IBM S2000-025 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: S2000-025
- Exam Name: IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty
- Certification Provider: IBM
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
What is the first line of a shell script called that specifies the interpreter?
- A . Interpreter line
- B . Shebang
- C . Script header
- D . Execute line
What does the RPM command ‘rpm -qpi <package.rpm>’ do in AIX?
- A . Installs the specified package
- B . Removes the specified package
- C . Displays the information of the uninstalled package
- D . Updates the specified package
What is the primary purpose of the diag command in AIX?
- A . To update the AIX operating system
- B . To configure network interfaces
- C . To perform hardware diagnostics and display system information
- D . To manage software packages
Which command in AIX is used to view a detailed report of error log entries?
- A . errpt -a
- B . syslog -d
- C . alog -o
- D . errview
What is the primary purpose of the errpt command in AIX?
- A . To configure error notification
- B . To display the error log
- C . To archive old error logs
- D . To create custom error reports
An administrator notices a process in the process list with only the numbers 123 and no user name.
What explains why the process has numbers in the UID column in ps -ef output?
- A . It is a kernel process
- B . The UID column in the output shows only numerical User IDs
- C . The user that started the process was removed from the system
- D . Zombie processes have no real space or owners, so random UID column numbers occur
Which of the following are components of AIX’s system and network security framework? (Choose two)
- A . RBAC
- B . IPSEC
- C . SELinux
- D . AppArmor
Which file should be checked first when a user is unable to log in to an AIX system?
- A . /etc/password
- B . /var/adm/wtmp
- C . /etc/security/lastlog
- D . /etc/security/user
A user, fred, is unable to login to the AIX server using SSH. An error message is displayed: Received disconnect from 10.11.12.13 port 22:2: Remote login for account fred is not allowed
However, the user is able to login via the virtual console from the HMC.
Which user attribute does the administrator check to determine if remote network logins are allowed for the user fred?
- A . Check the login attribute for the user
- B . Check the rlogin attribute for the user
- C . Check that the umask attribute for the user is set to 22
- D . Check that the account_locked attribute is set to true
A system administrator needs to change the default name resolution order, to first search the /etc/hosts file and then the DNS servers.
Which option should be present in which file?
- A . hosts = file, bind in the /etc/hosts file
- B . hosts = local, bind in the /etc/netsvc.conf file
- C . options = local, bind in the /etc/resolv.conf file
- D . NSORDER = local, bind in the /etc/nslookup.conf file