LPIC-305 Objectives V3.0

Introduction

The description of the entire LPIC-3 programme is listed here.

Version Information

These objectives are version 2.0.0.

There is also a summary and detailed information on the changes from version 1.0 to 2.0 of the objectives.

The version 1.x objectives can be found here.

Translations of Objectives

The following translations of the objectives are available on this wiki:

• English
• Japanese

Objectives

Topic 341: Virtualization

341.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory (weight: 6)

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Description	Candidates should know and understand the general concepts, theory and terminology of Virtualization. This includes Xen, KVM and libvirt terminology.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Terminology
• Pros and Cons of Virtualization
• Variations of Virtual Machine Monitors
• Migration of Physical to Virtual Machines
• Migration of Virtual Machines between Host systems
• Cloud Computing

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• Hypervisor
• Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
• Paravirtualization (PV)
• Container Virtualization
• Emulation and Simulation
• CPU flags
• /proc/cpuinfo
• Migration (P2V, V2V)
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

341.2 Xen (weight: 6)

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Description	Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot Xen installations. The focus is on Xen version 4.x.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Xen architecture, networking and storage
• Xen configuration
• Xen utilities
• Troubleshooting Xen installations
• Awareness of XAPI
• Awareness of XenStore
• Awareness of Xen Boot Parameters
• Awareness of the xm utility

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• Domain0 (Dom0), DomainU (DomU)
• PV-DomU, HVM-DomU
• /etc/xen/
• xl
• xl.cfg
• xl.conf
• xentop

341.3 KVM (weight: 6)

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Description	Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot KVM installations.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• KVM architecture, networking and storage
• KVM configuration
• KVM utilities
• Troubleshooting KVM installations

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• Kernel modules: kvm, kvm-intel and kvm-amd
• /etc/kvm/
• /dev/kvm
• kvm
• KVM monitor
• qemu
• qemu-img

341.4 Libvirt Virtual Machine Management (weight: 9)

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Description	Candidates should be able to manage virtualization hosts and virtual machines (‘libvirt domains’) using libvirt and related tools.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Understand the architecture of libvirt
• Manage libvirt connections and nodes
• Create and manage KVM and Xen domains, including snapshots
• Manage and analyze resource consumption of domains
• Create and manage storage pools and volumes
• Create and manage virtual networks
• Migrate domains between nodes
• Understand how libvirt interacts with Xen and KVM
• Understand libvirt XML configuration files

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• libvirtd
• /etc/libvirt/
• virsh (including relevant subcommands)

341.5 Cloud Management Tools (weight: 2)

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Description	Candidates should have basic feature knowledge of commonly available cloud management tools.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack and CloudStack
• Awareness of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• OpenStack
• CloudStack
• Eucalyptus
• OpenNebula

Topic 342: Container Virtualization

342.1 Container Virtualization Concepts (weight: 6)

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Description	Candidates should understand the concept of container virtualization. This includes understanding the Linux components used to implement container virtualization as well as using standard Linux tools to troubleshoot these components.

Key Knowledge Areas:

• Understand the concepts of system and application container
• Understand and analyze kernel namespaces
• Understand and analyze control groups
• Understand and analyze capabilities
• Understand the role of seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor for container virtualization
• Understand how LXC and Docker leverage namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp and MAC
• Awareness of other container virtualization approaches in Linux and other free operating systems, such as rkt, OpenVZ, systemd-nspawn or BSD Jails

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

• nsenter
• unshare
• capsh
• /sys/fs/cgroups
• /proc/[0-9]+/ns
• /proc/[0-9]+/status