RedHat Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation - EX407 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
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control.realmX.example.com _ workstation.lab.example.com
node1.realmX.example.com _ servera.lab.example.com
node2.realmX.example.com _ serverb.lab.example.com
node3.realmX.example.com _ serverc.lab.example.com
node4.realmX.example.com _ serverd.lab.example.com
node5.realmX.example.com
- username:root, password:redhat
- username:admin, password:redhat
note1. don't change 'root' or 'admin' password.
note2. no need to create ssh-keygen for access, its pre-defined
note3. SELinux is in enforcing mode and firewalld is disabled/stop on whole managed hosts.
Create and run an Ansible ad-hoc command.
--> As a system administrator, you will need to install software on the managed
nodes.
--> Create a shell script called yum-pack.sh that runs an Ansible ad-hoc command to
create yum-repository on each of the managed nodes as follows:
--> repository1
-----------
1. The name of the repository is EX407
2. The description is "Ex407 Description"
3. The base URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/BaseOS/
4. GPG signature checking is enabled
5. The GPG key URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/RPM-GPG-KEYredhat-
release
6. The repository is enabled
--> repository2
-----------
1. The name of the repository is EXX407
2. The description is "Exx407 Description"
3. The base URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/AppStream/
4. GPG signature checking is enabled
5. The GPG key URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/ RPM-GPG-KEYredhat-
release
6. The repository is enabled

Correct Answer:

Solution as:
# pwd
/home/admin/ansible
# vim yum-pack.sh
#!/bin/bash
ansible all -m yum_repository -a 'name=EX407 description="Ex407 Description"
baseurl=http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/BaseOS/ gpgcheck=yes
gpgkey=http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled=yes'
ansible all -m yum_repository -a 'name=EXX407 description="Exx407 Description"
baseurl=http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/AppStream/ gpgcheck=yes
gpgkey=http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled=yes'
:!wq
# chmod +x yum-pack.sh
# bash yum-pack.sh
# ansible all -m command -a 'yum repolist all'

QUESTION NO: 2
Install and configure ansible
User bob has been created on your control node. Give him the appropriate permissions on the control node. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node.
Create a configuration file /home/bob/ansible/ansible.cfg to meet the following requirements:
* The roles path should include /home/bob/ansible/roles, as well as any other path that may be required for the course of the sample exam.
* The inventory file path is /home/bob/ansible/inventory.
* Ansible should be able to manage 10 hosts at a single time.
* Ansible should connect to all managed nodes using the bob user.
Create an inventory file for the following five nodes:
nodel.example.com
node2.example.com
node3.example.com
node4.example.com
node5.example.com
Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node1 is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, nodc3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.

Correct Answer:

In/home/sandy/ansible/ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory=/home/sandy/ansible/inventory
roles_path=/home/sandy/ansible/roles
remote_user= sandy
host_key_checking=false
[privilegeescalation]
become=true
become_user=root
become_method=sudo
become_ask_pass=false
In /home/sandy/ansible/inventory
[dev]
node 1 .example.com
[test]
node2.example.com
[proxy]
node3 .example.com
[prod]
node4.example.com
node5 .example.com
[webservers:children]
prod

QUESTION NO: 3
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control.realmX.example.com _ workstation.lab.example.com
node1.realmX.example.com _ servera.lab.example.com
node2.realmX.example.com _ serverb.lab.example.com
node3.realmX.example.com _ serverc.lab.example.com
node4.realmX.example.com _ serverd.lab.example.com
node5.realmX.example.com
- username:root, password:redhat
- username:admin, password:redhat
note1. don't change 'root' or 'admin' password.
note2. no need to create ssh-keygen for access, its pre-defined
note3. SELinux is in enforcing mode and firewalld is disabled/stop on whole managed hosts.
Create user accounts
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--> A list of users to be created can be found in the file called user_list.yml
which you should download from http://classroom.example.com/user_list.yml and
save to /home/admin/ansible/
--> Using the password vault created elsewhere in this exam, create a playbook called
create_user.yml
that creates user accounts as follows:
--> Users with a job description of developer should be:
--> created on managed nodes in the "dev" and "test" host groups assigned the
password from the "dev_pass"
variable and these user should be member of supplementary group "devops".
--> Users with a job description of manager should be:
--> created on managed nodes in the "prod" host group assigned the password from
the "mgr_pass" variable
and these user should be member of supplementary group "opsmgr"
--> Passwords should use the "SHA512" hash format. Your playbook should work using
the vault password file
created elsewhere in this exam.
while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per
questation.
user_list.yml file consist:
---
user:
- name: user1
job: developer
- name: user2
job: manager

