LPIC-2 201 Linux Server Professional Certification

Overview

LPIC-2 is the second certification in LPI’s multi-level professional certification program. The LPIC-2 will validate the candidate's ability to administer small to medium–sized mixed networks. The candidate must have an active LPIC-1 certification to receive LPIC-2 certification, but the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams may be taken in any order.

Duration

Full time 5 days.

Technical Skill

To become LPIC-2 certified the candidate must be able to:

• perform advanced system administration, including common tasks regarding the Linux kernel, system startup and maintenance;

• perform advanced Management of block storage and file systems as well as advanced networking and authentication and system security, including firewall and VPN;

• install and configure fundamental network services, including DHCP, DNS, SSH, Web servers, file servers using FTP, NFS and Samba, email delivery; and

• supervise assistants and advise management on automation and purchases.

Private Training

The course can be offered privately onsite or on our premises. A minimum of 4 delegates is required to schedule the course. The course price is R9 500 onsite and R12 500 on our premises. There is no set date to run the course, we schedule a date that suits your team.

Public Training

This course is also offered publicly. The course runs at our offices in Cape Town or Johannesburg. A minimum of 4 delegates is required to run the course. A tentative date is set but the course will only be confirmed to run once we have 4 confirmed bookings. There is no set date as the course is run on demand.

Course Curriculum

Capacity Planning

Measure and Troubleshoot Resource Usage

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

Predict Future Resource Needs

Use collectd 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 Nagios, MRTG and Cacti

Linux Kernel

Kernel Components

Kernel 2.6.x documentation Kernel 3.x documentation

Compiling a kernel

\/usr\/src\/linux\/

Kernel Makefiles

Kernel 2.6.x\/3.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

Awareness of dracut

Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting

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 analyze information about the available hardware

udev rules

System Startup

Customizing SysV-init system startup

Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB)

SysV init environment

System Recovery

GRUB version 2 and Legacy

Grub shell

Boot loader start and hand off to kernel

Kernel loading

Hardware initialization and setup

Daemon\/service initialization and setup

Know the different boot loader install locations on a hard disk or removable device

Overwriting standard boot loader options and using boot loader shells

Awareness of UEFI

Alternate Bootloaders

LILO

SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, PXELINUX

Understanding of PXE

Filesystem and Devices

Operating the Linux filesystem

The concept of the fstab configuration

Tools and utilities for handling SWAP partitions and files

Use of UUIDs

Maintaining a Linux filesystem

Tools and utilities to manipulate and ext2, ext3 and ext4

Tools and utilities to manipulate xfs

Awareness of Btrfs

Creating and configuring filesystem options

autofs configuration files

UDF and ISO9660 tools and utilities

Awareness of CD-ROM filesystems (UDF, ISO9660, HFS)

Awareness of CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito)

Basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystems

Advanced Storage Device Administration

Configuring RAID

Software raid configuration files and utilities mdadm.conf

mdadm

\/proc\/mdstat

partition type 0xFD

Adjusting Storage Device Access

Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA

Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyze system resources (e.g. interrupts)

Awareness of sdparm command and its uses

Tools and utilities for iSCSI

Logical Volume Manager

Tools in the LVM suite

Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes

Creating and maintaining snapshots

Activating volume groups

Network Configuration

Basic networking configuration

Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces

Configuring basic access to wireless networks with iw, iwconfig and iwlist

Advanced Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

Utilities to manipulate routing tables

Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces

Utilities to analyze the status of the network devices

Utilities to monitor and analyze the TCP\/IP traffic

Troubleshooting Network Issues

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 recognized and used hardware devices

System initialization files and their contents (SysV init process)

Awareness of NetworkManager and its impact on network configuration

System Maintenance

Make and install programs from source

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

Backup operations

Knowledge about directories that have to be include in backups

Awareness of network backup solutions such as Amanda, Bacula 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

Notify users on system-related issues

Automate communication with users through logon messages

Inform active users of system maintenance