Part 1: Exam LPIC1 – 101 

Chapter 1: Exploring Linux Command-Line Tools

• Understanding Command-Line Basics
• Using Streams, Redirection, and Pipes
• Processing Text Using Filters
• Using Regular Expressions

Chapter 2: Managing Software

• Package Concepts
• Using RPM
• Using Debian Package
• Converting between Package Formats
• Package Dependencies and Conflicts
• Managing Shared Libraries
• Managing Processes

Chapter 3: Configuring Hardware

• Configuring the Firmware and Core Hardware
• Configuring Expansion Cards
• Configuring USB Devices
• Configuring Hard Disks
• Designing a Hard Disk Layout
• Creating Partitions and Filesystems
• Maintaining Filesystem Health
• Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems

Chapter 4: Managing Files

• Using File Management Commands
• Managing File Ownership
• Controlling Access to Files
• Managing Disk Quotas
• Locating Files

Chapter 5: Booting Linux and Editing Files

• Installing Boot Loaders
• Understanding the Boot Process
• The Initialization Process
• Using the SysV Initialization Process
• Using the System Initialization Process
• Using the Upstart Initialization Process
• Editing Files with vi

Part 2: Exam LPIC1 – 102 

Chapter 6: Configuring the X Window System, Localization, and Printing

• Configuring Basic X Features
• Configuring X Fonts
• Configuring GUI Logins
• Using X for Remote Access
• X Accessibility
• Configuring Localization and Internationalization
• Configuring Printing

Chapter 7: Administering the System

• Managing Users and Groups
• Tuning User and System Environments
• Using Log and Journal Files
• Maintaining the System Time
• Running Jobs in the Future

Chapter 8: Configuring Basic Networking

• Understanding TCP/IP Networking
• Understanding Network Addressing
• Configuring Linux for a Local Network
• Diagnosing Network Connections

Chapter 9: Writing Scripts, Configuring Email, and Using Database

• Managing the Shell Environment
• Writing Scripts
• Managing Email
• Managing Data with SQL

Chapter 10: Securing Your System

• Administering Network Security
• Administering Local Security
• Configuring SSH
• Using GPG

Linux LPIC-1 (Exam code 102-400)

1. System Startup and Shutdown

• Identify the features of different boot leaders
• Define and explain bootstrap procedures
• Explain single and multi-user runlevels
• Identify and configure system startup files
• Perform a clean shutdown procedure
• Explain and define the maintenance mode
• System Startup and Shutdown

2. Managing Users

• Define the requirements for user accounts
• Explain groups and group accounts
• Construct configuration files (group, passwd, shadow)
• Demonstrate adding users
• Describer modifying user details
• Explain Passwords
• Demonstrate deleting users

3.User Environments

• Construct different login profiles and user accounts
• Define, explain, and modify user environments
• Explain security issues

4. Documentation

• Use the man command
• Use the info command
• Identify and locate system documentation
• Identify and use online documentation such as The Linux Documentation Project

5. The Shell and Shell Scripting

• Demonstrate and identify different Linux shell environments
• Understand the redirection of input
• Understand and utilize command substitution
• Write and configure bash scripts using variables, flow controls, interactive input, functions, arithmetic, and arrays

6. Process Scheduling

• Understand the sytax for at, cron, and anacron
• Automate programs and functions
• Determine which scheduling utility best suits a particular automation need
• Administer at, cron, and anacron configuration files

7. Printing

• Identify different print options, like LPD, LPRng, and CUPS
• Modify the/etc/printcap file
• Aadd local and remote printers
• Use Ip tolls like lpr, lprm, lpq, and lpc
• Identify and use GUI printer administration tools such as YaST and sytem-config-printer
• Add print security through /etc/host.lpd
• Identify different print filters

8. The Linux Kernel

• Define kernel properties
• Demonstrate new kernel preparation
• Identify and use kernel configuration tools
• Recompile and install a kernel
• Identify kernel modules

9. Basic Networking

• Identify and define the TCP/IP protocol suite
• Configure IP addressing and files
• Configure basic networking settings
• Configure a NIC
• Understand and configure routing tables and daemons
• Describe and configure PPP
• Describe SLIP,CSLIP, and ISDN
• Utilize common networking tools like traceroute, dig, and whois

10. Apache and SSH

• Identify the major configuration files for Apache
• Control Apache using apache2ctl
• Understand what the Secure Shell (SSH) is and what it replaces
• Identify and use some of the utilities included in the SSH suite

11. E-mail

• Identify the different configuration files for Sendmail, Postfix, qmail , and Exim
• Desmonstrate how to use the m4 processing system

12. DNS

• Explain the reasons for using a name service
• Configure and setup a Domain Name Service (DNS)
• Explain the uses of, and the reasons for using BIND
• Configure BIND

13. Distributed File Systems

• Identify and discuss distributed file system (DFS) concepts
• Discuss the basics of NFS and Samba
• Demonstrate how to mount and export directories with NFS
• Discuss and address NFS security issues
• Install Samba
• Understand how to modify smb.conf
• Configure basic Samba settings with SWAT

14. Network Security And Performance Tuning

• Define your role in security
• Explain physical and software security
• Describe various methods of security
• Outline basic security measures for clients and servers
• Describe workstation security
• Identify the difference between the hardware and software clock
• Set the default time zone
• Use the time setting utilities of date and hwclock
• Define NTP
• Identify and use different NTP related commands
• Identify and define the function of the ntp.conf and ntp.drift files

15. Iptables

• Identify the differences between Iptables and Ipchains
• How Iptables processes packets
• Use the iptablets command
• Identify and understand targets and chains
• Understand stateful firewall states
• Understand log targets

16. Recovery Planning

• Emphasize the value of recovery vs. backcup
• Define terminology related to recovery planning
• Describe the difference between backups and archiving 2
• Identify different backup media
• Identify, compare, configure, and use different backup utilities
• Perform network backups
• Identify and explain issues about backup