XK0-005 — questions

A Linux administrator provisioned a new web server with custom administrative permissions for certain users. The administrator receives a report that user1 is unable to restart the Apache web service on this server. The administrator reviews the following output: Which of the following would most likely resolve the issue while maintaining a least privilege security model?

Which of the following would significantly help to reduce data loss if more than one drive fails at the same time?

A systems administrator receives reports that several virtual machines in a host are responding slower than expected. Upon further investigation, the administrator obtains the following output from one of the affected systems: Which of the following best explains the reported issue?

A user is unable to remotely log on to a server using the server name server1 and port 22. The Linux engineer troubleshoots the issue and gathers the following information: Which of the following is most likely causing the issue?

A systems administrator needs to extend the logical volume /dev/mapper/linux-root to use all available space in its volume group. The filesystem should be extended as well. Which of the following commands will allow the administrator to achieve this goal?

A systems administrator is investigating a service that is not starting up. Given the following information: Which of the following systemd commands should the administrator use in order to obtain more details about the failing service?

A DevOps engineer wants to allow the same Kubernetes container configurations to be deployed in development, testing, and production environments. A key requirement is that the containers should be configured so that developers do not have to statically configure custom, environment-specific locations. Which of the following should the engineer use to meet this requirement?

After starting an Apache web server, the administrator receives the following error: Which of the following commands should the administrator use to further troubleshoot this issue?

Which of the following commands should a technician use to create an administrative account for the username Joe?

Due to performance issues on a server, a Linux administrator needs to terminate an unresponsive process. Which of the following commands should the administrator use to terminate the process immediately without waiting for a graceful shutdown?

A Linux administrator generated a list of users who have root-level command-line access to the Linux server to meet an audit requirement. The administrator analyzes the following /etc/passwd and /etc/sudoers files: Which of the following users, in addition to the root user, should be listed in the audit report as having root-level command-line access? (Choose two.)

The group named support is unable to make changes to the config file. An administrator is reviewing the permissions and sees the following: $ ls -l config -rw-rw----. 1 root app 4682 02-15 11:25 config Which of the following should the administrator execute in order to give the support group access to modify the file while preserving the current ownership?

Which of the following actions are considered good security practices when hardening a Linux server? (Choose two.)

A Linux user is trying to execute commands with sudo but is receiving the following error: $ sudo visudo >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 28 <<< sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 28 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting The following output is provided: # grep root /etc/shadow root:*LOCK*:14600:::::: Which of the following actions will resolve this issue?

Users are experiencing high latency when accessing a web application served by a Linux machine. A systems administrator checks the network interface counters and sees the following: Which of the following is the most probable cause of the observed latency?

A Linux administrator needs to create a symlink for /usr/local/bin/app-a, which was installed in /usr/local/share/app-a. Which of the following commands should the administrator use?

The applications team is reporting issues when trying to access the web service hosted in a Linux system. The Linux systems administrator is reviewing the following outputs: Output 1: Output 2: Which of the following statements best describe the root cause? (Choose two.)

Which of the following specifications is used to perform disk encryption in a Linux system?

A junior developer is unable to access an application server and receives the following output: [root@server1 ~]# ssh dev2@172.16.25.126 dev2@172.16.25.126's password: Permission denied, please try again. dev2@172.16.25.126's password: Permission denied, please try again. dev2@172.16.25.126's password: Account locked due to 4 failed logins Account locked due to 5 failed logins Last login: Mon Apr 22 21:21:06 2021 from 172.16.16.52 The systems administrator investigates the issue and receives the following output: [root@server1 ~]# pam_tally2 --user=dev2 Login Failures Latest failure From dev2 5 04/22/21 21:22:37 172.16.16.52 Which of the following commands will help unlock the account?

A systems technician is configuring an application server to accept packets from a trusted source with the IP address 192.168.10.22. Which of the following commands will allow communication between the two servers?