Practical LPIC-1 Linux Certification Study Guide

verfasst von: David Clinton

Verlag: Apress

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This book is your complete guide to studying for the Linux Professional Institute's Server Professional (LPIC-1) certification. Every concept, principle, process, and resource that might make an appearance on the exam is fully represented. You will understand every concept by rolling up your sleeves, opening up a terminal, and trying it all yourself. You will find suggestions for practical tasks along with "test-yourself" quizzes at the end of each chapter.
Whether you've decided to earn the Linux Professional Institute's Server Professional certification or you simply want to learn more about Linux administration, this book is a great choice. Right now, Linux administration skills are opening doors to some of the hottest job markets. And with the ongoing explosive growth of the cloud computing world - the vast majority of which is being built with Linux - the scope of the opportunities will only increase. Whether or not you end up taking the exam, if you manage to learn this material, you'll have done yourself a real favor.
What You Will LearnBasic Linux system administration and package management
Device and desktop management
Bash scripting
Networking fundamentals
Security administration
Who This Book Is For
Most potential readers will already have a decent idea of what Linux is and what kinds of things can be done with it, and are looking to acquire or formalize a more structured and complete ability to confidently administrate Linux systems.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Topic 101: System Architecture

Abstract

Unless you end up working exclusively with virtual machines or on a cloud platform like Amazon Web Service, you’ll need to know how to do techie things like putting together real machines and swapping out failed drives. However, since those skills aren’t part of the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) exam curriculum, I won’t focus on them in this book. Instead, I’ll begin with booting a working computer.

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Chapter 2. Topic 102: Linux Installation and Package Management

Abstract

I’m not sure there’s all that much tying the various expectations of LPIC-1 exam topic 102 together into any kind of cohesive whole. It is true that they all address concerns shared by Linux administrators and, broadly speaking, concerns related to prepare stable and productive compute environments. So there’s that.

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Chapter 3. Topic 103: Gnu and Unix Commands

Abstract

If, as is often said, just about everything in Linux is a plain text file, then it stands to reason that a great deal of Linux administration should depend on intelligently handling plain text. Through the course of this book, you’ll discover just how true this is and just how much can be accomplished through manipulating text streams. In this chapter, you’ll work through the very rich collection of Linux text, file, and process management tools.

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Chapter 4. Topic 104: Devices, Linux Filesystems, and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Abstract

Properly booting, running, and securing your servers and PCs require well-designed and well-maintained partitions and filesystems. Partitions, as you’ve seen in previous chapters, are logically defined regions of a physical drive set aside for some particular use. Filesystems are structures used to organize files on a partition—or, for that matter, across multiple partitions—so that the files can be effectively accessed and secured.

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Chapter 5. Topic 105: Shells, Scripting, and Databases

Abstract

With this chapter, I’ll reach the first material that falls under the LPIC-1 102 exam—the second of two exams required for the Linux Professional Institute’s Linux Server Professional certification. If you’re using this book as a guide to prepare for the exams, there’s a good chance that you’ve just passed the 101 exam. Congratulations! If not, keep plugging away, you’ll get there. And if you’re not going after any certifications, but you just want to learn the IT skills you’ll need to get by in the 21st century, then welcome: it’s great to have you here.

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Chapter 6. Topic 106: User Interfaces and Desktops

Abstract

Because you might also need to work with older systems or with nonstandard, cutting-edge hardware, it is still important to have at least a basic understanding of how things work under the hood.

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Chapter 7. Topic 107: Administrative Tasks

Abstract

Since Linux was designed as a multiuser environment whose resources can be widely shared, it needs a reliable system for managing access. The structural units that make it all work are user accounts and group accounts.

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Chapter 8. Topic 108: Essential System Services

Abstract

Like all operating systems, Linux quietly provides a number of seemingly minor, but critical, services. In this chapter, you’ll learn about managing the Linux services that oversee the accuracy of your time settings, the way events are logged, and e-mail and printing facilities. These things may not seem all that exciting, but just imagine what life would be like for you as an administrator if any one of them ever failed.

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Chapter 9. Topic 109: Networking Fundamentals

Abstract

Without a way to accurately identify how to reach devices, all network (and Internet) communication would simply collapse. My computer might be physically connected to yours (and to a million others), but expecting my e-mail to magically find its destination without a routable address is like throwing a bottle with a message inside into the ocean and expecting it to arrive on the kitchen table of a friend who lives ten thousand miles away. Within five minutes.

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Chapter 10. Topic 110: Security

Abstract

Creating a reasonably secure compute environment requires elements from just about every area of system administration. Perhaps that’s why the LPI put security at the very end of their exam objectives, because you will, in fact, need all your skills to make this work.

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Backmatter

Titel: Practical LPIC-1 Linux Certification Study Guide
verfasst von: David Clinton
Verlag: Apress
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4842-2358-1
Print ISBN: 978-1-4842-2357-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2358-1