EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following best describes the DevOps methodology of Continuous Delivery?

Question2: Which of the following is a commonly used open source software used to connect to SSL/TLS VPN services?

Question3: Encryption that uses both a private key and public key is known as what?

Question4: A supervisor instructs an IT associate to encrypt all data on a particular partition on a Linux database host. What open source technology would be used to encrypt the data?

Question5: What does IaaS stand for?

Question6: An IT associate is researching technology options to use at a company. The company's application requires a Linux server, features a small memory footprint, and runs mostly web services and a few back-end applications. Which of the following would allow for the most efficient use of system resources and fast startup speeds?

Question7: Which port is normally required to be open for secure remote interactive shell access to Linux systems?

Question8: Which of the following is a solution to providing Internet access to a private network using only a single public IPv4 address?

Question9: Which of the following best describes the technical term "Elasticity"?

Question10: After installing the package 'postfix', what command would you run in order to ensure that Postfix is started on reboot?

Question11: Which port is normally required to be open for secure remote interactive shell access to Linux systems?

Question12: Which option will cause ls to display hidden files and folders?

Question13: In which file are system and user account passwords stored?

Question14: What command is used to set or change permission attributes of files (such as read, write, execute)?

Question15: Which of the following commands can be used to lock a user's account so that they cannot log into a Linux server without removing any files, folders, or data?

Question16: Which of the following Git commands creates a new, empty Git repository?

Question17: What is an appropriate cost consideration when implementing serverless functions in the cloud?

Question18: Which of the following technologies is supported by the majority of cloud providers in order to support the orchestration of containerized applications?

Question19: Which of the following standard log files would provide the most detailed information on why a recently upgraded custom kernel failed to boot?

Question20: An IT associate is responsible for protecting and maintaining the integrity of a set of configuration files. What command could be used to prevent users from modifying these files?

Question21: An IT associate has a web application running on multiple servers, configured to scale based on CPU usage. The current configuration has a minimum size of 1 and a maximum size of 5 servers, designed to launch and spread the instances across 3 Availability Zones (AZ). During a low utilization period, an entire AZ went down, and the application experienced downtime. What can the IT associate do to increase the availability of the application?

Question22: What command is used to view new content as it is written to a log file?

Question23: Which of the following best describes serverless computing?

Question24: By default, the Linux operating system uses what access control to manage files/users?

Question25: An IT associate is creating a business case to adopt a DevOps approach in an organization. Which of the following is a benefit of DevOps to include in the business case?

Question26: Which of the following commands can be used to lock a user's account so that they cannot log into a Linux server without removing any files, folders, or data?

Question27: Which measures can be taken to prevent unauthorized access to cloud instances and services?

Question28: Which of the following would be the most appropriate use-case for a Function as a Service (FaaS) implementation?