701-100 Exam Information and Outline
LPIC-OT Exam 701: DevOps Tools Engineer
701-100 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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The information below reflects the latest 2026 course contents as defined by LPI. We provide this detailed breakdown to help you align your preparation with the actual exam format, ensuring there are no surprises on test day. Use this outline as a checklist to track your progress as you move through our practice question banks.
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LPI 701-100 LPIC-OT Exam 701: DevOps Tools Engineer
- Modern Software Development
- Understand and design service based applications
- Understand common API concepts and standards
- Understand aspects of data storage, service status and session handling
- Understand the properties of cloud native applications
- Design software to be run in containers
- Design software to be deployed to cloud services
- Awareness of risks in the migration and integration of monolithic legacy software
- Awareness of database schema updates and database migrations
- Understand the concept of agile software development
- Understand the concept of DevOps and its implications to software developers and operators
- REST, JSON
- Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- Microservices
- Immutable servers
- Loose coupling
- Test-driven development
- Standard Components and Platforms for Software
- Features and concepts of object storage
- Features and concepts of relational and NoSQL databases
- Features and concepts of message brokers and message queues
- Features and concepts of big data services
- Features and concepts of computing services / IaaS
- Features and concepts of application runtimes / PaaS
- Features and concepts of hosted applications / SaaS
- Features and concepts of function applications / FaaS
- Features and concepts of content delivery networks
- Awareness of identity and access management in cloud services
- Objects, Buckets, ACLs, S3
- MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
- Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB
- Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
- Kafka, MQTT
- IAM
- Source Code Management
- Understand Git concepts and repository structure
- Manage files within a Git repository
- Manage branches and tags
- Work with remote repositories and branches as well as submodules
- Merge files and branches
- Awareness of SVN and CVS, including concepts of centralized and distributed SCM solutions
- git
- .gitignore
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Understand the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Understand the components of a CI/CD pipeline, including builds, unit, integration and acceptance tests, artifact management, delivery and deployment
- Understand the concepts of GitOps
- Understand the role of build artifacts and caches
- Understand deployment best practices
- Understand semantic versioning
- Awareness of Jenkins and Gitlab CI
- Awareness of Artifactory and Nexus
- Declarative Pipeline
- Production, Staging and Development Environments
- Feature toggles
- Preview releases
- Reconciliation loops
- A/B testing
- Blue-green and canary deployment
- Software Composition, Licensing and Open Source
- Understand how an application is build out of multiple software components
- Awareness of dependency managers like NPM, gradle or composer
- Understand the concepts proprietary and open source software
- Understand the concepts of open source software licenses
- Awareness of commonly used open source licenses (GPL, LGPL, AGPL, BSD, MIT and Apache License)
- Awareness of license compatibility and multi licensing
- Software libraries
- Software Bill Of Materials
- Proprietary software
- Open Source Software and Free Software
- Copyleft open source software licenses
- Permissive open source software licenses