
GIAC Security Essentials
Domain 4Objective 3
Linux Fundamentals GSEC Practice Questions (Page 9)
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 41–43
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Which Linux directory is the standard location for system configuration files that are typically edited by an administrator?
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Which command is used to change the group membership of an existing user account?
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A Linux server has two network interfaces: eth0 with IP 192.168.1.10/24 and eth1 with IP 10.0.0.10/24. The default route currently points to 192.168.1.1. The administrator needs to add a static route so that traffic to the 172.16.5.0/24 network goes through the gateway 10.0.0.1. Which command adds this route persistently?
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