Quiz: Red Hat OpenStack Operations Tasks

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes.

Objective

Relate tasks to OpenStack administrators, operators, and other IT roles.

Questions

  1. Which of the following tasks are more likely to be performed by an OpenStack Operator, as opposed to a Linux System Administrator?

    • Installing RPM packages inside a RHEL VM.

    • Attaching a VM to a different virtual network.

    • Upgrading RHEL to a newer minor release inside a VM.

    • Configuring IP routing rules for a virtual network.

    • Configuring firewalld rules inside a RHEL VM.

  2. Which of the following tasks are more likely to be performed by an OpenStack Operator, as opposed to an OpenStack Administrator?

    • Creating new server instances (VMs).

    • Creating new virtual networks.

    • Creating a new class of virtual server, with provides virtual GPUs.

    • Configuring authentication to an OpenStack cluster using an LDAP server.

    • Configuring virtual disk storage on a remote Ceph cluster.

  3. Which of the following tasks are more likely to be performed by an OpenStack Administrator, as opposed to Systems, Storage, or Network Administrators and other IT personnel?

    • Adding new RHEL servers as compute nodes to an OpenStack cluster.

    • Configuring VLANs at the switch fabric.

    • Configuring VLANs at the switch fabric to enable compute nodes to connect to those VLANs.

    • Installing RPM packages and configuring physical RHEL servers to be managed by OpenStack control planes.

    • Installing OpenStack services on OpenShift clusters.

  4. Which of the following tasks are likely to NOT be required from a Red Hat OpenStack on OpenShift Administrator, as opposed to the administrator of an OpenStack cluster built from upstream binaries or source code?

    • Configuring operating system images to boot new server instance VMs.

    • Configuring multiple instances of OpenStack services, one active and another passive, using a pacemaker or another clustering middleware.

    • Installing an operating system on compute nodes, such as RHEL.

    • Selecting an installation method for OpenStack services on control plane servers, such as from precompiled binaries, operating system packages, or container images.