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Exam Code EX294
Exam Name Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Exam
Vendor RedHat
Total Questions 35
Last Updated 26-Oct, 2026
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Explore 10 free practice questions for the RedHat EX294 exam and review the answers and explanations to support your preparation.

  1. Question 1

    Drag & Drop

    Create a playbook /home/bob /ansible/motd.yml that runs on all inventory hosts and docs the following: The playbook should replaee any existing content of/etc/motd in the following text. Use ansible facts to display the FQDN of each host

    On hosts in the dev host group the line should be " Welcome to Dev Server FQDN " .

    On hosts in the webserver host group the line should be " Welcome to Apache Server FQDN " .

    On hosts in the database host group the line should be " Welcome to MySQL Server FQDN " .

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    Correct Answer

    See the Explanation for complete Solution below.

    Explanation


    /home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/tasks/main.yml

  2. Question 2

    Drag & Drop

    Install the RHEL system roles package and create a playbook called timesync.yml that:

    -- > Runs over all managed hosts.

    -- > Uses the timesync role.

    -- > Configures the role to use the time server 192.168.10.254 ( Hear in redhat lab

    use " classroom.example.com " )

    -- > Configures the role to set the iburst parameter as enabled.

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    See the Explanation for complete Solution below.

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    home/admin/ansible/

    # sudo yum install rhel-system-roles.noarch -y

    # cd roles/

    # ansible-galaxy list

    # cp -r /usr/share/ansible/roles/rhelsystem-roles.timesync .

    # vim timesync.yml

    ---

    - name: timesynchronization

    hosts: all

    vars:

    timesync_ntp_provider: chrony

    timesync_ntp_servers:

    - hostname: classroom.example.com _ in exam its ip-address

    iburst: yes

    timezone: Asia/Kolkata

    roles:

    - rhel-system-roles.timesync

    tasks:

    - name: set timezone

    timezone:

    name: " {{ timezone }} "

    wq!

    timedatectl list-timezones | grep india

    # ansible-playbook timesync.yml --syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook timesync.yml

    # ansible all -m shell -a ' chronyc sources -v '

    # ansible all -m shell -a ' timedatectl '

    # ansible all -m shell -a ' systemctl is-enabled chronyd '

  3. Question 3

    Drag & Drop

    Modify file content.

    ------------------------

    Create a playbook called /home/admin/ansible/modify.yml as follows:

    * The playbook runs on all inventory hosts

    * The playbook replaces the contents of /etc/issue with a single line of text as

    follows:

    -- > On hosts in the dev host group, the line reads: “Development”

    -- > On hosts in the test host group, the line reads: “Test”

    -- > On hosts in the prod host group, the line reads: “Production”

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    See the Explanation for complete Solution below.

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # vim modify.yml

    ---

    - name:

    hosts: all

    tasks:

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Development "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' dev ' ]

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Test "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' test ' ]

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Production "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' prod ' ]

    wq

    # ansible-playbook modify.yml –-syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook modify.yml

  4. Question 4

    Drag & Drop

    Create an Ansible vault to store user passwords as follows:

    * The name of the vault is valut.yml

    * The vault contains two variables as follows:

    - dev_pass with value wakennym

    - mgr_pass with value rocky

    * The password to encrypt and decrypt the vault is atenorth

    * The password is stored in the file /home/admin/ansible/password.txt

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    See the Explanation for complete Solution below.

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # echo " atenorth " > password.txt

    # chmod 0600 password.txt

    # ansible-vault create vault.yml --vault-password-file=password.txt

    ---

    - dev_pass: wakennym

    - mgr_pass: rocky

    wq

    # cat vault.yml

    $ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256

    36383862376164316436353665343765643331393433373564613762666531313034336438353662

    3464346331346461306337633632393563643531376139610a343531326130663266613533633562

    38623439316631306463623761343939373263333134353264333834353264343934373765643737

    3535303630626666370a643663366634383863393338616661666632353139306436316430616334

    65386134393363643133363738656130636532346431376265613066326162643437643064313863

    6633333537303334333437646163343666666132316639376531

    # ansible-vault view vault.yml

    password:******

    ---

    - dev_pass: wakennym

    - mgr_pass: rocky

  5. Question 5

    Drag & Drop

    Generate a hosts file:

    * Download an initial template file hosts.j2 from http://classroom.example.com/

    hosts.j2 to

    /home/admin/ansible/ Complete the template so that it can be used to generate a file

    with a

    line for each inventory host in the same format as /etc/hosts:

    172.25.250.9 workstation.lab.example.com workstation

    * Create a playbook called gen_hosts.yml that uses this template to generate the file

    /etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group.

