A systems administrator has received reports of intermittent network connectivity to a particular website.
Which of the following is the BEST command to use to characterize the location and type of failure over the course of several minutes?

Ann, a Linux administrator, wants to edit a configuration management file. When she opens the file to edit, her text editor reports that the file has been opened in read-only mode. She then tries to edit the file as root by elevating via sudo and is still unable to save any changes. The error message in her text editor says that the read-only option is set on the file. Ann checks the permissions on the file and sees the following:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 30 Jun 13 15:38 infrastructure.yml
Which of the following commands is the BEST option to allow her to successfully modify the file?

The lead Linux has added a disk, /dev/sdd, to a VM that is running out of disk space. Place the following steps in the correct order from first (1) to last (4) to add the disk to the existing LVM.

A user issues the following command:
ls -l /var/log | egrep -e '^d[rwx]{3}.*[rw-]{3}.*'
The list of files in the system is shown below:

Which of the following results matches the command issued?

A Linux administrator needs to add some files in a directory to the Git repository but must exclude some local
.tmp files that are occasionally created by the scripts.
Which of the following is the BEST way to accomplish this task?