Weight: 3

Description:
Candidates should be able to properly maintain the system time and synchronize the clock via NTP.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Set the system date and time.
  • Set the BIOS clock to the correct time in UTC.
  • Configure the correct timezone.
  • Basic NTP configuration
  • Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service.

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • /usr/share/zoneinfo
  • /etc/timezone
  • /etc/localtime
  • /etc/ntp.conf
  • date
  • hwclock
  • ntpd
  • ntpdate
  • pool.ntp.org