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RHCE test is too outdated to be of any real use

Fist off: If you're still running RHL 7 it's time to upgrade. 5 years is plenty long enough to come up with a migration strategy.

On to the questions:

  • Where is the default configuration file for XFree86v4 stored?
    Does it matter? RedHat has used Xorg rather than XFree86 for at least 3 years

  • You do not know which NIC you have in your workstation. You only know that it is a PCI NIC. Which command(s) can help you find out more.
    While this has lspci (which is correct), it also states to use ioscan which hasn't been included with RedHat for quite some time

  • Your /etc/X11/XF86Config file contains the ServerLayout stanza. This means that you are using XFree86 version.
    This is outdated, RedHat doesn't use XFree86 any more

  • You wish to limit access to the printing, only to some hosts. This can be set up in:
    /etc/cups/cupsd.conf isn't even an option, and RedHat has been using cups for how long now?

  • ----------- is a traffic monitoring program.
    trafshow is in the same category as ioscan

  • the test wrote:
    Your workstation has a problem. It hangs when you start it reaches LILO-
    This means that

    1. The system is corrupt
    2. The file descriptor is corrupt
    3. The filesystem is corrupt
    4. All of the above
    CorrectWrong!
    Correct answer(s): 2
    Explanation: If the system hangs after reaching LIL-, it means that the file descriptor is corrupt.

    The question asked about hanging at LILO, not LIL-. Aside from this, RedHat doesn't use Lilo anymore either. How about some Grub questions?

  • Which of the following is the default main tripwire configuration file in a Red Hat 7.x server?
    A better question would be "what is the main config file in a modern tripwire installation". If you're not going to update your system, at least keep your security tools up to date.

  • You wish to allow guest logins only between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays. These settings can be made in:
    The only problem with this question is that it requires 2 answers, yet uses a radio button for the input rather than checkboxes.

  • The name of a reverse lookup zone file has to end in a:
    Another editing error - there's no correct answer so it'll tell you it's wrong no matter what you put

  • Red Hat 7.x uses
    LPRing, but who cares, RedHat hasn't used that in quite some time. It uses cups now

  • You have typed the following commands
    PI=3.1415
    R=10
    export PI R

    The correct answer is "no response". Any "modern" bash shell can handle floating point numbers.

  • To enable a service called FOO from the command line, you have to use __________
    This is blatantly wrong and is also wrong for RHL7. Either the /etc/init.d script for the service or the "service" command will allow you to do this. Neither "chkconfig" nor "ntsysv" allow you to enable a service at runtime. Rather, they allow you to configure which services will automatically start on bootup (or, more specifically, on entering a given runlevel)

  • --------- is useful for finding out whether a domain name is available or not.
    fwhois is not even an available package

  • What is the unused runlevel?
    Not sure what happened here, my answer switched itself to 7 when I clicked "submit"

  • The default configuration file for XFree86v4 is:
    outdated. The only file like this people need to worry about is /etc/X11/xorg.conf


    I think that's all I have to complain about at the moment.
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