IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty v1.0
Question 1
The IT security department implements AIX CIS benchmark and requires that all world-write permissions be dropped from files. The users consultant1 and consuitant2 manage applications and must be able to write into file app2.log.
Which commands change permissions settings on the file app2.log to implement both requirements?
- A. chown :consultants /dbstaff ; chmod g+w,o-w app2.log
- B. chgrp consultants app2.log ; chmod g+w,o-w app2.log
- C. chgrp consultant2 app2.log ; chmod g+w,o-w app2.log
- D. chown consultants app2.log ; chmod g+w,o-w app2.log
Answer : B
Question 2
What are the classification types AIX applies to memory pages?
- A. Computational and file
- B. Active and transient
- C. Consistent and flash
- D. Buffer and cache
Answer : A
Question 3
Which command sets an environment variable in the current shell and any of its children?
- A. env VAR=value
- B. VAR=value
- C. set VAR=value
- D. export VAR=value
Answer : D
Question 4
Using SSH to access the AIX server over the network, a user named fred is unable to login. They receive an error message that simply states Access denied, with no further explanation. The system administrator suspects the account may have been locked by another system administrator.
How would the system administrator unlock the user account fred?
- A. Adjust the failed password retry limit by changing the retries attribute to a larger number for the user fred
- B. Reset failed login count with the passwd command, setting unsuccessful_login_count to 0 for the user fred
- C. Change the fred user password and have them login again
- D. Use the chuser command and set the account_locked attribute to false for the user fred
Answer : D
Question 5
Which smitty shortcut performs user management tasks in AIX via a command line interface?
- A. smitty users
- B. smitty cruser
- C. smitty lsuser
- D. smitty usermod
Answer : A
Question 6
A running process with a PID of 1234 is consuming too many CPU resources.
What would lower its priority without stopping the process?
- A. renice +10 1234 to lower the priority of the process
- B. Send a SIGTERM signal to allow the process to finish gracefully
- C. Send a SIGFREEZE signal to prevent process 1234 from using more resources
- D. nice -10 1234 to lower the priority of the process
Answer : A
Question 7
An administrator needs to check the detailed memory statistics on an AIX system, including virtual memory and real memory usage over a period of time.
Which command provides this information?
- A. memstat
- B. svmon
- C. iostat
- D. lsmem
Answer : B
Question 8
A hardware component on an AIX system is suspected to be failing.
Which option could diagnose and confirm the issue using the diag command?
- A. Issue errclear 0 and then run the diag -checkdev command
- B. Use diag -d <device> to run diagnostics on the suspected component
- C. Review the errpt output and look for diag related errors issuing errpt | grep diag
- D. Replace the component and check diag to see if the problem arises again
Answer : B
Question 9
An administrator wants to configure DNS on an AIX server.
Which file is used to configure nameservers and their order?
- A. /etc/rc.tcpip
- B. /etc/netsvc.conf
- C. /etc/resolv.conf
- D. /etc/hosts
Answer : C
Question 10
Which command is used from the HMC CLI to access an AIX system console?
- A. mkauthkeys -a <username> <HMC_IP>
- B. ssh -1 <username> <HMC_IP>
- C. rlogin -1 <username> <HMC_IP>
- D. mkvterm -m <managed_system> -p<partition_name>
Answer : D
Question 11
An administrator wants to collect all system configuration information, compress it, and share it with IBM support.
Which command should they run?
- A. snapcore
- B. tar
- C. savecore
- D. snap
Answer : D
Question 12
An administrator is asked to add /testfs to datavg on their AIX system.
Which command is used to add the filesystem?
- A. addfs
- B. mkfs
- C. chfs
- D. mke2fs
Answer : B
Question 13
A customer reports that the /tmp filesystem is full, and rootvg has no available space to add to /tmp. An administrator wants to check which files are taking up the most space in /tmp and would be good candidates to remove.
Which command is used?
- A. df -g /tmp
- B. lslv /dev/tmp
- C. du -xk | sort -n
- D. lsvg -1 rootvg
Answer : C
Question 14
An administrator is logged into a system console, and after starting the LPAR, the system is not booting, and no information is being written to the console.
Where does the administrator look for more information about the issues occurring when it is trying to boot?
- A. Error entries in the system error log
- B. Error entries in the primary dump device
- C. HMC partition information reference code
- D. Open Firmware boot log
Answer : C
Question 15
How can an administrator view the customized device configuration data for a specific device from Object Data Manager (ODM)?
- A. lsmget
- B. lsattr
- C. odmget
- D. odmshow
Answer : C