Red Hat Red Hat Certifications EX407 Questions & Answers

• Question 61:

  What switch needs to be added to prevent the following command from failing: ansible all -m user -a "name=jsmith state=present"

  A. -b

  B. -f

  C. -x

  D. -v

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 62:

  Which of the following are valid default locations for Ansible configuration? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  B. ${HOME}/.ansible.cfg

  C. ${ANSIBLE_CONFIG}

  D. /etc/ansible/config

  Correct Answer: ABC

  etc/ansible/ansible.cfg:This is where Ansible configuration is stored by default. ${HOME}/.ansible.cfg: Ansible will check this file for configuration.

• Question 63:

  Presuming the inventory is not dynamic, Ansible inventories can be specified using what two file formats?

  A. XML and JSON

  B. JSON and JAML

  C. YAML and INI

  D. XML and INI

  Correct Answer: C

  Ansible inventories may be provided in either YAML or INI format.

• Question 64:

  An Ansible inventory may contain which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. Variable declarations

  B. Groups

  C. Hosts

  D. Plays

  Correct Answer: ABC

  Groups of hosts (and even groups of groups) may be defined within an inventory. The primary purpose of an Ansible inventory is to maintain a list of hosts with which Ansible may interact.

• Question 65:

  Which module returns Ansible facts?

  A. The facts module

  B. It is a side effect of the ping module

  C. Facts are gathered when you run any module in ad-hoc mode

  D. The setup module

  Correct Answer: B

  The setup module gathers facts against target hosts and prints the facts to stdout.

• Question 66:

  What does the -a flag allow you to specify?

  A. Allows a user to specify arguments for a given module.

  B. Tells ansible to run in ad-hoc mode.

  C. The -a flag has no use in Ansible.

  D. Tells ansible to run against all hosts.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 67:

  Which of the following is a good use case for an ad-hoc command? (Choose all that apply.)

  A. Experimenting with an Ansible Module

  B. Installing the netcat utility on application servers

  C. Checking the free memory on a particular group of hosts

  D. Upgrading a custom 3-tier application stack

  Correct Answer: ABC

  Installing netcat is a single yum command that would be easily run across a group of common servers with an Ansible ad-hoc command. A single command run against several servers is a perfect use case for an ad-hoc command. Writing a playbook would be overkill.

• Question 68:

  Where is Ansible's inventory stored by default?

  A. .etc/ansible/hosts

  B. /home/ansible/inventory

  C. etc/ansible/inventory

  D. ${HOME}/inventory for the currently logged in user

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 69:

  In what format are ansible playbooks written?

  A. JSON

  B. YAML

  C. XML

  D. Ansible Proprietary Format (APF)

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 70:

  What special character is used to designate that you are passing a variable file to a play using the -e flag?

  A. The plugs sign: "+"

  B. There is no special character required.

  C. The at symbol: "@"

  D. The pipe: "|"

  Correct Answer: C

  The @ symbol will instruct Ansible to find the provided file and parse the file as a variable file.