LPI LPIC-1 Exam Certification Details:

Prerequisites for 101-500 exam

There are no prerequisites for this certification

Reference: https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/lpic-1-overview

Topics of LPIC-1 Linux Administrator , 101-500 Exam

To know course content so that aspirants can prepare for exam is a must. LPIC-1, 101-500 exam will include following topics :

1. System Architecture

• Determine hardware resources for devices.

• Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev and dbus.

• Provide common commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time.

• Check boot events in the log files.

• Awareness of Upstart.

• Determine and configure hardware settings

• Demonstrate knowledge of the boot sequence from BIOS/UEFI to boot completion.

• Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices.

• Alert users before switching runlevels / boot targets or other major system events.

• Set the default runlevel or boot target.

• Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices.

• Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g. lsusb, lspci, etc.).

• Boot the system

• Shutdown and reboot from the command line.

• Understanding of SysVinit and systemd.

• Change between runlevels / boot targets including single user mode.

• Properly terminate processes.

• Enable and disable integrated peripherals.

• Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system

• Awareness of acpid.

2. Linux Installation and Package Management

• Awareness of dnf.

• Interact with the boot loader.

• Understand how system images are used to deploy virtual machines, cloud instances and containers.

• Understand common elements virtual machines in an IaaS cloud, such as computing instances, block storage and networking.

• Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from.

• Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB Legacy.

• Knowledge of basic features of LVM.

• Tailor the design to the intended use of the system.

• Identify the typical locations of system libraries.

• Use Debian package management

• Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting.

• Identify shared libraries.

• Linux as a virtualization guest

• Install, re-install, upgrade and remove packages using RPM, YUM and Zypper.

• Manage shared libraries

• Design hard disk layout

• Understand the general concept of virtual machines and containers.

• Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed).

• Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options.

• Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures.

• Install a boot manager

• Load shared libraries.

• Understand unique properties of a Linux system which have to changed when a system is cloned or used as a template.

• Awareness of cloud-init.

• Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks.

• Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed.

• Use RPM and YUM package management

• Awareness of apt.

• Perform basic configuration changes for GRUB 2.

• Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages.

• Understand Linux extensions which integrate Linux with a virtualization product.

3. GNU and Unix Commands

• Understand the concepts of special characters, character classes, quantifiers and anchors.

• Run jobs in the foreground and background.

• Perform basic file management

• Work on the command line

• Copy, move and remove files and directories individually.

• Know the default priority of a job that is created.

• Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables.

• Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements.

• Process text streams using filters

• Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package.

• Basic file editing

• Use the output of one command as arguments to another command.

• Change the priority of a running process.

• Select and sort processes for display.

• Search text files using regular expressions

• Awareness of Emacs, nano and vim.

• Use streams, pipes and redirects

• Navigate a document using vi.

• Create, monitor and kill processes

• Send output to both stdout and a file.

• Monitor active processes.

• Send signals to processes.

• Use and edit command history.

• Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error.

• Understand and use vi modes.

• Remove files and directories recursively.

• Configure the standard editor.

• Use regular expressions to delete, change and substitute text.

• Usage of tar, cpio and dd.

• Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content.

• Copy multiple files and directories recursively.

• Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default.

• Understand the differences between basic and extended regular expressions.

• Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands.

• Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time.

• Modify process execution priorities

• Signal a program to continue running after logout.

• Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path.

• Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command.

• Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line.

• Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text in vi.

4. Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• XFS

• Verify the integrity of filesystems.

• Know the location and purpose of important file and directories as defined in the FHS.

• Manage file permissions and ownership

• Create partitions and filesystems

• Copying versus linking files.

• Maintain the integrity of filesystems

• Find system files and place files in the correct location

• ext2/ext3/ext4

• Monitor free space and inodes.

• Manage MBR and GPT partition tables

• Awareness of systemd mount units.

• Use of labels and UUIDs for identifying and mounting file systems.

• Configure user mountable removable filesystems.

• Find files and commands on a Linux system.

• Use links to support system administration tasks

• Manually mount and unmount filesystems.

• VFAT

• Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security.

• Use the group field to grant file access to group members.

• Identify hard and/or soft links.

• Basic feature knowledge of Btrfs, including multi-device filesystems, compression and subvolumes.

• Know how to change the file creation mask.

• Configure filesystem mounting on bootup.

• Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories.

• Create and change hard and symbolic links

• exFAT

• Understand the correct locations of files under the FHS.

• Create links.

• Use various mkfs commands to create various filesystems such as:

• Repair simple filesystem problems.

• Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems

Installation & Package Management for Linux

This area will address fundamental knowledge areas including the ones highlighted below:

• Make use of the Debian package for management that contains specific files and peculiarities.
• Take advantage of RPM and YUM management for packages and check the files that a package provides.
• Design a layout of a hard disk, where you will need to be aware of the features of LVM and disks.
• Choose and configure a boot manager, e.g. GRUB Legacy, and deal with the boot loader, & changes for GRUB 2.
• Deal with Linux as a virtualization guest.
• Control shared libraries by identifying them.