Academy Devops Quiz
Questions covering the core concepts, tools, and real-world scenarios IT professionals encounter in Academy Devops.
This category currently has 60 questions in the SERVBG quiz bank. Below are a few sample questions — the full interactive quiz shuffles through the whole set with instant scoring.
Sample questions
On a systemd-managed Linux host, which command starts a service immediately for the current boot session only, without affecting whether it starts automatically after a reboot?
- systemctl reload <service>
- systemctl enable <service>
- systemctl mask <service>
- systemctl start <service>
- systemctl daemon-reload
Which command shows whether a systemd service is currently loaded, active/inactive, and includes recent log lines for it?
- systemctl list-units
- systemctl show <service>
- systemctl status <service>
- systemctl is-installed <service>
- journalctl --list-boots
A systemd unit file is divided into sections. Which section holds directives like ExecStart, User, and WorkingDirectory that describe how the process is actually run?
- [Install]
- [Service]
- [Unit]
- [Exec]
- [Process]
In the [Install] section of a systemd unit file, what does the WantedBy=multi-user.target line control?
- The user account the service process runs as
- Whether systemd restarts the unit automatically after a crash
- The maximum time systemd waits for the unit to start before failing it
- The order in which the unit starts relative to network.target
- Which boot target's .wants/ directory the unit gets symlinked into when it is enabled
In a standard crontab line, what is the correct left-to-right order of the five time fields?
- minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week
- minute hour day-of-week day-of-month month
- hour minute day-of-month month day-of-week
- minute hour month day-of-month day-of-week
- day-of-week minute hour day-of-month month
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