RHCSA Practice Exam D
General Notes
Here are some tips to ensure your exam starts with a clean environment:
■■ You do not need any external servers or resources.
■■ Do not register or connect to any external repositories.
■■ Install a new VM according to the instructions in each practice exam.
■■ No sample solutions are provided for these practice exams. On the real
exam, you need to be able to verify the solutions for yourself as well.
■■ You should be able to complete each exam within two hours.
Install a RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 virtual machine that meets the following
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requirements:
■■ 2 GB of RAM
■■ 20 GB of disk space using default partitioning
■■ One additional 20-GB disk that does not have any partitions installed
■■ Server with GUI installation pattern
Create user student with password password, and user root with pass-
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word password.
Configure your system to automatically loop-mount the ISO of the
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installation disk on the directory /repo. Configure your system to remove
this loop-mounted ISO as the only repository that is used for installation.
Do not register your system with subscription-manager, and remove all
reference to external repositories that may already exist.
Create a 500-MiB partition on your second hard disk, and format it with
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the Ext4 file system. Mount it persistently on the directory /mydata, using
the label mydata.
Set default values for new users. A user should get a warning three days
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before expiration of the current password. Also, new passwords should
have a maximum lifetime of 120 days.
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Create users edwin and santos and make them members of the group
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livingopensource as a secondary group membership. Also, create users serene
and alex and make them members of the group operations as a secondary
group.
Create shared group directories /groups/livingopensource and /groups
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/operations, and make sure the groups meet the following requirements:
■■ Members of the group livingopensource have full access to their
directory.
■■ Members of the group operations have full access to their directory.
■■ Others has no access to any of the directories.
■■ Alex is general manager, so user alex has read access to all files in both
directories and has permissions to delete all files that are created in both
directories.
Create a 1-GiB swap partition and mount it persistently.
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Find all files that have the SUID permission set, and write the result to the file
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/root/suidfiles.
Create a 1-GiB LVM volume group. In this volume group, create a 512-MiB
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swap volume and mount it persistently.
Add a 10-GiB disk to your virtual machine. On this disk, create a Stratis pool
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and volume. Use the name stratisvol for the volume, and mount it persistently
on the directory /stratis.
Install a web server and configure it to listen on port 8080.
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Create a configuration that allows user edwin to run all administrative
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commands using sudo.
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