XK0-005 Exam Questions

A site reliability engineer updated the latest configuration management scripts and committed them to a workstream called either test or patch. A Linux administrator wants to ensur...

A systems administrator wants to disable the Linux Kernel WatchDog Timer Driver for security purposes. Which of the following will accomplish this task?

In which of the following Linux GUI environments would the Konsole application MOST likely be found?

A new user has been added to a Linux machine. Which of the following directories would contain the user's default files?

An issue was discovered on a testing branch of a Git repository. A file was inadvertently modified and needs to be reverted to the master branch version. Which of the following is...

A junior systems administrator has generated a PKI certificate for SSH sessions. The administrator would like to configure authentication without passwords to remote systems. Which...

A junior systems administrator is scanning archive.tar files with an antivirus scanner. The administrator is given the following tasks: - List all files that are in the archive.tar...

A Linux systems administrator is implementing Source Code Management for the web application server configuration files located in /etc/httpd/. Which of the following steps should...

A junior systems administrator is tasked with providing the network_administrators group the ability to perform sudo without prompting for a password. Which of the following steps...

A storage administrator in a virtualized environment has been told by a user that there is no space left on the volume to which the user can write. However, a check reveals that th...

A systems administrator has scheduled a system update for a server. The update includes a resynchronization of the package database and updates to the current packages and the syst...

An administrator receives the following message on a remote server: Cannot open display. Which of the following should the administrator have used to log in to the server? xrdp -h...

An administrator wants to know the amount of memory installed on a Linux server. Which of the following commands can be used to accomplish this task?

A Linux administrator is helping the security team troubleshoot an SELinux policy violation incident. Which of the following would be the BEST utility command to display SELinux vi...

Users in the payroll department are not configured to use DNS due to security concerns. The users ask the junior Linux administrator to configure their workstations to access the p...

A systems administrator downloads an application's source files, compiles the application, and installs it per the application's installation instructions. When trying to run the a...

A Linux administrator tries to ping a hostname in a network but receives the message: hostname not . The administrator is sure the name exists on the network and wants to verify if...

Users are unable to connect to a server using HTTPS. The administrator runs the following command on the remote system: Then, the administrator runs the following command from a lo...

A Linux administrator is restoring the SELinux contexts on an entire system. Which of the following commands is the BEST option to complete this task?

An administrator has a CSV file named hosts.csv. The contents of hosts.csv include the following: 192.168.2.57,lnx1prd.example.com,Linux,Production 192.168.2.58,lnx2prd.example.com...

An administrator is installing a Linux VM on a personal hypervisor. The administrator wants to have the VM's IP address on the same network as the hypervisor host so the VM has the...

A server, which is used to collect data about the network and datacenter environment via SNMP, is running out of space. Which of the following should the server administrator imple...

In which of the following directories is the vmlinuz file located?

A systems administrator is implementing disk quotas on /home. During the process, the administrator receives the following error: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not...

A Linux administrator needs to remove a USB drive from a system. The unmount command fails, stating the device is busy. Which of the following commands will show the reason for thi...

A Linux systems administrator is troubleshooting an issue with the /home directory running out of space. The administrator needs to determine which /home directories are using the...

An administrator needs a bootable USB for installing a new Linux machine. The administrator downloaded the image file and named it as Linux_OS.iso in the /tmp directory. Which of t...

A junior Linux administrator needs to create 16 empty files quickly that will contain sales information for each quarter for the past four years. Which of the following commands wi...

A user issues the following command: ls -l /var/log | egrep -e '^d[rwx]{3}.*[rw-]{3}.*' The list of files in the system is shown below: Which of the following results matches the c...

Which of the following BEST describes build automation?

A Linux administrator needs to configure a new firewall without an existing ACL to allow incoming web traffic. The firewall must log the allowed network traffic. Which of the follo...

Which of the following boot methods can a Linux administrator use to boot a Linux server remotely via a network interface card instead of a local disk?

A user requested a USB serial device to be added to a desktop computer. The device has built-in kernel driver support. The administrator tested the device installation and access,...

A system ran out of storage space on a particular mount and will not allow anything to be written to disk. The df command shows there are 6GB free on the mount, and there is no ino...

A Linux administrator suspects unauthorized users are attempting to log in to the Linux server remotely. Which of the following should the administrator check FIRST?

A junior systems administrator is diagnosing an issue with latency. The administrator issues the Given this scenario and the output, which of the following should be reported to th...

A user receives an access_denied error when trying to modify a file, even though the file permissions are set to 777. Which of the following commands should be used to view additio...

A Linux administrator receives a call from the network operations team that one of the database applications is down on a Linux server. The Linux server is configured with RAID 1 f...

A systems administrator needs to connect to a remote Linux machine to run system updates from within a graphical interface. Which of the following should the administrator use?

When requesting SSH access to a remote system, a user accidentally emailed the id_rsa key to the administrator. Which of the following should the user do NEXT?

An administrator receives an alarm because the disk of one of the sewers is running out of space. Which of the following commands can be used to see the space that each partition i...

A Linux team is using Git to version a set of custom scripts. A team member has made an update to a script and published the changes to the repository. Which of the following is th...

A junior systems administrator needs to make a packet capture file that will only capture HTTP protocol data to a file called test.pcap. Which of the following commands would allow...

A Linux administrator needs to add some files in a directory to the Git repository but must exclude some local .tmp files that are occasionally created by the scripts. Which of the...

A systems administrator is receiving errors while trying to install a popular virtualization software. The software specifications state the processor needs to support virtualizati...

Which of the following are classified as Linux GUI servers? (Choose two.)

A Linux administrator tried to copy files to a remote server but received an error message indicating a lack of free space on the disk. The administrator issued a df command and ve...

A user wants to alias dir so it always returns the contents of the ls -la command. However, the user has to reset the alias with every login. Which of the following is the BEST act...

A systems administrator needs to run the yum update command two hours after employees log off and leave for the day on Friday. Which of the following is the BEST command to complet...

The Apache web server was recently installed on a Debian/Ubuntu server. The web server fails and a review of log messages on another partition reveals the installation was not comp...