Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Training & Certification

Linux System Administrator (LPIC-1)

The LPIC-1 certification certifies that a graduate has the skills necessary to administer and maintain Linux servers and desktops. The certification is vendor neutral and empowers graduates to administer any Linux based distribution, an increasingly important skill as cloud adoption grows.

Get Professional - Get LPIC-1 Certified

The LPIC-1 certification is trusted by employers as validating that certificate holders have the necessary skills to provide essential Linux administration services to their critical infrastructure.

The certification consists of two exams:  LPIC-101 and LPIC102.

LPIC-101 Course Outline

• System Architecture
  • Determine and configure hardware settings
  • Boot the system
  • Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system
• Linux Installation and Package Management
  • Design hard disk layout
  • Install a boot manager
  • Manage shared libraries
  • Use Debian package management
  • Use RPM and YUM package management
  • Linux as a virtualization guest

• GNU and 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
  • Basic file editing
• Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
  • Maintain the integrity of filesystems
  • Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
  • Removed
  • Manage file permissions and ownership
  • Create and change hard and symbolic links
  • Find system files and place files in the correct location

LPI102 - Course Outline

• 105: Shells and Shell Scripting
  • Customize and use the shell environment
  • Customize or write simple scripts

• 106: User Interfaces and Desktops
  • Install and configure X11
  • Graphical Desktop
  • Accessibility

• 107: Administrative Tasks
  • Manage user and group accounts and related system files
  • Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
  • Localisation and internationalisation

• 108: Essential System Services
  • Maintain system time
  • System logging
  • Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics
  • Manage printers and printing

• 109: Networking Fundamentals
  • Fundamentals of internet protocols
  • Persistent network configuration
  • Basic network troubleshooting
  • Configure client side DNS

• 110: Security
  • Perform security administration tasks
  • Setup host security
  • Securing data with encryption

Linux System Engineer (LPIC-2)

LPIC-2 certifies that a holder of this qualification has the skills required to implement, maintain and monitor small to medium networks.

Manage Linux in the Cloud

The certification is vendor neutral and empowers graduates to manage networking, monitor and tune performance and configure basic services such as mail, DNS, web servers and advances storage options.

Linux Skills Shortage

With the exponential growth in cloud adoption the need for skilled Linux engineers has become even more acute.

The LPIC-2 Linux engineer certification is your ticket to greater job opportunities.

LPIC-201 Course Outline

• Capacity Planning
  • Measure and Troubleshoot Resource Usage
  • Predict Future Resource Needs

• Linux Kernel
  • Kernel Components
  • Compiling a kernel
  • Kernel runtime management and troubleshooting

• System Startup
  • Customizing SysV-init system startup
  • System Recovery
  • Alternate Bootloaders

• Filesystem and Devices
  • Operating the Linux filesystem
  • Maintaining a Linux filesystem​
  • Creating and configuring filesystem options

• Advanced Storage Device Administration
  • Configuring RAID
  • Adjusting Storage Device Access
  • Logical Volume Manager

• Network Configuration
  • Basic networking configuration
  • Advanced Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Network Issues

• Topic 206: System Maintenance
  • Make and install programs from source
  • Backup operations
  • Notify users on system-related issues

LPI202 - Course Outline

• Domain Name Server
  • Basic DNS server configuration
  • Create and maintain DNS zones
  • Securing a DNS server
• Web Services
  • Implementing a web server
  • Apache configuration for HTTPS
  • Implementing a proxy server
  • Implementing Nginx as a web server and a reverse proxy

• File Sharing
  • SAMBA Server Configuration
  • NFS Server Configuration

• Network Client Management
  • DHCP configuration
  • PAM authentication

•  LDAP client usage
  • Configuring an OpenLDAP server

• Topic 211: E-Mail Services
  • Using e-mail servers
  • Managing E-Mail Delivery
  • Managing Remote E-Mail Delivery

• System Security
  • Configuring a router
  • Securing FTP servers
  • Secure shell (SSH)
  • Security tasks
  • OpenVPN

Linux Virtualization and Containerization (LPIC-305)

The LPIC-3 Virtualization and Containerization certification covers the administration of Linux systems enterprise-wide with an emphasis on virtualization & containerization.

LPIC-305 Course Outline

• Full Virtualization
  • Virtualization Concepts and Theory
  • Xen
  • QEMU
  • Libvirt Virtual Machine Management
  • Virtual Machine Disk Image Management

• Container Virtualization
  • Container Virtualization Concepts
  • LXC
  • Docker
  • Container Orchestration Platforms

• VM Deployment and Provisioning
  • Cloud Management Tools
  • Packer
  • Vagrant

Linux  High Avaibility and Storage Clusters (LPIC-306)

LPIC-3 Enterprise Virtualisation and high availability covers the administration of Linux systems enterprise-wide with an emphasis on high availability systems and storage.

LPIC-306 Course Outline

• High Availability Cluster Management
  • High Availability Concepts and Theory
  • Load Balanced Clusters
  • Failover Clusters
  • Libvirt Virtual Machine Management
• High Availability Cluster Storage
  • DRBD
  • Cluster Storage Access
  • Clustered File Systems
• High Availability Distributed Storage
  • GlusterFS Storage Clusters
  • Ceph Storage Cluster​​

Course Formats

At Jumping Bean we allow our students and customers to consume our courses in a format that suits their constraints and requirements.

Our course content can be delivered in a:

• Instructor lead  classroom format either on-site or offsite.
• Instructor lead online format using our online training infrastructure
• Part-time or full-time either online or classroom based,
• Self-pace, mentor supported online format that adjust to your needs

Contact us and we will be happy to custom the course content and format to your requirements.