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LPIC-3 Exam 300: Mixed Environments, version 1.0
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Exam Title :
LPIC-3 Mixed Environment
Exam ID :
300-100
Exam Duration :
90 mins
Questions in Exam :
60
Passing Score :
500 / 800
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Real Questions :
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LPI 300-100 Certification VCE Practice Test
Topic 390: OpenLDAP Configuration
390.1 OpenLDAP Replication
Description: Candidates should be familiar with the server replication available with OpenLDAP.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Replication concepts
- Configure OpenLDAP replication
- Analyze replication log files
- Understand replica hubs
- LDAP referrals
- LDAP sync replication
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- master / slave server
- multi-master replication
- consumer
- replica hub
- one-shot mode
- referral
- syncrepl
- pull-based / push-based synchronization
- refreshOnly and refreshAndPersist
- replog
390.2 Securing the Directory
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to configure encrypted access to the LDAP directory, and restrict access at the firewall level.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Securing the directory with SSL and TLS
- Firewall considerations
- Unauthenticated access methods
- User / password authentication methods
- Maintanence of SASL user DB
- Client / server certificates
Terms and Utilities:
- SSL / TLS
- Security Strength Factors (SSF)
- SASL
- proxy authorization
- StartTLS
- iptables
390.3 OpenLDAP Server Performance Tuning
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be capable of measuring the performance of an LDAP server, and tuning configuration directives.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Measure OpenLDAP performance
- Tune software configuration to increase performance
- Understand indexes
Terms and Utilities:
- index
- DB_CONFIG
Topic 391: OpenLDAP as an Authentication Backend
391.1 LDAP Integration with PAM and NSS
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to configure PAM and NSS to retrieve information from an LDAP directory.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Configure PAM to use LDAP for authentication
- Configure NSS to retrieve information from LDAP
- Configure PAM modules in various Unix environments
Terms and Utilities:
- PAM
- NSS
- /etc/pam.d/
- /etc/nsswitch.conf
391.2 Integrating LDAP with Active Directory and Kerberos
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to integrate LDAP with Active Directory Services.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Kerberos integration with LDAP
- Cross platform authentication
- Single sign-on concepts
- Integration and compatibility limitations between OpenLDAP and Active Directory
Terms and Utilities:
- Kerberos
- Active Directory
- single sign-on
- DNS
Topic 392: Samba Basics
392.1 Samba Concepts and Architecture
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should understand the essential concepts of Samba. As well, the major differences between Samba3 and Samba4 should be known.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the roles of the Samba daemons and components
- Understand key issues regarding heterogeneous networks
- Identify key TCP/UDP ports used with SMB/CIFS
- Knowledge of Samba3 and Samba4 differences
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/services
- Samba daemons: smbd, nmbd, samba, winbindd
392.2 Configure Samba
Weight: 4
Description: Candidates should be able to configure the Samba daemons for a wide variety of purposes.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Knowledge of Samba server configuration file structure
- Knowledge of Samba variables and configuration parameters
- Troubleshoot and debug configuration problems with Samba
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- smb.conf parameters
- smb.conf variables
- testparm
- secrets.tdb
392.3 Regular Samba Maintenance
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should know about the various tools and utilities that are part of a Samba installation.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Monitor and interact with running Samba daemons
- Perform regular backups of Samba configuration and state data
Terms and Utilities:
- smbcontrol
- smbstatus
- tdbbackup
392.4 Troubleshooting Samba
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should understand the structure of trivial database files and know how troubleshoot problems.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Configure Samba logging
- Backup TDB files
- Restore TDB files
- Identify TDB file corruption
- Edit / list TDB file content
Terms and Utilities:
- /var/log/samba/
- log level
- debuglevel
- smbpasswd
- pdbedit
- secrets.tdb
- tdbbackup
- tdbdump
- tdbrestore
- tdbtool
392.5 Internationalization
Weight: 1
Description: Candidates should be able to work with internationalization character codes and code pages.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand internationalization character codes and code pages
- Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to share, file and directory names in a non-English environment
- Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to user and group naming in a non-English environment
- Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to computer naming in a non-English environment
Terms and Utilities:
- internationalization
- character codes
- code pages
- smb.conf
- dos charset, display charset and unix charset
Topic 393: Samba Share Configuration
393.1 File Services
Weight: 4
Description: Candidates should be able to create and configure file shares in a mixed environment.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Create and configure file sharing
- Plan file service migration
- Limit access to IPC$
- Create scripts for user and group handling of file shares
- Samba share access configuration parameters
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- [homes]
- smbcquotas
- smbsh
- browseable, writeable, valid users, write list, read list, read only and guest ok
- IPC$
- mount, smbmount
393.2 Linux File System and Share/Service Permissions
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should understand file permissions on a Linux file system in a mixed environment.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Knowledge of file / directory permission control
- Understand how Samba interacts with Linux file system permissions and ACLs
- Use Samba VFS to store Windows ACLs
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- chmod, chown
- create mask, directory mask, force create mode, force directory mode
- smbcacls
- getfacl, setfacl
- vfs_acl_xattr, vfs_acl_tdb and vfs objects
393.3 Print Services
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to create and manage print shares in a mixed environment.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Create and configure printer sharing
- Configure integration between Samba and CUPS
- Manage Windows print drivers and configure downloading of print drivers
- Configure [print$]
- Understand security concerns with printer sharing
- Uploading printer drivers for Point’n’Print driver installation using ‘Add Print Driver Wizard’ in Windows
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- [print$]
- CUPS
- cupsd.conf
- /var/spool/samba/.
