LESummaryVersion1To1.5: Difference between revisions
GMatthewRice (talk | contribs) Created page with "__FORCETOC__ =Briefing= ==1.0 Purpose== This document is meant to provide a higher level overview into what has changed with the objective update for the Linux..." |
GMatthewRice (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
2.2 Removed commands | 2.2 Removed commands | ||
The following commands | The following commands have been removed from the objectives: | ||
* which | * which | ||
| Line 47: | Line 47: | ||
whether to cover the material. The choice of additional material is left | whether to cover the material. The choice of additional material is left | ||
to the authors and students. | to the authors and students. | ||
=101 Change Summary= | =101 Change Summary= | ||
Latest revision as of 16:17, 28 October 2015
Briefing
1.0 Purpose
This document is meant to provide a higher level overview into what has changed with the objective update for the Linux Essentials exam objectives from version 1.0 to 1.5.
2.0 Changes in Linux Essentials
2.1 New commands and files
The following commands have been added to the objectives:
- type
- ip route show
- ip addr show
- host
- su
- ls -a
- /boot, /proc, /dev, /sys, /etc and /var
2.2 Removed commands
The following commands have been removed from the objectives:
- which
- find
- /dev/hd*
- /lib and /usr/lib
2.3 Awareness of technologies
The following technologies have been added at the awareness level:
- openSUSE, Linux Mint, Scientific Linux
- Apache HTTPD and NGINX
2.4 The Nice to Know sections
The Nice to Know sections for each objective has been removed. This has been done to remove confusion on the part of candidates as to whether they should study this material as well as for courseware providers as to whether to cover the material. The choice of additional material is left to the authors and students.
101 Change Summary
Topic 1: The Linux Community and a Career in Open Source
Objective: 1.1 Linux Evolution and Popular Operating Systems
Awareness of openSUSE, Linux Mint, Scientific Linux has been added.
Objective: 1.2 Major Open Source Applications
Development Languages has been added. Apache HTTPD and NGINX has been added. Blender, Audacity, ImageMagick has been dropped. OpenLDAP, Postfix, DNS, and DHCP has been dropped. Mobile Applications has been dropped.
Topic 2: Finding Your Way on a Linux System
Objective: 2.1 Command Line Basics
The weight of this objectives has increased from 2 to 3. The type command has been added. The which command has been dropped.
Topic 3: The Power of the Command Line
Objective: 3.2 Searching and Extracting Data from Files
The weight of this objectives has decreased from 4 to 3. The find command has been dropped.
Objective: 3.3 Turning Commands into a Script
Knowledge of shebangs (#!) has been added. /bin/sh has been changed to /bin/bash. Basic text editing has been changed to Awareness of common text editors.
Topic 4: The Linux Operating System
Objective: 4.2 Understanding Computer Hardware
/dev/hd* has been dropped. Display types has been dropped.
Objective: 4.3 Where Data is Stored
/boot, /proc, /dev, and /sys has been added. The kernel and klog has been dropped. /lib and /usr/lib has been dropped.
Objective: 4.4 Your Computer on the Network
ip route show has been added. ip addr show has been added. The host command has been added.
Topic 5: Security and File Permissions
Objective: 5.1 Basic Security and Identifying User Types
The su command has been added.
Objective: 5.3 Managing File Permissions and Ownership
ls -a has been added.
Objective: 5.4 Special Directories and Files
/etc and /var has been added.
