LPIC-1 Linux System Administrator 101

Overview
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has established itself as the standard for distribution independent Linux certification. LPI offers three levels of certification: LPI 1, LPI 2 and LPI 3. LPI 1 is the base level certification that is looked for by professionals that want to validate their skills on Linux but not to one specific Linux distribution. This course will help candidates preparing for the LPIC 101 exam, which is the first out of 2 LPI exams candidates have to take to obtain the certificate.

Who Should Attend
This course is for IT staff that want to acquire Linux skills. Any experience with the Linux operating system is not required. Typical functions for attendees of this course include support staff and junior system administration.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• System Architecture
• Linux Installation and Package Management
• GNU and Unix Commands
• Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Course Outline

• System Architecture
• Determine and configure hardware settings
• Boot the system
• Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system
• Linux Installation and Package Management 102.1 Design hard disk layout
• Install a boot manager
• Manage shared libraries
• Use Debian package management
• Use RPM and YUM package management
• Linux as a virtualization guest
• GNU and Unix Commands 103.1 Work on the command line
• Process text streams using filters
• Perform basic file management
• Use streams, pipes and redirects
• Create, monitor and kill processes
• Modify process execution priorities
• Search text files using regular expressions
• Basic file editing
• Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 104.1 Create partitions and filesystems
• Maintain the integrity of filesystems
• Control mounting and unmounting of file systems
• Removed
• Manage file permissions and ownership
• Create and change hard and symbolic links
• Find system files and place files in the correct location