NWLPI102 - LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 2)

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This course prepares students to take the LPI 102 exam of the LPI level 1 certification. The LPI objectives covered are version 3.0 (released April 1, 2009). 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.

Prerequisites:

General computing knowledge and experience. No prior knowledge with Linux is required.

Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Recommended Class Length:

5 days

Detailed Course Outline:

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. /lib/modules/pam_limits.so
Lab Tasks
1. User and Group Administration
2. User Private Groups
3. Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules
Customizing the Shell and Writing Simple Scripts
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. sh: Configuration Files
3. sh: Script Execution
4. bash: Configuration Files
5. Shell/Environment
6. Bash Shell Options
7. bash: "shortcuts"
8. bash: prompt
9. Nesting Commands
10. Shell Scripting
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 Loop
Lab Tasks
1. Bash Login Scripts
2. The Z Shell
3. Writing a Shell Script
Automating Tasks
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Automating Tasks
3. at/batch
4. at Access Control
5. cron
6. The crontab Command
7. crontab Format
8. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
9. anacron
Lab Tasks
1. Adding System cron Jobs
2. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
Networking
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. IPv4 Fundamentals
3. TCP/IP Fundamentals
4. Enabling IPv6
5. Linux Network Interfaces
6. Ethernet Hardware Tools
7. Configuring Network Interfaces
8. Configuring Routing Tables
9. Network Configuration with ip Command
10. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
11. RHEL Configuration Tools
12. SUSE YaST Configuration Tool
13. GNOME Network Administration Tool
14. DNS Clients
15. Network Diagnostics
16. Information from netstat
17. nmap
18. Netcat
Lab Tasks
1. Basic Client Networking
2. Configuring IPv6
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. system-config-display
8. sax2 & yast x11 on SLES11
9. The X11 Protocol and Display Names
10. Display Manager Concepts
11. Display Managers and Graphical Login
12. X Access Control
13. Remote X Access (historical/insecure approach)
14. Remote X Access (modern/secure approach)
15. Customizing X Sessions
16. Starting X Apps Automatically
17. Window Manager Concepts
Lab Tasks
1. Configure X Security
2. Customize X Components
3. Launching X Apps Automatically
4. Secure X
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. System Clock Configuration - Traditional Method
5. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [RHEL5.4]
6. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [SLES11]
7. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [U804]
Time, Logging, and Printing
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Managing System Time
3. Managing Network-Wide Time
4. Continual Time Sync with NTP
5. Configuring NTP Clients
6. System Logging
7. /etc/syslog.conf
8. syslog-ng
9. Common UNIX Printing System
10. Defining a Printer
11. Standard Print Commands
12. Format Conversion Utilities
Lab Tasks
1. NTP Client Configuration
2. Printing
3. Configuring Print Queues
4. Printer Configuration with system-config-printer
5. Printer Configuration with YaST
MTA and SQL Fundamentals
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. SQL Databases
3. SQL: Adding and Changing Data
4. SQL: Viewing and Removing Data
5. SMTP
6. SMTP Terminology
7. SMTP Architecture
8. Sendmail Architecture
9. Sendmail Components
10. Exim
11. Postfix Features
12. Postfix Architecture
13. Postfix Components
Lab Tasks
1. SQL with Sqlite3
2. Configuring Sendmail
3. Configuring Postfix
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. File Encryption With GPG
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
8. File Encryption With OpenSSL