RH202 RHCT (Redhat Certified Technician) RH202 Questions and Answers

Make a swap partition having 100MB. Make Automatically Usable at System Boot Time.

Answer and Explanation:

1.Use fdisk /dev/hda  To create new partition.

• Type nFor New partition
• It will ask for Logical or Primary Partitions. Press l for logical.
• It will ask for the Starting Cylinder: Use the Default by pressing Enter Key.
• Type the Size: +100MYou can Specify either Last cylinder of Size here.
• Press P to verify the partitions lists and remember the partitions name. Default System ID is 83 that means Linux Native.
• Type t to change the System ID of partition.
• Type Partition Number
• Type 82 that means Linux Swap.
• Press w to write on partitions table.
• Either Reboot or use partprobe command.
• mkswap /dev/hda?To create Swap File system on partition.
• swapon /dev/hda?To enable the Swap space from partition.
• free –mVerify Either Swap is enabled or not.
• vi /etc/fstab

/dev/hda? swapswapdefaults 0 0

• Reboot the System and verify that swap is automatically enabled or not.

Create the partition having 100MB size and mount it on /mnt/neo

Answer and Explanation:

• Use fdisk /dev/hdaTo create new partition.
• Type nFor New partitions
• It will ask for Logical or Primary Partitions. Press l for logical.
• It will ask for the Starting Cylinder: Use the Default by pressing Enter Key.
• Type the Size: +100MYou can Specify either Last cylinder of Size here.
• Press P to verify the partitions lists and remember the partitions name.
• Press w to write on partitions table.
• Either Reboot or use partprobe command.
• Use mkfs –t ext3 /dev/hda? Where ? is your partition number
• Or
• mke2fs –j /dev/hda? To create ext3 filesystem.
• mkdir /mnt/neo
• vi /etc/fstab
• Write:
• /dev/hda?/mnt/neoext3defaults1 2
• Verify by mounting on current Sessions also:
• mount /dev/hda? /mnt/neo

You are a System administrator. Using Log files very easy to monitor the system. Now there are 50 servers running as Mail, Web, Proxy, DNS services etc. You want to centralize the logs from all servers into on LOG Server. How will you configure the LOG Server to accept logs from remote host ?

Answer and Explanation:

By Default system accept the logs only generated from local host. To accept the Log from other host configure:

• vi /etc/sysconfig/syslog

SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0 -r"

Where

-m 0 disables 'MARK' messages.

-r enables logging from remote machines

-x disables DNS lookups on messages recieved with -r

• service syslog restart

You are new System Administrator and from now you are going to handle the system and your main task is Network monitoring, Backup and Restore. But you don’t know the root password. Change the root password to redhat and login in default Runlevel.

Answer and Explanation:

When you Boot the System, it starts on default Runlevel specified in /etc/inittab:

Id:?:initdefault:

When System Successfully boot, it will ask for username and password. But you don’t know the root’s password. To change the root password you need to boot the system into single user mode. You can pass the kernel arguments from the boot loader.

• Restart the System.
• You will get the boot loader GRUB screen.
• Press a and type 1 or s for single mode

ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb queit s

• System will boot on Single User mode.
• Use passwd command to change.
• Press ctrl+d

Your System is configured in 192.168.0.0/24 Network and your nameserver is 192.168.0.254. Make successfully resolve to server1.example.com.

Answer and Explanation:

Very Easy question, nameserver is specified in question,

1.vi /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.0.254

2.host server1.example.com

Change the root Password to redtophat

Answer and Explanation:

• Boot the system in Single user mode
• Use the passwd command

Create the user named eric and deny to interactive login.

Answer and Explanation:

• useradd eric
• passwd eric
• vi /etc/passwd
• eric:x:505:505::/home/eric:/sbin/nologin

Which shell or program should start at login time is specified in /etc/passwd file. By default Redhat Enterprise Linux assigns the /bin/bash shell to the users. To deny the interactive login, you should write /sbin/nologin or /bin/false instead of login shell.

Who ever creates the files/directories on /data group owner should be automatically should be the same group owner of /data.

Answer and Explanation:

1.chmod g+s /data

2.Verify using: ls -ld /data

Permission should be like:

drwxrws--- 2 root sysadmin 4096 Mar 16 18:08 /data

If SGID bit is set on directory then who every users creates the files on directory group owner automatically the owner of parent directory.

To set the SGID bit: chmod g+s directory

To Remove the SGID bit: chmod g-s directory

Make on /data that only the user owner and group owner member can fully access.

