on a Linux server with a software RAID. After physically adding the new drive to the system, and then adding the...
software RAIDmdadmRAID5array expansion - Question #317Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
A systems administrator is attempting to access a server by SSH. The Linux administrator ensures that the SSH keys on the remote server were unable to connect. The following error...
SSH authenticationtroubleshooting SSHkey-based authaccess control - Question #318Security
A server administrator is given the hash of an account password that needs to be synchronized across all servers. Which of the following will allow the server administrator to conf...
shadow filepassword hashaccount synchronizationuser authentication - Question #319Server Side & Network Concepts
Which of the following server roles utilize a heartbeat/polling process? (Choose two.)
heartbeatpollingclusterload balancer - Question #320Server Side & Network Concepts
Which of the following is the MOST common method used to access Windows systems that are running in a cloud provider from a Linux system?
XRDPRDPremote desktopcross-platform access - Question #321Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
Users are reporting is inaccessible from the user VLAN, but there collaborate.company.com is no issue connecting to the system's web page from the DMZ. Given the following outputs...
VLAN connectivityservice bindingnetwork troubleshootingport configuration