LFCA Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate Questions and Answers

Which of the following would be the most appropriate use-case for a Function as a Service (FaaS) implementation?

An IT associate is creating a business case to adopt a DevOps approach in an organization. Which of the following is a benefit of DevOps to include in the business case?

What command is used to set or change permission attributes of files (such as read, write, execute)?

What is the underlying technology that allows containers to be restricted to defined limits for system resource usage such as CPU, memory, and network bandwidth?

Which of these providers host repositories of container images?

Which of the following Git commands creates a new, empty Git repository?

Which of the following best describes the technical term “Elasticity”?

A supervisor instructs an IT associate to encrypt all data on a particular partition on a Linux database host. What open source technology would be used to encrypt the data?

What file is created to assemble a Docker image, which contains all the commands a user has to run to make the image from start to finish?

A team just developed a new feature on the company’s main web application. An IT associate wants to test this new feature by making it available for only 10% of the users. If everything works without any problems for a week, the associate will then make it available for all users. Which release type should be used to achieve this goal?

What command do you use to view the structure of system directory hierarchies?

An IT associate is researching technology options to use at a company. The company’s application requires a Linux server, features a small memory footprint, and runs mostly web services and a few back-end applications. Which of the following would allow for the most efficient use of system resources and fast startup speeds?

What software application architecture allows teams to iterate quickly and to develop software applications to scale rapidly?

A server on the network is unreachable. What is the best method to verify connectivity between your computer and the remote server?

An IT associate has a web application running on multiple servers, configured to scale based on CPU usage. The current configuration has a minimum size of 1 and a maximum size of 5 servers, designed to launch and spread the instances across 3 Availability Zones (AZ). During a low utilization period, an entire AZ went down, and the application experienced downtime. What can the IT associate do to increase the availability of the application?