System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services. Week 4: Directory Services Already Passed

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What does a directory server provide? ✔✔a lookup service for an organization; A directory service allows members of an organization to lookup information about the organization, like network res... ources and their addresses. What benefits does replication provide? Check all that apply. ✔✔redundancy; Directory server replication grants you redundancy by having multiple copies of the database being served by multiple servers. The added servers that provide lookup services also reduce the latency for clients querying the service. decreased latency What's the most popular directory services protocol used today? ✔✔lightweight directory access protocol; LDAP is the most popular and widely used directory access protocol today. Which of these are examples of centralized management? Check all that apply ✔✔role-based access control; Role-based access control makes it easier to administer access rights by changing role membership and allowing for inheritance to grant permissions (instead of granting each permission individually for each user account). Centralized configuration management is an easier way to manage configurations for services and hardware. By centralizing this, it becomes easier to push changes to multiple systems at once. centralized configuration management Which of these are components of an LDAP entry? Check all that apply. ✔✔Common Name; The Common Name contains a descriptor of the object, like the full name for a user account. A [Show More]

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