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Item ID: IT000110

Which protocols below are typically associated with Email traffic?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

SNMP, HTTP, SMTP

LDAP, POP3, SMTP
IMAP4, POP3, SNMP
SMTP, SNMP, NTP
SMTP, POP3, IMAP4

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4. Item ID: IT000111
What do I need for a workstation to obtain an IP address automatically at boot time?
A. A DHCP server that relays IP information recursively until a suitable server is
reached.
B. A DHCP client and a LDAP server on the same network segment.
C. A DHCP client and a DHCP server on the same network segment.
D. A DHCP client and a LDAP server on any network segment.
E. A DHCP client that obtains IP information using broadcast.
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5. Item ID: IT000112
TCP uses the _________ to stabilish a connection.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

four ack handshake

two ports protocol
two flow window
three way handshake
two way handshake

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6. Item ID: IT000113

When looking at the OSI model, which layer is associated with IP addresses?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Application
Network
Data link
Address
Transport

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7. Item ID: IT000116
What is a MAC address used for?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Traffic routing between network segments.

Uniquely identify laptops from a particular manufacturer.
Allow to monitor access to private networks.
Connect different autonomous systems.
Physical identification of a network interface.

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8. Item ID: IT000150
What is RAID 1 typically used for?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Performance
Redundancy
Greater security
Lower storage cost
Less fragmentation

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9. Item ID: IT000157

How many IPs can be addressed with the 255.255.255.0 netmask?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

16
32
128
256
2

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11. Item ID: IT000117

Which HTTP response indicates that a requested object was not found on the web server.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

550
403
500
404
getFail

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12. Item ID: IT000118
What does HTTP server code 200 mean?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Resource was not found at the URL given.

Indicates that a resource has moved.
Client cannot access the requested resource.
The request has succeeded.
Server did not understand the request due to bad syntax.

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Typically a web server will return HTTP ________ error code when unable to complete
the request due to a server overload or maintenance.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

503 Service Unavailable

505 HTTP Version Not Supported
413 Request Entity Too Large
408 Request Timeout
600 Site in Maintenance

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14. Item ID: IT000120
What is the usual code that a SMTP server returns to tell you that the recipient email
address doesn't exist?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

400
250
550
452
501

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15. Item ID: IT000121
Which sentence is true about SMTP codes?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

SMTP codes are the same as HTTP codes.

Codes that start with 4xx indicate a temporary problem.
No specific codes are returned when emails are successfully delivered.
4040 is a valid syntax for a SMTP code.
Each email server implements their own SMTP codes.

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What are the port numbers normally associated with SMTP and DNS respectively?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

23 and 500.
25 and DNS does not require a specific port.
443 and 23.
8080 and 53.
25 and 53.

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17. Item ID: IT000123
A server that responds LDAP requests will typically listen on port:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

389
53
8080
23
110

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18. Item ID: IT000124
Usually port _______ is required for Telnet and port ________ is used for SSH.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

53 and 22.
80 and 23.
23 and 22.
110 and 25.
23 and 88.

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19. Item ID: IT000125

What is true about ports 80 and 443? Select all that apply.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

There are no known associations between both ports.

They are both used for HTTP traffic.
They refer to file transfer.
Port 443 is used for encrypted traffic.
Traffic sent to these ports cannot be filtered by firewalls.

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20. Item ID: IT000126
What ports 80 and 53 are typically used for?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

SMTP and LDAP.

HTTP and DNS.
HTTPS and BGP.
HTTP and SNMP.
LDAP and DNS.

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21. Item ID: IT000127
What is a Quad A DNS record?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

An ipv4 DNS record

4 A records contained in a Master record
A DNS record used in conjunction with MX
An ipv6 DNS record
A 32-bit type of record

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22. Item ID: IT000128

In DNS what is a CNAME record?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

The third DNS search priority just after BNAME

4 A records contained in a Master record
It maps hostnames to a specific IP address
An alias for another domain name
A 32-bit type of record

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23. Item ID: IT000130
Why is it important to have a Reverse DNS record for a Mail Server?
A. To validate the mail server with other hosts on the Internet, ensuring that emails
are not marked as spam
B. To ensure that the mail server can have its host name resolved to an IP address
C. To ensure that the mail server is able to resolve other mail server host names
D. To ensure that the MAC address of the server is listed on the internet against its IP
address
E. To prevent the mail server from being used as a open relay
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24. Item ID: IT000131
Which record can tell the mail server of a particular domain?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

CNAME
MNAME
PTR
MS
MX

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25. Item ID: IT000132

Observe the DNS record below. Select all correct affirmatives.
@ IN SOA server1.mydomain.com. postmaster.mydomain.com. (
16
3600
600
86400
3600 )
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

This is a Start of Authority record

The MX server for the domain is server1.mydomain.com
The contact email for the domain is postmaster@mydomain.com
The @ signal is in the wrong place
The serial number of the record is 16
There is no need for a dot (.) after nameserver.mydomain.com

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26. Item ID: IT000133
In a typicall Linux system, what is the minimum runlevel for networking?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Runlevel 6
Execute runlevels 1 and 2 in sequence
Runlevel 3
A runlevel is not necessary for network access
Net runlevel

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27. Item ID: IT000134
You are running a Linux server and notice that you cannot write new files, regardless of their size. You run df
-h and see that there are 48GB free disk space. What is the possible cause of this problem?

A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

The df -h command is inaccurate and you may have run out of free disk space
You have run out of available inodes
You have run out of writable memory
The paging system is not configured properly
The file system is not formatted properly

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28. Item ID: IT000135

In a typical Linux distribution, the ____ directory contains binaries and essential utilities,
the ____ directory contains configuration files, the ____ stores files that change often and
system logs.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

/bin, /etc, /var

/bin, /config, /var
/lib, /etc, /opt
/bin, /config, /log
/boot, /etc, /tmp

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29. Item ID: IT000136
What is true about the /proc directory? Select all that apply.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

It is a physical storage for system logs

Contains files that represent system processes
Can be used to determine the system free memory
Contains user home directories and files
Allows to change kernel parameters at runtime
Can be used to compile new libraries

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30. Item ID: IT000137
A network interface configuration file that contains DEVICE=eth0:0 normally refers to:

A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

Multiple network interfaces on the same server

An interface with no additional routes
More than one default route for the system
A /18 netmask on that device
Multiple IP addresses in use on the same interface

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31. Item ID: IT000139

Which command can be used to list ports that processes are listening to?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

ifconfig
ipconfig
netstat
init
route

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32. Item ID: IT000140
Describe what the "sudo init 6" command does and what alternative commands you could
use:
Reboot Linux server to same run level as defined in /etc/inittab
Shutdown r now
reboot
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33. Item ID: IT000141

Describe what the /etc/shadow file is used for:
It contains encrypted password database of local Linux users.
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34. Item ID: IT000142
How would you resolve this error?
Permissions 0440 for 'server19.pem' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT
accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: server19.pem
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35. Item ID: IT000151
What is the result of the following crontab entry?
0 22 * * 1-5
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

$HOME/bin/job.sh >$HOME/tmp/out.txt 2>&1

Runs job.sh at 10pm on weekdays then logs the output and errors to out.txt
Runs job.sh at 10pm on the first 5 days of the month
At 10pm runs job.sh up to 5 times then logs output to out.txt
Runs job.sh up to 22 times or until output is between 1 and 5
Runs job.sh on the 22nd of each month provided it is a weekday

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