LPIC-1 Part 2 Linux Administrator Certification

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Course Description

This LPIC-1 Part 2 Linux Administrator Certification training course prepares students to take the LPI 102-500 exam of the LPIC-1 certification. The LPI objectives covered are version 5.0. 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-1 102-500 exam with in classroom assessments and practice exams.

Course Outline

1. Account and Security Administration

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Gathering System Info
3.     Approaches to Storing User Accounts
4.     User and Group Concepts
5.     User Private Group Scheme
6.     User Administration
7.     Modifying Accounts
8.     Group Administration
9.     Password Aging
10.     Limiting Logins
11.     Default User Files
12.     su and Wheel
13.     sudo
14.     Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
15.     pam_limits.so
16.     lsof and fuser

Lab Tasks

1.     User and Group Administration
2.     Restricting superuser access to wheel group membership
3.     User Private Groups
4.     Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules

2. Customizing the Shell and Writing Simple Scripts

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Configuration Files
3.     Script Execution
4.     Bash: Configuration Files
5.     Shell and Environment Variables
6.     Bash Shell Options
7.     Bash: “shortcuts”
8.     Bash: prompt
9.     Nesting Commands
10.     Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
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 and until Loops
21.     Functions
22.     Sending and Receiving Email with mailx

Lab Tasks

1.     Bash Login Scripts
2.     Writing a Shell Script
3.     Command Line Email
4.     Alpine

3. Automating Tasks

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Automating Tasks
3.     at/batch
4.     cron
5.     The crontab Command
6.     crontab Format
7.     /etc/cron.*/ Directories
8.     Anacron

Lab Tasks

1.     Adding System cron Jobs
2.     Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs

4. Networking

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     IPv4 Fundamentals
3.     TCP/UDP Fundamentals
4.     IPv6
5.     Linux Network Interfaces
6.     Ethernet Hardware Tools
7.     Configuring Routing Tables
8.     Network Configuration with ip Command
9.     Starting and Stopping Interfaces
10.     SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
11.     Hostname and Domain Name
12.     Name Resolution
13.     DNS Clients
14.     Network Diagnostics
15.     Information from ss and netstat
16.     nmap
17.     Netcat

Lab Tasks

1.     Basic Client Networking
2.     Configuring IPv6

5. 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.     Automatic X Configuration
8.     Xorg and Fonts
9.     Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
10.     Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
11.     The X11 Protocol and Display Names
12.     Display Managers and Graphical Login
13.     X Access Control
14.     Remote X Access (historical/insecure)
15.     Remote X Access (modern/secure)
16.     Customizing X Sessions
17.     Starting X Apps Automatically

Lab Tasks

1.     Configure X Security
2.     Launching X Apps Automatically
3.     Secure X

6. 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.     Time Zone Configuration – Traditional Method
5.     System Clock Configuration – Distribution tools
6.     System Clock Configuration – Distribution tools

7. Time and Printing

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Hardware and System Clock
3.     Managing Network-Wide Time
4.     Continual Time Sync with NTP
5.     Configuring NTP Clients
6.     Useful NTP Commands
7.     Common UNIX Printing System
8.     Defining a Printer
9.     Standard Print Commands
10.     CUPS Troubleshooting
11.     CUPS Troubleshooting

Lab Tasks

1.     NTP Client Configuration
2.     Printing
3.     Configuring Print Queues

8. Log File Administration

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     System Logging
3.     Syslog-ng
4.     systemd Journal
5.     systemd Journal’s journactl
6.     Secure Logging with Journal’s Log Sealing
7.     Rsyslog
8.     /etc/rsyslog.conf
9.     Log Management
10.     Sending logs from the shell

Lab Tasks

1.     Using the systemd Journal
2.     Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
3.     Remote Syslog Configuration

9. SQL and MTA Fundamentals

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Popular SQL Databases
3.     SELECT Statements
4.     INSERT Statements
5.     UPDATE Statements
6.     DELETE Statements
7.     JOIN Clauses
8.     SMTP
9.     SMTP Terminology
10.     SMTP Architecture
11.     Sendmail Architecture
12.     Sending Email with sendmail
13.     Sendmail Components
14.     Exim
15.     Postfix Features
16.     Postfix Architecture
17.     Postfix Components
18.     Postfix Map Types
19.     Configuration Commands

Lab Tasks

1.     SQL with Sqlite3
2.     Configuring Postfix
3.     Configuring Sendmail

10. Host Security and Encryption

1.     LPI Objectives Covered
2.     Controlling Login Sessions
3.     Xinetd
4.     TCP Wrappers
5.     /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} Shortcuts
6.     Advanced TCP Wrappers
7.     Discovering Hosts
8.     Secure Shell
9.     ssh and sshd Configuration
10.     Accessing Remote Shells
11.     SSH Port Forwarding
12.     Transferring Files
13.     Alternative sftp Clients
14.     SSH Key Management
15.     ssh-agent
16.     GPG – GNU Privacy Guard

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

Exam

This course prepares students to take the LPI 102-500 exam of the LPIC-1 certification.

Learning Path

There are a number of options of suitable follow-on courses, depending on your business needs. Please contact us for further details.

•     LPIC-2 Part 1 Certification (Linux Engineer) - GTU10 | 5-day course
•     LPIC-2 Part 2 Certification (Linux Engineer) -  GTU11 | 5-day course

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, if there is one available. Please check our schedule, or register your interest in joining a course in your area.
• Private onsite Team training also available, please contact us to discuss. We can customise this course to suit your business requirements.