RedHat EX200 Exam
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (Page 10 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026

SIMULATION
Create a collaborative directory/home/admins with the following characteristics:
Group ownership of /home/admins is adminuser

The directory should be readable, writable, and accessible to members of adminuser, but not to any other user. (It is understood that root has access to all files and directories on the system.)

Files created in /home/admins automatically have group ownership set to the adminuser group

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

mkdir /home/admins
chgrp -R adminuser /home/admins
chmodg+w /home/admins
chmodg+s /home/admins



SIMULATION
User mary must configure a task.
Requirement: The local time at 14:23 every day echo "Hello World.".

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

crontab -u mary -e
23 14 * * * echo "Hello World."



SIMULATION
According the following requirements to create a local directory /common/admin. This directory has admin group.
This directory has read, write and execute permissions for all admin group members.
Other groups and users don’t have any permissions.
All the documents or directories created in the/common/admin are automatically inherit the admin group.

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

mkdir -p /common/admin
chgrp admin /common/admin
chmod 2770 /common/admin



SIMULATION
According the following requirements to create user, user group and the group members:
- A group named admin.
- A user named mary, and belong to admin as the secondary group.
- A user named alice, and belong to admin as the secondary group.
- A user named bobby, bobby’s login shell should be non-interactive. Bobby not belong to admin as the secondary group.
Mary, Alice, bobby users must be set "password" as the user's password.

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

groupadd admin
useradd -G admin mary
useradd -G admin alice
useradd -s /sbin/nologin bobby
echo "password" | passwd --stdin mary
echo "password" | passwd --stdin alice
echo "password" | passwd --stdin bobby



SIMULATION
Create a swap space, set the size is 600 MB, and make it be mounted automatically after rebooting the system (permanent mount).

  1. See Explanation section for answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=600 mkswap /swapfile
/etc/fstab:
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 mount -a



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