Okta Flashcards
What are mandatory components when creating your Okta Org?
People and Applications
What are optional components when creating your Okta Org
Groups and Directories
Can you change the account master for an account at any time after creation? For example, directory-mastered accounts can change to Okta-mastered when an external directory is decommissioned.
Yes
If users want to access applications from a mobile device, what app should they use?
Okta Mobile
On initial Okta authentication, what is required for non-SAML configured applications?
The Okta browser plugin. After the plugin is installed, users can access the applications as necessary.
What is an Agent?
A lightweight program that runs as a service outside of Okta. It is typically installed behind a firewall and allows Okta to tunnel communication between an on-premises service and Okta’s cloud service.
What is the Application Integration Wizard (AIW)? And what kind of apps can you create with it?
If the application that you want to add does not already exist in the OIN, create it with the AIW. The AIW allows you to create custom SWA, SAML 2.0, and OIDC apps with immediate functionality.
What is Attribute level mastering (ALM)?
It’s an enhancement to the profile-mastering concept. ALM changes the profile-mastering model by allowing administrators to override the source that masters the entire Okta user profile.
What is an Identity Provider (IdP)?
It is a service that manages end user accounts analogous to user directories such as LDAP and Active Directory, and can send SAML responses to SPs to authenticate end users. Within this scenario, the IdP is Okta.
What is OpenID Connect (OIDC)?
An authentication layer on top of OAuth 2.0, an authorization framework. The standard is controlled
by the OpenID Foundation.
What is a Profile Master?
A profile master is an application (usually a directory service such as Active Directory, or human capital
management system such as Workday) that acts as a source of truth for user profile attributes. A user can only be mastered by a single application or directory at any one time.
What is Provisioning?
CRUD - The ability to automatically create, read, update and deactivate a user in an application
What does SP mean and how does it work with Okta?
An acronym for service provider. Generally, an SP is a company, usually providing organizations with communications, storage, processing, and a host of other services. Within Okta, it is any website that accepts SAML responses as a way of signing in users, and has the ability to redirect a user to an IdP (e.g., Okta) to begin the authentication process.
What is SWA and what does it do?
An acronym for Secure Web Authentication. SWA is a SSO system developed by Okta to provide single sign-on for apps that don’t support proprietary federated sign-on methods or SAML. Users can enter their credentials for these apps on their homepage. These credentials are stored such that users can access their apps without entering their credentials each time. When users first sign-in to a SWA app from their homepage, they see a pop-up message asking if they were able to sign-in successfully.
What is a Template App?
An app that can be used to create custom applications that are not in the OIN.
What are the traits of Okta-mastered Users?
- Created and Maintained in Okta
- Authenticate against the Okta policy
- Associated with Okta groups
- Provide an alternate login method separate from an external directory
- Governed by the Okta user profile
What are the traits of Directory-Mastered Users?
- Created and Maintained in the external directory
- Pulled into Okta
- Authenticate against the external directory
- Associated with directory or Okta groups
- Governed by the directory user profile
What are the traits of Application-Mastered users?
- Created and maintained in the application
- Pushed to Okta
- Authenticate against Okta or external directory
- Governed by the application user profile
What can an Okta-mastered Admin do around password and account management?
- Define authentication settings in Okta
- Manage account unlocks and resets through the Okta Administrator app
- Can mass reset passwords
What can an Okta-Mastered USER do around password and account management?
- Can modify account information and change passwords on the account settings page
- Can use the Forgot password link to reset password
What can a Directory-Mastered Admin do around password and account management?
- Define authentication settings in the directory service
* Manage all account changes through the directory service
What can/can’t a Directory-Mastered USER do around password and account management?
- UNABLE to modify account information on the account settings page
- Ability to change or reset passwords determined by administrator configuration
What does enabling the Active Directory Password Policy options in Okta do?
It enables users to reset or change Active Directory passwords through the Okta interface.
Alternatively, you can disable delegated authentication and enable Sync Password, which passes the Okta password to Active Directory. Regardless of how you enable directory-mastered accounts to change passwords, the password policies are governed by the directory service server.
What can a Super Admin do?
Has full access to perform all administrative tasks and permission sets in Okta
What CANT an Organization Admin do?
- Add, remove, and view administrators
- Add, delete, and edit scope, claim, and policy on an authorization server
- Edit default email settings for other admins
- Add users to a group assigned admin privileges
- Assign admin privileges to a group
- NO application actions (view, add, assign, etc.)
- No OMM Application actions
What can an Application Admin do?
- Can run reports and manage profile information
• Can view users and groups, but not modify either
• Can manage information on applications to which they are assigned access
What CAN a Group Admin do?
- All actions under User Management (View, activate, deactivate, edit profiles, password/MFA resets, create/delete users, clear user session)
- View groups
- Add Users to groups
- Remove users from groups
- Create/view user tokens
- View user social tokens
What can a Read-Only Admin do?
