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  1. What is Configuration Management?<\/li>
  2. List a few available configuration management tools.<\/li>
  3. What is Ansible? List some of major advantages of using Ansible.<\/li>
  4. Write down the data flow of Ansible.<\/li>
  5. What is the major difference between scripting langugage and Ansible?<\/li>
  6. What do you understand by the term IaC?<\/li>
  7. What is idempotency? Is it a useful feature of Ansible?<\/li>
  8. List down the most commonly used Ansible terms in Ansible ecosystem.<\/li>
  9. What are the pre-requisites to install Ansible?<\/li>
  10. Perform Ansible installation and configuration setup on CentOS and Debian.<\/li>
  11. Execute \u201cansinble –version\u201d to check installed Ansible version.<\/li>
  12. What is the precedence order of Ansible to identify valid Ansible Configuration File?<\/li>
  13. Perform password-based and key-based authentication setup for two different Managed Nodes.<\/li>
  14. Perform a ping test on Managed Node from Ansible Controller Node to confirm Ansible Communication.<\/li>
  15. What are modules? How many type of modules are three in Ansible?<\/li>
  16. Execute a command to list down all of the available \u201cCore Modules\u201d in Ansible.<\/li>
  17. Create a user named \u201cyogesh\u201d with uid \u201c9876\u201d and shell \u201c\/bin\/bash\u201d on Managed Nodes using Ad-hoc Ansible execution.<\/li>
  18. Install a package named \u201ctelnet or talk or git\u201d on Managed Nodes using Ad-hoc Ansible execution.<\/li>
  19. Create a simple script to create a file and directory and execute it on Managed Nodes using Ansible Ad-hoc execution with appropriate Ansible Module.<\/li>
  20. What do you understand by Privilege Escalation in Ansible?<\/li>
  21. What is YAML language? What are the three simple rules to remember about YAML in Ansible?<\/li>
  22. What are Playbooks? List the major portions used in any Playbook.<\/li>
  23. What do you understand by Play?<\/li>
  24. What are tasks?<\/li>
  25. Create a Playbook to install and configure \u201cwebserver, I.e., httpd\/apache\u201d. Use Package, File, and Service Modules. Make sure to get output as \u201cThis is my First – Playbook in Ansible\u201d on browser.<\/li>
  26. Create a Playbook for \u201cmotd file\u201d and use different variables to configure the file.<\/li>
  27. What is the purpose of Debug Module in Ansible?<\/li>
  28. What is the importance of Register variable in Ansible?<\/li>
  29. Create another \u201cmotd file\u201d and use different facts generated by Ansible to configure the file.<\/li>
  30. Create another \u201cmotd file\u201d and use both user-defined variables and Facts to configure the file.<\/li>
  31. Create a user named \u201cyogeshraheja\u201d using Ansible Statements with conditions CentOS is having version 7.x and Ubuntu is having version 16.x.<\/li>
  32. Create a playbook to install \u201cmysql\u201d server and all its dependencies like php, nginx using Ansible loops.<\/li>
  33. What is the special purpose of notify in Ansible?<\/li>
  34. Use the Handler section inside the Playbook create earlier in Chapter 5, Ansible Playbooks (under Tast You Knowledge section) for \u201cwebserver i.e httpd\/apache\u201d and run it after changing \u201cfile\u201d module with \u201cthis is my First Playbook with Handler Section\u201d.<\/li>
  35. What are Ansible Roles and why are they Important?<\/li>
  36. What is a command to create a base directory structure for Ansible Roles?<\/li>
  37. Create an Ansible Roles for \u201cWebserver\u201d server using tasks, variables, facts, and handlers.<\/li>
  38. How can one define dependencies in Ansible Roles?<\/li>
  39. What is Ansible galaxy?<\/li>
  40. Create your Ansible Galaxy Account.<\/li>
  41. Login and explore Ansible Galaxy site \u2013 https:\/\/galaxy.ansible.com\/<\/li>
  42. Search, install, and use Ansible Role named \u201cdocker-test\u201d from Ansible Galaxy.<\/li>
  43. Create and run a Playbook with two different tasks using Copy and Fetch modules.<\/li>
  44. What do you understand by fork and serial attributes in Ansible?<\/li>
  45. Create and run a Playbook to ignore failed operation errors and proceed further with tasks operations.<\/li>
  46. What is Ansible Tower?<\/li>
  47. Perform an installation and configuration of Ansible Tower with free 10 node offerings given by RedHat.<\/li>
  48. Log in and explore Ansible Tower.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n