LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization (305-300) Practice Exam
LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization (305-300) Practice Exam
About LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization (305-300) Practice Exam
The LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization Exam (305-300) is part of the LPIC-3 certification and focuses on advanced virtualization and containerization technologies. This exam, identified by code 305-300, is a revised version from Exam 304, now updated to version 3.0. It evaluates your ability to work with various virtualization and containerization tools and technologies.
Exam Overview
The exam covers three main areas:
- Full Virtualization (Topic 351): This section examines your understanding of virtualization concepts, including Xen, QEMU, and Libvirt. You'll be tested on managing virtual machines, their disk images, and migration processes.
- Container Virtualization (Topic 352): This part focuses on container technologies like Docker and LXC. It also covers container orchestration platforms and security aspects of container virtualization.
- VM Deployment and Provisioning (Topic 353): This section assesses your knowledge of cloud management tools and technologies such as Packer, cloud-init, and Vagrant. You'll need to demonstrate your skills in creating, managing, and provisioning virtual machines.
Exam Details
- Exam Code: 305-300
- Exam Version: 3.0
- Exam Duration: 90 minutes
- Total Questions: 60 Questions
- Type of Questions: Multiple-Choice Questions
- Exam Language: English
- Exam Prerequisites: Must have an active LPIC-2 certification to receive the LPIC-3 certification.
Course Outline
The LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization (305-300) covers the latest and updates exam topics -
Domain 1 - Understand Full Virtualization
1.1 Explain Virtualization Concepts and Theory (Weight: 6)
This section covers the foundational concepts, theories, and terminology of virtualization. It includes understanding Xen, QEMU, and libvirt terminology.
- Definitions and benefits of virtualization
- Types of hypervisors and virtual machine monitors
- Migration techniques: physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V)
- Virtual machine features: snapshotting, pausing, cloning, and resource management
- Familiarity with oVirt, Proxmox, systemd-machined, VirtualBox, and Open vSwitch
1.2 Explain Xen (Weight: 3)
This section involves the installation, configuration, maintenance, migration, and troubleshooting of Xen environments, focusing on version 4.x.
- Xen architecture, networking, and storage
- Basic configuration and management of Xen nodes and domains
- Troubleshooting Xen installations
- Familiarity with XAPI, XenStore, Xen Boot Parameters, and the xm utility
1.3 Explain QEMU (Weight: 4)
The section covers the installation, configuration, maintenance, migration, and troubleshooting of QEMU environments.
- QEMU architecture, including KVM, networking, and storage
- Starting QEMU instances from the command line
- Managing snapshots using the QEMU monitor
- Installing QEMU Guest Agent and VirtIO drivers
- Troubleshooting QEMU, including networking and storage issues
1.4 Explain Libvirt Virtual Machine Management (Weight: 9)
This section focuses on managing virtualization hosts and virtual machines ('libvirt domains') using libvirt and related tools.
- Architecture of libvirt
- Managing libvirt connections, nodes, and domains
- Creating and managing QEMU and Xen domains, including snapshots
- Managing resource consumption, storage pools, volumes, and virtual networks
- Migrating domains and interacting with network services like dnsmasq and radvd
1.5 Virtual Machine Disk Image Management (Weight: 3)
This section involves managing virtual machine disk images, including format conversion and accessing data within images.
- Features of various disk image formats: raw, qcow2, VMDK
- Using qemu-img for disk image management
- Mounting and accessing files in disk images with libguestfish
- Migrating disk content between formats
- Familiarity with Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
Domain 2 - Understanding Container Virtualization
2.1 Explain Container Virtualization Concepts (Weight: 7)
This section addresses the concepts and components of container virtualization, including Linux tools for troubleshooting.
- Concepts of system and application containers
- Analysis of kernel namespaces, control groups, and capabilities
- Role of seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor in container virtualization
- How LXC and Docker use namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp, and MAC
- Principles of runc, CRI-O, and containerd
- Awareness of OCI runtime and image specifications, Kubernetes CRI, podman, buildah, skopeo, and other container approaches like rkt, OpenVZ, systemd-nspawn, and BSD Jails
2.2 Explain LXC (Weight: 6)
This section covers using system containers with LXC and LXD, specifically version 3.0 or higher.
- Architecture of LXC and LXD
- Managing LXC containers with LXD, including networking and storage
- Configuring container properties and limiting resource usage
- Using LXD profiles and understanding LXC images
2.3 Explain Docker (Weight: 9)
This section involves managing Docker nodes and containers, understanding Docker architecture, and integration with the Linux system.
- Docker architecture and components
- Managing Docker containers using images from registries
- Handling Docker images, volumes, logging, and networking
- Creating container images with Dockerfiles
- Running a Docker registry using the registry Docker image
2.4 Explain Container Orchestration Platforms (Weight: 3)
This section covers the importance and key concepts of container orchestration platforms like Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
- Relevance of container orchestration
- Concepts of Docker Compose and Docker Swarm
- Concepts of Kubernetes and Helm
- Awareness of OpenShift, Rancher, and Mesosphere DC/OS
Domain 3 - Understanding VM Deployment and Provisioning
3.1 explain Cloud Management Tools (Weight: 2)
This section covers common public cloud offerings and basic knowledge of cloud management tools.
- Common public cloud services
- Basic features of OpenStack and Terraform
- Awareness of CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula
3.2 Explain Packer (Weight: 2)
This section involves using Packer to create system images, including for cloud environments and container images.
- Packer functionality and features
- Creating and maintaining Packer templates
- Building images from templates using various builders
3.3 Explain cloud-init (Weight: 3)
This section covers using cloud-init to configure virtual machines from standardized images, including resource adjustment and secure SSH setup.
- Features and concepts of cloud-init, including user-data and configuration
- Creating, resizing, and mounting file systems with cloud-init
- Configuring user accounts and installing software packages
- Integrating cloud-init into system images and using config drive datasource for testing
3.4 Explain Vagrant (Weight: 3)
This section involves using Vagrant for virtual machine management and provisioning.
- Vagrant architecture, storage, and networking
- Using boxes from Atlas, creating and running Vagrantfiles
- Accessing Vagrant virtual machines and synchronizing folders
- Understanding Vagrant provisioning and multi-machine setups
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