Linux Professional Institute LPIC2-201

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Linux Professional Institute LPIC2-201

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LPIC-2 is the second certification in the multi-level professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The LPIC-2 will validate the candidate's ability to administer small to mediumsized mixed networks.

Audience Profile

This course is designed to reflect current research and validate a candidate’s proficiency in real world system administration. The objectives are tied to real-world job skills, which we determine through job task analysis surveying during exam development.

Prerequisites

Course outline

Module 1: Capacity Planning

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to measure hardware resource and network bandwidth, identify and troubleshoot resource problems, to monitor resource usage to predict future resource needs.

Lessons

Measure and Troubleshoot Resource Usage
Predict Future Resource Needs

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Measure CPU usage.
Measure memory usage.
Measure disk I/O.
Measure network I/O.
Measure firewalling and routing throughput.
Map client bandwidth usage.
Match / correlate system symptoms with likely problems.
Estimate throughput and identify bottlenecks in a system including networking.
Use monitoring and measurement tools to monitor IT infrastructure usage.
Predict capacity break point of a configuration.
Observe growth rate of capacity usage.
Graph the trend of capacity usage.
Awareness of monitoring solutions such as Icinga2, Nagios, collectd, MRTG and Cacti.

Module 2: Linux Kernel

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to utilise kernel components that are necessary to specific hardware, hardware drivers, system resources and requirements also includes implementing different types of kernel images, understanding stable and longterm kernels and patches, as well as using kernel modules. Properly configure a kernel to include or disable specific features of the Linux kernel as necessary, also includes compiling and recompiling the Linux kernel as needed, updating and noting changes in a new kernel, creating an initrd image and installing new kernels. At last this module gives you skills to manage and/or query a 2.6.x, 3.x or 4.x kernel and its loadable modules, to identify and correct common boot and run time issues, to understand device detection and management using udev includes troubleshooting udev rules.

Lessons

Kernel components
Compiling a Linux kernel
Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.x documentation.
/usr/src/linux/.
Kernel Makefiles.
Kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.x make targets.
Customize the current kernel configuration.
Build a new kernel and appropriate kernel modules.
Install a new kernel and any modules.
Ensure that the boot manager can locate the new kernel and associated files.
Module configuration files.
Use DKMS to compile kernel modules.
Awareness of dracut.
Use command-line utilities to get information about the currently running kernel and kernel modules.
Manually load and unload kernel modules.
Determine when modules can be unloaded.
Determine what parameters a module accepts.
Configure the system to load modules by names other than their file name.
/proc filesystem.
Content of /, /boot/ , and /lib/modules/.
Tools and utilities to analyse information about the available hardware.
Udev rules.

Module 3: System Startup

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to query and modify the behaviour of system services at various targets / run levels, to understanding of the systemd, SysV Init and the Linux boot process is required also includes interacting with systemd targets and SysV init run levels. Properly manipulate a Linux system during both the boot process and during recovery mode, also includes using both the init utility and init-related kernel options. At last this module gives you skills to determine the cause of errors in loading and usage of bootloaders, GRUB version 2 and GRUB Legacy are the bootloaders of interest, both BIOS and UEFI systems are covered and knowledge on alternate bootloaders.

Lessons

Customising system startup
System recovery
Alternate Bootloaders

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Systemd.
SysV init.
Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB).
BIOS and UEFI.
NVMe booting.
GRUB version 2 and Legacy.
Grub shell.
Boot loader start and hand off to kernel.
Kernel loading.
Hardware initialisation and setup.
Daemon/service initialisation and setup.
Know the different boot loader install locations on a hard disk or removable device.
Overwrite standard boot loader options and using boot loader shells.
Use systemd rescue and emergency modes.
SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, PXELINUX.
Understanding of PXE for both BIOS and UEFI.
Awareness of systemd-boot and U-Boot.

Module 4: Filesystem and Devices

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to properly configure and navigate the standard Linux filesystem, to configuring and mounting various filesystem types, to properly maintain a Linux filesystem using system utilities, to manipulating standard filesystems and monitoring SMART devices, to configure automount filesystems using AutoFS, to configuring automount for network and device filesystems also included is creating filesystems for devices such as CD-ROMs and a basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystems.

Lessons

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

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

The concept of the fstab configuration.
Tools and utilities for handling swap partitions and files.
Use of UUIDs for identifying and mounting file systems.
Understanding of systemd mount units.
Tools and utilities to manipulate and ext2, ext3 and ext4.
Tools and utilities to perform basic Btrfs operations, including subvolumes and snapshots.
Tools and utilities to manipulate XFS.
Awareness of ZFS.
Autofs configuration files.
Understanding of automount units.
UDF and ISO9660 tools and utilities.
Awareness of other CD-ROM filesystems (HFS).
Awareness of CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito).
Basic feature knowledge of data encryption (dm-crypt / LUKS).

Module 5: Advanced Storage Device Administration

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to configure and implement software RAID, to using and configuring RAID 0, 1 and 5, to configure kernel options to support various drives, to how use software tools to view & modify hard disk settings including iSCSI devices and how to create and remove logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes include snapshots and resizing logical volumes.

Lessons

Configuring RAID
Adjusting Storage Device Access
Logical Volume Manager

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Software RAID configuration files and utilities.
Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA.
Tools and utilities to configure Solid State Drives including AHCI and NVMe.
Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyse system resources (e.g. interrupts).
Awareness of sdparm command and its uses.
Tools and utilities for iSCSI.
Awareness of SAN, including relevant protocols (AoE, FCoE).
Tools in the LVM suite.
Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes.
Creating and maintaining snapshots.
Activating volume groups.

Module 6: Networking Configuration

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to configure a network device to be able to connect to a local, wired or wireless, and a wide-area network, to communicate between various subnets within a single network including both IPv4 and IPv6 networks, to configure a network device to implement various network authentication schemes, to configuring a multi-homed network device and resolving communication problems, to identify and correct common network setup issues and knowledge of locations for basic configuration files and commands.

Lessons

Basic networking configuration
Advanced Network Configuration
Troubleshooting network issues

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces.
Configuring basic access to wireless networks.
Utilities to manipulate routing tables.
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces.
Utilities to analyse the status of the network devices.
Utilities to monitor and analyse the TCP/IP traffic.
Location and content of access restriction files.
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces.
Utilities to manage routing tables.
Utilities to list network states.
Utilities to gain information about the network configuration.
Methods of information about the recognised and used hardware devices.
System initialisation files and their contents (Systemd and SysV init).
Awareness of NetworkManager and its impact on network configuration.

Module 7: System Maintenance

Module Overview

This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to build and install an executable program from source, to unpack a file of sources, to use system tools to back up important system data, to notify the users about current issues related to the system.

Lessons

Make and install programs from source
Backup operations
Notify users on system-related issues

Lab Sessions

This lab session aligns to the learning objectives for the 201-450 exam.

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Unpack source code using common compression and archive utilities.
Understand basics of invoking make to compile programs.
Apply parameters to a configure script.
Know where sources are stored by default.
Knowledge about directories that have to be included in backups.
Awareness of network backup solutions such as Amanda, Bacula, Bareos and BackupPC.
Knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks of tapes, CDR, disk or other backup media.
Perform partial and manual backups.
Verify the integrity of backup files.
Partially or fully restore backups.
Automate communication with users through logon messages.
Inform active users of system maintenance.

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