- Can view and run reports
• Can view users, groups, and applications, but cannot modify any settings
• Can view, but not modify organizational settings
What can a Help-Desk Admin do?
- Can View users
• Can reset password and MFA
• Can clear user session
How do you create an individual Okta-Mastered User?
Directory > People > Add Person
How do you import multiple Okta-Mastered Users?
People > More Actions > Import from CSV > Download CSV template
For Directory-Mastered users, where do you perform account changes (including status changes)?
In the directory service. For example, if an employee has left the company and their account is mastered in Active Directory, change the status in Active Directory. The Okta Active Directory agent pulls the status update from Active Directory and pushes it to Okta. Okta then deactivates the user account.
When an account has a Provisioned status, what must occur to change the status to Active? (2 options)
- An administrator can manually activate the account.
- With Just-in-time (JIT) provisioning enabled, the user authenticating to Okta for the first time changes the account to Active.
Only Okta-mastered users can be suspended. True or False?
True. If an account associated with an API token is suspended, the token cannot be used.
What happens if an account associated to a directory agent token is suspended?
If the account associated to a directory agent token is suspended, the agent stops working and users will not be able to authenticate.
Before an account can be deleted, it must first be deactivated. True or False?
True
You can deactivate an account through the Okta Admin app or API. T or F?
True
After an account is deleted, can administrators create a new Okta user with the same username as the deleted one?
Yes
Which Admin roles can delete a user?
Super Admin, Org Admin, and Group
Admin
The Okta system log retains past events that the deactivated user performed; How long does the log retain the activity?
The last 6 months
How many Active Directory agents does Okta recommend you setup for each domain?
2 or more
If you are setting up 2 Active Directory agents, will the setup be the same or different for both agents?
Same for both
Does installing multiple agents in close geographical proximity to your users enhance performance?
No
When you have multiple agents installed, how does the system know which agent to use?
The system will automatically select the appropriate agent based on user location.
What system requirements are needed for you to successfully install and configure the Okta Active Directory agent?
• Windows Server 2008 R2 or later • 256Mb RAM • Should be a domain member server • Always on The host server of the agent must also be a member of the same Windows domain as the Active Directory users.
What USER account requirements are needed for you to successfully install and configure the Okta Active Directory Agent?
- Active Directory administrator account
- Okta Super Administrator
- Okta Active Directory service account
During the AD server installation, you are asked if you want to let the installer create the Okta Active Directory service account. To do so, what are the permissions you must have for this?
- Must be a member of the domain admins group because you must be able to create a new Active Directory user in Active Directory that will act as the Active Directory agent service account.
• Must have local administrator privileges
Do you need to create an Okta mastered administrator account before you begin installing the Active Directory agent?
Yes. This user should have an Okta-specific password and not an Active Directory password.
How do you setup Active Directory with Okta?
Directory > Directory Integrations > Add Active Directory > Setup Active Directory > Download Agent
When importing users from AD, where can you specify the behaviors for exact, partial, and no matches on user accounts imported from AD?
Import Matching Rules
What is JIT Provisioning?
- Enables automatic user account creation in Okta the first time a user authenticates with one of the following methods:
- AD Delegated Authentication, Desktop SSO, Inbound SAML
- Will not create a new account for existing users or for accounts that have been confirmed but not activated. However, JIT will update an existing user’s profile at their next log in.
What provisioning features are enabled wiehn AD is the main user store?
- CRUD(eactivate)
- Profile master
- Sync password
On user creation, admins can also specify activation email recipients.
Admins can also specify different username and common name formats
If customers are transitioning away from AD to Okta as a user store, what features need to be enabled to make Okta the source of truth on user attributes?
“Update user attributes” and “deactivate users”
What is Desktop SSO?
When a user authenticates to the network via desktop and then opens a browser to access Okta, Okta detects the IP address and automatically authenticates the user into Okta and applications
What is Okta IWA?
Microsoft Integrated Windows Authentication. A lightweight Internet Information Services (IIS) web app that enables Desktop SSO on the Okta Service.
What are the server requirements to integrate an LDAP directory?
• Windows-based agent:
o Windows Server 2008 R2 or
newer
o Windows server must beable to reach the LDAP host and port.
• Linux-based agent must be installed on an RPM-enabled Linux distribution such as CentOS or Red Hat. We also support DPKG enabled Linux distributions such as Debian or Ubuntu.
What are the Vendor Template requirements to integrate LDAP?
OpenDJ OpenLDAP OracleInternetDirectory IBM SunOneLDAP5.2+,6.*,and7.* ActiveDirectoryLightweightDirectory Services (AD LDS)
What are the required USER accounts to integrate LDAP Agent?
- A designated Okta administrator service account
- Local LDAP service account
- A designated LDAP user
What are the 3 types of groups you can create?
Okta groups, directory groups, application groups