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Question 46

The previous system administrator at your company used to rely heavily on email lists, such as vendor lists and Bug Traq to get information about updates and patches. While a useful means of acquiring data, this requires time and effort to read through. In an effort to speed things up, you decide to switch to completely automated updates and patching. You set up your systems to automatically patch your production servers using a cron job and a scripted apt-get upgrade command. Of the following reasons, which explains why you may want to avoid this plan?

The apt-get upgrade command doesn't work with the cron command because of incompatibility

Relying on vendor and 3rd party email lists enables updates via email, for even faster patching

Automated patching of production servers without prior testing may result in unexpected behavior or failures

The command apt-get upgrade is incorrect, you need to run the apt-get update command

Correct Answer: C

Automated patching of production servers without prior testing may result in unexpected behavior or failures. It is crucial to thoroughly test updates and patches in a staging environment before deploying them to production to avoid potential disruptions or issues caused by untested changes.

Discussion

Kushgod69420Option: C

This should be C.

Jaxz8Option: C

C should be the correct one. Update only gives you the ability to see if there are new packages available while upgrade will actually install them.

sundmahOption: C

Reference. C makes sense but why every place has get update as the answer?