    * When completed, the file /etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group should have a

    line for

    each managed host:

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

    ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    172.25.250.10 serevra.lab.example.com servera

    172.25.250.11 serevrb.lab.example.com serverb

    172.25.250.12 serevrc.lab.example.com serverc

    172.25.250.13 serevrd.lab.example.com serverd

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

    while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per

    questation.

    hosts.j2 file consists.

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

    ::1

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

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    Correct Answer

    See the Explanation for complete Solution below.

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # wget http://classroom.example.com/hosts.j2

    # vim hosts.j2

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    {% for host in groups[ ' all ' ] %}

    {{ hostvars[host][ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' default_ipv4 ' ][ ' address ' ] }} {{ hostvars[host]

    [ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' fqdn ' ] }} {{ hostvars[host] [ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' hostname ' ] }}

    {% endfor %}

    wq!

    # vim gen_hosts.yml

    ---

    - name: collecting all host information

    hosts: all

    tasks:

    - name:

    template:

    src: hosts.j2

    dest: /etc/myhosts

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' dev ' ]

    wq

    # ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml -–syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml

  6. Question 6

    Drag & Drop

    Modify file content.

    ------------------------

    Create a playbook called /home/admin/ansible/modify.yml as follows:

    * The playbook runs on all inventory hosts

    * The playbook replaces the contents of /etc/issue with a single line of text as

    follows:

    -- > On hosts in the dev host group, the line reads: “Development”

    -- > On hosts in the test host group, the line reads: “Test”

    -- > On hosts in the prod host group, the line reads: “Production”

    Show Answer & Explanation Hide Answer & Explanation

    Correct Answer

    See the explanation for complete solution below:

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # vim modify.yml

    ---

    - name:

    hosts: all

    tasks:

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Development "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' dev ' ]

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Test "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' test ' ]

    - name:

    copy:

    content: " Production "

    dest: /etc/issue

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' prod ' ]

    wq

    # ansible-playbook modify.yml –-syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook modify.yml

  7. Question 7

    Drag & Drop

    Create a role called apache in " /home/admin/ansible/roles " with the following

    requirements:

    -- > The httpd package is installed, enabled on boot, and started.

    -- > The firewall is enabled and running with a rule to allow access to the web server.

    -- > template file index.html.j2 is used to create the file /var/www/html/index.html

    with the output:

    Welcome to HOSTNAME on IPADDRESS

    -- > Where HOSTNAME is the fqdn of the managed node and IPADDRESS is the IP-Address of

    the managed node.

    note: you have to create index.html.j2 file.

    -- > Create a playbook called httpd.yml that uses this role and the playbook runs on

    hosts in the webservers host group.

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    Correct Answer

    See the explanation for complete solution below:

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    ----------

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible/roles/

    # ansible-galaxy init apache

    # vim apache/vars/main.yml

    ---

    # vars file for apache

    http_pkg: httpd

    firewall_pkg: firewalld

    http_srv: httpd

    firewall_srv: firewalld

    rule: http

    webpage: /var/www/html/index.html

    template: index.html.j2

    wq!

    # vim apache/tasks/package.yml

    ---

    - name: Installing packages

    yum:

    name:

    - " {{http_pkg}} "

    - " {{firewall_pkg}} "

    state: latest

    wq!

    # vim apache/tasks/service.yml

    ---

    - name: start and enable http service

    service:

    name: " {{http_srv}} "

    enabled: true

    state: started

    - name: start and enable firewall service

    service:

    name: " {{firewall_srv}} "

    enabled: true

    state: started

    wq!

    # vim apache/tasks/firewall.yml

    ---

    - name: Adding http service to firewall

    firewalld:

    service: " {{rule}} "

    state: enabled

    permanent: true

    immediate: true

    wq!

    # vim apache/tasks/webpage.yml

    ---

    - name: creating template file

    template:

    src: " {{template}} "

    dest: " {{webpage}} "

    notify: restart_httpd

    !wq

    # vim apache/tasks/main.yml

    # tasks file for apache

    - import_tasks: package.yml

    - import_tasks: service.yml

    - import_tasks: firewall.yml

    - import_tasks: webpage.yml

    wq!

