Workbook 1: Anaconda

Question 1

Which of the following types of Optical Disks found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution are required to perform an installation?

Answer 1

Binary Installation DVD

Question 2

What is the name of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installer?

Answer 2

Anaconda

Question 3

How can the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution be obtained?

Answer 3

As ISO images available through the Red Hat Customer Portal

Question 4

Which of the following is the suggested tool for downloading ISO images from Red Hat Network?

Answer 4

The curl command line web client

Question 5

Which of the following utilities can be used to calculate an MD5 hash of a file?

Answer 5

md5sum

Question 6

Which of the following could be added to the Anaconda bootloader’s command line to start a text mode install?

Answer 6

text

Question 7

Which of the following command lines would loopback mount the image file boot.img to the mount point /mnt/img?

Answer 7

mount -o loop boot.img /mnt/img

Question 8

Which of the following cannot be used as a method for accessing the second stage installer?

Answer 8

floppy

Question 9

Which of the following command lines would transfer the boot.iso image to a blank CD in /dev/cdrecorder?

Answer 9

cdrecord -v boot.iso

Question 10

Which of the following media types could NOT be used to start a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation?

Answer 10

A properly imaged floppy disk

Question 11

If installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a disk that already contains another operating system, choosing “Remove All Linux Partitions” would leave which type of partition unaffected?

Answer 11

FAT filesystems

Question 12

When specifying a new filesystem partition, which of the following information does not need to be specified?

Answer 12

The partition’s device name

Question 13

Which of the following elements of the X server graphical environment is not configured from within the installer?

Answer 13

The X server is not manually configured in the installer.

Question 14

Which of the following may be specified using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installer?

Answer 14

The password for the root account AND The password for the GRUB bootloader

Question 15

Which of the following network protocols does Anaconda not support for accessing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation server?

Answer 15

SMB

Question 16

Which of the following could be added to Anaconda’s bootloader kernel line to start a network based install, when booting from the Installation DVD?

Answer 16

askmethod

Question 17

Which of the following should be added to Anaconda’s bootloader kernel line to start a network based install, when booting from a boot.iso cd?

Answer 17

No bootloader command line is required.

Question 18

network based installation, you downloaded the boot.iso imagefile from ftp://rha-server/pub/rhel6/i386/boot.iso. which of the following should most likely be supplied when the installer prompts for the installation server’s path?

Answer 18

/pub/rhel6/i386

Question 19

During an Anaconda installation, which virtual console contains an interactive command line shell?

Answer 19

2

Question 20

During an Anaconda installation, which virtual console is used to display installer debugging messages?

Answer 20

3

Question 21

During an Anaconda installation, which virtual console is used by the graphical installer’s X server?

Answer 21

6

Question 22

After the newly installed machine is booted, which of the following files contains kernel messages?

Answer 22

/var/log/dmesg

Question 23

After the newly installed machine is booted, which of the following files contains a log of messages generated by the Anaconda installer?

Answer 23

/root/install.log

Question 24

While waiting for packages to install, you begin to explore the interactive shell found on a virtual console. Running the df command, you notice that /mnt/sysimage is being used as a mount point. What is mounted to it?

Answer 24

The root partition of the system being installed.