LPIC1-101 (temario)

System Architecture

  • Determine and configure hardware settings
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Enable and disable integrated peripherals
      • Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards
      • Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices
      • Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices
      • Determine hardware resources for devices
      • Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g. lsusb, lspci, etc.)
      • Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices
      • Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev, dbus
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • /sys/
      • /proc/
      • /dev/
      • modprobe
      • lsmod
      • lspci
      • lsusb
  • Boot the system
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Provide common commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time
      • Demonstrate knowledge of the boot sequence from BIOS to boot completion
      • Understanding of SysVinit and systemd
      • Awareness of Upstart
      • Check boot events in the log files
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • dmesg
      • BIOS
      • bootloader
      • kernel
      • initramfs
      • init
      • SysVinit
      • systemd
  • Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Set the default runlevel or boot target
      • Change between runlevels / boot targets including single user mode
      • Shutdown and reboot from the command line
      • Alert users before switching runlevels / boot targets or other major system events
      • Properly terminate processes
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • /etc/inittab
      • shutdown
      • init
      • /etc/init.d/
      • telinit
      • systemd
      • systemctl
      • /etc/systemd/
      • /usr/lib/systemd/
      • wall

Linux Installation and Package Management

  • Design hard disk layout
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks
      • Tailor the design to the intended use of the system
      • Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting
      • Knowledge of basic features of LVM
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • / (root) filesystem
      • /var filesystem
      • /home filesystem
      • /boot filesystem
      • swap space
      • mount points
      • partitions
  • Install a boot manager
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options
      • Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB Legacy
      • Perform basic configuration changes for GRUB 2
      • Interact with the boot loader
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • menu.lst, grub.cfg and grub.conf
      • grub-install
      • grub-mkconfig
      • MBR
  • Manage shared libraries
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Identify shared libraries
      • Identify the typical locations of system libraries
      • Load shared libraries
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • ldd
      • ldconfig
      • /etc/ld.so.conf
      • LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • Use Debian package management
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages
      • Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed
      • Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed)
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • /etc/apt/sources.list
      • dpkg
      • dpkg-reconfigure
      • apt-get
      • apt-cache
      • aptitude
  • Use RPM and YUM package management
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Install, re-install, upgrade and remove packages using RPM and YUM
      • Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures
      • Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • rpm
      • rpm2cpio
      • /etc/yum.conf
      • /etc/yum.repos.d/
      • yum
      • yumdownloader

GNU and Unix Commands

  • Work on the command line
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line
      • Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables
      • Use and edit command history
      • Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • bash
      • echo
      • env
      • export
      • pwd
      • set
      • unset
      • man
      • uname
      • history
      • .bash_history
  • Process text streams using filters
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • cat
      • cut
      • expand
      • fmt
      • head
      • join
      • less
      • nl
      • od
      • paste
      • pr
      • sed
      • sort
      • split
      • tail
      • tr
      • unexpand
      • uniq
      • wc
  • Perform basic file management
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Copy, move and remove files and directories individually
      • Copy multiple files and directories recursively
      • Remove files and directories recursively
      • Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands
      • Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time
      • Usage of tar, cpio and dd
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • cp
      • find
      • mkdir
      • mv
      • ls
      • rm
      • rmdir
      • touch
      • tar
      • cpio
      • dd
      • file
      • gzip
      • gunzip
      • bzip2
      • xz
      • file globbing
  • Use streams, pipes and redirects
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error
      • Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command
      • Use the output of one command as arguments to another command
      • Send output to both stdout and a file
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • tee
      • xargs
  • Create, monitor and kill processes
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Run jobs in the foreground and background
      • Signal a program to continue running after logout
      • Monitor active processes
      • Select and sort processes for display
      • Send signals to processes
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • &
      • bg
      • fg
      • jobs
      • kill
      • nohup
      • ps
      • top
      • free
      • uptime
      • pgrep
      • pkill
      • killall
      • screen
  • Modify process execution priorities
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Know the default priority of a job that is created
      • Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default
      • Change the priority of a running process
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • nice
      • ps
      • renice
      • top
  • Search text files using regular expressions
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements
      • Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • grep
      • egrep
      • fgrep
      • sed
      • regex(7)
  • Perform basic file editing operations using vi
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Navigate a document using vi
      • Use basic vi modes
      • Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • vi
      • /, ?
      • h,j,k,l
      • i, o, a
      • c, d, p, y, dd, yy
      • ZZ, :w!, :q!, :e!

Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

  • Create partitions and filesystems
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Manage MBR partition tables
      • Use various mkfs commands to create various filesystems such as:
      • -ext2/ext3/ext4
      • -XFS
      • -VFAT
      • Awareness of ReiserFS and Btrfs
      • Basic knowledge of gdisk and parted with GPT
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • fdisk
      • gdisk
      • parted
      • mkfs
      • mkswap
  • Maintain the integrity of filesystems
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Verify the integrity of filesystems
      • Monitor free space and inodes
      • Repair simple filesystem problems
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • du
      • df
      • fsck
      • e2fsck
      • mke2fs
      • debugfs
      • dumpe2fs
      • tune2fs
      • XFS tools (such as xfs_metadump and xfs_info)
  • Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Manually mount and unmount filesystems
      • Configure filesystem mounting on bootup
      • Configure user mountable removable filesystems
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • /etc/fstab
      • /media/
      • mount
      • umount
  • Manage disk quotas
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Set up a disk quota for a filesystem
      • Edit, check and generate user quota reports
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • quota
      • edquota
      • repquota
      • quotaon
  • Manage file permissions and ownership
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories
      • Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security
      • Know how to change the file creation mask
      • Use the group field to grant file access to group members
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • chmod
      • umask
      • chown
      • chgrp
  • Create and change hard and symbolic links
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Create links
      • Identify hard and/or soft links
      • Copying versus linking files
      • Use links to support system administration tasks
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • ln
      • ls
  • Find system files and place files in the correct location
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Understand the correct locations of files under the FHS
      • Find files and commands on a Linux system
      • Know the location and purpose of important file and directories as defined in the FHS
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • find
      • locate
      • updatedb
      • whereis
      • which
      • type
      • /etc/updatedb.conf