Week 4 - Introduction to Directory Services

Question 1

The ideal enterprise-quality directory server should support replication. What is that?

Answer 1

The directory data can be copied and shared across many physical servers but still appear as one unified data storage (for querying and administrating)

Question 2

What are containers also called?

Answer 2

Organizational Units (OU)

Question 3

How are containers similar to the structure of a file system?

Answer 3

containers/OUs contain objects or more OUs just like a folder contains files

Question 4

What is DAP?

Answer 4

Directory Access Protocol

Question 5

What does AAA refer to?

Answer 5

authentication, authorization, and accounting

(directory services provide centralized AAA)

Question 6

What does RBAC stand for?

Answer 6

Role-based access control

Question 7

What does RBAC refer to?

Answer 7

If someone changes roles, all you have to do is change the group they’re a part of not the rights they have (role-based access control)