GIAC Security Essentials
Domain 4Objective 3
Linux Fundamentals GSEC Practice Questions (Page 5)
Part of the Endpoint and Platform Security domain, which makes up ~32% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 240-minute exam (~95–160 total, ~30–51 in this domain), expect 3–6 from this objective — we provide 43 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 21–25
- 21
A Linux server has two network interfaces. The administrator needs to temporarily assign an additional IP address to the primary interface for testing, without making the change persistent. Which command accomplishes this?
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A security team needs to ensure that a critical security patch is applied to a CentOS 8 system. The patch is available in the official AppStream repository. Which command sequence will update the system and verify the patch is installed?
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A process (PID 1234) is stuck in an uninterruptible sleep (D state) and is causing high load. The administrator has tried 'kill -9 1234' but the process remains. What is the most likely reason and the appropriate next step?
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Which command would change the group ownership of a file named 'report.txt' to the group 'audit'?
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Which command displays disk space usage for mounted file systems?
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