Answer and Explanation:

1.chmod 770 /data

2.Verify using : ls –ld /data

Preview should be like:

drwxrwx--- 2 root sysadmin 4096 Mar 16 18:08 /data

To change the permission on directory we use the chmod command. According to the question that only the owner user (root) and group member (sysadmin) can fully access the directory so: chmod 770 /data

You are working as a System Administrator at Certpaper. Your Linux Server crashed and you lost every data. But you had taken the full backup of user’s home directory and other System Files on /dev/st0, how will you restore from that device?

Answer and Explanation:

1. Go to on that directory where you want to restore.

2. restore –rf /dev/st0

To restore from backup we use the restore command. Here backup will restore from /dev/st0 on current Directory.

There is a HTTP server 192.168.0.254 and all required packages are dumped in /var/www/html/rhel4 of that server. Install the Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 by creating following partitions:

/1000

/boot200

/home1000

/var1000

/usr4000

swap2X256 (RAM SIZE)

Answer and Explanation:

Note: Examiner will provide you the Installation startup CD. And here mentioned size may vary see on the exam paper.

1.Insert the CD on CD-ROM and start the system.

2.In Boot: Prompt type linux askmethod

3. It will display the Language, keyboard selection.

4. It will ask you for the installation method.

5. Select the HTTP from the list

6. It will ask the IP Address, Net mask, Gateway and Name Server. Select Use

Dynamic IP Configuration: because DHCP Server will be configured in your exam lab.

7. It will ask for the Web site name and Redhat Enterprise Linux Directory.

Specify the HTTP Server: 192.168.0.254

Directory: rhel4  Because Default Directory for http is /var/www/html

8. After Connecting to the HTTP Server Installation start. Go upto the partition screen by selecting the different Options.

9. Create the partition According to the Question because Size and what-what partition should you create at installation time is specified in your question

10. Then select the MBR Options, time zone and go upto package selections.

It is another Most Important Time of installation. Due to the time limit, you should be

care about the installation packages. At Exam time you these packages are enough.

X-Window System

GNOME Desktop

(these two packages are generally not required)

Administration Tools.

System Tools

Windows File Server

FTP Servers

Mail Servers

Web Servers

Network Servers

Editors

Text Based Internet

Server Configuration Tools

Printing Supports

When installation will complete, your system will reboot. Jump for another Question.

Install the Cron Schedule for david user to display “Hello” on daily 5:30.

Answer and Explanation:

• Login as a root user
• cat >schedule.txt

30 05 * * * /bin/echo “Hello”

3. crontab –u david schedule.txt

4. service crond restart

The cron system is essentially a smart alarm clock. When the alarm sounds, Linux runs the commands of your choice automatically. You can set the alarm clock to run at all sorts of regular time intervals. Alternatively, the at system allows you to run the command of your choice once, at a specified time in the future.

Red Hat configured the cron daemon, crond. By default, it checks a series of directories for jobs to run, every minute of every hour of every day. The crond checks the /var/spool/cron directory for jobs by user. It also checks for scheduled jobs for the computer under /etc/crontab and in the /etc/cron.d directory.

Here is the format of a line in crontab. Each of these columns is explained in more detail:

#minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, command

*        *     *             *      *            command

Entries in a crontab Command Line

Field

Value

Minute

0-59

Hour

Based on a 24-hour clock; for example, 23 = 11 p.m.

Day of month

1-31

Month

1-12, or jan, feb, mar, etc.

Day of week

0-7; where 0 and 7 are both Sunday; or sun, mon, tue, etc.

Command

The command you want to run

Create the group named sysadmin.

Answer and Explanation:

1.groupadd sysadmin

groupadd command is used to create the group and all group information is stored in /etc/group file.

Create the group named sysusers.

Answer and Explanation:

1.groupadd sysusers

groupadd command is used to create the group and all group information is stored in /etc/group file.

Install the Redhat Linux RHEL 5 through NFS. Where your Server is server1.example.com having IP 192.168.0.254 and shared /var/ftp/pub. The size of the partitions are listed below:

/1048

/home1028

/boot 512

/var 1028

/usr2048

Swap->1.5 of RAM Size

/dataconfigure the RAID Level 0 of remaining all free space.

After completing the installation through NFS solve the following questions. There are two networks 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24. As well as there are two domains example.com on 192.168.0.0/24 network and cracker.org on 192.168.1.0/24 network. Your system is based on example.com domain.

