LPI - Exam 102: Detailed Objectives
This is a required exam for LPI certification Level 1. It covers basic skills for the Linux Professional that are common to major distributions of Linux..
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: These are the current 102 objectives, which are valid effective 2009-04-01.
Each objective is assigned a weighting value. The weights range roughly from 1 to 10 and indicate the relative importance of each objective. Objectives with higher weights will be covered in the exam with more questions.
Objectives: Exam 102
Topic 105: Shells, Scripting and Data Management
105.1 Customize and use the shell environment
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to customize shell environments to meet users' needs. Candidates should be able to modify global and user profiles. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Set environment variables (e.g. PATH) at login or when spawning a new shell.
- Write BASH functions for frequently used sequences of commands.
- Maintain skeleton directories for new user accounts.
- Set command search path with the proper directory.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/profile
- env
- export
- set
- unset
- ~/.bash_profile
- ~/.bash_login
- ~/.profile
- ~/.bashrc
- ~/.bash_logout
- function
- alias
- lists
105.2 Customize or write simple scripts
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to customize existing scripts, or write simple new BASH scripts. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Use standard sh syntax (loops, tests).
- Use command substitution.
- Test return values for success or failure or other information provided by a command.
- Perform conditional mailing to the superuser.
- Correctly select the script interpreter through the shebang (#!) line.
- Manage the location, ownership, execution and suid-rights of scripts.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- for
- while
- test
- if
- read
- seq
105.3 SQL data management
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to query databases and manipulate data using basic SQL commands. This objective includes performing queries involving joining of 2 tables and/or subselects. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Use of basic SQL commands.
- Perform basic data manipulation.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- insert
- update
- select
- delete
- from
- where
- group by
- order by
- join
Topic 106: User Interfaces and Desktops
106.1 Install and configure X11
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to install and configure X11. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server.
- Awareness of the X font server.
- Basic understanding and knowledge of the X Window configuration file.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- xhost
- DISPLAY
- xwininfo
- xdpyinfo
- X
106.2 Setup a display manager
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able setup and customize a display manager. This objective covers the display managers XDM (X Display Manger), GDM (Gnome Display Manager) and KDM (KDE Display Manager). |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Turn the display manager on or off.
- Change the display manager greeting.
- Change default color depth for the display manager.
- Configure display managers for use by X-stations.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/inittab
- xdm configuration files
- kdm configuration files
- gdm configuration files
106.3 Accessibility
| Weight |
1 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of accessibility technologies. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Keyboard Accessibility Settings (AccessX?)
- Visual Settings and Themes
- Assistive Technology (ATs)
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- Sticky/Repeat Keys
- Slow/Bounce/Toggle Keys
- Mouse Keys
- High Contrast/Large Print Desktop Themes
- Screen Reader
- Braille Display
- Screen Magnifier
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Gestures (used at login, for example gdm)
- Orca
- GOK
- emacspeak
Topic 107: Administrative Tasks
107.1 Manage user and group accounts and related system files
| Weight |
5 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to add, remove, suspend and change user accounts. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Add, modify and remove users and groups.
- Manage user/group info in password/group databases.
- Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/shadow
- /etc/group
- /etc/skel
- chage
- groupadd
- groupdel
- groupmod
- passwd
- useradd
- userdel
- usermod
107.2 Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to use cron or anacron to run jobs at regular intervals and to use at to run jobs at a specific time. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Manage cron and at jobs.
- Configure user access to cron and at services.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/cron.{d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}
- /etc/at.deny
- /etc/at.allow
- /etc/crontab
- /etc/cron.allow
- /etc/cron.deny
- /var/spool/cron/*
- crontab
- at
- atq
- atrm
107.3 Localisation and internationalisation
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to localize a system in a different language than English. As well, an understanding of why LANG=C is useful when scripting. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Locale settings.
- Timezone settings.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/timezone
- /etc/localtime
- /usr/share/zoneinfo
- Environment variables:
- LC_*
- LC_ALL
- LANG
- /usr/bin/locale
- tzselect
- tzconfig
- date
- iconv
- UTF-8
- ISO-8859
- ASCII
- Unicode
Topic 108: Essential System Services
108.1 Maintain system time
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to properly maintain the system time and synchronize the clock via NTP. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Set the system date and time.
- Set the hardware clock to the correct time in UTC.
- Configure the correct timezone.
- Basic NTP configuration.
- Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /usr/share/zoneinfo
- /etc/timezone
- /etc/localtime
- /etc/ntp.conf
- date
- hwclock
- ntpd
- ntpdate
- pool.ntp.org
108.2 System logging
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to configure the syslog daemon. This objective also includes configuring the logging daemon to send log output to a central log server or accept log output as a central log server. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- syslog configuration files
- syslog
- standard facilities, priorities and actions
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- syslog.conf
- syslogd
- klogd
- logger
108.3 Mail Tranfer Agent (MTA) basics
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be aware of the commonly available MTA programs and be able to perform basic forward and alias configuration on a client host. Other configuration files are not covered. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Create e-mail aliases.
- Configure e-mail forwarding.
- Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, qmail, exim) (no configuration)
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- ~/.forward
- sendmail emulation layer commands
- newaliases
- mailq
- postfix
- sendmail
- exim
- qmail
108.4 Manage printers and printing
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to manage print queues and user print jobs using CUPS and the LPD compatibility interface. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Basic CUPS configuration (for local and remote printers).
- Manage user print queues.
- Troubleshoot general printing problems.
- Add and remove jobs from configured printer queues.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- CUPS configuration files, tools and utilities
- /etc/cups
- lpd legacy interface (lpr, lprm, lpq)
Topic 109: Networking Fundamentals
109.1 Fundamentals of internet protocols
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should demonstrate a proper understanding of TCP/IP network fundamentals. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Demonstrate an understanding network masks.
- Knowledge of the differences between private and public "dotted quad" IP-Addresses.
- Setting a default route.
- Knowledge about common TCP and UDP ports (20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 139, 143, 161, 443, 465, 993, 995).
- Knowledge about the differences and major features of UDP, TCP and ICMP.
- Knowledge of the major differences between IPv4 and IPV6.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/services
- ftp
- telnet
- host
- ping
- dig
- traceroute
- tracepath
109.2 Basic network configuration
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to view, change and verify configuration settings on client hosts. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Manually and automatically configure network interfaces
- Basic TCP/IP host configuration.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/hostname
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/resolv.conf
- /etc/nsswitch.conf
- ifconfig
- ifup
- ifdown
- route
- ping
109.3 Basic network troubleshooting
| Weight |
4 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to troubleshoot networking issues on client hosts. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Manually and automatically configure network interfaces and routing tables to include adding, starting, stopping, restarting, deleting or reconfiguring network interfaces.
- Change, view, or configure the routing table and correct an improperly set default route manually.
- Debug problems associated with the network configuration.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- ifconfig
- ifup
- ifdown
- route
- host
- hostname
- dig
- netstat
- ping
- traceroute
109.4 Configure client side DNS
| Weight |
2 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should be able to configure DNS on a client host. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Demonstrate the use of DNS on the local system.
- Modify the order in which name resolution is done.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/resolv.conf
- /etc/nsswitch.conf
Topic 110: Security
110.1 Perform security administration tasks
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should know how to review system configuration to ensure host security in accordance with local security policies. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Audit a system to find files with the suid/sgid bit set.
- Set or change user passwords and password aging information.
- Being able to use nmap and netstat to discover open ports on a system.
- Set up limits on user logins, processes and memory usage.
- Basic sudo configuration and usage.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- find
- passwd
- lsof
- nmap
- chage
- netstat
- sudo
- /etc/sudoers
- su
- usermod
- ulimit
110.2 Setup host security
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
Candidates should know how to set up a basic level of host security. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Awareness of shadow passwords and how they work.
- Turn off network services not in use.
- Understand the role of TCP wrappers.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- /etc/nologin
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/shadow
- /etc/xinetd.d/*
- /etc/xinetd.conf
- /etc/inetd.d/*
- /etc/inetd.conf
- /etc/inittab
- /etc/init.d/*
- /etc/hosts.allow
- /etc/hosts.deny
110.3 Securing data with encryption
| Weight |
3 |
|---|---|
| Description |
The candidate should be able to use puplic key techniques to secure data and communication. |
Key Knowledge Areas
- Perform basic OpenSSH 2 client configuration and usage.
- Understand the role of OpenSSH? 2 server host keys
- Perform basic GnuPG configuration and usage.
- Understand SSH port tunnels (including X11 tunnels).
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
- ssh
- ssh-keygen
- ssh-agent
- ssh-add
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
- ~/.ssh/id_dsa and id_dsa.pub
- /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key and ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
- /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key and ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
- ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
- /etc/ssh_known_hosts
- gpg
- ~/.gnupg/*
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