This course prepares students to take the LPI 102 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-1 102 exam with in classroom assessments and practice exams.

Linux Training Prerequisites

Course: "LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 1)" or knowledge and experience equivalent to the LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 1) course.

Linux Training Course duration

4 days

Linux Training Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Linux Training Course outline

1. Account and Security Administration
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. User and Group Concepts
   3. User Private Group Scheme
   4. User Administration
   5. Modifying Accounts
   6. Group Administration
   7. Password Aging
   8. Limiting Logins
   9. Default User Files
   10. su and Wheel
   11. sudo
   12. Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
   13. pam_limits.so
   Lab Tasks
   1. User and Group Administration
   2. Restricting superuser access to wheel group membership
   3. User Private Groups
   4. Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules
2. Customizing the Shell and Writing Simple Scripts
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Bourne sh: Configuration Files
   3. Script Execution
   4. bash: Configuration Files
   5. Shell and Environment Variables
   6. Bash Shell Options
   7. bash: "shortcuts"
   8. bash: prompt
   9. Nesting Commands
   10. Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
   11. Example Shell Script
   12. Positional Parameters
   13. Input & Output
   14. Doing Math
   15. Comparisons with test
   16. Exit Status
   17. Conditional Statements
   18. Flow Control: case
   19. The for Loop
   20. The while and until Loops
   21. Functions
   Lab Tasks
   1. Bash Login Scripts
   2. Writing a Shell Script
3. Automating Tasks
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Automating Tasks
   3. at/batch
   4. cron
   5. The crontab Command
   6. crontab Format
   7. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
   8. Anacron
   Lab Tasks
   1. Adding System cron Jobs
   2. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
4. Networking
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. IPv4 Fundamentals
   3. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
   4. Enabling IPv6
   5. Linux Network Interfaces
   6. Ethernet Hardware Tools
   7. Configuring Routing Tables
   8. Network Configuration with ip Command
   9. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
   10. system-config-network-{tui,cmd}
   11. SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
   12. DNS Clients
   13. Network Diagnostics
   14. Information from netstat and ss
   15. nmap
   16. Netcat
   Lab Tasks
   1. Basic Client Networking
   2. Configuring IPv6
5. X Window System
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. The X Window System
   3. X Modularity
   4. X.Org Drivers
   5. Starting X
   6. Configuring X Manually
   7. Automatic X Configuration
   8. Automatic X Configuration – SLES
   9. Xorg and Fonts
   10. Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
   11. Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
   12. The X11 Protocol and Display Names
   13. Display Managers and Graphical Login
   14. X Access Control
   15. Remote X Access (historical/insecure approach)
   16. Remote X Access (modern/secure approach)
   17. Customizing X Sessions
   18. Starting X Apps Automatically
   Lab Tasks
   1. Configure X Security
   2. Customize X Components
   3. Launching X Apps Automatically
   4. Secure X
6. Accessibility and Localization
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. GNOME Accessibility Support
   3. Internationalization & Localization
   4. Character Encodings
   5. Locales
   6. Setting the Time Zone
   Lab Tasks
   1. GNOME Accessibility
   2. Character Encoding Conversion
   3. Locale Configuration
   4. Time Zone Configuration - Traditional Method
   5. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools
   6. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools
7. Time, Logging, and Printing
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Hardware and System Clock
   3. Managing Network-Wide Time
   4. Continual Time Sync with NTP
   5. Configuring NTP Clients
   6. System Logging
   7. /etc/rsyslog.conf
   8. Log Management
   9. Common UNIX Printing System
   10. Defining a Printer
   11. Standard Print Commands
   Lab Tasks
   1. NTP Client Configuration
   2. Printing
   3. Configuring Print Queues
   4. Printer Configuration with YaST
8. MTA and SQL Fundamentals
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Popular SQL Databases
   3. SELECT Statements
   4. INSERT Statements
   5. UPDATE Statements
   6. DELETE Statements
   7. JOIN Clauses
   8. SMTP
   9. SMTP Terminology
   10. SMTP Architecture
   11. Sendmail Architecture
   12. Sendmail Components
   13. Postfix Features
   14. Postfix Architecture
   15. Postfix Components
   Lab Tasks
   1. SQL with Sqlite3
   2. Configuring Sendmail
   3. Configuring Postfix
9. Host Security and Encryption
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Controlling Logins
   3. Xinetd
   4. TCP Wrappers
   5. /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} Shortcuts
   6. Advanced TCP Wrappers
   7. Secure Shell
   8. ssh and sshd Configuration
   9. Accessing Remote Shells
   10. Transferring Files
   11. Alternative sftp Clients
   12. SSH Key Management
   13. ssh-agent
   14. GPG – GNU Privacy Guard
   Lab Tasks
   1. Securing xinetd Services
   2. Enforcing Security Policy with xinetd
   3. Securing Services with TCP Wrappers
   4. Introduction to ssh and scp
   5. SSH Key-based User Authentication
   6. Using ssh-agent
   7. File Encryption with GPG