    # vim apache/templates/index.html.j2

    Welcome to {{ ansible_facts.fqdn }} on {{ ansible_facts.default_ipv4.address }}

    # vim apache/handlers/main.yml

    ---

    # handlers file for apache

    - name: restart_httpd

    service:

    name: httpd

    state: restarted

    wq!

    # cd ..

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible/

    # vim httpd.yml

    ---

    - name: Including apache role

    hosts: webservers

    pre_tasks:

    - name: pretask message

    debug:

    msg: ' Ensure webserver configuration '

    roles:

    - ./roles/apache

    post_tasks:

    - name: Check webserver

    uri:

    url: " http://{{ ansible_facts.default_ipv4.address }} "

    return_content: yes

    status_code: 200

    wq!

    # ansible-playbook httpd.yml –-syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook httpd.yml

    # curl http://serverx

  8. Question 8

    Drag & Drop

    Create an Ansible vault to store user passwords as follows:

    * The name of the vault is valut.yml

    * The vault contains two variables as follows:

    - dev_pass with value wakennym

    - mgr_pass with value rocky

    * The password to encrypt and decrypt the vault is atenorth

    * The password is stored in the file /home/admin/ansible/password.txt

    Show Answer & Explanation Hide Answer & Explanation

    Correct Answer

    See the explanation for complete solution below:

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # echo " atenorth " > password.txt

    # chmod 0600 password.txt

    # ansible-vault create vault.yml --vault-password-file=password.txt

    ---

    - dev_pass: wakennym

    - mgr_pass: rocky

    wq

    # cat vault.yml

    $ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256

    36383862376164316436353665343765643331393433373564613762666531313034336438353662

    3464346331346461306337633632393563643531376139610a343531326130663266613533633562

    38623439316631306463623761343939373263333134353264333834353264343934373765643737

    3535303630626666370a643663366634383863393338616661666632353139306436316430616334

    65386134393363643133363738656130636532346431376265613066326162643437643064313863

    6633333537303334333437646163343666666132316639376531

    # ansible-vault view vault.yml

    password:******

    ---

    - dev_pass: wakennym

    - mgr_pass: rocky

  9. Question 9

    Drag & Drop

    Generate a hosts file:

    * Download an initial template file hosts.j2 from http://classroom.example.com/

    hosts.j2 to

    /home/admin/ansible/ Complete the template so that it can be used to generate a file

    with a

    line for each inventory host in the same format as /etc/hosts:

    172.25.250.9 workstation.lab.example.com workstation

    * Create a playbook called gen_hosts.yml that uses this template to generate the file

    /etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group.

    * When completed, the file /etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group should have a

    line for

    each managed host:

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

    ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    172.25.250.10 serevra.lab.example.com servera

    172.25.250.11 serevrb.lab.example.com serverb

    172.25.250.12 serevrc.lab.example.com serverc

    172.25.250.13 serevrd.lab.example.com serverd

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

    while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per

    questation.

    hosts.j2 file consists.

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

    ::1

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    Show Answer & Explanation Hide Answer & Explanation

    Correct Answer

    See the explanation for complete solution below:

    Explanation

    Solution as:

    # pwd

    /home/admin/ansible

    # wget http://classroom.example.com/hosts.j2

    # vim hosts.j2

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1

    localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

    {% for host in groups[ ' all ' ] %}

    {{ hostvars[host][ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' default_ipv4 ' ][ ' address ' ] }} {{ hostvars[host]

    [ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' fqdn ' ] }} {{ hostvars[host] [ ' ansible_facts ' ][ ' hostname ' ] }}

    {% endfor %}

    wq!

    # vim gen_hosts.yml

    ---

    - name: collecting all host information

    hosts: all

    tasks:

    - name:

    template:

    src: hosts.j2

    dest: /etc/myhosts

    when: inventory_hostname in groups[ ' dev ' ]

    wq

    # ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml -–syntax-check

    # ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml

  10. Question 10

    Drag & Drop

    Create a playbook called webdev.yml in ' home/sandy/ansible . The playbook will create a directory Avcbdev on dev host. The permission of the directory are 2755 and owner is webdev. Create a symbolic link from /Webdev to /var/www/html/webdev. Serve a file from Avebdev7index.html which display s the text " Development " Curl http://nod e1 . e xample.com/w e bd e v/index.html to test

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    Correct Answer

    See the explanation for complete solution below:

    Explanation

    Solution as: