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.
Current Version: E02
Prerequisites:
General computing knowledge and experience. No prior knowledge with Linux is required.
Supported Distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Course Outline:
- Work on the Command Line
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Role of Command Shell
- Shells
- Gathering System Info
- Identifying the Shell
- Changing the Shell
- Bourne sh: Prompts
- bash: Bourne-Again Shell
- Help from Commands and Documentation
- Getting Help with man & info
- bash: Command Line History
- bash: Command Editing
- bash: Command Completion
- Shell and Environment Variables
- Key Environment Variables
- Help with Commands
- Linux Shells
- Shell Variables
- Bash History
- Aliases
- 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
- Multiple and Multi-line Commands
- Gotchas: Maximum Command Length
- Connecting Commands
- Wildcard File Matching
- Shell Meta-Characters
- Command Substitution
- Manage File Permissions and Ownership
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Navigating the Filesystem
- 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
- Navigating Directories and Listing Files
- Disk and Filesystem Usage
- File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
- 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
- Displaying Files
- Previewing Files
- Displaying Binary Files
- Which and Type
- whereis
- Searching the Filesystem
- Alternate Search Method
- Manually Installed Shared Libraries
- Manipulating Files and Directories
- Work with Archives and Compression
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Archives with tar
- Archives with cpio
- The gzip Compression Utility
- The bzip2 Compression Utility
- The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
- Archiving and Compression
- Using tar and cpio for Backups
- Process Text Streams Using Filters
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Producing File Statistics
- The Streaming Editor
- Text Processing with awk
- Replacing Text Characters
- Text Sorting
- Duplicate Removal Utility
- Extracting Columns of Text
- Combining Files and Merging Text
- Text Processing
- Processing Text Streams
- Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Searching Inside Files
- Regular Expression Overview
- Regular Expressions
- RE Character Classes
- RE Quantifiers
- RE Parenthesis
- Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Using Regular Expressions With sed
- Perform Basic File Editing Operations Using vi
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Text Editing
- vi and Vim
- Learning vi
- Basic vi
- Intermediate vi
- Text Editing with Vim
- Create, Monitor, and Kill Processes
- LPI Objectives Covered
- What is a Process?
- Process Lifecycle
- Process States
- Viewing Processes
- Signals
- Tools to Send Signals
- Job Control Overview
- Job Control Commands
- nohup and disown
- Managing Processes
- Tuning Process Scheduling
- uptime
- Job Control Basics
- Process Management and Job Control Basics
- 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
- yumdownloader
- Configuring YUM
- The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
- Aptitude
- Configuring APT
- Working with RPMs on Ubuntu
- Querying the RPM Database
- Work with Partitions, Filesystems, and Disk Quotas
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Partition Considerations
- Filesystem Planning
- Partitioning Disks with fdisk
- 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
- Hot Adding Swap
- Accessing NFS Shares
- Setting User Quotas
- Linux Boot Process
- LPI Objectives Covered
- Booting Linux on PCs
- GRUB Configuration
- GRUB 2
- Boot Parameters
- /sbin/init
- System Init Styles
- Linux Runlevels
- /etc/inittab
- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
- SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
- System Initialization
- Runlevel Implementation
- systemd System and Service Manager
- systemd Targets
- Using systemd
- Shutdown and Reboot
- Boot Process
- GRUB Command Line
- Basic GRUB Security
- Basic GRUB Security
- 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 Configuration
- Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
- Kernel Modules
- Handling Module Dependencies
- Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
- Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
- /sys/ Structure
- Adjusting Kernel Options
- 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
- Login and Discovery
- Switching Users With su