Configuration Management using Ansible - 1

Which of the following is NOT a use case of Configuration Management?

• Quick and automated provisioning of servers and other Infrastructure components

• Easy rollback in case of failed deployments

• Version control of the infrastructure (Infrastructure-as-Code)

• Enabling developers to get rapid feedback if their code changes introduce potential defects or vulnerabilities.

• All of the above

Which of the following statement holds true with reference to Configuration Management?

• Practices and tooling to automate the delivery and operation of infrastructure

• Practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors into a single software project

• Process for maintaining computer systems, servers, and software in a desired, consistent state.

• Solutions model infrastructure, continually monitor and enforce desired configurations, and automatically remediate any unexpected changes or configuration drift.

• All of the above

“A user has executed an automated script which installed a webserver on to a target resource. The user re-runs the script however no changes to the target resource were made this time.”

Which concept of Configuration Management is being applied here which is responsible for above behaviour?

• Immutable Infrastructure

• Idempotence

• Targeted provisioning and server management

• All of the above

• None of the above

“______” feature in Configuration Management allow the users to mention a desired state for a target system which allows the CM tool being used to compare desired state to current state of the target system and then automatically update the target system to reach the desired state.

• Imperative

• Declarative

• Idempotence

• Immutable

Which of the following comes under the category of Configuration Management tool?

• Jenkins

• Ansible

• Chef

• GitLab

• Kubernetes

Which of the following statements are true in context of Ansible?

• Configuration Management tool which is also capable of automating application deployment

• Ansible Modules are written in YAML

• Ansible working requires an agent to be installed on all nodes it manages

• Supports both SSH and WinRM

• Ansible Playbooks are written in YAML

Which of the following settings can be found inside ansible configuration file located at /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

• Environment variables

• Warnings display behaviour

• Plugins configuration

• List of managed nodes or hosts

• Inventory file location

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

• Network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls

• Application Deployment

• Infrastructure Provisioning

• Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning

• All of the above