LPI 305-300 Exam Syllabus Topics
Full Virtualization
Virtualization Concepts and Theory
Weight: 6
Description: Candidates should know and understand the general concepts, theory and terminology of virtualization. This includes Xen, QEMU and libvirt terminology.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand virtualization terminology
Understand the pros and cons of virtualization
Understand the various variations of Hypervisors and Virtual Machine Monitors
Understand the major aspects of migrating physical to virtual machines
Understand the major aspects of migrating virtual machines between host systems
Understand the features and implications of virtualization for a virtual machine, such as snapshotting, pausing, cloning and resource limits
Awareness of oVirt, Proxmox, systemd-machined and VirtualBox
Awareness of Open vSwitch
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
Hypervisor
Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
Paravirtualization (PV)
Emulation and Simulation
CPU flags
/proc/cpuinfo
Migration (P2V, V2V)
Xen
Weight: 3
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:
Understand architecture of Xen, including networking and storage
Basic configuration of Xen nodes and domains
Basic management of Xen nodes and domains
Basic troubleshooting of Xen installations
Awareness of XAPI
Awareness of XenStore
Awareness of Xen Boot Parameters
Awareness of the xm utility
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
QEMU
Weight: 4
Description: Candidates should be able to install, configure, maintain, migrate and troubleshoot QEMU installations.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand the architecture of QEMU, including KVM, networking and storage
Start QEMU instances from the command line
Manage snapshots using the QEMU monitor
Install the QEMU Guest Agent and VirtIO device drivers
Troubleshoot QEMU installations, including networking and storage
Awareness of important QEMU configuration parameters
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
Kernel modules: kvm, kvm-intel and kvm-amd
/dev/kvm
QEMU monitor
qemu
qemu-system-x86_64
ip
brctl
tunctl
Libvirt Virtual Machine Management
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 QEMU 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 QEMU
Understand how libvirt interacts with network services such as dnsmasq and radvd
Understand libvirt XML configuration files
Awareness of virtlogd and virtlockd
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
libvirtd
/etc/libvirt/
virsh (including relevant subcommands)
Virtual Machine Disk Image Management
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to manage virtual machines disk images.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand features of raw, qcow2 and VMDK disk image formats
Manage disk images using qemu-img
Mount partitions using libguestfish
Copy physical disk content to VM disk image
Migrate disk content between image formats
Awareness of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
qemu-img
guestfish
guestmount
guestumount
virt-cat
virt-copy-in
virt-copy-out
virt-diff
virt-inspector
virt-filesystems
virt-rescue
virt-df
virt-resize
virt-sparsify
virt-p2v
virt-p2v-make-disk
virt-v2v
virt-sysprep
Container Virtualization
Container Virtualization Concepts
Weight: 7
Description: Candidates should understand the concept of container virtualization.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand system and application containers
Understand kernel namespaces
Understand control groups
Understand capabilities
Understand seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor
Understand LXC and Docker architecture
Understand runc, CRI-O and containerd
Awareness of OCI runtime and image specs
Awareness of Kubernetes CRI
Awareness of podman, buildah and skopeo
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
nsenter
unshare
ip
capsh
/sys/fs/cgroups
/proc/[0-9]+/ns
/proc/[0-9]+/status
LXC
Weight: 6
Description: Candidates should be able to use system containers using LXC and LXD. The version of LXC covered is 3.0 or higher.
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)
Docker
Weight: 9
Description: Candidate should be able to manage Docker nodes and Docker containers. This includes understanding the architecture of Docker as well as understanding how Docker interacts with the node’s Linux system.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand the architecture and components of Docker
Manage Docker containers using images from a Docker registry
Understand and manage images and volumes for Docker containers
Understand and manage logging for Docker containers
Understand and manage networking for Docker
Use Dockerfiles to create container images
Run a Docker registry using the registry Docker image
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
dockerd
/etc/docker/daemon.json
/var/lib/docker/
docker
Dockerfile
Container Orchestration Platforms
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should understand the importance of container orchestration and the key concepts Docker Swarm and Kubernetes provide to implement container orchestration.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand the relevance of container orchestration
Understand the key concepts of Docker Compose and Docker Swarm
Understand the key concepts of Kubernetes and Helm
Awareness of OpenShift, Rancher and Mesosphere DC/OS
VM Deployment and Provisioning
Cloud Management Tools
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should understand common offerings in public clouds and have basic feature knowledge of commonly available cloud management tools.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand common offerings in public clouds
Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack
Basic feature knowledge of Terraform
Awareness of CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenNebula
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
OpenStack
Terraform
Packer
Weight: 2
Description: Candidates should be able to use Packer to create system images. This includes running Packer in various public and private cloud environments as well as building container images for LXC/LXD.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand the functionality and features of Packer
Create and maintain template files
Build images from template files using different builders
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
Packer
cloud-init
Weight: 3
Description: Candidates should be able to use cloud-init to configure virtual machines created from standardized images.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand cloud-init features and concepts, including user-data
Use cloud-init to create, resize and mount file systems
Configure user accounts and SSH keys
Install software packages from repositories
Integrate cloud-init into system images
Use config drive datasource for testing
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
cloud-init
user-data
/var/lib/cloud/
Vagrant
Weight: 3
Description: Candidate should be able to use Vagrant to manage virtual machines, including provisioning of the virtual machine.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Understand Vagrant architecture and concepts, including storage and networking
Retrieve and use boxes from Atlas
Create and run Vagrantfiles
Access Vagrant virtual machines
Share and synchronize folders between VM and host
Understand File and Shell provisioners
Understand multi-machine setup
Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
vagrant
Vagrantfile
