
Meet the instructor and learn how this LPIC-1 Linux system administrator masterclass guides you through exam topics, hands-on lab practice, and strategies for the Linux Professional Institute certification.
Outline the LPIC-1 exam catalog version five, covering system architecture, installation and package management, commands, and filesystems. Explain how two exams are structured and kept up to date.
Learn to download and install VirtualBox on Windows, install the extension pack for full screen support, and prepare two different Linux versions on a Windows host.
Install Ubuntu in VirtualBox using a minimal setup with updates and third-party drivers, then configure language, time zone, and auto login, and enable guest additions.
Download Fedora workstation from getfedora.org and install it in VirtualBox, selecting language, keyboard layout, time, and installation destination, then remove the installation image and complete first boot with user setup.
Set up VirtualBox on Linux, install guest editions; create and run a virtual machine with a Fedora image, configuring memory and dynamically allocated storage.
Open the terminal, navigate the Linux file system with pwd, ls, and cd, distinguish root, home, and user directories, and learn absolute versus relative paths and man page usage.
Explore Linux kernel architecture, memory and process management, and runtime loading of modular drivers within a monolithic kernel, plus virtual filesystems like the proc directory exposing running processes.
Explore the linux devices filesystem, focusing on the def directory and device files, and learn how hot plug and core plug devices are reported by the DBAs system.
Inspect and manage Linux kernel modules with lsmod, modinfo, and modprobe. View module details, authors, licenses, and safely load or unload modules at runtime while avoiding essential components.
Learn to pass boot parameters via grub, switch between menu, command line, rescue, and edit modes, edit kernel options including the initial ramdisk, choose alternate kernels, and boot with ctrl-x.
Explore sysvinit, the boot process, and run levels from zero to six, focusing on rc5.d scripts with S and K prefixes and how init starts services in order.
Discover upstart, the init system that replaced init and speeds boot by starting independent processes concurrently, using configuration files to control service start and stop, and preserving compatibility with init scripts.
Explore systemd, the default init system that replaces upstart and starts units in order. Use systemctl to manage services and edit the main configuration in system.conf.
Learn how boot targets replace run levels in systemd, switching among power, rescue, multi-user, and graphical targets using systemctl isolate and setting the default with systemctl set-default.
Explains the Linux filesystem hierarchy standard, introduces the root directory and key directories like bin, sbin, boot, etc, and shows why a consistent structure matters across distributions.
Learn how Linux uses a swap partition or swap file when memory is full, compare swap file vs partition, and manage swap with swap on and swap off.
Explore linux disk partitioning: primary partitions, an extended partition with logical drives, and naming schemes (def hda, def hdb); inspect with df and lsp-like outputs, including UUIDs.
Learn how Linux mounts devices automatically, sets mount points like /media, uses the mount command, and benefits from separate /home and /tmp partitions.
Explore LVM, grouping multiple disks into a single volume group and creating flexible logical volumes like root, home, and tmp that resize and support snapshots at runtime.
Explore the grub legacy bootloader, including stage one in the master boot record, stage 1.5 core.img, kernel and initrd locations, and grub.conf or menu.lst files.
Explore grub 2, the redesigned bootloader that replaces grub legacy, including its interaction with GPT/ESP, boot stages, and how to safely configure via /etc/default/grub and update-grub.
Explore what shared libraries are, how they provide functions to multiple programs, and how package management handles dependencies, library paths, and the library cache with ldconfig and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Master dpkg, the Debian package manager, to install, configure, reconfigure, and remove packages on Ubuntu; inspect file structures, manage dependencies, and leverage apt for resolution.
Learn how apt, the advanced packaging tool, manages packages from repositories, resolves dependencies automatically, updates package sources, installs and removes software, and distinguishes apt upgrade from full-upgrade.
Explore aptitude, an apt extension with a graphical user interface, and learn to install, remove, and search packages like Thunderbird while resolving dependencies from the command line and graphical interface.
In this LPIC-1 exam preparation course you will receive everything you need to pass both exams.
In the LPIC-1 Linux Administrator Masterclass you will receive more than 27 hours of video material, 4 vocabulary books, 2 workbooks with almost 60 practical tasks and 180 multiple choice questions as they are also asked in this way in the exams. Of course, the course covers the current LPI exam version 5.0. Should LPI ever release version 5.5 or 6.0, this course will be adapted promptly. Promised!
In order to be able to take this course and accordingly to receive the perfect exam preparation, you do NOT need to have previous knowledge of Linux. Of course, it will be easier for you if you already have experience with Linux, but even if you have never dealt with Linux before, the course will pick you up at the very beginning.
First we create the prerequisites to be able to install different Linux distributions and of course we also install two Linux systems, namely Ubuntu Linux and Fedora Linux.
Before we begin with the topics that are relevant for the exam, you will receive an introduction to the Linux console, so that it will be much easier for you to get started with the topics that LPI provides.
In this course I will demonstrate every command that is mentioned in the exam catalog so that you can see with your own eyes what it does, how it works and of course that you can do everything on your own computer.
If you carry out the corresponding commands yourself and not just read in a book or watch me carry out the commands, you will be able to learn much better, more intensively and faster.
To make things even easier for you, I have created four vocabulary books for you with commands and their meanings and with paths and files and their meanings. This will make learning even easier for you.
To be VERY safe, you simply work through the workbooks, which give you almost 60 practical tasks that you have to carry out. This should consolidate your knowledge even further and the exams will be child's play for you.
At the end of each major topic, you can go through a small quiz with 180 multiple choice questions like those asked in the exams.
As you can see, with this course you really have everything you need to pass the two exams and soon be able to call yourself Linux administrator.
I am looking forward to see you in the class right away.