Learn Linux 101: A roadmap for LPIC-1 certification

About this series

This series of tutorials helps you learn Linux system administration tasks. The topics mirror those of the Linux Professional Institute's LPIC-1: System Administrator Certification exams. You can use the tutorials to prepare for certification, or you can use them to learn about Linux.

There are two exams for LPIC-1 certification: Exam 101 and Exam 102, and you must pass both to attain LPIC-1 certification. Each exam has several topics, and each topic has several objectives. Each learning path covers one Exam 101 topic, which in turn covers the objectives of the topic in individual tutorials.

This roadmap corresponds to version 5.0 (October 29, 2018) of the objectives of the LPIC-1 exam for LPIC-1 exam 101. We are updating tutorials that were previously published at version 4.0 (April 15th, 2015) objectives. Such tutorials are identified as version 4 in the following table. You can check the LPI objectives to identify version 5 objectives that may not be covered in the older tutorials.

As tutorials are updated or completed, they will be added to this roadmap.

LPIC-1 exam 101 - topic 101: System architecture

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

• Determine and configure hardware settings
• Boot the system
• Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system

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LPIC-1 exam 101 - topic 102: Linux installation and package management

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

• Design hard disk layout
• Install a boot manager
• Manage shared libraries
• Use Debian package management
• Use RPM and YUM package management
• Linux as a virtualization guest

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LPIC-1 exam 101 - topic 103: GNU and UNIX commands

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

• Work on the command line
• Process text streams using filters
• Perform basic file and directory management
• Use streams, pipes, and redirects
• Create, monitor, and kill processes
• Modify process execution priorities
• Search text files using regular expressions
• Basic file editing

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LPIC-1 exam 101 - topic 104: Devices, Linux filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

• Create partitions and filesystems
• Maintain the integrity of filesystems
• Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
• Manage disk quotas
• Manage file permissions and ownership
• Create and change hard and symbolic links
• Find system files and place files in the correct location

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