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___________ is something that is used for streamlining the development and deployment process.

1. Continuous Delivery
2. Continuous Integration
3. Continuous Test
4. Continuous Intervention

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_________ is a combination of multiple pieces working together to become an automation tool.

1. Bugzilla
2. Chef
3. Ansible
4. Git

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are the features of Ansible?

1. Unlike puppet or chef there is no software or agent managing the nodes
2. Passwordless network authentication which makes it more secure and easy to set up
3. The core concept is to push multiple small codes to the configure and run the action on client nodes
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

IaC stands for?

1. Integration as Code
2. Infra as Code
3. An Infrastructuresible Code
4. Infrastructure as Code

✅ Correct Answer: 4

___________ is a repository of Ansible roles that can be shared among users and can be directly dropped into playbooks for execution. C. D.

1. Modules
2. Functions
3. Galaxy
4. Standalone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How many types of modules in Ansible?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

✅ Correct Answer: 2

YAML or files are like any formatted text file with few sets of rules just like JSON or XML.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. Can be true or false
4. Can not say

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In Which Language Ansible engine written?

1. C
2. C++
3. Java
4. Python

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What language is an Ansible playbooks are written in by default ?

1. XML
2. HTML
3. JSON
4. YAML

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The task is a unit action of Ansible.

1. yes
2. no
3. Can be yes or no
4. Can not say

✅ Correct Answer: 1

NCS has collaborated with Red Hat on several initiatives around Ansible automation. Which are some of those?

1. GovTech SG Core2
2. iPursuit Lab
3. SwissCom
4. GovTech SG Core2 and iPursuit Lab

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers new features. Which are the ones?

1. Automation Services Catalog
2. Automation Hub
3. Automation Analytics
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Command to verify the current ansible version

1. ansible -version
2. ansible --version yum
3. updateinfo ansible
4. uname -r

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Ansible Content Collections is the new way to build and consume What command shows you CPU and memory utilization for running processes?

1. sar
2. top
3. proc
4. uptime

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What command displays your current username?

1. chmod
2. su -l
3. who
4. whoami

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How to install ansible using RHEL?

1. yum -y install ansible
2. rpm -y ansible
3. yum updateinfo ansible
4. apt-get install ansible

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Tests reachability using ping from Cisco IOS network devices

1. ios_ping
2. ping
3. debug
4. ios_command

✅ Correct Answer: 1

This is a usecase for ansible Facts

1. When I want to change the standard output color
2. When you want to apply commands to specific hosts
3. When I want to apply a command multiple times
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which programming language is Ansible based on?

1. Java
2. Ruby
3. Python
4. C#

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How do you use variables in ansible?

1. with {{ }}
2. with $
3. just write the name of the variable
4. with $()

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What extension do the template files in Ansible have?

1. .in
2. .yml
3. .j2
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which ones are alternatives to Ansible?(choose all that apply)

1. jenkins
2. chef
3. Both a & b
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Ansible is able to deploy and manage automation of your entire IT footprint. Which are the ones that can be managed by Ansible?

1. Network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls
2. Infrastructure Provisioning
3. Application Deployment
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Ansible program files that contains ansible plug-in documentation

1. ansible
2. ansible-config
3. ansible-doc
4. ansible-playbook

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is Ansible?

1. tool to execute Linux commands only in many servers
2. tool for provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment
3. Software to assemble computer hardware.
4. All of above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does orchestration in Ansible mean?

1. Is the capability to analyze systems and make them faster
2. Is the Director of a choir composed by ram, CPU, microchips, etc
3. Is the handling of an orchestra composed by Databases, servers, monitoring systems, etc.
4. Both A & B

✅ Correct Answer: 3

An ______ command is a single, manually-run Ansible task that you want to perform quickly

1. ansible
2. ad hoc
3. ansible.cfg
4. ansible-doc

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of following commands will check ansible inventory and group variable

1. ansible-inventory --list
2. ansible-inventory -h
3. ansible-inventory -graph
4. ansible-inventory -v

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Command to check the playbook for syntax errors, but it does not execute it.

1. ansible-playbook <playbook.yml> --syntax-check
2. ansible-playbook <playbook.yml> --check
3. ansible-playbook <playbook.yml> --list-hosts
4. ansible-playbook <playbook.yml> --skip-tags

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Ansible is based on

1. scp
2. ftp
3. telnet
4. ssh

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In which format ansible playbooks are written?

1. txt
2. yaml
3. xml
4. jsons

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which option is used for specifying the variable while running ansible playbook?

1. -d
2. -f
3. -c
4. -e

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Ansible is written in

1. C
2. C++
3. Java
4. Python

✅ Correct Answer: 4

From a playbook, I want to run only 1 task and ignore others. Which of the below can I use?

1. loop
2. tags
3. debug
4. vault

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which option in ad-hoc command is used to execute a module?

1. -a
2. -m
3. -e
4. -t

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the below creates new authentication key pairs?

1. Isof
2. ssh-keygen
3. netstat
4. ansible-playbook

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of tasks run on notifying?

1. handlers
2. tasks
3. vars
4. templates

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the command line option is used for selecting the username for play?

1. -a
2. -s
3. -u
4. -e

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which option is used to select inventory file?

1. -i
2. -u
3. -a
4. -t

✅ Correct Answer: 1

___ is used to access shell environment variables?

1. lookup
2. copy
3. file
4. synchronize

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To increase verbosity during execution of playbook, we can use

1. -a
2. -v
3. -i
4. -u

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Conditional statement in ansible is

1. elif
2. when
3. swtich
4. if

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which directory contains default values for variables of a role?

1. handlers
2. tasks
3. defaults
4. files

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Linux commands can be run using module/s

1. raw
2. command
3. shell
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How to continue running tasks even if a task is failed?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Jinja2 - Guess the output of : {{ [2,2,3,4] | unique }}

1. 2
2. 2,3,4
3. 2,2,3,4
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Jinja2 - Guess the output of : {{ [2,3,4] | intersect( [4,5,6] ) }}

1. 2,3,4,5,6
2. 4
3. 2,3,5,6
4. 2,3,4,4,5,6

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Jinja2 - Guess the output of : {{ ["Hello","World"] | join(" ") }}

1. Hello
2. Hello, World
3. Hello World
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Error handling in block module uses

1. tags
2. always
3. rescue
4. Both b and c

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the below module installs .rpm file on centos/rhel machines?

1. rpt
2. yum
3. deb
4. apt

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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