Lighting in Maya look same like what I had used before in 3D Max. In Maya they have 6 types of lighting such as ambience, directional, point, spot, area and volume light. But for my environment exercised this week, I just used the combination of directional, point and area lighting. You can see the red arrow of the directional lighting give the effect from outside just like a sunshine through a window. The green frame give some area lighting from inside the room.