Latest revision as of 06:53, 11 October 2016

Purpose

This document is meant to provide a higher level overview into what has changed with the objectives update for LPIC-2 exams.

The exams that are affect by this update are LPIC-2 (201 and 202) exams.

Version 4.5 of LPIC-2 contains the following changes in order to reflect the state of recent Linux distributions:

Increased coverage of systemd, including journaling and filesystem mounting
Addition of IPv6 and TLS wherever applicable
Addition of SSSD, DKMS, Btrfs, UEFI, NVMe, xz, iotop, htop, ss, iptraf and Sieve filters
Updates to Linux 4.x, Apache 2.4, Samba 4 and OpenLDAP directory based configuration
Removal of detailed knowledge on lilo; Reduced to awareness level collectd, courier and procmail

In addition, several editorial changes as well as additions and clarifications on the awareness level were made.

The following changes constitute the update of exam 201 from version 4.0 to version 4.5.

200.1: Added iotop, htop, ss and iptraf
200.2: Reduced to awareness level coverage of collectd; Added awareness of Icinga2
201.1: Included coverage of Linux Kernel 4.x and xz compression
201.2: Included coverage of Linux Kernel 4.x and DKMS
201.3: Included coverage of Linux Kernel 4.x
202.1: Added coverage of systemd; Renamed the objective accordingly
202.2: Included UEFI and NVMe booting
202.3: Removed lilo; Added UEFI booting and awareness of systemd-boot and U-Boot
203.1: Added systemd mount units
203.2: Added basic Btrfs operations and awareness of ZFS
203.3: Added systemd automount units; Clarified encryption to mean dm-crypt / LUKS
204.1: (no changes)
204.2: Added SSD and NVMe configuration and awareness of SAN
204.3: Added lvm.conf
205.1: Added iw
205.2: Added ss and ping6
205.3: Added systemd coverage, ip, ss, ping6, traceroute6 and mtr
206.1: Added xz
206.2: Added awareness of Bareos
206.3: Added systemctl

The following changes constitute the update of exam 202 from version 4.0 to version 4.5.

207.1: Added named-checkconf, clarified that both authoritative and recursive name servers are covered
207.2: Added named-checkzone, named-compilezone and masterfile-format
207.3: Added awareness of DANE and related records
208: Renamed topic to "HTTP Services" to avoid confusion with web services
208.1: Updated objective to cover Apache HTTPD version 2.4; Clarified authentication modules and included mod_access_compat
208.2: Added SNI and disabling insecure protocols and ciphers; Removed SSLCertificateChainFile
208.3: (no changes)
208.4: (no changes)
209.1: Updated objective to cover Samba 4, instead of setting up a Workgroup the objective now focuses on standalone and AD member servers
209.2: (no changes)
210.1: Added awareness of DHCPv6 and IPv6 Router Advertisements, including radvd; Rephrased the logging aspect to include systemd journaling
210.2: Added basic SSSD functionality for LDAP authentication
210.3: (no changes)
210.4: Updates to cover OpenLDAP directory based configuration; Removed file based configuration and removed awareness of SSSD (which is now in 210.2)
211.1; Added TLS configuration for postfix
211.2: Reduced procmail to awareness level; Added Sieve; Renamed objective accordingly
211.3: Reduced courier to awareness level; Added TLS configuration for dovecot; Renamed objective accordingly
212.1: Clarified that IP forwarding is included and added IPv6 (ULA, LLA and ip6tables)
212.2: (no changes)
212.3: (no changes)
212.4: (no changes)
212.5: (no changes)

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 * 205.3: Added systemd coverage, ip, ss, ping6, traceroute6 and mtr
 * 206.1: Added xz
-* 206.2: Added systemctl and awareness of Bareos
+* 206.2: Added awareness of Bareos
-* 206.3: (no changes)
+* 206.3: Added systemctl
 =Changes in Exam 202=