Question 1

What does the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 course cover?

Accepted Answer

The LPI professional track has two levels and four exams. LPIC-1, the Linux Administrator level, is 101-500 on architecture, installation and package management, the command line, devices and filesystems, plus 102-500 on shells and scripting, system administration, essential services, networking and security. LPIC-2, the Linux Engineer level, is 201-450 and 202-450 on advanced administration, the kernel, storage, networking, security and services. Each exam is 60 questions in 90 minutes and the credential lasts five years.

Question 2

How is this different from the SRE course?

Accepted Answer

The SRE course teaches a practice: service level objectives, error budgets, incident command, observability and toil reduction. This course teaches a product and its operating system: the Linux kernel, the shell, filesystems, systemd, networking and security, measured against the published LPI objectives. The overlap is the on-call work, but the assessment is entirely different, and no vendor distribution or paid tooling is involved.

Question 3

Do I need Linux experience before I start?

Accepted Answer

You need to be comfortable in a terminal, because LPIC-1 is an exam about what you can do without a mouse. The labs assume a booted Linux host and root access, and every objective is practised on the command line. If you have only ever used a desktop, spend a week with the shell before the first session and the course will meet you comfortably.

Question 4

Can I take LPIC-2 before I have passed LPIC-1?

Accepted Answer

The exams may be sat in any order, but LPI will only award the LPIC-2 certification once an active LPIC-1 certification is in place. The course therefore teaches LPIC-1 first, then LPIC-2, and the people who pass all four papers in one sitting usually sit 101 and 102 before the advanced level. The credential is recognised worldwide because it is vendor-neutral.

Question 5

Which distribution is used in the labs?

Accepted Answer

Debian and Ubuntu for the LPIC-1 sessions, with a CentOS Stream and a SUSE host added when the course reaches the LPIC-2 material on packaging and services. The point of the switch is not preference but portability: the exam expects you to know that a service is enabled with a systemd command, and that the package manager differs while the concepts do not.

Question 6

What is the duration and fee?

Accepted Answer

Twelve weeks, three sessions a week of two hours each, totalling 72 hours, with every objective practised on a live host in the session. Fees run from Rs 45,000 to Rs 75,000 depending on batch and mode, with classroom, live online and hybrid options and placement support through 200+ hiring partners. The LPI exam vouchers are separate and paid directly to the institute, not to us.

Question 7

What certificate do I receive?

Accepted Answer

A SkilBrill Course Completion Certificate for the full 72 hours of the programme, listing the modules completed and the host you built, broke and repaired. The LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 credentials are issued by the Linux Professional Institute after you pass each exam. We prepare you for the exams and assess your lab work; we do not issue the vendor credential.