Ansible Automation Ansible Inventory & Configuration Management

Question 1

What is the default location of the Ansible inventory file?

Accepted Answer

/etc/ansible/hosts

Answer

/etc/ansible/inventory

Answer

/usr/ansible/hosts

Answer

/var/ansible/inventory

Question 2

Which INI-style inventory syntax correctly defines a group called 'webservers'?

Accepted Answer

[webservers]

Answer

{webservers}

Answer

Answer

(webservers)

Question 3

How do you specify a custom inventory file when running an Ansible playbook?

Accepted Answer

-i /path/to/inventory

Answer

--inventory-file=/path

Answer

-f /path/to/inventory

Answer

--hosts=/path/to/inventory

Question 4

What keyword is used in an inventory file to define variables that apply to all hosts in a group?

Accepted Answer

[groupname:vars]

Answer

[groupname:all]

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[groupname:defaults]

Answer

[groupname:settings]

Question 5

Which inventory keyword is used to create a group that contains other groups as members?

Accepted Answer

[parentgroup:children]

Answer

[parentgroup:groups]

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[parentgroup:members]

Answer

[parentgroup:nested]

Question 6

What host pattern would you use to target all hosts in both 'webservers' and 'dbservers' groups?

Accepted Answer

webservers:dbservers

Answer

webservers+dbservers

Answer

webservers,dbservers

Answer

webservers&dbservers