Cert Prep: LPIC-1 Exam 101 (Version 5.0)

7h 16mIntermediate2020-01-30

Authors

Grant McWilliams

Consultant, Speaker, Writer, Professor, Developer

Course details

Jump-start your career as a Linux administrator by earning the LPIC-1 certification. This popular distribution-neutral Linux certification shows potential employers that you can work effectively at the Linux command line and perform key maintenance tasks. Each exam objective relates to real-world job skills, which are determined through job search analysis data. In this course, Grant McWilliams covers what you need to know to take and pass LPIC-1 exam 101, version 5.0. Grant shows how to manage software with dpkg and APT, configure Linux as a virtualized guest, set the systemd targets, manage process priority using command-line tools, and much more. Along the way, he provides opportunities to test your knowledge with assessment questions.

Learning objectives
Using Grub
Working with the acpid service
Managing systemd services
Managing software with dpkg and APT
Red Hat package installation using YUM
Linux as a virtualized guest
Working with cloud-init
Raising or lowering process priorities
Using regular expressions to edit text
File permissions and ownership
Creating partitions and file systems

Skills covered

LinuxServer AdministrationCert PrepNetwork and System AdministrationOpen Source

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get ready for LPIC-1
02 - What you should know
03 - About the LPIC-1 exam
04 - CentOS 7 install
05 - CentOS 7 lab setup
06 - Ubuntu 19.04 install

1. Determine and Configure Hardware

07 - Enable disable integrated hardware
08 - Determine hardware resources
09 - Working with USB devices
10 - About sysfs, udev, and D-Bus
11 - Manage kernel modules
12 - Manual network configuration
13 - Configure networking using NetworkManager

2. Boot the System

14 - Understand the Linux boot process
15 - Using GRUB
16 - Create a custom GRUB menu
17 - Updating the Linux kernel
18 - About acpid

3. System Services and Logging

19 - About SysVinit, systemd, and Upstart
20 - Get systemd service status
21 - Manage systemd services
22 - Make systemd services persistent
23 - About SysVinit services
24 - Change runlevels targets
25 - Boot into the emergency target
26 - Locate and interpret system log files
27 - Reading the system journal

4. Use Debian Package Management

28 - Debian software management overview
29 - Get package information with dpkg and APT
30 - Manage software with dpkg and APT
31 - Work with APT repositories

5. Use Red Hat Package Management

32 - RPM software management overview
33 - Query packages with RPM
34 - Intall and remove packages with Yum
35 - Install and remove package groups

6. Linux as a Virtualized Guest

36 - Compare cloud and virtualization concepts
37 - Types of hypervisors
38 - System images and cloud instances
39 - About containers
40 - Introduction to cloud-init

7. Working on the Command Line

41 - Simple and compound commands
42 - Modify the shell environment
43 - Command history
44 - The PATH and command execution
45 - Named and unnamed pipes
46 - Use input-output redirection ( , , , 2 , etc.)
47 - Use text filters
48 - Find files using locate
49 - Finding files with find
50 - Finding text in files with grep

8. Manage Processes

51 - Select and sort processes for display
52 - Monitor active processes
53 - Send signals to processes
54 - Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default
55 - Run jobs in the foreground and background
56 - Signal a program to continue running after logout

9. Pattern Matching and Editing Text

57 - Understand the differences between basic and extended regular expressions
58 - Matching characters and words with regexes
59 - Specifying occurrences with regexes
60 - Alternation and grouping with regexes
61 - Back references and subexpressions
62 - Search text using regular expressions
63 - Use regular expressions to delete, change, and substitute text
64 - Awareness of Emacs, Nano, and Vim
65 - An introduction to Vim
66 - Edit text in Vim
67 - Search and replace in Vim

10. Working with Files

68 - File globbing and parameter expansion
69 - Understand filesystem paths
70 - Create files and dirs
71 - Copy files and dirs
72 - Move and rename files and dirs
73 - Remove files and dirs
74 - Create links to files and dirs

11. Permissions and Ownership

75 - Create and delete local user accounts
76 - Modify local user accounts
77 - Manage user passwords
78 - What is a file
79 - Get file attributes
80 - Get extended attributes
81 - About standard Linux permissions
82 - File and directory modes
83 - File ownership
84 - Set permissions using numeric method
85 - Set permissions using symbolic method
86 - Default permissions using umask
87 - Special file bits - SUID and SGID
88 - Special directory bits - SGID and Sticky

12. Create Partitions and Filesystems

89 - Hard drive partitioning strategies
90 - List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
91 - Create parititons using parted
92 - Resize partitions without losing data
93 - Basic features of logical volume management (LVM)
94 - Manage LVM volumes and volume groups
95 - Extend existing logical volumes
96 - Reduce existing logical volumes
97 - Replace a physical volume
98 - Create EXT filesystems
99 - Repair EXT filesystems
100 - Mount filesystems automatically
101 - Back up and restore an EXT filesystem
102 - Basic features of Btrfs
103 - Archiving files with tar

Conclusion

104 - Taking the exam