Correct Answer:

Solution as:
# pwd
/home/admin/ansible
# wget http://classroom.example.com/user_list.yml
# cat user_list.yml
# vim create_user.yml
---
- name:
hosts: all
vars_files:
- ./user_list.yml
- ./vault.yml
tasks:
- name: creating groups
group:
name: "{{ item }}"
state: present
loop:
- devops
- opsmgr
- name: creating user
user:
name: "{{ item.name }}"
state: present
groups: devops
password: "{{ dev_pass|password_hash ('sha512') }}"
loop: "{{ user }}"
when: (inventory_hostname in groups['dev'] or inventory_hostname in
groups['test']) and item.job == "developer"
- name: creating user
user:
name: "{{ item.name }}"
state: present
groups: opsmgr
password: "{{ mgr_pass|password_hash ('sha512') }}"
loop: "{{ user }}"
when: inventory_hostname in groups['prod'] and item.job == "manager"
:wq!
# ansible-playbook create_user.yml --vault-password-file=password.txt --syntax-check
# ansible-playbook create_user.yml --vault-password-file=password.txt

QUESTION NO: 4
Create a playbook /home/bob /ansible/motd.yml that runs on all inventory hosts and docs the following: The playbook should replaee any existing content of/etc/motd in the following text. Use ansible facts to display the FQDN of each host
On hosts in the dev host group the line should be "Welcome to Dev Server FQDN".
On hosts in the webserver host group the line should be "Welcome to Apache Server FQDN".
On hosts in the database host group the line should be "Welcome to MySQL Server FQDN".

Correct Answer:

/home/sandy/ansible/apache.yml

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

QUESTION NO: 5
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control.realmX.example.com _ workstation.lab.example.com
node1.realmX.example.com _ servera.lab.example.com
node2.realmX.example.com _ serverb.lab.example.com
node3.realmX.example.com _ serverc.lab.example.com
node4.realmX.example.com _ serverd.lab.example.com
node5.realmX.example.com
- username:root, password:redhat
- username:admin, password:redhat
note1. don't change 'root' or 'admin' password.
note2. no need to create ssh-keygen for access, its pre-defined
note3. SELinux is in enforcing mode and firewalld is disabled/stop on whole managed hosts.
Create a playbook called balance.yml as follows:
* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in balancers host group and uses
the balancer role.
--> This role configures a service to loadbalance webserver requests between hosts
in the webservers host group.curl
--> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the balancers host group (for example
http://node5.example.com) should produce the following output:
Welcome to node3.example.com on 192.168.10.z
--> Reloading the browser should return output from the alternate web server:
Welcome to node4.example.com on 192.168.10.a
* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in webservers host group and uses
the phphello role.
--> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the webservers host group with the URL /
hello.php should produce the following output:
Hello PHP World from FQDN
--> where FQDN is the fully qualified domain name of the host. For example,
browsing to http://node3.example.com/hello.php, should produce the following output:
Hello PHP World from node3.example.com
* Similarly, browsing to http://node4.example.com/hello.php, should produce the
following output:
Hello PHP World from node4.example.com

Correct Answer:

Solution as:
# pwd
/home/admin/ansible/
# vim balancer.yml
---
- name: Including phphello role
hosts: webservers
roles:
- ./roles/phphello
- name: Including balancer role
hosts: balancer
roles:
- ./roles/balancer
:wq!
# ansible-playbook balancer.yml --syntax-check
# ansible-playbook balancer.yml