Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Training, Certificaiton & Exams - Linux Certification
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Training & Certification
Linux Professional Institute Training Courses
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), besides being the oldest existing Linux certification body in existence, is an open source focused, community orientated organisation whose goal is to ensure it's member have, and maintain, the highest level of professionalism with respect to their profession.
LPI for Open Source Professionals
Today the LPI offers it members a range of certifications covering Linux, FreeBSD and security. As an official platinum LPI training partner Jumping Bean has provided LPI certification training for over 10 years.
Jumping Bean - Platinum Training Partner
Our instructors bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the classroom which others cannot match. Want to develop a deep appreciation for Linux internals and Linux distributions? Do you want to be able to manage any Linux distribution on any cloud provider? Look no further than Jumping Bean's LPI training courses.
Linux Training & Certification from Essentials to Professional
Jumping Bean provides training for the following LPI certifications:
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
| Course | Course Price + Exam (ex vat) | Exam Price (ex vat) |
|---|---|---|
| LPIC-1 Boot-camp | (2xExams) R17,500 | R5,000 |
| LPI-101 | R10,000 | R2,500 |
| LPI-102 | R10,000 | R2,500 |
| LPIC-2 Boot-camp | (2XExams)R21,000 | R2,500 |
| LPI-201 | R12,000 | |
| LPI-202 | R12,000 | R2,500 |
DevOps Engineer
The LPI DevOps Engineer certification covers the concepts, skills and tools that one requires to become a DevOps engineer.
The course uses the most commonly used tools to develop an understanding of the DevOps engineering methodology and approach.
High Demand For DevOps Engineers
DevOps is the new approach and methodology that has evolved to meet the requirements for greater flexibility and shorter time-to-market for IT solutions.
Tradition system operations skills are no longer sufficient and companies are scrambling to find people with the requisite skills.
Looking to level up your career or change careers? LPI DevOps engineer certification may be you answer.
DevOps Engineer Course Outline
- Software Engineering
- Modern Software Development
- Standard Components and Platforms for Software
- Source Code Management
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Container Management
- Container Usage
- Container Deployment and Orchestration
- Container Infrastructure
- Machine Deployment
- Virtual Machine Deployment
- Cloud Deployment
- System Image Creation
- Configuration Management
- Ansible
- Other Configuration Management Tools
- Service Operations
- IT Operations and Monitoring
- Log Management and Analysis
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.
| Course | Course Price + Exam (ex vat) | Exam Price (ex vat) |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | R25,000 | R2,500 |
| DevOps 101 | R16,000 | Course split over two tainings |
| DevOps 102 | R16,000 | R2,500 |