UNIX-like System Exercises
- System Architecture
- Determine and configure hardware settings
- Boot the system
- Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot the system
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Shells and Shell Scripting
- Customize and use the shell environment
- Customize or write simple scripts
- User Interfaces and Desktops
- Install and configure X11
- Graphical Desktops
- accessibility
- Administrative Tasks
- Manage user and group accounts and related system files
- Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
- Localisation and internationalisation
- Essential System Services
- Maintain system time
- System logging
- Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics
- Manage printers and spooling
- Networking Fundamentals
- Fundamentals of internet protocols
- Persistent network configuration
- Basic network troubleshooting
- Configure client side DNS
- Security
- Perform security administration tasks
- Setup host security
- Securing data with encryption
- Capacity Planning
- Measure and Troubleshoot Resource Usage
- Predict Future Resource Needs
- Linux Kernel
- Kernel components
- Compiling a Linux kernel
- Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting
- System Startup
- Customizing system startup
- System recovery
- Alternate Bootloaders
- Filesystem and Devices
- Operating the Linux filesystem
- Maintaining a Linux filesystem
- Creating and configuring filesystem options
- Advanced Storage Device Administration
- Configuring RAID
- Adjusting Storage Device Access
- Logical Volume Manager
- Networking Configuration
- Basic networing configuration
- Advanced Network Configuration
- Troubleshooting network issues
- System Maintenance
- Make and install programs from source
- Backup Operations
- Notify users on system related issues
- Domain Name Server
- Basic DNS server configuration
- Create and maintain DNS zones
- Securing a DNS server
- 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
- File Sharing
- Samba Server Configuration
- Network File System (NFS) Server Configuration
- Network Client Management
- DHCP configurtion
- PAM authentication
- Configuring an OpenLDAP server
- E-Mail Services
- Using e-mail servers
- Managing E-Mail delivery
- System Security
- Configuring a router
- Managing FTP servers
- Secure shell (SSH)
- Security tasks
- OpenVPN
Objectives
| Exam Objective | CompTIA Linux+ | LPIC-1 | LPIC-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware and System Configuration | Yes | No | No |
| System Operation and Maintenance | Yes | No | No |
| Security | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux Troubleshooting and Diagnostics | Yes | No | No |
| Automation and Scripting | Yes | No | No |
| System Architecture | No | Yes | No |
| Linux Installation and Package Management | No | Yes | No |
| GNU and Unix Commands | No | Yes | No |
| Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shells, Scripting and Data Management | No | Yes | No |
| User Interfaces and Desktops | No | Yes | No |
| Administrative Tasks | No | Yes | No |
| Essential System Services | No | Yes | No |
| Networking Fundamentals | No | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity Planning | No | No | Yes |
| Linux Kernel | No | No | Yes |
| System Startup | No | No | Yes |
| Filesystem and Devices | No | No | Yes |
| Advanced Storage Device Administration | No | No | Yes |
| Networking Configuration | No | No | Yes |
| System Maintenance | No | No | Yes |
| Domain Name Server | No | No | Yes |
| Web Services | No | No | Yes |
| File Sharing | No | No | Yes |
| Network Client Management | No | No | Yes |
| E-Mail Services | No | No | Yes |
| System Security | No | No | Yes |