Answer and Explanation:

1. Insert the CD on CD-ROM and start the system.

2. In Boot: Prompt type linux askmethod

3. It will display the language, keyboard selection.

4. It will ask you for the installation method.

5. Select the NFS Image from the list

6. It will ask the IP Address, Net mask, Gateway and Name Server. Select Use

Dynamic IP Configuration: because DHCP Server will be configured in your exam lab.

7. It will ask for the NFS Server Name and Redhat Enterprise Linux Directory.

Specify the NFS Server: 192.168.0.254

Directory: /var/ftp/pub

8. After Connecting to the NFS Server Installation start in GUI. Go up to the partition screen by selecting the different Options.

9. Create the partition According to the Question because Size and what-what partition should you create at installation time is specified in your question

10.Create the two RAID partitions having equal size of remaining all free space.

11.Click on RAID button

12.Type mount point /data

13.Select RAID Level 0

14.Click on ok

15. Then select the MBR Options, time zone and go upto package selections.

It is another Most Important Time of installation. Due to the time limit, you should care about the installation packages. At Exam time you these packages are enough.

X-Window System

GNOME Desktop

(these two packages are generally not required)

Administration Tools.

System Tools

Windows File Server

FTP Servers

Mail Servers

Web Servers

Network Servers

Editors

Text Based Internet

Server Configuration Tools

Printing Supports

When installation will complete, your system will reboot. Jump for another Question.

Create the directory /data and group owner should be the sysadmin group.

Answer and Explanation:

1.chgrp sysadmin /data

2.Verify using ls -ld /data command. You should get like

drwxr-x--- 2 root sysadmin 4096 Mar 16 17:59 /data

chgrp command is used to change the group ownership of particular files or directory.

Another way you can use the chown command.

chown root:sysadmin /data

Give Full Permission to owner user and owner group member but no permission to others on /data.

Answer and Explanation:

We can change the permission of file/directory either character symbol method or numeric method.

Permission:

r-Read

w-Write

x-Execute

Permission Category

u- Owner User

g- Owner Group

o- Others

Operators

+  Add the Permissions

-  Remove the Permissions

=  Assigns the Permissions

Numeric Method:

4Read

2 Write

1Execute

Total: 7, total for owner user, owner group member and for others : 777

• chmod u+rwx /data
• chmod g+rwx /data
• chmod o-rwx /data

or

chmod 770 /data

• Verify the /data : ls –ld /data
• You will get drwxrwx---

Install the Redhat Linux RHEL 5 through NFS. Where your Server is server1.example.com having IP 172.24.254.254 and shared /var/ftp/pub. The size of the partitions are listed below:

/1048

/home1028

/boot 512

/var 1028

/usr2048

Swap->1.5 of RAM Size

/dataconfigure the RAID Level 0 of remaining all free space.

After completing the installation through NFS solve the following questions. There are two networks 172.24.0.0/16 and 172.25.0.0/16. As well as there are two domains example.com on 172.24.0.0/16 network and cracker.org on 172.25.0.0/16 network. Your system is based on example.com domain. SELinux should be in enforcing mode.

Answer and Explanation:

1. Insert the CD on CD-ROM and start the system.

2. In Boot: Prompt type linux askmethod

3. It will display the language, keyboard selection.

4. It will ask you for the installation method.

5. Select the NFS Image from the list

6. It will ask the IP Address, Net mask, Gateway and Name Server. Select Use

Dynamic IP Configuration: because DHCP Server will be configured in your exam lab.

7. It will ask for the NFS Server Name and Redhat Enterprise Linux Directory.

Specify the NFS Server: 172.24.254.254

Directory: /var/ftp/pub

8. After Connecting to the NFS Server Installation start in GUI. Go up to the partition screen by selecting the different Options.

9. Create the partition According to the Question because Size and what-what partition should you create at installation time is specified in your question

10.Create the two RAID partitions having equal size of remaining all free space.

11.Click on RAID button

12.Type mount point /data

13.Select RAID Level 0

14.Click on ok

15. Then select the MBR Options, time zone and go upto package selections.

It is another Most Important Time of installation. Due to the time limit, you should care about the installation packages. At Exam time you these packages are enough.

X-Window System

GNOME Desktop

(these two packages are generally not required)

Administration Tools.

System Tools

Windows File Server

FTP Servers

Mail Servers

Web Servers

Network Servers

Editors

Text Based Internet

Server Configuration Tools

Printing Supports

When installation will complete, your system will reboot. Jump for another Question.