11. How is a declarative language different from a procedural language?
- A declarative language defines the goal; a procedural language defines the steps to achieve a goal.
- Declarative languages are object-based; procedural languages aren’t.
- Declarative languages aren’t stateless; procedural languages are stateless.
- A declarative language defines each step required to reach the goal state.
12. Puppet facts are stored in hashes. If we wanted to use a conditional statement to perform a specific action based on a fact value, what symbol must precede the facts variable for the Puppet DSL to recognize it?
- @
- #
- $
- &
13. What does it mean that Puppet is stateless?
- Puppet retains information between uses.
- An action can be performed repeatedly without changing the system after the first run.
- There is no state being kept between runs of the agent.
- Actions are taken only when they are necessary to achieve a goal.
14. What does the "test and repair" paradigm mean in practice?
- There is no state being kept between runs of the agent.
- We should plan to repeatedly fix issues.
- We need to test before and after implementing a fix.
- We should only take actions when testing determines they need to be done to reach the requested state
15. Where, in Puppet syntax, are the attributes of a resource found?
- Inside the curly braces after the resource type
- In brackets after the if statement
- After ensure =>
- After the dollar sign ($)
