A ________________________ contains a lookup service that provides mapping between network resources and network addresses. It's used to organize and look up organizational objects and entities including user accounts, u
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A ________________________ contains a lookup service that provides mapping between network resources and network addresses. It's used to organize and look up organizational objects and entities including user accounts, user groups, telephone numbers, and network shares. - ANSWER directory server
__________________ means that the stored directory data can be copied and distributed across a number of physically distributed servers but still appear as one unified data store for querying and administering. Provides redundancy. - ANSWER Replication
Directory services are useful for organizing data and making it searchable for an organization. This is achieved through the use of a hierarchal model of _________________ and ______________________. - ANSWER objects; containers
Containers are referred to as _____________________________ or OUs,
and they can contain objects or more organizational units, similar to the organizational structure of a file system. OUs are like folders which can contain individual files or objects for a directory service and can contain additional folders. - ANSWER organizational units
DAP - ANSWER Directory Access Protocol
DSP - ANSWER Directory System Protocol
DISP - ANSWER Directory Information Shadowing Protocol
DOP - ANSWER Directory Operational Bindings Management Protocol
LDAP - ANSWER Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - used to access information in directory services like over a network; most popular for directory services
_________________________________________________ is a central service that provides instructions to all of the different parts of an IT infrastructure. - ANSWER Centralized management
Directory services provide centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting, also known as ___________. - ANSWER AAA
In most organizations, access to computer and network resources is based on your _________ in the organization. - ANSWER role
When you manage access to resources on a computer and
on the network, you'll often grant and deny access based on _____________________________________. - ANSWER user groups
RBAC - ANSWER Role Based Access Control - manage each person's access to specific areas in the information system
Dedicated configuration management frameworks like Chef, Puppet or SCCM can be used for super simple or super powerful ______________________________________. - ANSWER configuration management
Two of the most popular directory services that use LDAP are _______________________ and _______________________________. - ANSWER active directory; openLDAP
When we say entry, we're referring to the LDAP entry format or _________________ for records in the directory service. - ANSWER LDAP notation
The format of an LDAP entry has a unique entry name denoted by dn or ______________________, then attributes and values associated with that entry. - ANSWER distinguished name
cn - ANSWER common name - refers to the individual object (person's name; meeting room; recipe name; job title; etc.) for whom/which you are querying.
ou - ANSWER organizational unit - refers to the organizational unit (or sometimes the user group) that the user is part of. If the user is part of more than one group, you may specify as such, e.g., OU= Lawyer, OU= Judge.
dc - ANSWER domain component - refers to each component of the domain. For example www.google.com would be written as DC=www,DC=google,DC=com
dn - ANSWER distinguished name - refers to the name that uniquely identifies an entry in the directory
The ______________________ authenticates clients to the directory server. - ANSWER Bind operation
The three common ways to authenticate are _________________, ____________________________, and ________________________________________. - ANSWER anonymous, simple, SASL (simple authentication and security layer)
An LDAP server that allows anonymous binds does not require any type of credentialed ____________________________
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