LPIC Certification Exam Questions Range(English) - 101

LPIC Exam Level-1(101):Detailed Objectives Hardware & Architecture

• Configure Fundamental BIOS Settings(Weight: 1)
• Enable and disable integrated peripherals.
• Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards.
• Correctly set IRQ, DMA and I/O addresses for all BIOS administrated ports and settings for error handling.

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  Configure Modem and Sound cards(Weight: 1)
• Ensure devices meet compatibility requirements (particularly that the modem is not an unsupported win-modem).
• Verify that correct resources are used by the cards.
• Configure modem for outbound dial-up.
• Set serial port speeds.
• Setup non-IDE Devices(Weight: 1)
• Differentiate between the various types of non-IDE devices.
• Manipulate BIOS to detect used and available SCSI IDs.
• Set the correct hardware ID for different devices, especially the boot device.
• Configure BIOS settings to control the boot sequence when both non-IDE and IDE devices are present .
• Setup different PC expansion cards(Weight: 3)
• Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices.
• Determine hardware recources for devices.
• Configure Communication Devices(Weight: 1)
• Verification of compatibility requirements (such as the modem is not a winmodem).
• Correctly set IRQs, DMAs and I/OPorts of the cards to avoid conflicts between devices.
• Load and configure suitable device drivers.
• Set serial port speed.
• Setup modem for outbound PPP connections.
• Configure USB devices(Weight: 1)
• Identify and load the correct USB driver module.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the USB layer architecture and the modules used in the different layers.

Linux Installation & Package Management

• Design hard disk layout(Weight: 5)
• Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks.
• Tailor the design to the intended use of the system.
• Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the BIOS requirements for booting.
• Install a boot manager(Weight: 1)
• Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options (for example, using a boot floppy or a bootable CDROM).
• Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB or LILO.
• Interact with the boot loader.
• Make and install programs from source(Weight: 5)
• Unpack a file of sources using typical compression utilities.
• Make simple customizations to Makefile such as changing paths or adding extra include directories.
• Apply parameters to a configure script.
• Know where sourses are stored by default.
• Compile a RPM or DPKG software package using sources.
• Manage shared libraries(Weight: 3)
• Identify shared libraries.
• Identify the typical locations of system libraries.
• Load shared libraries.
• Use Debian package management(Weight: 8)
• Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages.
• Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed.
• Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed).
• Use Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)(Weight: 8)
• Install, re-install, upgrade and remove RPM packages.
• Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures.
• Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from.

GNU & Unix Commands

• Work on the command line(Weight: 5)
• Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line.
• Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables.
• Use and edit command history.
• Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path.
• Use commands recursively through a directory tree.
• Process text streams using filters(Weight: 6)
• Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package.
• Perform basic file management(Weight: 3)
• Copy, move and remove files and directories individually.
• Copy multiple files and directories recursively.
• Remove files and directories recursively.
• Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands.
• Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time.
• Use streams, pipes and redirects(Weight: 5)
• Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error.
• Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command.
• Use the output of one command as arguments to another command.
• Send output to both stdout and a file.
• Create, monitor and kill processes(Weight: 5)
• Run jobs in the foreground and background.
• Start a process that will run without being associated to a terminal.
• Signal a program to continue running after logout.
• Monitor active processes.
• Select and sort processes for display.
• Send signals to processes.
• Kill processes including processes that did not terminate correctly after an X session has closed
• Modify process execution priorities(Weight: 3)
• Know the default priority of a job that is created.
• Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default.
• Change the priority of a running process.
• Search text files using regular expressions(Weight: 3)
• Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements.
• Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content.
• Perform basic file editing operations using vi(Weight: 1)
• Navigate a document using vi.
• Use basic vi modes (Command, Insert, Replace).
• Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text.

Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• Create partitions and filesystems(Weight: 3)
• Use various mkfs commands to set up partitions and create various filesystems, including ext2, ext3, reiserfs, vfat and xfs.
• Maintain the integrity of filesystems(Weight: 3)
• Verify the integrity of filesystems.
• Monitor free space and inodes.
• Repair simple filesystem problems.
• Control mounting and unmounting filesystems(Weight: 3)
• Manually mount and unmount filesystems.
• Configure filesystem mounting on bootup.
• Configure user mountable removeable filesystems such as tape drives, floppies and CDROMs.
• Managing disk quota(Weight: 3)
• Set up a disk quota for a filesystem.
• Edit, check and generate user quota reports.
• Use file permissions to control access to files(Weight: 5)
• Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories.
• Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security.
• Use the group field to grant file access to workgroups.
• Basic knowledge of ACL.
• Know how to change the default file creation mode of the shell.
• Manage file ownership(Weight: 1)
• Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories.
• Use the group field to grant file access to workgroups.
• Create and change hard and symbolic links(Weight: 1)
• Create links.
• Identify hard and/or softlinks.
• Copying versus linking files.
• Use links to support system administration tasks.
• Find system files and place files in the correct location(Weight: 5)
• Understand the correct locations of files under the FHS.
• Find files and commands on a Linux system.
• Know the location and propose of impotant file and directories as defind in the FHS.

The X Window System

• Install & Configure X11(Weight: 5)
• Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server.
• Customize and tune X for the videocard and monitor.
• Install and configure an X font server.
• Install fonts.
• Manually edit the X Window configuration file.
• Setup a display manager(Weight: 3)
• Turn the display manager on or off.
• Change the display manager greeting.
• Change default color depth for the display manager.
• Configure display managers for use by X-stations.
• Install & Customize a Window Manager Environment(Weight: 5)
• Demonstrate an understanding of customization procedures for window manager menus and/or desktop panel menus.
• Select and configuring the desired x-terminal (xterm, rxvt, aterm etc.).
• Verify and resolve library dependency issues for X applications.
• Export the X-display to a client workstation.

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