A networked has been crashing intermittently. A Linux administrator would like to write a shell script that will attempt to ping the server and email an alert if the server fails to respond. The script will later be scheduled via cron job.
Which of the following scripts would BEST accomplish this task?

A systems administrator wants to deploy several applications to the same server quickly. Each application should be abstracted from the host with its own dependencies and libraries and utilize a minimal footprint.
Which of the following would be BEST in this scenario?

A server administrator is given the hash of an account password that needs to be synchronized across all servers.
Which of the following will allow the server administrator to configure the account password?

An administrator needs to see the type of CPU that a server is running. Which of the following files contains this information?

Users in the payroll department are not configured to use DNS due to security concerns. The users ask the junior Linux administrator to configure their workstations to access the payroll server at 192.168.204.11 by the name "Payroll". Which of the following commands should the administrator issue to meet this request?