Course Description
The LPIC-1 will validate the delegate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and configure basic networking.
The LPIC-1 is designed to reflect current research and validate a candidate's proficiency in real-world system administration. The objectives are tied to real-world job skills, which we determine through job task analysis surveying during exam development. Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 tests the ability to perform maintenance tasks with the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and be able to configure basic networking.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this certification.
What Do Participants Learn?
(LPI) is the go-to certification body for vendor-independent Linux certifications. This course covers fundamental Linux skills such as file management and manipulation, text processing, command line use, package management, filesystems, hardware, and many more. Students will feel confident taking the LPI LPIC-1 101 exam with in classroom assessments and practice exams.
Who Should Attend?
- System administrator
- Network administrator
- Technician
- DevOps
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Work On The Command Line
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Role of Command Shell
- Shells
- Gathering System Info
- Identifying the Shell
- Changing the Shell
- Shell Prompts
- Bash: Bourne-Again Shell
- Navigating the Filesystem
- Help from Commands and Documentation
- Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
- Getting Help with man & info
- Bash: Command Line History
- Bash: Command Editing
- Bash: Command Completion
- Shell and Environment Variables
- Key Environment Variables
- LAB TASKS
Section Two: Use Streams, Pipes, And Redirects
- LPI Objectives Covered
- File Redirection
- Piping Commands Together
- Filename Matching
- File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
- Brace Expansion
- General Quoting Rules
- Nesting Commands
- Gotchas: Maximum Command Length
- LAB TASKS
Section Three: Manage File Permissions And Ownership
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- 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
- LAB TASKS
Section Four: Create, Delete, Find, And Display Files
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Directory Manipulation
- File Manipulation
- Deleting and Creating Files
- Physical Unix File Structure
- Filesystem Links
- File Extensions and Content
- Which and Type
- Where is
- Searching the Filesystem
- Alternate Search Method
- Manually Installed Shared Libraries
- LAB TASKS
Section Five: Work With Archives And Compression
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Archives with tar
- Archives with cpio
- The gzip Compression Utility
- The bzip2 Compression Utility
- The XZ Compression Utility
- The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
- LAB TASKS
Section Six: Process Text Streams Using Filters
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Producing File Statistics
- The Streaming Editor
- Replacing Text Characters
- Text Sorting
- Duplicate Removal Utility
- Extracting Columns of Text
- Displaying Files
- Prepare Text for Display
- Previewing Files
- Displaying Binary Files
- Combining Files and Merging Text
- LAB TASKS
Section Seven: Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Searching Inside Files
- Regular Expression Overview
- Regular Expressions
- RE Character Classes
- Regex Quantifiers
- RE Parenthesis
- LAB TASKS
Section Eight: Perform Basic File Editing Operations Using VI
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Text Editing
- vi and Vim
- Learning Vim
- Basic vi
- Intermediate vi
- LAB TASKS
Section Nine: Create, Monitor, And Kill Processes
- LPI Objectives Covered
- What is a Process?
- Process Lifecycle
- Process States
- Viewing Processes
- Signals
- Tools to Send Signals
- Managing Processes
- Tuning Process Scheduling
- Job Control Overview
- Job Control Commands
- Nohup and Disown
- Uptime & w
- Persistent Shell Sessions with Screen
- Using screen
- Advanced Screen
- LAB TASKS
Section Ten: USE RPM, YUM, AND DEBIAN Package Management
- 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
- yum downloader
- Configuring Yum
- The deselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
- Aptitude
- Configuring APT
- LAB TASKS
Section Eleven: Work With Partitions, Filesystem, And Disk Quotas
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Partition Considerations
- Logical Volume Management
- Filesystem Planning
- Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
- Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
- Partitioning Disks with parted
- Non-Interactive Disk Partitioning with sfdisk
- 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
- LAB TASKS
Section Twelve: Linux Boot Process
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Booting Linux on PCs
- GRUB 2
- GRUB 2 Configuration
- GRUB Legacy Configuration
- Boot Parameters
- Uinit
- Linux Runlevels Aliases
- Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
- Runlevel Implementation
- System Boot Method Overview
- Systemd System and Service Manager
- Modifying systemd services
- Systemd Targets
- Using systemd
- Shutdown and Reboot
- System Messaging Commands
- Controlling System Messaging
- LAB TASKS
Section Thirteen: Determine And Configure Hardware Settings
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Managing Linux Device Files
- Hardware Discovery Tools
- Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
- PC Architecture and Bus
- DMA & IRQ
- USB Devices
- USB Architecture
- Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
- Kernel Modules
- Handling Module Dependencies
- Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
- LAB TASKS
Section Fourteen: 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