LPIC-305 Objectives V3.0
Contents
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:
Objectives
Topic 341: Virtualization
341.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory (weight: 6)
| Weight | 6 |
| 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)
| Weight | 6 |
| 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)
| Weight | 6 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot KVM installations. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- KVM architecture, including networking and storage
- KVM configuration parameters
- 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
- /dev/kvm
- kvm
- KVM monitor
- qemu
- qemu-img
341.4 Libvirt Virtual Machine Management (weight: 9)
| Weight | 9 |
| 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)
| Weight | 2 |
| 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)
| Weight | 6 |
| 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
342.2 LXC (weight: 5)
| Weight | 5 |
| Description | Candidates should be able to use system containers using LXC and LXD. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
- Understand the architecture of LXC and LXD
- Manage LXC containers based on existing images using LXD, including networking and storage
- Configure LXC container properties
- Limit LXC container resource usage
- Use LXD profiles
- Understand LXC images
- Awareness of traditional LXC tools
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- lxd
- lxc (including relevant subcommands)
342.3 Docker (weight: 8)
| Weight | 8 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
342.4 Container Orchestration Platforms (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
Topic 343: VM Deployment and Provisioning
343.3 Cloud Management Tools (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
343.3 cloud-init (weight: 3)
| Weight | 3 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
343.3 Vagrant (weight: 3)
| Weight | 3 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
343.4 packer (weight: 2)
| Weight | 2 |
| Description |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
