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Course Outline: LPIC-101 Certified Linux Administrator



This course prepares students to take the 101 exam of the LPI level 1 certification. The
Linux Professional Institute (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.



Module 1: Work on the command line

 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

 Help with commands

 Linux shells

 Shell variables

 Bash history

 Aliases

Module 2: Use streams, pipes, and redirects

 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

 Redirection and pipes

 Wildcard file matching

 Shell meta-characters

 Command substitution

Module 3: Manage file permissions and ownership

 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

 Navigating directories and listing files

 Disk and filesystem usage

 File and directory ownership and permissions

Module 4: Create, delete, find, and display files

 Directory manipulation

 File manipulation

 Deleting and creating files

 Physical unix file structure

 Filesystem links

 File extensions and content

 Which and type

 Whereis

 Searching the filesystem

 Alternate search method

 Manually installed shared libraries

Lab tasks

 Manipulating files and directories

Module 5: Work with archives and compression

 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

 Archiving and compression

 Using tar for backups

 Using cpio for backups

Module 6: Process text streams using filters

 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

 Text processing

 Processing text streams

Module 7: Search text files using regular expressions

 Searching inside files

 Regular expression overview

 Regular expressions

 Re character classes

 Regex quantifiers

 Re parenthesis

Lab tasks

 Pattern matching with regular expressions

 Extended regular expressions

 Using regular expressions with sed

Module 8: Perform basic file editing operations using vi

 Text editing

 Vi and vim

 Learning vim

 Basic vi

 Intermediate vi

Lab tasks

 Text editing with vim

Module 9: Create, monitor, and kill processes

 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

 Persistent shell sessions with screen

 Using screen

 Advanced screen

Lab tasks

 Job control basics

 Process management basics

 Screen basics

 Using screen regions

Module 10: Use rpm, yum, and debian package management

 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

Lab tasks

 Working with rpms on ubuntu

 Querying the rpm database

Module 11: Work with partitions, filesystems, and disk quotas

 Partition considerations

 Logical volume management

 Filesystem planning

 Partitioning disks with fdisk $ gdisk

 Resizing a gpt partition with gdisk

 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

Lab tasks

 Hot adding swap

 Accessing nfs shares

 Setting user quotas

Module 12: Linux boot process

 Booting Linux on pcs

 Grub 2

 Grub 2 configuration

 Grub legacy configuration

 Boot parameters

 Init

 Linux runlevels aliases

 Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target

 Runlevel implementation

 System boot method overview

 Systemd system and service manager

 Systemd targets

 Using systemd

 Shutdown and reboot

 System messaging commands

 Controlling system messaging

Lab tasks

 Command line messaging

 Messaging with talkd

 Boot process

 Grub command line

 Basic grub security

Module 13: Determine and configure hardware settings

 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

 Random numbers and /dev/random

Lab tasks

 Adjusting kernel options

Module 14: 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