LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives¶

Topic 105: Shells and Shell Scripting¶

105.1 Customize and use the shell environment ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

.
source
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/profile
env
export
set
unset
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile
~/.bashrc
~/.bash_logout
function
alias

105.2 Customize or write simple scripts ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

for
while
test
if
read
seq
exec
||
&&

Topic 106: User Interfaces and Desktops¶

106.1 Install and configure X11 ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
~/.xsession-errors
xhost
xauth
DISPLAY
X

106.2 Graphical Desktops ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

KDE
Gnome
Xfce
X11
XDMCP
VNC
Spice
RDP

106.3 Accessibility ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

High Contrast/Large Print Desktop Themes.
Screen Reader.
Braille Display.
Screen Magnifier.
On-Screen Keyboard.
Sticky/Repeat keys.
Slow/Bounce/Toggle keys.
Mouse keys.
Gestures.
Voice recognition.

Topic 107: Administrative Tasks¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/skel/
chage
getent
groupadd
groupdel
groupmod
passwd
useradd
userdel
usermod

107.2 Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/cron.{d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}/
/etc/at.deny
/etc/at.allow
/etc/crontab
/etc/cron.allow
/etc/cron.deny
/var/spool/cron/
crontab
at
atq
atrm
systemctl
systemd-run

107.3 Localisation and internationalisation ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
LC_*
LC_ALL
LANG
TZ
/usr/bin/locale
tzselect
timedatectl
date
iconv
UTF-8
ISO-8859
ASCII
Unicode

Topic 108: Essential System Services¶

108.1 Maintain system time ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/usr/share/zoneinfo/
/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/etc/ntp.conf
/etc/chrony.conf
date
hwclock
timedatectl
ntpd
ntpdate
chronyc
pool.ntp.org

108.2 System logging ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/rsyslog.conf
/var/log/
logger
logrotate
/etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/
journalctl
systemd-cat
/etc/systemd/journald.conf
/var/log/journal/

108.3 Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

~/.forward
sendmail emulation layer commands
newaliases
mail
mailq
postfix
sendmail
exim

108.4 Manage printers and printing ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

CUPS configuration files, tools and utilities
/etc/cups/
lpd legacy interface (lpr, lprm, lpq)

Topic 109: Networking Fundamentals¶

109.1 Fundamentals of internet protocols ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/services
IPv4, IPv6
Subnetting
TCP, UDP, ICMP

109.2 Persistent network configuration ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf
nmcli
hostnamectl
ifup
ifdown

109.3 Basic network troubleshooting ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

ip
hostname
ss
ping
ping6
traceroute
traceroute6
tracepath
tracepath6
netcat
ifconfig
netstat
route

109.4 Configure client side DNS ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
host
dig
getent

Topic 110: Security¶

110.1 Perform security administration tasks ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

find
passwd
fuser
lsof
nmap
chage
netstat
sudo
/etc/sudoers
su
usermod
ulimit
who, w, last

110.2 Setup host security ¶

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Terms and Utilities¶

/etc/nologin
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/xinetd.d/
/etc/xinetd.conf
systemd.socket
/etc/inittab
/etc/init.d/
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny

110.3 Securing data with encryption ¶

Terms and Utilities¶

ssh
ssh-keygen
ssh-agent
ssh-add
~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
~/.ssh/id_dsa and id_dsa.pub
~/.ssh/id_ecdsa and id_ecdsa.pub
~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and id_ed25519.pub
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key and ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key and ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key and ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh_known_hosts
gpg
gpg-agent
~/.gnupg/