Ansible Basics
Infrastructure automation helps your business accelerate, orchestrate and innovate more than ever. Ansible is an open-source software provisioning tool that is more secure, flexible, and simple to automate by enabling the infrastructure as a code. It was developed by Michael DeHaan in 2012 and later on, in 2015, acquired by Red Hat.
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Question 1 of 30
1. Question
Which keyword is used if you don’t want to break the execution of playbook in case of any failure?
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Question 2 of 30
2. Question
Which command can be used to install Ansible collections in a defined path?
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3. Question
Which value is required for the parameter ‘state’ when creating an empty file?
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4. Question
Which ansible command is used to display the content of an encrypted file?
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Question 5 of 30
5. Question
Which argument is required while passing a custom inventory file in Ansible?
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6. Question
A file containing hosts or group of hosts in Ansible is known as?
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7. Question
What is the default protocol used by Ansible?
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8. Question
If a task fails, will the rest of the tasks in the playbook continue by default?
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Question 9 of 30
9. Question
What is the terminology used in Ansible for any function that can be executed several times without changing the final result beyond its first iteration?
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Question 10 of 30
10. Question
Which of the following term best describes the Ansible Architecture?
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Question 11 of 30
11. Question
Which module uses /bin/sh as a default shell to run commands?
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Question 12 of 30
12. Question
Which argument is used to pass extra variables in Ansible?
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Question 13 of 30
13. Question
Which command would you use to execute a playbook called test.yaml?
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Question 14 of 30
14. Question
Which of the below option can be used to trigger a service restart?
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Question 15 of 30
15. Question
Blockinfile module allows you to add, remove, modify a single line in a file.
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Question 16 of 30
16. Question
Which Ansible module can be used to create a file?
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Question 17 of 30
17. Question
Which one of the following is not a standard directory inside the Ansible role?
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Question 18 of 30
18. Question
What is the GUI based solution for Ansible?
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Question 19 of 30
19. Question
Ad-Hoc commands are used to perform tasks on hosts without writing a playbook.
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Question 20 of 30
20. Question
Which of the following is not a part of Ansible terminology?
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Question 21 of 30
21. Question
In Ansible, which command is used to encrypt sensitive data?
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22. Question
Which command can be used to perform a dry run in Ansible?
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23. Question
Which module is used to create a temporary file or directory?
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24. Question
What is the default value of forks in Ansible?
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25. Question
Select the module which can be used to print the output during playbook execution?
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26. Question
Which of the following command can be used to initialise a role in Ansible?
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27. Question
What is the default inventory file location?
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28. Question
Which command can be used to find out the Ansible version?
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29. Question
Which of the following are the features of Ansible Tower?
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Question 30 of 30
30. Question
What does ‘become: yes’ mean in Ansible playbooks?
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