CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

The getenforce utility reports the current SELinux enforcement mode. When it returns "Permissive", the SELinux policy is loaded and every attempted access is still checked against that policy, but violations are only logged (as AVC messages) rather than blocked. In contrast, "Enforcing" would actively deny disallowed operations, "Disabled" would unload the SELinux module entirely and stop both labeling and logging, and the term "targeted" refers to a specific policy type rather than an enforcement mode. Therefore, the only accurate description of the Permissive state is that enforcement is turned off while auditing remains active.