LPI101 LPIC-1 Exam Prep Course 1

Prerequisites:

General computing knowledge and experience. No prior knowledge with Linux is required.

Supported Distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

1. Work on the Command Line
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Role of Command Shell
   3. Shells
   4. Gathering System Info
   5. Identifying the Shell
   6. Changing the Shell
   7. Bourne Shell: Shell Prompts
   8. Bash: Bourne-Again Shell
   9. Navigating the Filesystem
   10. Help from Commands and Documentation
   11. Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
   12. Getting Help with man & info
   13. Bash: Command Line History
   14. Bash: Command Editing
   15. Bash: Command Completion
   16. Shell and Environment Variables
   17. Key Environment Variables
   Lab Tasks
   1. Help with Commands
   2. Linux Shells
   3. Shell Variables
   4. Bash History
   5. Aliases
2. Use Streams, Pipes, and Redirects
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. File Redirection
   3. Piping Commands Together
   4. Filename Matching
   5. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
   6. Brace Expansion
   7. General Quoting Rules
   8. Nesting Commands
   9. Gotchas: Maximum Command Length
   Lab Tasks
   1. Redirection and Pipes
   2. Wildcard File Matching
   3. Shell Meta-Characters
   4. Command Substitution
3. Manage File Permissions and Ownership
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
   3. Displaying Directory Contents
   4. Filesystem Structures
   5. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
   6. File Ownership
   7. Default Group Ownership
   8. File and Directory Permissions
   9. File Creation Permissions with umask
   10. Changing File Permissions
   11. SUID and SGID on files
   12. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
   13. User Private Group Scheme
   Lab Tasks
   1. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
   2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
   3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
4. Create, Delete, Find, and Display Files
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Directory Manipulation
   3. File Manipulation
   4. Deleting and Creating Files
   5. Physical Unix File Structure
   6. Filesystem Links
   7. File Extensions and Content
   8. Which and Type
   9. whereis
   10. Searching the Filesystem
   11. Alternate Search Method
   12. Manually Installed Shared Libraries
   Lab Tasks
   1. Manipulating Files and Directories
5. Work with Archives and Compression
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Archives with tar
   3. Archives with cpio
   4. The gzip Compression Utility
   5. The bzip2 Compression Utility
   6. The XZ Compression Utility
   7. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
   Lab Tasks
   1. Archiving and Compression
   2. Using tar for Backups
   3. Using cpio for Backups
6. Process Text Streams Using Filters
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Producing File Statistics
   3. The Streaming Editor
   4. Replacing Text Characters
   5. Text Sorting
   6. Duplicate Removal Utility
   7. Extracting Columns of Text
   8. Displaying Files
   9. Previewing Files
   10. Displaying Binary Files
   11. Combining Files and Merging Text
   12. Using Checksum to Check File Integrity
   Lab Tasks
   1. Text Processing
   2. Processing Text Streams
7. Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Searching Inside Files
   3. Regular Expression Overview
   4. Regular Expression Implementations
   5. Regular Expressions
   6. RE Character Classes
   7. Regex Quantifiers
   8. RE Parenthesis
   Lab Tasks
   1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
   2. Extended Regular Expressions
   3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
8. Basic File Editing
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Text Editing
   3. vi and Vim
   4. Learning Vim
   5. Basic vi
   6. Intermediate vi
   Lab Tasks
   1. Text Editing with Vim
9. Create, Monitor, and Kill Processes
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. What is a Process?
   3. Process Lifecycle
   4. Process States
   5. Viewing Processes
   6. Signals
   7. Tools to Send Signals
   8. Managing Processes
   9. Tuning Process Scheduling
   10. Job Control Overview
   11. Job Control Commands
   12. nohup and disown
   13. uptime & w
   14. Output monitoring with watch
   15. Persistent Shell Sessions with Screen
   16. Using screen
   17. Advanced Screen
   18. Persistent Shell Sessions with tmux
   Lab Tasks
   1. Job Control Basics
   2. Process Management Basics
   3. Screen Basics
   4. Using Screen Regions
10. Use RPM, YUM, and Debian Package Management
    1. LPI Objectives Covered
    2. Managing Software
    3. RPM Architecture
    4. Working With RPMs
    5. Querying and Verifying with RPM
    6. Installing Debian Packages
    7. Querying and Verifying with dpkg
    8. The alien Package Conversion Tool
    9. Managing Software Dependencies
    10. Using the Yum command
    11. Configuring Yum
    12. dnf
    13. Using the Zypper command
    14. The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
    15. Configuring APT
    Lab Tasks
    1. Working with RPMs on Ubuntu
    2. Querying the RPM Database
11. Work with Partitions, Filesystems, and Disk Quotas
    1. LPI Objectives Covered
    2. Partition Considerations
    3. Logical Volume Management
    4. Filesystem Planning
    5. Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
    6. Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
    7. Partitioning Disks with parted
    8. Non-Interactive Disk Partitioning with sfdisk
    9. Filesystem Creation
    10. Filesystem Support
    11. Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
    12. Swap
    13. Selecting a Filesystem
    14. Filesystem Maintenance
    15. Mounting Filesystems
    16. Mounting Filesystems
    17. List Block Devices
    18. Managing an XFS Filesystem
    19. NFS
    20. SMB
    21. Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
    Lab Tasks
    1. Hot Adding Swap
    2. Accessing NFS Shares
12. Linux Boot Process
    1. LPI Objectives Covered
    2. Booting Linux on PCs
    3. GRUB 2
    4. GRUB 2 Configuration
    5. GRUB Legacy Configuration
    6. Boot Parameters
    7. init
    8. Linux Runlevels Aliases
    9. Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
    10. Runlevel Implementation
    11. System Boot Method Overview
    12. systemd System and Service Manager
    13. Modifying systemd services
    14. systemd Targets
    15. Using systemd
    16. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
    17. Shutdown and Reboot
    18. System Messaging Commands
    19. Controlling System Messaging
    Lab Tasks
    1. Command Line Messaging
    2. Messaging with talkd
    3. Boot Process
    4. GRUB Command Line
    5. Basic GRUB Security
13. Determine and Configure Hardware Settings
    1. LPI Objectives Covered
    2. Managing Linux Device Files
    3. Hardware Discovery Tools
    4. Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
    5. PC Architecture and Bus
    6. DMA & IRQ
    7. USB Devices
    8. USB Architecture
    9. Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
    10. Kernel Modules
    11. Handling Module Dependencies
    12. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
    13. Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
    14. /sys/ Structure
    15. Random Numbers and /dev/random
    Lab Tasks
    1. Adjusting Kernel Options

1. Linux Fundamentals
   1. Unix and its Design Principles
   2. FSF and GNU
   3. GPL – General Public License
   4. The Linux Kernel
   5. Components of a Distribution
   6. Red Hat Linux Products
   7. SUSE Linux Products
   8. Debian
   9. Ubuntu
   10. Logging In
   11. got root?
   12. Switching User Contexts
   13. Gathering Login Session Info
   Lab Tasks
   1. Login and Discovery
   2. Switching Users With su