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LPI201 - LPIC-2 Exam Prep (Course 1)

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This course prepares students to take the LPI 201 exam of the LPIC-2 certification. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the go-to certification body for vendor independent Linux certifications. This course covers more advanced Linux skills such as system management and networking. Students will feel confident taking the LPI LPIC-2 201 exam with in classroom assessments and practice exams.

Current Version: E00

Prerequisites:

LPIC-1 certification or LPI101 "LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 1)" and LPI102 "LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 2)".

Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Course Outline:

Capacity Planning
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Troubleshooting Resource Usage
3. Gathering System Info
4. Viewing Processes
5. Process Management Tools
6. Troubleshooting Processes: top
7. uptime
8. lsof and fuser
9. System Status - Memory
10. System Status - I/O
11. System Status - CPU
12. Performance Trending with sar
13. Graphing SNMP Data with MRTG
14. Nagios Overview
15. Nagios Configuration
Lab Tasks
1. Process Management and Job Control Basics
2. Nagios (Web Interface)
Boot Process and SysV Init
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Booting Linux on PCs
3. GRUB Configuration
4. Boot Parameters
5. /sbin/init
6. System Init Styles
7. Linux Runlevels
8. /etc/inittab
9. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
10. SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
11. Runlevel Implementation
12. Typical SysV Init Script
13. The /etc/rc.local File
14. The /etc/init.d/*.local Files
15. Managing Daemons
16. Controlling Service Startup
17. Controlling Service Startup
18. Shutdown and Reboot
Lab Tasks
1. Boot Process
2. GRUB Command Line
3. Basic GRUB Security
4. Recovering Damaged MBR
5. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
6. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
System Recovery and Bootloaders
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Diagnostic/Recovery Runlevels
3. Rescue Procedures
4. Recovery: mount & chroot
5. Recovery Examples
6. Recovery: Network Utilities
7. GRUB 2
8. LILO Options
9. LILO Configuration
10. SYSLINUX
11. Network Booting with PXE
Lab Tasks
1. Recovery Runlevels
2. Recovering Damaged MBR
3. Recover from Deleted Critical Files
4. Using SUSE Auto Repair Mode
Linux Kernel: Components and Compile
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Why Compile?
3. Getting Kernel Source
4. Preparing to Compile
5. Configuring Kernel Compilation Options
6. Available Kernel Compile Options
7. Compiling the Kernel
8. Install Compiled Kernel Modules
9. Initial ramdisk
10. Tips and Tricks
11. Installing the Kernel
12. Troubleshooting With GRUB
13. Boot Process Troubleshooting
14. Troubleshooting: Linux and Init
15. Hardware Discovery Tools
16. Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
17. Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
18. Kernel Modules
19. Handling Module Dependencies
20. Kernel Modules Troubleshooting
21. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
22. udev
Lab Tasks
1. Adjusting Kernel Options
2. Linux Kernel Driver Compilation
3. Linux Kernel Compilation
Filesystem Administration
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Filesystem Support
3. Mounting Filesystems
4. Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
5. AutoFS
6. AutoFS Configuration
7. Managing Optical Media
8. Partitioning Disks with fdisk
9. Partitioning Disks with parted
10. Filesystem Creation
11. Extended Filesystem Maintenance
12. smartmontools
13. Resizing Filesystems
14. Managing an XFS Filesystem
15. Swap
16. File Encryption With encfs
17. Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS)
18. Persistent Block Devices
19. List Block Devices
Lab Tasks
1. Accessing NFS Shares
2. On-demand filesystem mounting with AutoFS
3. Hot Adding Swap
4. Creating ISO Images for Backups
5. smartd and smartctl
6. LUKS-on-disk format Encrypted Filesystem
LVM & RAID
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Logical Volume Management
3. Implementing LVM
4. Creating Logical Volumes
5. Manipulating VGs & LVs
6. Advanced LVM Concepts
7. system-config-lvm
8. SLES Graphical Disk Tool
9. RAID Concepts
10. Array Creation with mdadm
11. Software RAID Monitoring
12. Software RAID Control and Display
Lab Tasks
1. Creating and Managing a RAID-5 Array
2. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
Adjusting Storage Device Access and iSCSI
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Tuning with hdparm
3. SCSI Devices
4. Remote Storage Overview
5. Remote Filesystem Protocols
6. Remote Block Device Protocols
7. iSCSI Architecture
8. Open-iSCSI Initiator Implementation
9. iSCSI Initiator Discovery
10. iSCSI Initiator Node Administration
11. Mounting iSCSI Targets at Boot
12. iSCSI Multipathing Considerations
Lab Tasks
1. iSCSI Initiator Configuration
Client Networking
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Linux Network Interfaces
3. Ethernet Hardware Tools
4. Network Configuration with ip Command
5. Configuring Routing Tables
6. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
7. Network Configuration with ip Command
8. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
9. Enabling IPv6
10. Linux Wireless Extensions and Tools
11. Wireless Tools Discovery
12. NetworkManager
13. system-config-network-{tui,cmd}
14. SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
15. Network Diagnostics
16. Information from netstat and ss
17. Discovering Reachable Services
18. nmap
19. Netcat
20. tcpdump and wireshark
21. Networking Troubleshooting
22. Networking Troubleshooting
Lab Tasks
1. Basic Client Networking
2. Wireless Fundamentals
3. NMAP
System Maintenance
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. System Messaging Commands
3. Controlling System Messaging
4. Archives with tar
5. The gzip Compression Utility
6. The bzip2 Compression Utility
7. Comparing File Changes
8. Compiling/Installing from Source
9. Tape Libraries
10. Backup Software
11. Backup Examples
Lab Tasks
1. Command Line Messaging
2. Archiving and Compression
3. Using tar and cpio for Backups
4. Using rsync and ssh for Backups