NWLPI101 - LPIC-1 Exam Prep (Course 1)

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This course prepares students to take the 101 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-1 101 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:

Manage File Permissions and Ownership
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
3. Navigating the Filesystem
4. Displaying Directory Contents
5. Determining Disk Usage
6. File Ownership
7. Default Group Ownership
8. File and Directory Permissions
9. File Creation Permissions
10. Changing File Permissions
11. SUID and SGID on files
12. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
13. User Private Group Scheme
Lab Tasks
1. Files and Directories
2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
Create, Delete, Find, and Display Files
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Directory Manipulation
3. File Manipulation
4. Deleting and Creating Files
5. Physical Unix File Structure
6. Filesystem Links
7. File Extensions and Content
8. Displaying Files
9. Previewing Files
10. Displaying Binary Files
11. Searching the Filesystem
12. Alternate Search Method
13. Shared Libraries
Lab Tasks
1. File and Directory Manipulation Commands
2. File Examination & Search Commands
Work With Archives and Compression
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Archives with tar
3. Archives with cpio
4. The gzip Compression Utility
5. The bzip2 Compression Utility
6. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
Lab Tasks
1. Archiving and Compression
2. Using tar and cpio for Backups
Process Text Streams Using Filters
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Producing File Statistics
3. Searching Inside Files
4. The Streaming Editor
5. Text Processing with awk
6. Replacing Text Characters
7. Text Sorting
8. Duplicate Removal Utility
9. Extracting Columns of Text
10. Merging Multiple Files
Lab Tasks
1. Text Processing
Work On The Command Line
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Role of Command Shell
3. Shells
4. Identifying the Shell
5. Changing the Shell
6. sh: Prompts
7. bash: Bourne Again Shell
8. bash: Command Editing
9. bash: Command Completion
10. Shell/Environment Variables
11. Key Environment Variables
Lab Tasks
1. Linux Shells
2. Shell Variables
3. Bash History
4. Aliases
Use Streams, Pipes, and Redirects
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. File Redirection
3. Piping Commands Together
4. Filename Matching
5. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
6. Brace Expansion
7. General Quoting Rules
8. Nesting Commands
9. Multiple and Multi-line Commands
Lab Tasks
1. Connecting Commands
2. Wildcard File Matching
3. Shell Meta-Characters
4. Command Substitution
Search Text Files Using Regular Expressions
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Regular Expression Overview
3. Regular Expressions
4. RE Character Classes
5. RE Quantifiers
6. RE Parenthesis
Lab Tasks
1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
2. Extended Regular Expressions
3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
Perform Basic File Editing Operations Using Vi
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Text Editing
3. vi and Vim
4. Basic vi
5. Learning vi
6. Intermediate vi
Lab Tasks
1. Text Editing with Vim
Create, Monitor, and Kill Processes
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. What is a Process?
3. Process Creation
4. Process States
5. Viewing Processes
6. Signals
7. Tools to Send Signals
8. Job Control Basics
9. Jobs
Lab Tasks
1. Job Control Basics
2. Process Management and Job Control Basics
Use RPM, YUM, and Debian Package Management
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Managing Software
3. Working With RPMs
4. Querying and Verifying with RPM
5. Installing Debian Packages
6. Querying and Verifying with dpkg
7. The alien Package Conversion Tool
8. Intro to Package Management
9. Using the YUM command
10. Configuring YUM
11. The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
12. Aptitude
13. Configuring APT
14. Compiling/Installing from Source
15. Installing Source RPM Packages
Lab Tasks
1. Querying the RPM Database
2. Installing Software via RPM & Source and Rebuilding SRPMs
Work With Partitions, Filesystems, and Disk Quotas
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Partition Considerations
3. Partition Planning
4. Partition Tables
5. File System Creation
6. Filesystem Support
7. UNIX/Linux Filesystem Features
8. Swap
9. Filesystem Considerations
10. Journaled Filesystems
11. Filesystem Maintenance
12. Mounting Filesystems
13. NFS
14. SMB
15. Filesystem Table
16. Configuring Disk Quotas
17. Setting Quotas
18. Viewing and Monitoring Quotas
Lab Tasks
1. Hot Adding Swap
2. Accessing NFS Shares
3. Setting User Quotas
Linux Boot Process
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Booting Linux on PCs
3. LILO Options
4. GRUB Configuration
5. Kernel Boot Parameters
6. /sbin/init
7. System Init Styles
8. Linux Runlevels
9. /etc/inittab
10. /etc/init.d/*
11. /etc/rc.sysinit
12. SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
13. Ubuntu /etc/event.d/rcS
14. /etc/init.d/ and rc#.d/
15. rc
16. Shutdown and Reboot
Lab Tasks
1. Boot Process
2. GRUB Command Line
3. Basic GRUB Security
Determine and Configure Hardware Settings
1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Linux Device Files
3. Detecting New Hardware Manually
4. Configuring New Hardware with Kudzu
5. Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
6. PC System Hardware
7. USB Devices
8. USB Configuration
9. Configuring Kernel Modules
10. Kernel Modules
11. Handling Module Dependencies
12. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
13. Kernel Hardware Info - /sys/
14. /sys/ Structure
Lab Tasks
1. PC Hardware and Linux

Linux Fundamentals
1. UNIX Design Principles
2. FSF and GNU
3. GPL - General Public License
4. The Linux Kernel
5. Popular Uses of Linux
6. Components of Distributions
7. Standardization
8. Red Hat
9. SUSE Linux Products
10. Debian
11. Ubuntu
12. Logging In
13. got root?
14. Switching User Contexts
15. Gathering Login Session Info
16. Gathering System Info
17. Help from Commands and Documentation
18. Getting Help with man & info
19. $MANPATH, whatis and apropos
Lab Tasks
1. Login and Discovery
2. Help with Commands
3. Switching Users With su