202-450 Exam Dumps - LPIC-2 - Exam 202 (part 2 of 2), version 4.5

 A certificate signing request (CSR) is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority (CA) in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. The CSR contains information about the applicant’s identity, such as domain name, organization, location, etc., as well as the applicant’s public key. The CSR is digitally signed by the applicant using their private key, which proves that they own the corresponding public key. The CA will verify the CSR and issue a certificate if the applicant meets the requirements. The certificate will contain the applicant’s public key and identity information, as well as the CA’s digital signature, which validates the certificate. References: LPIC-2 Exam 202 Objectives, What is a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)? Do I need one?

The print$ share is the default location for storing printer drivers on a Samba server. This share allows Windows clients to automatically download and install the drivers when they connect to a printer on the Samba server. This feature is called Point’n’Print driver deployment. The print$ share must be configured in the smb.conf file and the drivers must be uploaded using a Windows client or the rpcclient utility123 References:

• Setting up Automatic Printer Driver Downloads for Windows Clients - Samba
• Uploading Printer Drivers to a Samba Server — Engineering Computer Network
• How do I load Windows printer drivers on a Samba 4 print server?

Setting up Automatic Printer Driver Downloads for Windows Clients - Samba1

Setting up Automatic Printer Driver Downloads for Windows Clients - Samba

 A glue record is a DNS record that provides the IP address of a nameserver that is a subdomain of the domain being queried. For example, if the domain example.com has nameservers ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com, then the .com nameservers will provide glue records for ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com, along with the NS records for example.com. This way, the resolver can find the IP address of the nameservers without having to query them first, which would create a circular dependency12

The format of a glue record is:

nameserver A IP address

where nameserver is the hostname of the nameserver, A is the record type for IPv4 address, and IP address is the IPv4 address of the nameserver3

Therefore, the only option that matches this format is A. ns1.lab A 198.51.100.53. The other options are either missing the record type, the IP address, or the dot after the nameserver name4 References:

• DNS Tools - Glue Records
• What Is Glue Record: Everything You Wanted To Know
• Glue Records and Dedicated DNS - NS1, an IBM Company
• DNS Record Types - DNSimple Help

Glue Records and Dedicated DNS - NS1, an IBM Company

 The Alias and Redirect directives in Apache HTTPD’s configuration file have different purposes and effects. The Alias directive maps a URL path to a file system path, allowing the server to serve content that is not under the DocumentRoot. The Redirect directive instructs the client to make a new request with a different URL, which can be used to redirect requests to another server or location. The Redirect directive can use either a fixed URL or a regular expression to match and replace the original URL.

The difference between Alias and Redirect is that Alias is handled on the server side, meaning that the client does not see the file system path that the server uses to serve the content. The Redirect directive is handled on the client side, meaning that the client sees the new URL that the server sends back as a response. The client then makes a new request with the new URL, which may or may not be handled by the same server.

Therefore, the correct statements are C and D. Statement A is false because Alias can reference files outside of the DocumentRoot. Statement B is false because RedirectMatch is the directive that works with regular expressions, not Redirect. Statement E is false because Alias is a valid configuration directive.

References:

• mod_alias - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4
• How to Redirect a Web Page with Apache - W3docs

 The unknown-clients statement in the ISC DHCPD configuration is used to specify whether or not an address pool can be used by nodes which have a corresponding host section in the configuration. A host section is a declaration that defines a static IP address for a specific client based on its MAC address or other identifier. An unknown client is a client that does not have a host section. The unknown-clients statement can be either allow, deny, or ignore, and it can be applied to a pool, a subnet, or a shared-network. For example, the following configuration allows unknown clients to use the pool of addresses from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200, but denies them from using the pool of addresses from 192.168.1.201 to 192.168.1.254:

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { pool { range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200; allow unknown-clients; } pool { range 192.168.1.201 192.168.1.254; deny unknown-clients; } }

References:

• ISC DHCP 4.4 Manual Pages - dhcpd.conf: The official documentation of ISC DHCPD on how to configure the dhcpd.conf file, which includes the description of the unknown-clients statement and examples.
• How To Configure a DHCP Server on Ubuntu 20.04 | DigitalOcean: A tutorial from DigitalOcean on how to configure a DHCP server on Ubuntu 20.04, which includes the use of the unknown-clients statement and host sections.

 The OpenLDAP attribute olcBackend is used to specify the backend type for a database entry in the cn=config DIT. The backend type determines how the data is stored and accessed by the OpenLDAP server. There are several backend types available, but not all of them can be used with the olcBackend attribute. The backend types that can be used with the olcBackend attribute are:

• bdb: The Berkeley Database backend, which uses the Berkeley DB library to store the data in files on disk. This backend supports transactions, indexing, replication, and caching. It is the default backend for OpenLDAP and is recommended for most applications.
• ldap: The LDAP backend, which uses another LDAP server as the data source. This backend allows the OpenLDAP server to act as a proxy or a gateway to another LDAP server. It can be used to merge data from multiple LDAP servers, to provide access control or schema mapping, or to implement load balancing or failover.
• text: The text backend, which uses plain text files to store the data. This backend is mainly used for testing purposes or for simple applications that do not require advanced features. It does not support indexing, replication, or caching.

The backend types that cannot be used with the olcBackend attribute are:

• xml: The XML backend, which uses XML files to store the data. This backend is experimental and not recommended for production use. It does not support indexing, replication, or caching.
• passwd: The passwd backend, which uses the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files as the data source. This backend is deprecated and should not be used. It does not support indexing, replication, or caching.

References:

• How To Configure OpenLDAP and Perform Administrative LDAP Tasks
• OpenLDAP Online Configuration Reference - Tyler’s Guides

 The command that displays an overview of the Postfix queue content to help identify remote sites that are causing excessive mail traffic is qshape. This command shows the number of messages in the active, deferred, and hold queues, grouped by the next-hop domain name. It also shows the age distribution of the messages in each queue, which can help to identify domains that are slow or unreachable. The output of qshape looks like this:

The first column shows the next-hop domain name, or TOTAL for the sum of all domains. The second column shows the total number of messages in the queue for that domain. The remaining columns show the number of messages in different age ranges, in minutes. For example, the T column shows the number of messages that are less than 5 minutes old, the 5 column shows the number of messages that are between 5 and 10 minutes old, and so on. The last column shows the number of messages that are older than 1280 minutes (about 21 hours).

The qshape command can be used with different options to specify the queue name, the domain name pattern, the bucket size, the bucket count, the sort order, and the output format. For more information, see the qshape man page1.

References: You can find more information about the qshape command and its usage in the following resources:

• qshape - Postfix queue analysis tool
• Postfix Queue Management

The LDIF file format does not accept any type of file encoding. It requires the file to be encoded in UTF-8, which is a Unicode encoding that supports all characters and languages. If the file contains non-UTF-8 characters, it may cause errors or data loss when importing or exporting LDIF data. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the LDIF file is encoded in UTF-8 before using it with LDAP tools or servers. References:

• LDIF File (What It Is and How to Open One) - Lifewire
• RFC 2849 - The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification