Puppet Interview Questions and Answer Part – 3

To which parameter do you assign PHP.INI configurations when declaring the mayflower-php class?

• settings (Ans)
• config
• ini
• php

When dealing with a large number of ephemeral nodes that consume licenses, how would you remove those nodes from Puppet Enterprise?

• Delete the node
• Purge the node (Ans)
• Erase the node

Under which node in the dashboard can you run the puppet agent remotely on an agent system?

• Nodes (Ans)
• Configuration
• Orchestrator
• Access Control

Consider the following site.pp:
File { backup => false }
node ‘centos7’ { include motd }
Which nodes can make use of this file?

• All nodes
• CentOS 7 and any node with a file resource
• CentOS 7 only (Ans)

Which is the default fall-back file if no match is found in the defined hierachy?

• shared
• common (Ans)
• hiera
• data

What is the minimum required RAM for Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Server?

• 16GB
• 2GB
• 8GB
• 4GB (Ans)

Which agents packages are available on the Puppet Enterprise Server by default?

• The matching package to the Server Platform (Ans)
• Ubuntu and Red Hat packages
• All Red Hat packages
• SUSE and Red Hat Packages

Which command can be used to set the hostname on systemd based Linux distributions?

• hostnamed
• hostnamectl (Ans)
• host

What port is used by the web-based installer?

• 8120
• 443
• 3000 (Ans)
• 8080

In the Dashboard, what type of Puppet code to be assign to agent groups?

• Manifests
• Modules
• Classes (Ans)
• Resources

What do you need to select first before you can run the Puppet agent remotely?

• The Node from Configuration
• The Node from Inventory (Ans)
• The Node from Classification

Which keyword should be used when declaring classes within roles?

• declare
• include (Ans)
• class
• define

On which device or devices do you install puppet modules when using the Puppet Enterprise?

• Server and Agents
• All Nodes
• Puppet Server (Ans)
• CentOS Nodes
• Ubuntu Nodes

How can you include all nodes from the example.com domain only in a node definition?

• node /example.com$/ (Ans)
• node /example.com/
• node /example.com/
• node example.com

Which key is used to locate the directory in which backend files are located?

• json
• datadir (Ans)
• yaml
• hierarchy

Where in the Dashboard do you find node groups?

• Inventory > Groups
• Inventory > Classification
• Nodes > Groups
• Nodes > Classification (Ans)

Which manifest file is used to assign work by default to nodes on the Puppet Server?

• site.pp (Ans)
• resource.pp
• global.pp
• hiera.yaml

In the /etc/hosts file what is the format of each entry?

• IP FQDN ALIAS (Ans)
• FQDN IP ALIAS
• IP ALIAS FQDN

Which Linux command can be used to read the installation script for the Puppet Agent?

• wget
• curl (Ans)
• put
• ftp

Which role may be useful for auditors of Puppet?

• View-only
• Read-only
• Viewers (Ans)
• Audit
• Operators

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