Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 Training (LPI)
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M1 — The LPI Path and System Architecture
The LPI path: LPIC-1 then LPIC-2, four exams, five year validity
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Kernel, shell, systemd and the layers between the hardware and the prompt
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Virtual machines, containers and cloned system images at a conceptual level
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Command syntax, quoting, pipes and how to read a help page under pressure
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File types, the hierarchy standard and where configuration really lives
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ls, cd, cp, mv, rm and find, and the options people forget on the exam
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M2 — Files, Permissions and the Shell Environment
Users, groups, the passwd and shadow files and the home directory layout
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Ownership, group, other and the numeric form of the permission bits
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chmod, chown, chgrp and the setuid, setgid and sticky bits
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umask and the default mode a new file inherits from its parent
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Environment variables, PATH, shell startup files and aliases
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Bash parameter expansion, here-documents and command substitution
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M3 — Storage: ext4, XFS, LVM and Mounts
Inodes, blocks and the filesystem metadata that quietly fills a disk
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Creating and checking ext4 with mkfs, tune2fs and fsck
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XFS administration, growth and repair with xfs_info and xfs_repair
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Mount options, the mount table and the fstab fields that matter
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Logical volumes, volume groups and taking a snapshot copy before a change
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Disk usage, inode exhaustion, quotas and the first checks on a full disk
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M4 — Processes, Signals, Services and systemd
Process states, the process tree and the /proc entries that explain them
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Signals, kill and pkill, and the difference between TERM and KILL
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Job control, nohup and surviving a dropped session on a long task
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systemd units, targets, the dependency graph and the ordering rules
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journalctl queries and the boot and unit logs for a failed service
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Timers, cron and the two schedulers a host administrator must keep apart
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M5 — Scripting and Text Processing for Administration
Script structure, arguments, exit codes and the shebang line
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Conditionals, loops, functions and reading from standard input
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sed, awk, sort, uniq, cut and tr inside a pipeline that does the work
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Regular expressions in grep, sed and awk, basic and extended
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Triaging a log with text tools: count, group and find the outlier
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Debugging with set -x, bash -n and a small test harness of your own
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M6 — Networking, DNS and Security Basics
Interfaces, addressing, the route table and how a packet finds its way
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TCP and UDP, ports and the socket states a connection passes through
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The network configuration tools and the persistent files behind them
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DNS record types, the resolver files and querying a name server
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OpenSSH key pairs, the client config and disabling password logins
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Firewalls, secure tunnels and the principle of least privilege on a host
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M7 — LPIC-2: Compiling, Services and Larger Systems
Compiling from source, the toolchain and resolving a shared library
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Building a kernel, an initrd and the module loading that follows
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Package management across distributions, repositories and dependencies
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Configuring a web server, a file server and a mail transfer agent
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OpenStack basics and the instance lifecycle the objectives cover
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Clusters, shared storage and the high availability topics in the objectives
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M8 — Capstone: Build, Secure and Troubleshoot a Linux Host
Install a host, set the hostname, the network and a working resolver
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Create the users, groups and permission model for a small team
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Deploy a service with a unit file, a timer and a log-based alert
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Write two scripts, one backup and one report, both scheduled and tested
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Break the host on purpose: fill the disk, stop a service, break DNS
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Diagnose each fault, then answer a timed practice paper for all four exams
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