Cert Prep: LPIC-1 Exam 101 (Version 5.0)

Introduction

• Get ready for LPIC-1
• What you should know
• About the LPIC-1 exam
• CentOS 7 install
• CentOS 7 lab setup
• Ubuntu 19.04 install

• Enable/disable integrated hardware
• Determine hardware resources
• Working with USB devices
• About sysfs, udev, and D-Bus
• Manage kernel modules
• Manual network configuration
• Configure networking using NetworkManager

• Understand the Linux boot process
• Using GRUB
• Create a custom GRUB menu
• Updating the Linux kernel
• About acpid

• About SysVinit, systemd, and Upstart
• Get systemd service status
• Manage systemd services
• Make systemd services persistent
• About SysVinit services
• Change runlevels/targets
• Boot into the emergency target
• Locate and interpret system log files
• Reading the system journal

• Debian software management overview
• Get package information with dpkg and APT
• Manage software with dpkg and APT
• Work with APT repositories

• RPM software management overview
• Query packages with RPM
• Intall and remove packages with Yum
• Install and remove package groups

• Compare cloud and virtualization concepts
• Types of hypervisors
• System images and cloud instances
• About containers
• Introduction to cloud-init

• Simple and compound commands
• Modify the shell environment
• Command history
• The PATH and command execution
• Named and unnamed pipes
• Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
• Use text filters
• Find files using locate
• Finding files with find
• Finding text in files with grep

• Select and sort processes for display
• Monitor active processes
• Send signals to processes
• Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default
• Run jobs in the foreground and background
• Signal a program to continue running after logout

• Understand the differences between basic and extended regular expressions
• Matching characters and words with regexes
• Specifying occurrences with regexes
• Alternation and grouping with regexes
• Back references and subexpressions
• Search text using regular expressions
• Use regular expressions to delete, change, and substitute text
• Awareness of Emacs, Nano, and Vim
• An introduction to Vim
• Edit text in Vim
• Search and replace in Vim

• File globbing and parameter expansion
• Understand filesystem paths
• Create files and dirs
• Copy files and dirs
• Move and rename files and dirs
• Remove files and dirs
• Create links to files and dirs

• Create and delete local user accounts
• Modify local user accounts
• Manage user passwords
• What is a file?
• Get file attributes
• Get extended attributes
• About standard Linux permissions
• File and directory modes
• File ownership
• Set permissions using numeric method
• Set permissions using symbolic method
• Default permissions using umask
• Special file bits: SUID and SGID
• Special directory bits: SGID and Sticky

• Hard drive partitioning strategies
• List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
• Create parititons using parted
• Resize partitions without losing data
• Basic features of logical volume management (LVM)
• Manage LVM volumes and volume groups
• Extend existing logical volumes
• Reduce existing logical volumes
• Replace a physical volume
• Create EXT filesystems
• Repair EXT filesystems
• Mount filesystems automatically
• Back up and restore an EXT filesystem
• Basic features of Btrfs
• Archiving files with tar

• Taking the exam