CompTIA Updated XK0-005 Exam Questions and Answers by louise

To terminate an unresponsive process immediately without waiting for a graceful shutdown, the administrator can use the command kill -SIGKILL 5545 (A). This will send a signal to the process with the PID 5545 that cannot be ignored or handled by the process, and force it to stop. The other commands will send different signals that may allow the process to perform some cleanup or termination actions, or may be ignored by the process. References:

[CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide], Chapter 6: Managing Processes, Section: Killing Processes

[How to Kill Processes in Linux]

To delete a file from a Git repository, the administrator can use the command git rm app.conf (D). This will remove the file “app.conf” from the working directory and stage it for deletion from the repository. The administrator can then commit the change with git commit -m "Delete app.conf" to finalize the deletion. The other commands will not delete the file, but either tag, commit, or checkout the file. References:

[CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide], Chapter 10: Working with Git, Section: Deleting Files with Git

[How to Delete Files from Git]

The cloud engineer should use cloud-init to install packages during VM provisioning. Cloud-init is a tool that allows the customization of cloud instances at boot time. Cloud-init can perform various tasks, such as setting the hostname, creating users, installing packages, configuring network, and running scripts. Cloud-init can work with different cloud platforms and Linux distributions. This is the correct tool to accomplish the task. The other options are incorrect because they are either not suitable for cloud provisioning (Bash or Docker) or not a tool but a design pattern (Sidecar). References: CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 19: Managing Cloud and Virtualization Technologies, page 563.

To query Mail Exchange (MX) records for a domain, use dig:dig mx foo.com

To query Mail Exchange (MX) records for a domain, use dig:dig mx foo.com

To query Mail Exchange (MX) records for a domain, use dig:dig mx foo.com

MX records specify which mail servers handle email for a domain.

Why the other options are incorrect?

A. arp mx foo.com → Incorrect, arp is used for MAC address resolution, not DNS lookups.

B. nc mx foo.com → Incorrect, nc (netcat) is used for networking and port scanning, not DNS queries.

D. route mx foo.com → Incorrect, route manages routing tables, not DNS records.

References:

Linux dig Command – Linux Documentation