GIAC Security Essentials
Domain 4Objective 3
Linux Fundamentals GSEC Practice Questions (Page 6)
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 26–30
- 26
A Debian 12 server needs to have the 'apache2' package installed from the official Debian repository. The administrator has already run 'apt update'. Which command installs the package?
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Which command creates a new user account with a home directory and sets an initial password in a single step?
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A user reports they cannot edit a file in /etc/nginx/conf.d even though they are a member of the 'nginx' group. The file is owned by root:nginx with permissions 644. The directory /etc/nginx/conf.d has permissions 755 and is owned by root:root. What is the most likely reason the user cannot edit the file?
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Which command removes a package but retains its configuration files on a Debian-based system?
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Which command sends a SIGTERM signal to a process with PID 1234, allowing it to terminate gracefully?
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