EX374 Sample Questions

EX374 Sample Questions & Answers

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  1. Question 1Intermediate

    Manage inventories and credentials · Create a dynamic inventory

    You are managing a dynamic inventory sourced from AWS. You need to group instances based on a custom tag Environment. If the tag is missing, the host should be grouped under ungrouped.

    Which configuration in your aws_ec2.yml plugin file achieves this?

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    Correct answer: A

    The keyed_groups option allows you to create groups based on the values of variables (in this case, tags). By specifying key: tags.Environment, the plugin will create groups like env_production or env_staging. If the key does not exist for a host, that host is simply not added to a keyed group (effectively remaining in ungrouped or all depending on context), satisfying the requirement.

  2. Question 2Beginner

    Understand and use Git · Clone a Git repository

    You are reviewing a playbook that uses the ansible.builtin.git module. You notice the update parameter is set to no.

    What is the specific effect of this configuration when the playbook runs multiple times?

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    Correct answer: C

    When update: no is set, the git module checks if the destination directory contains a git repository. If it does, the module stops and does not pull new changes. It only clones the repository if the destination is empty/missing. This is useful for 'clone once' scenarios.

  3. Question 3Advanced

    Transform data with filters and plugins · Inspect, validate, and manipulate variables

    A system administrator needs to process a list of dictionaries containing network interface data.

    Data structure:

    [
{"name": "eth0", "active": true, "speed": 1000},
{"name": "eth1", "active": false, "speed": 1000},
{"name": "eth2", "active": true, "speed": 100}
]

    The goal is to extract ONLY the names of interfaces that are active and have a speed greater than 500.

    Which Jinja2 filter chain produces the correct list ['eth0']?

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    Correct answer: D

    This chain correctly filters the list first by the 'active' attribute (must be true), then filters that result by the 'speed' attribute (must be greater than 500), and finally maps the result to extract only the 'name' attribute.

  4. Question 4Beginner

    Manage content collections · Create a content collection

    You have created a new Ansible Content Collection named company.monitoring. You need to build the collection artifact to upload it to your private Automation Hub.

    Which command should you execute in the root directory of the collection?

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    Correct answer: C

    The ansible-galaxy collection build command packages the collection into a tarball (tar.gz) that is ready for distribution or upload to Galaxy/Automation Hub.

  5. Question 5Intermediate

    Manage inventory variables · Structure host and group variables

    Which of the following variables has the HIGHEST precedence in Ansible when setting the value of http_port?

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    Correct answer: C

    Extra vars passed via the command line (-e) always have the highest precedence in Ansible, overriding play vars, host vars, group vars, and role defaults.

    graph BT A[Role Defaults] --> B[Inventory Group Vars] B --> C[Inventory Host Vars] C --> D[Playbook Vars] D --> E[Extra Vars -e] style E fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
  6. Question 6IntermediateSelect 2

    Manage task execution · Run selected tasks from a playbook

    You are creating a playbook that performs maintenance on a cluster of web servers. You want to ensure that if the maintenance task fails on more than 30% of the hosts in the first batch, the entire playbook execution aborts immediately to prevent widespread outage.

    Which settings should you apply to the play definition?

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    Correct answers: A, C

    To utilize max_fail_percentage effectively for batches, you must set serial. If serial is not set, Ansible runs on all hosts in parallel (up to forks), and max_fail_percentage applies to the whole set. To stop 'after the first batch', a batch size must be defined via serial.

    The max_fail_percentage setting causes the play to abort if the percentage of failed hosts exceeds the threshold.

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