Where does the Puppet agent look for the Puppet Master hostname?
- In /etc/puppet/puppet.conf under the [agent] section (Ans)
- In /etc/puppet.conf under the [agent] section
- In /etc/puppet/puppet.conf under the [master] section
- In /etc/puppet.conf under the [master] section
What is one way to run the Puppet agent manually?
- Execute c:\programdata\puppetlabs\puppet\bin\puppet_run.exe
- Execute c:\program files\puppet labs\bin\puppet.bat –run-now
- Execute c:\programdata\puppetlabs\puppet\bin\puppet_run.bat
- Execute c:\program files\puppet labs\bin\puppet_interactive.bat (Ans)
How is Puppet different than Chef and CFEngine?
- Chef and CFengine are not open source
- Puppet’s language is procedural while Chef and CFEngine use declarative languages
- Puppet’s language is simpler and easier to learn (Ans)
Where must directory environments be located?
- There is no particular location where they must be located (Ans)
- /etc/puppet/environments
- /etc/puppet
- /etc/puppet/manifests/environments
What is one of the purposes of modules?
- Provide a way to backup Puppet configurations
- Eliminate the need to ever do anything manually
- Extend Puppet’s native functionality (Ans)
What directory should module-specific templates go in?
- Under the module’s root path
- /etc/puppet/templates
- The templates subdirectory under the module’s root path (Ans)
Hiera data can be stored in YAML files. What are these files called?
- Data fields
- Data accessor models
- Data sources (Ans)
- Hierarchial manifests
What does the beginning of a class definition for the “linux” class look like?
- class linux: {
- class linux { (Ans)
- { class ‘linux’:
What is a resource type?
- The type of Puppet server
- The type of node to be managed, such as Windows or Linux
- The type of resource to be managed, such as package, service, or file (Ans)
The frequency of configuration runs is controlled by the…
- crontab
- Run interval (Ans)
- Execution interval
- Enforcement interval
- The Windows service subsystem
What web server ships with the Puppet Master?
- nginx
- NetScaler
- WEBrick (Ans)
- Apache HTTP server
What happens if the title in a package resource declaration does not match the Windows DisplayName?
- Puppet will uninstall and reinstall the package
- Puppet will think the package isn’t installed & will try to install it on every configuration run (Ans)
- Windows will blue-screen
- Puppet will never install the package
Which of the following is the beginning of a valid file resource declaration?
- file { ‘/info.txt’: (Ans)
- file { ‘/info.txt’ (
- file “/info.txt”: {
- file ‘/info.txt’ {
What command run on a CentOS Puppet Master reloads the Hiera configuration?
- sudo service puppetmaster restart
- sudo service apache restart
- sudo service httpd restart (Ans)
- sudo service httpd restart
Why aren’t group policies always sufficient for Windows configuration management?
- Group policies require the use of PowerShell scripts
- Group policies do not allow managing files, packages, or services
- Group policies require an Active Directory infrastructure to be scalable (Ans)
What is the command for setting SELinux to permissive mode?
- sudo getenforce –mode=permissive
- sudo setenforce permissive (Ans)
- sudo setenforce disabled
What does a selector do?
- Takes a set of possible values and assigns one of those values to a variable based on a condition (Ans)
- Selects which package, file, or service declaration should be executed first
- Installs a package based on the version of operating system the Puppet agent is running on
What is a Git repository?
- A copy of files and directories that cannot be stored locally
- Where you download Git from
- Where Git maintains and tracks changes to files and directories (Ans)
How is a role implemented?
- By creating a subclass inside the profiles module named profiles::profilename
- By creating a subclass inside the roles module named roles::rolename (Ans)
- By creating a subclass inside the roles module named profiles::profilename
What does it mean for the Puppet Master to classify a node?
- Locate the node definition in the manifest and determine what configuration should be applied (Ans)
- To generate a catalog based on the node’s manifest
- To instantiate a class based on the node’s operating system
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