A networked has been crashing intermittently. A Linux administrator would like to write a shell script that will attempt to ping the server and email an alert if the server fails to respond. The script will later be scheduled via cron job.
Which of the following scripts would BEST accomplish this task?

• A.Option B
• B.Option D
• C.Option C
• D.Option A

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A systems administrator wants to know the current status of a series of ddjobs that were started in the background three hours ago.
Which of the following commands will achieve this task?

• A.sudo killall -HUP dd
• B.sudo killall dd
• C.sudo killall -TERM dd
• D.sudo killall -USR1 dd

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Which of the following is the BEST reason for not storing database files in the /var directory?

• A.The number of files in /var is limited by the available inodes.
• B.If log files fill up /var, it might corrupt the database.
• C.Files in /var do not have strict file permissions.
• D.The /var filesystem is not fast enough for database files.

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An engineer is working on a production application deployment that requires changing a web application property file called server.property that is managed by the Git version control system. A cloned copy of the remote repository in which the server.property file exists is on the local desktop computer. The engineer makes appropriate changes to the files, saves it as server.property, and executes git commit -m "changed the property file" server.property. Which of the following commands did the engineer fail to perform?

• A.git merge server.property
• B.git add server.property
• C.git push server.property
• D.git init server.property

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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 mounted with user quota option.
Which of the following is the correct order of steps the administrator should follow to resolve this error?

• A.1. Verify if /home has quotas enabled in /etc/fstaband, if not, enable it.
  2. Remount /home.
  3. Create the quota database files and generate the disk usage table.
  4. Assign user quota policies.
• B.1. Create the quota database files and generate the disk usage table.
  2. Verify if /home has quotas enabled in /etc/fstaband, if not, enable it.
  3. Remount /home.
  4. Assign user quota policies.
• C.1. Verify if /homehas quotas enabled in /etc/fstaband, if not, enable it.
  2. Create the quota database files and generate the disk usage table.
  3. Remount /home.
  4. Assign user quota policies.
• D.1. Assign user quota policies.
  2. Verify if /home has quotas enabled in /etc/fstaband, if not, enable it.
  3. Create the quota database files and generate the disk usage table.
  4. Remount /home.

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