Linux Certifications

LPIC-1 Exam Objectives (101-500)

1. System Architecture

• Determine and configure hardware settings
• Boot the system
• Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot the system

2. Linux Installation and Package Management

• Design hard disk layout
• Install a boot manager
• Manage shared libraries
• Use Debian (.deb) and Rocky Linux (RPM, YUM) package management
• Linux as a virtualization guest

3. GNU and Unix Commands

• Working on the command line
• Process text streams useing filters
• Perform basic file management
• Use streams, pipes and redirects
• Create, monitor, and kill processes
• Modify process execution priorities
• Seatch text files using regular expressions
• Basic file editing

4. Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• Create partitions and filesystems
• Maintain the integrity of filesystems
• Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
• Manage file permissions and ownership
• Create and change hard and symbolic links
• Find system files and place files in the correct location

LPIC-1 Exam Objectives (102-500)

5. Shells and Shell Scripting

• Customize and use the shell environment
• Customize or write simple scripts

6. User Interfaces and Desktops

• Install and configure X11
• Graphical Desktops
• accessibility

7. Administrative Tasks

• Manage user and group accounts and related system files
• Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
• Localisation and internationalisation

8. Essential System Services

• Maintain system time
• System logging
• Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics
• Manage printers and spooling

9. Networking Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of internet protocols
• Persistent network configuration
• Basic network troubleshooting
• Configure client side DNS

10. Security

• Perform security administration tasks
• Setup host security
• Securing data with encryption

LPIC-2 Exam Objectives (201-450)

1. Capacity Planning

• Measure and Troubleshoot Resource Usage
• Predict Future Resource Needs

2. Linux Kernel

• Kernel components
• Compiling a Linux kernel
• Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting

3. System Startup

• Customizing system startup
• System recovery
• Alternate Bootloaders

4. Filesystem and Devices

• Operating the Linux filesystem
• Maintaining a Linux filesystem
• Creating and configuring filesystem options

5. Advanced Storage Device Administration

• Configuring RAID
• Adjusting Storage Device Access
• Logical Volume Manager

6. Networking Configuration

• Basic networing configuration
• Advanced Network Configuration
• Troubleshooting network issues

7. System Maintenance

• Make and install programs from source
• Backup Operations
• Notify users on system related issues

LPIC-2 Exam Objectives (202-450)

8. Domain Name Server

• Basic DNS server configuration
• Create and maintain DNS zones
• Securing a DNS server

9. Web Services

• Basic Apache configurtion
• Apache configuration for HTTPS
• Implementing Squid as a caching proxy
• Implementing Nginx as a web server and a reverse proxy

10. File Sharing

• Samba Server Configuration
• Network File System (NFS) Server Configuration

11. Network Client Management

• DHCP configurtion
• PAM authentication
• Configuring an OpenLDAP server

12. E-Mail Services

• Using e-mail servers
• Managing E-Mail delivery

13. System Security

• Configuring a router
• Managing FTP servers
• Secure shell (SSH)
• Security tasks
• OpenVPN

CompTIA Linux+

1. Linux System Architecture

• Hardware configurations and system architecture.
• Boot process and sysVinit to systemd.
• Linux filesystem hierarchy and types.

2. Installation and Package Management

• Linux installation planning and execution.
• Package management systems (APT, YUM, RPM, and others).
• Managing shared libraries and understanding package dependencies.

3. GNU and Unix Commands

• Common command line operations and shell scripting.
• Text processing tools (awk, sed, grep).
• File handling utilities (touch, cp, mv, rm, ln).
• Stream redirection and piping.

4. Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• Creating partitions and filesystems.
• Filesystem maintenance (fsck, tune2fs).
• Mounting and unmounting filesystems.
• File permissions and ownership.

5. Scripting, and Data Management

• Basic shell scripting in Bash.
• Managing user and group accounts and related system files.
• Automating system tasks using cron and at.

6. User Interfaces and Desktops

• Graphical user interfaces in Linux.
• Accessibility features.

7. Administrative Tasks

• Managing services and processes.
• System logging and monitoring.
• Performance tuning basics.

8. Essential System Services

• Networking configuration and troubleshooting.
• Time synchronization services.
• Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics.
• Printing services.

9. Networking Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of TCP/IP.
• Basic network troubleshooting.
• Configuring firewall and understanding security layers.

10. Security

• System security best practices and policies.
• Configuring, managing, and diagnosing Linux firewalls.
• Security tasks, including host security, access controls, and encryption.

11. Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

• Analyzing system properties and diagnosing issues.
• Troubleshooting user and application issues.
• Advanced networking and security troubleshooting.

Exam Objectives