- smbspool
- rpcclient
- net
Topic 394: Samba User and Group Management
394.1 Managing User Accounts and Groups
Weight: 4
Description: Candidates should be able to manage user and group accounts in a mixed environment.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Manager user and group accounts
- Understand user and group mapping
- Knowledge of user account management tools
- Use of the smbpasswd program
- Force ownership of file and directory objects
Terms and Utilities:
- pdbedit
- smb.conf
- samba-tool user (with subcommands)
- samba-tool group (with subcommands)
- smbpasswd
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/group
- force user, force group.
- idmap
394.2 Authentication, Authorization and Winbind
Weight: 5
Description: Candidates should understand the various authentication mechanisms and configure access control. Candidates should be able to install and configure the Winbind service.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Setup a local password database
- Perform password synchronization
- Knowledge of different passdb backends
- Convert between Samba passdb backends
- Integrate Samba with LDAP
- Configure Winbind service
- Configure PAM and NSS
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- smbpasswd, tdbsam, ldapsam
- passdb backend
- libnss_winbind
- libpam_winbind
- libpam_smbpass
- wbinfo
- getent
- SID and foreign SID
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/group
Topic 395: Samba Domain Integration
395.1 Samba as a PDC and BDC
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to setup and maintain primary and backup domain controllers. Candidates should be able to manage Windows/Linux client access to the NT-Style domains.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand and configure domain membership and trust relationships
- Create and maintain a primary domain controller with Samba3 and Samba4
- Create and maintain a backup domain controller with Samba3 and Samba4
- Add computers to an existing domain
- Configure logon scripts
- Configure roaming profiles
- Configure system policies
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- security mode
- server role
- domain logons
- domain master
- logon script
- logon path
- NTConfig.pol
- net
- profiles
- add machine script
- profile acls
395.2 Samba4 as an AD compatible Domain Controller
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to configure Samba 4 as an AD Domain Controller.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Configure and test Samba 4 as an AD DC
- Using smbclient to confirm AD operation
- Understand how Samba integrates with AD services: DNS, Kerberos, NTP, LDAP
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- server role
- samba-tool domain (with subcommands)
- samba
395.3 Configure Samba as a Domain Member Server
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to integrate Linux servers into an environment where Active Directory is present.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Joining Samba to an existing NT4 domain
- Joining Samba to an existing AD domain
- Ability to obtain a TGT from a KDC
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- server role
- server security
- net command
- kinit, TGT and REALM
Topic 396: Samba Name Services
396.1 NetBIOS and WINS
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be familiar with NetBIOS/WINS concepts and understand network browsing.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand WINS concepts
- Understand NetBIOS concepts
- Understand the role of a local master browser
- Understand the role of a domain master browser
- Understand the role of Samba as a WINS server
- Understand name resolution
- Configure Samba as a WINS server
- Configure WINS replication
- Understand NetBIOS browsing and browser elections
- Understand NETBIOS name types
Terms and Utilities:
- smb.conf
- nmblookup
- smbclient
- name resolve order
- lmhosts
- wins support, wins server, wins proxy, dns proxy
- domain master, os level, preferred master
396.2 Active Directory Name Resolution
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be familiar with the internal DNS server with Samba4.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand and manage DNS for Samba4 as an AD Domain Controller
- DNS forwarding with the internal DNS server of Samba4
Terms and Utilities:
- samba-tool dns (with subcommands)
- smb.conf
- dns forwarder
- /etc/resolv.conf
- dig, host
Topic 397: Working with Linux and Windows Clients
397.1 CIFS Integration
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be comfortable working with CIFS in a mixed environment.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand SMB/CIFS concepts
- Access and mount remote CIFS shares from a Linux client
- Securely storing CIFS credentials
- Understand features and benefits of CIFS
- Understand permissions and file ownership of remote CIFS shares
Terms and Utilities:
- SMB/CIFS
- mount, mount.cifs
- smbclient
- smbget
- smbtar
- smbtree
- findsmb
- smb.conf
- smbcquotas
- /etc/fstab
397.2 Working with Windows Clients
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to interact with remote Windows clients, and configure Windows workstations to access file and print services from Linux servers.
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Knowledge of Windows clients
- Explore browse lists and SMB clients from Windows
- Share file / print resources from Windows
- Use of the smbclient program
- Use of the Windows net utility
Terms and Utilities:
- Windows net command
- smbclient
- control panel
- rdesktop
- workgroup