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Exam Topics in Detail

Here's an in-depth review of the test objectives for 101-500 exam:

System Architecture

Under this domain, candidates should understand how to configure hardware systems like mass storage devices. Also, they must be familiar with system booting and changing boot targets, and reboot or shut down the systems. In particular, candidates must know how to work with integrated peripherals, SysVinit and systemd, and BIOS. Also, you must focus on developing skills in SysVinit runlevel, switching it, and terminating it properly.

Exam Overview

During the LPI 101-500 exam, students will be tested on their knowledge of different topics ranging from hardware configuration to booting processes to virtualization, and more. The skills they validate are used in real-world situations which the exam will replicate, showing one’s competency in business environment scenarios.

The pattern of the LPI 101-500 exam includes 60 multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions that should be answered within a 90-minute period. No prerequisites are set for it, and its cost is dependent on the applicant’s country of residence (with typical pricing is of about $200 USD). The languages available are English and Japanese.

LPI LPIC-1 Exam Certification Details:

Reference: https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/lpic-1-overview

Topics of LPIC-1 Linux Administrator , 101-500 Exam

To know course content so that aspirants can prepare for exam is a must. LPIC-1, 101-500 exam will include following topics :

1. System Architecture

• Understanding of SysVinit and systemd.

• Shutdown and reboot from the command line.

• Set the default runlevel or boot target.

• Alert users before switching runlevels / boot targets or other major system events.

• Boot the system

• Change between runlevels / boot targets including single user mode.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the boot sequence from BIOS/UEFI to boot completion.

• Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system

• Enable and disable integrated peripherals.

• Awareness of Upstart.

• Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g. lsusb, lspci, etc.).

• Properly terminate processes.

• Provide common commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time.

• Check boot events in the log files.

• Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev and dbus.

• Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices.

• Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices.

• Determine and configure hardware settings

• Determine hardware resources for devices.

• Awareness of acpid.

2. Linux Installation and Package Management

• Awareness of cloud-init.

• Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed).

• Manage shared libraries

• Understand the general concept of virtual machines and containers.

• Install, re-install, upgrade and remove packages using RPM, YUM and Zypper.

• Understand how system images are used to deploy virtual machines, cloud instances and containers.

• Identify the typical locations of system libraries.

• Use Debian package management

• Use RPM and YUM package management

• Install a boot manager

• Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages.

• Interact with the boot loader.

• Understand common elements virtual machines in an IaaS cloud, such as computing instances, block storage and networking.

• Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from.

• Linux as a virtualization guest

• Design hard disk layout

• Perform basic configuration changes for GRUB 2.

• Awareness of dnf.

• Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures.

• Identify shared libraries.

• Knowledge of basic features of LVM.

• Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB Legacy.

• Tailor the design to the intended use of the system.

• Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed.

• Awareness of apt.

• Understand Linux extensions which integrate Linux with a virtualization product.

• Load shared libraries.

• Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting.

• Understand unique properties of a Linux system which have to changed when a system is cloned or used as a template.

• Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks.

• Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options.

3. GNU and Unix Commands

• Use the output of one command as arguments to another command.

• Navigate a document using vi.

• Awareness of Emacs, nano and vim.

• Send signals to processes.

• Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables.

• Signal a program to continue running after logout.

• Monitor active processes.

• Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package.

• Select and sort processes for display.

• Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line.

• Run jobs in the foreground and background.

• Perform basic file management

• Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default.

• Understand the differences between basic and extended regular expressions.

• Use streams, pipes and redirects

• Process text streams using filters

• Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text in vi.

• Understand and use vi modes.

• Use regular expressions to delete, change and substitute text.

• Configure the standard editor.

• Search text files using regular expressions

• Create, monitor and kill processes

• Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command.

• Understand the concepts of special characters, character classes, quantifiers and anchors.

• Remove files and directories recursively.

• Copy, move and remove files and directories individually.

• Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements.

• Usage of tar, cpio and dd.

• Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content.

• Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands.

• Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error.

• Change the priority of a running process.

• Basic file editing

• Copy multiple files and directories recursively.

• Send output to both stdout and a file.

• Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path.

• Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time.

• Know the default priority of a job that is created.

• Use and edit command history.

• Work on the command line

• Modify process execution priorities

4. Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• Manually mount and unmount filesystems.

• Monitor free space and inodes.

• Use links to support system administration tasks

• Configure user mountable removable filesystems.

• Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories.

• Manage file permissions and ownership

• Verify the integrity of filesystems.

• Basic feature knowledge of Btrfs, including multi-device filesystems, compression and subvolumes.

• Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems

• XFS

• Awareness of systemd mount units.

• Identify hard and/or soft links.

• Use various mkfs commands to create various filesystems such as:

• Manage MBR and GPT partition tables

• Create links.

• Configure filesystem mounting on bootup.

• Create partitions and filesystems

• VFAT

• exFAT

• Understand the correct locations of files under the FHS.

• Maintain the integrity of filesystems

• Copying versus linking files.

• Use the group field to grant file access to group members.

• Find files and commands on a Linux system.

• Use of labels and UUIDs for identifying and mounting file systems.

• Know how to change the file creation mask.

• Repair simple filesystem problems.

• Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security.

• ext2/ext3/ext4

• Find system files and place files in the correct location

• Create and change hard and symbolic links

• Know the location and purpose of important file and directories as defined in the FHS.

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