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A Linux administrator is scheduling a system job that runs a script to check available disk space every hour. The Linux administrator does not want users to be able to start the job. Given the follo

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A Linux administrator wants to find out whether files from the wget package have been altered since they were installed. Which of the following commands will provide the correct information?

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A Linux engineer set up two local DNS servers (10.10.10.10 and 10.10.10.20) and was testing email connectivity to the local mail server using the mail command on a local machine when the following e

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A Linux engineer has been notified about the possible deletion of logs from the file /opt/app/logs. The engineer needs to ensure the log file can only be written into without removing previous entr

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A systems administrator needs to check if the service systemd-resolved.service is running without any errors. Which of the following commands will show this information?

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Junior system administrator had trouble installing and running an Apache web server on a Linux server. You have been tasked with installing the Apache web server on the Linux server and resolving th

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A Linux administrator needs to remove software from the server. Which of the following RPM options should be used?

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A Linux system fails to start and delivers the following error message: Which of the following commands can be used to address this issue?

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Based on an organization's new cybersecurity policies, an administrator has been instructed to ensure that, by default, all new users and groups that are created fall within the specified values bel

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A Linux administrator is trying to remove the ACL from the file /home/user/dat a. txt but receives the following error message: Given the following analysis: Which of the following is causing

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A Linux administrator needs to analyze a failing application that is running inside a container. Which of the following commands allows the Linux administrator to enter the running container and analyze the logs that are stored inside?

A Linux system fails to start and delivers the following error message: Which of the following commands can be used to address this issue?

A Linux administrator is scheduling a system job that runs a script to check available disk space every hour. The Linux administrator does not want users to be able to start the job. Given the following: The Linux administrator attempts to start the timer service but receives the following error message: Which of the following is MOST likely the reason the timer will not start?

Question 253 - XK0-005 discussion

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:

$ cat /etc/passwd

root:x: 0:0: :/home/root: /bin/bash

lee: x: 500: 500: :/home/lee:/bin/tcsh

mallory:x: 501:501: :/root:/bin/bash

eve:x: 502: 502: /home/eve:/bin/nologin

carl:x:0:503: :/home/carl:/bin/sh

bob:x: 504: 504: : /home/bob:/bin/ksh

alice:x: 505:505: :/home/alice:/bin/rsh

$ cat /etc/sudoers

Cmnd_Alias SHELLS = /bin/tcsh, /bin/sh, /bin/bash

Cmnd_Alias SYSADMIN = /usr/sbin/tcpdump

ALL = (ALL) ALL

ALL = NOPASSWD: SYSADMIN

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? (Select two).