LPIC-1: Linux Administrator (101-500 and 102-500)

Introduction to LPIC-1

1. Introduction
2. What are Distros?
3. Windows Xubuntu Setup
4. Windows Rocky Linux Setup
5. Mac Xubuntu Setup
6. Mac Rocky Linux Setup

Configure Hardware Settings

1. Command Line Basics
2. Working with Peripherals
3. Proc and Sys Directories
4. The Dev Directory
5. Kernel Modules

Booting the System & Boot Targets

1. The Boot Process
2. SysVinit
3. Upstart
4. Systemd
5. Runlevels
6. Boot Targets

Design a Hard Disk Layout

1. MBR vs GPT
2. Partitions on a Linux System
3. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
4. Swapping
5. Mount Points
6. Logical Volume Manager

Boot Managers and Shared Libraries

1. The LILO Boot Loader
2. The GRUB Boot Loader
3. The GRUB2 Boot Loader
4. Additional Boot Loaders
5. Shared Libraries
6. Locating Library Files

Package Management for Debian

1. Introduction
2. dpkg
3. apt, apt-get & apt-cache
4. aptitude

Red Hat Packages and Virtualization

1. RPM
2. YUM
3. Zypper
4. Virtual Machines
5. Containers
6. Infrastructure as a Service

Work on the Command Line

1. Introduction
2. Understanding Shells
3. Echo
4. Metacharacters
5. The env Command
6. Variable Scope
7. History and Type

File Management Basics

1. Listing and Changing Directories
2. Copying Files
3. Moving Files
4. Changing Timestamps & Querying File Types

Skill: File and Directory Management

1. Creating Directories
2. Removing Files and Directories
3. Globbing
4. Finding
5. Creating Archives with Tar
6. Compression
7. Copying Files with dd

Managing Processes

1. Processes and System Information
2. Uptime and Memory Statistics
3. Searching Processes with pgrep
4. Jobs
5. Sending Signals to Processes
6. Nohup
7. Multiplexing
8. Managing Process Priorities

Create Partitions and File Systems

1. Block Devices and Partitions
2. File Systems
3. Creating Partitions with fdisk
4. Creating File Systems
5. Exploring gdisk and parted

Integrity, Symbolic Links and Hard Links

1. Disk Usage
2. Consistency Checking
3. Tuning File System Settings
4. Exploring xfsprogs
5. Hard Links & Soft Links

Mounting File Systems & Searching System Files

1. Mounting and Unmounting
2. Persistent Mounting with fstab
3. Mounting with Systemd
4. Locating Files
5. Exploring System Commands

Manage File Permissions & Ownership

1. Owners, Groups & Permissions
2. Changing Group Membership & Owners
3. Changing Permissions
4. Special Permissions
5. Default Permissions

Bash Scripting Basics

1. Introduction to Shell Scripting
2. Setting and Reading Variables
3. Conditional Logic
4. Loops
5. Sequences and Tests

X11 and Client-Side DNS

1. Introduction to X11
2. Window and Display Managers
3. Remote Access
4. Wayland
5. Client-Side DNS

Manage Users and Groups

1. User Creation and Deletion
2. Creating and Deleting Groups
3. User and Group Modification
4. Working with Passwords

Automate System Administration

1. Introduction to Cron
2. Crontab Permissions
3. Understanding Anacron
4. Scheduling One-Time Jobs
5. Scheduling with Systemd

Maintain System Time

1. Introduction to System & Hardware Clocks
2. The hwclock command
3. Introduction to NTP
4. NTP Configuration
5. Working with Chronyd

System Logging

1. Introduction to Logging
2. Exploring rsyslog
3. Understanding syslog-ng
4. Systemd journaling
5. Using journalctl

Email and Printing

1. Introduction to Linux Email
2. Email Configuration
3. Introduction to CUPS
4. Printing Tools

IP Addresses

1. Introduction to IP Addressing
2. IPv4 Addressing
3. Public and Private Addresses
4. Subnet Masks
5. IPv6 Addressing

Changing Network Configurations

1. Introduction
2. Networking Concepts
3. Network Manager
4. Network Configuration Changes
5. Legacy Configuration Tools

Network Management & Troubleshooting

1. Introduction to Network Troubleshooting
2. Testing Connectivity with Ping
3. Tracing Paths
4. Network Connections

System Security

1. Logging User Sessions
2. Listing Open Files and Processes
3. Resource Limits and Passwords
4. Superuser Privileges
5. Finding Special Permissions
6. Host and Network Security