RedHat Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

QUESTION NO: 1
Create an empty encrypted file called myvault.yml in /home/sandy/ansible and set the password to notsafepw. Rekey the password to iwejfj2221.

Correct Answer:

ansible-vault create myvault.yml
Create new password: notsafepw Confirm password: notsafepw ansible-vault rekey myvault.yml
Current password: notsafepw New password: iwejfj2221 Confirm password: iwejfj2221

QUESTION NO: 2
Create an ansible vault password file called lock.yml with the password reallysafepw in the /home/sandy/ansible directory. In the lock.yml file define two variables. One is pw_dev and the password is 'dev' and the other is pw_mgr and the password is 'mgr' Create a regular file called secret.txt which contains the password for lock.yml.

Correct Answer:

ansible-vault create lock.yml
New Vault Password: reallysafepw
Confirm: reallysafepw

QUESTION NO: 3
Create a role called sample-apache in /home/sandy/ansible/roles that enables and starts httpd, enables and starts the firewall and allows the webserver service. Create a template called index.html.j2 which creates and serves a message from /var/www/html/index.html Whenever the content of the file changes, restart the webserver service.
Welcome to [FQDN] on [IP]
Replace the FQDN with the fully qualified domain name and IP with the ip address of the node using ansible facts. Lastly, create a playbook in /home/sandy/ansible/ called apache.yml and use the role to serve the index file on webserver hosts.

Correct Answer:

/home/sandy/ansible/apache.yml

/home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/tasks/main.yml

/home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/templates/index.html.j2

In /home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/handlers/main.yml

QUESTION NO: 4
Create a playbook called packages.yml that:
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--> Installs the php and mariadb packages on hosts in the dev, test, and prod host
groups.
--> Installs the Development Tools package group on hosts in the dev host group.
--> Updates all packages to the latest version on hosts in the dev host group.

Correct Answer:

Solution as:
# pwd
home/admin/ansible/
# vim packages.yml
---
- name: Install the packages
hosts: dev,test,prod
vars:
- php_pkg: php
- mariadb_pkg: mariadb
tasks:
- name: install the packages
yum:
name:
- "{{ php_pkg }}"
- "{{ mariadb_pkg }}"
state: latest
- name: install the devops tool packages
hosts: dev
tasks:
- name: install devepment tools
yum:
name: "@Development Tools"
state: latest
- name: upgrade all the packages
yum:
name: "*"
state: latest
exclude: kernel*
!wq
# ansible-playbook package.yml --syntax-check
# ansible-playbook package.yml

RedHat Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - EX294 Exam Questions