Linux - Linux Administrator certification

The goal of this six-day accelerated program for Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) Level 1 is to provide professionals with the basic hardware, software, and networking skills necessary to function in an entry level Linux information technology position. The course covers all the major Linux distributions (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Debian, TurboLinux, Slackware, etc.)

This is a performance-based course designed upon the job-related tasks a Linux professional must perform.

At the end of the course a student will be able to:

• work at the Unix command line
• perform easy maintenance tasks: help out users, add users to a larger system, backup & restore, shutdown & reboot
• can install and configure a work station (incl. X) and connect it to the LAN, or a stand-alone PC via modem to the Internet.

Free Novell CLA Certification

Students who pass their LPI Level 1 certification will also be entitled to register with Novell and at no charge become a Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA). Further details on this program can be found on LPI's website.

Reasons for LPI Linux Level 1 Certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, and higher salaries. According to the Network Computing Special Careers Issue,http://www.networkcomputing.com, the networking professionals that enjoyed the largest compensation increases were those that achieved Linux Professional Institute Certificates.

According to the 2002 CRN Salary Survey, http://www.crn.com, "LPI Linux Level 1 Certification has the advantage of taking the focus off a specific vendor, which is critically important in the Linux area,"... "It gives us an extra degree of flexibility when it comes to providing the right solutions...".

Build Your Skills And Your Career: Certify Yourself

Linux Professional Institute, the leader in Linux training and testing materials, makes the following observations about the benefits of Linux certification:

• Establish your competence for a Linux-related function.
• Easily demonstrate your competence to a potential contractor.
• Helps you set out and follow a career path.
• LPI Linux Level 1 Certification is developed from within the Linux community, by your peers, and gives you the opportunity to help develop the certification standards and exams.

Your investment in your certification may be crucial to your career!

With Firebrand Training, you will:

• Learn all of the fundamentals
• Hone your implementation and troubleshooting skills
• Improve your creative thinking skills
• Obtain your certification

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Free Novell CLA Certification

Students who pass their LPI Level 1 certification will also be entitled to register with Novell and at no charge become a Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA). Further details on this program can be found on LPI's website.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including:

• Intensive group instruction
• One-on-one instruction attention
• Hands-on labs
• Lab partner and group exercises
• Question and answer drills
• Friendly competitions between concurrently running classes
• Independent study
• Assessment of readiness for testing

Firebrand Training provides thorough instructor-led training to ensure that you learn the fundamentals, obtain hands-on skills and earn your certification. You will emerge able to immediately apply your new knowledge in your career environment.

You will gain knowledge and hands-on skills in these key topics:

Hardware & Architecture

• Configure Fundamental BIOS Settings
• Configure Modem and Sound cards
• Setup SCSI Devices
• Setup different PC expansion cards
• Configure Communication Devices
• Configure USB devices

Linux Installation & Package Management

• Design hard disk layout
• Install a boot manager
• Make and install programs from source
• Manage shared libraries
• Use Debian package management
• Use Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

GNU & Unix Commands

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

Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy

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

X

• Install & Configure XFree86
• Setup a display manager
• Install & Customize a Window Manager Environment

Kernel

• Manage/Query
• kernel and kernel modules at runtime
• Reconfigure, build, and install a custom kernel and kernel modules

Boot, Initialization, Shutdown and Runlevels

• Boot the system
• Change runlevels and shutdown or reboot system

Printing

• Manage printers and print queues
• Print files
• Install and configure local and remote printers

Documentation

• Use and manage local system documentation
• Find Linux documentation on the Internet
• Notify users on system-related issues

Shells, Scripting, Programming and Compiling

• Customize and use the shell environment
• Customize or write simple scripts

Administrative Tasks

• Manage users and group accounts and related system files
• Tune the user environment and system environment variables
• Configure and use system log files to meet administrative and security needs
• Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs to run in the future
• Maintain an effective data backup strategy
• Maintain system time

Networking Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of TCP/IP
• TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting
• Configure Linux as a PPP client

Networking Services

• Configure and manage inetd, xinetd, and related services
• Operate and perform basic configuration of sendmail
• Operate and perform basic configuration of Apache
• Properly manage the NFS, smb, and nmb daemons
• Setup and configure basic DNS services
• Set up secure shell (OpenSSH)

Security

• Perform security administration tasks
• Setup host security
• Setup user level security

Throughout the course, Firebrand Training will evaluate the student's progress and preparedness for the vendor exams through the use of:

• Quizzes administered at the end of each day to assess strengths and weaknesses and identify areas that need additional instruction
• Practice exams that simulate the look, feel and content of the vendor's exams, to assess preparedness for the actual vendor exam as well as identify areas that need more focus

More detail on the LPI Linux Level 1 Certification curriculum can be found here Exam 101 and here Exam102

To obtain LPI Linux Level 1 Certification, candidates must complete two exams:

LX0-103 and LX0-104

This exam tests basic capabilities in these areas:

• GNU & Unix commands
• Devices, Linux File Systems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• Boot, Initialization, Shutdown, Run Levels
• Documentation
• Administrative Tasks

Detailed objectives are listed on the following page,http://www.lpi.org.

117-102B : General Linux II

This exam tests basic capabilities in these areas:

• Hardware & Architecture
• Linux Installation and Package Management
• Kernel
• Text Editing, Processing, Printing
• Shells, Scripting, Programming, Compiling
• X
• Networking Fundamentals
• Networking Services
• Security

Detailed objectives are listed on the following page, http://www.lpi.org.

Free Novell CLA Certification

Students who pass their LPI Level 1 certification will also be entitled to register with Novell and at no charge become a Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA). Further details on this program can be found on LPI's website.

Included:

• LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: (Exams 101 and 102) - ISBN: 9781118495636

Students who are successful in the LPI Linux Level 1 Certification will possess:

1. A minimum of two years of experience in the computer industry
2. Extensive experience with at least one other operating system
3. Working knowledge of a Unix style editor