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The commands that can be used together to persistently enable IPv4 forwarding in one of the Linux systems are sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 and sysctl –p. The first command will use sysctl to write a new value (1) to the net.ipv4.ip_forward kernel parameter, which controls whether IP forwarding is enabled or disabled for IPv4. This will enable IP forwarding immediately without rebooting. However, this change is temporary and will be lost after a reboot or a system reload. To make it permanent, we need to use the second command sysctl –p, which will load kernel parameters from /etc/sysctl.conf file. This file contains key-value pairs of kernel parameters and their values. To make sure that net.ipv4.ip_forward is set to 1 in this file, we can either edit it manually or append it using echo “net.ipv4.ip_forward=1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf.

The other options are not correct commands for persistently enabling IPv4 forwarding. The sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward command will only display the current value of net.ipv4.ip_forward parameter, but not change it. The echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward command will write 1 to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward file, which is another way to change net.ipv4.ip_forward parameter. However, this change is also temporary and will not survive a reboot or a system reload. The echo “net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=l” >> /etc/sysctl.conf command will append a line to /etc/sysctl.conf file that sets net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding parameter to 1. However, this parameter controls whether IP forwarding is enabled or disabled for IPv6, not IPv4. References: sysctl(8) - Linux manual page; Configure Linux as a Router (IP Forwarding)

The Linux administrator should choose Kubernetes for the new design that requires portability, high availability, and scalability in production using containerization. Kubernetes is an open-source platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of nodes. Kubernetes provides features such as service discovery, load balancing, storage orchestration, self-healing, secret and configuration management, and batch execution. Kubernetes also supports multiple container runtimes, such as Docker, containerd, and CRI-O, making it portable across different platforms and clouds. References: CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 18: Automating Tasks; What is Kubernetes? | Kubernetes

The RPM option -e should be used to remove software from the server. The rpm command is a tool for managing software packages on RPM-based Linux distributions. The -e option stands for erase and removes the specified package from the system. This is the correct option to use to accomplish the task. The other options are incorrect because they either do not exist (-s or -d) or do not remove software (-q stands for query and displays information about the package). References: CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 16: Managing Software, page 489.

The command dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sdd1 copies the data from the input file (if) /dev/sdc1 to the output file (of) /dev/sdd1, byte by byte. This is the correct way to clone a partition. The other options are incorrect because they either compress the data (tar -cvzf), synchronize the files (rsync), or copy the files over a network (scp), which are not the same as cloning a partition. References: CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 10: Managing Storage, page 321.