LPIC1

• Linux Fundamentals
  • Unix and its Design Principles
  • FSF and GNU
  • GPL - General Public License
  • The Linux Kernel
  • Components of a Distribution
  • Red Hat Linux Products
  • SUSE Linux Products
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Logging In
  • got root?
  • Switching User Contexts
  • Gathering Login Session Info
• Lab Tasks
  • Login and Discovery
  • Switching Users With su
• Work on the Command Line Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Role of Command Shell
  • Shells
  • Gathering System Info
  • Identifying the Shell
  • Changing the Shell
  • Bourne sh: Prompts
  • bash: Bourne-Again Shell
  • Help from Commands and Documentation
  • Getting Help with man & info
  • bash: Command Line History
  • bash: Command Editing
  • bash: Command Completion
  • Shell and Environment Variables
  • Key Environment Variables
  • Help with Commands
  • Linux Shells
  • Shell Variables
  • Bash History
  • Aliases
• Use Streams, Pipes, and Redirects Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • File Redirection
  • Piping Commands Together
  • Filename Matching
  • File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
  • Brace Expansion
  • General Quoting Rules
  • Nesting Commands
  • Multiple and Multi-line Commands
  • Gotchas: Maximum Command Length
  • Connecting Commands
  • Wildcard File Matching
  • Shell Meta-Characters
  • Command Substitution
• Manage File Permissions and Ownership Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
  • Navigating the Filesystem
  • Displaying Directory Contents
  • Filesystem Structures
  • Determining Disk Usage With df and du
  • File Ownership
  • Default Group Ownership
  • File and Directory Permissions
  • File Creation Permissions with umask
  • Changing File Permissions
  • SUID and SGID on files
  • SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
  • User Private Group Scheme
  • Navigating Directories and Listing Files
  • Disk and Filesystem Usage
  • File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
• Create, Delete, Find, and Display Files Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Directory Manipulation
  • File Manipulation
  • Deleting and Creating Files
  • Physical Unix File Structure
  • Filesystem Links
  • File Extensions and Content
  • Displaying Files
  • Previewing Files
  • Displaying Binary Files
  • Which and Type
  • whereis
  • Searching the Filesystem
  • Alternate Search Method
  • Manually Installed Shared Libraries
  • Manipulating Files and Directories
• Work with Archives and Compression Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Archives with tar
  • Archives with cpio
  • The gzip Compression Utility
  • The bzip2 Compression Utility
  • The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
  • Archiving and Compression
  • Using tar and cpio for Backups
• Process Text Streams Using Filters Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Producing File Statistics
  • The Streaming Editor
  • Text Processing with awk
  • Replacing Text Characters
  • Text Sorting
  • Duplicate Removal Utility
  • Extracting Columns of Text
  • Combining Files and Merging Text
  • Text Processing
  • Processing Text Streams
• Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Searching Inside Files
  • Regular Expression Overview
  • Regular Expressions
  • RE Character Classes
  • RE Quantifiers
  • RE Parenthesis
  • Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • Extended Regular Expressions
  • Using Regular Expressions With sed
• Perform Basic File Editing Operations Using vi Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Text Editing
  • vi and Vim
  • Learning vi
  • Basic vi
  • Intermediate vi
  • Text Editing with Vim
• Create, Monitor, and Kill Processes Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • What is a Process?
  • Process Lifecycle
  • Process States
  • Viewing Processes
  • Signals
  • Tools to Send Signals
  • Job Control Overview
  • Job Control Commands
  • nohup and disown
  • Managing Processes
  • Tuning Process Scheduling
  • uptime
  • Job Control Basics
  • Process Management and Job Control Basics
• Use RPM, YUM, and Debian Package Management Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Managing Software
  • RPM Architecture
  • Working With RPMs
  • Querying and Verifying with rpm
  • Installing Debian Packages
  • Querying and Verifying with dpkg
  • The alien Package Conversion Tool
  • Managing Software Dependencies
  • Using the YUM command
  • yumdownloader
  • Configuring YUM
  • The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
  • Aptitude
  • Configuring APT
  • Working with RPMs on Ubuntu
  • Querying the RPM Database
• Work with Partitions, Filesystems, and Disk Quotas Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Partition Considerations
  • Filesystem Planning
  • Partitioning Disks with fdisk
  • Partitioning Disks with parted
  • Filesystem Creation
  • Filesystem Support
  • Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
  • Swap
  • Selecting a Filesystem
  • Filesystem Maintenance
  • Mounting Filesystems
  • Mounting Filesystems
  • Managing an XFS Filesystem
  • NFS
  • SMB
  • Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
  • Configuring Disk Quotas
  • Setting Quotas
  • Viewing and Monitoring Quotas
  • Hot Adding Swap
  • Accessing NFS Shares
  • Setting User Quotas
• Linux Boot Process Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Booting Linux on PCs
  • GRUB Configuration
  • GRUB 2
  • Boot Parameters
  • /sbin/init
  • System Init Styles
  • Linux Runlevels
  • /etc/inittab
  • /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
  • SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
  • System Initialization
  • Runlevel Implementation
  • systemd System and Service Manager
  • systemd Targets
  • Using systemd
  • Shutdown and Reboot
  • Boot Process
  • GRUB Command Line
  • Basic GRUB Security
  • Basic GRUB Security
• Determine and Configure Hardware Settings Lab Tasks
  • LPI Objectives Covered
  • Managing Linux Device Files
  • Hardware Discovery Tools
  • Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
  • PC Architecture and Bus
  • DMA & IRQ
  • USB Devices
  • USB Configuration
  • Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
  • Kernel Modules
  • Handling Module Dependencies
  • Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
  • Kernel Hardware Info /sys/
  • /sys/ Structure
  • Adjusting Kernel Options

LPIC2

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System administration

• Configuration, compilation and patching of the kernel

• Maintenance and administration of file systems

• RAID software

• Configuration of the system start

• System recovery

• Use of CD and DVD-R/RW

• System log files

• Troubleshooting

Server utilities

• Configuration of Samba

• Configuration of NFS

Automation

• Creating software packages

• Scripting using Bash and Perl

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• VPN
• Firewall
• Advanced network configuration und routing
• Mail-server und mail administration
• Apache
• Proxy
• DHCP
• Directory services
• Authentication
• DNS