LPIC-1 Summary Version 4.0 To 5.0

Purpose

This document is meant to provide a higher level overview into what has changed with the objectives update for LPIC-1 exams.

The exams that are affect by this update are LPIC-1 (101 and 102) exams.

Summary

Version 5.0 of LPIC-1 contains the following changes in order to reflect the state of recent Linux distributions:

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

Changes in Exam 101

The following changes constitute the update of exam 101 from version 4.0 to version 5.0:

• 101: System Architecture
  • 101.1 Determine and configure hardware settings
    • Removed 'Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards.'
    • Removed 'Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices.'
  • 101.2 Boot the system
    • Added coverage of UEFI (equal to BIOS coverage) and journalctl (with respect to boot events)
  • 101.3 Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system
    • Added awareness of acpid
• 102: Linux Installation and Package Management
  • 102.1 Design hard disk layout
    • Added EFI System Partition (ESP)
  • 102.2 Install a boot manager
    • (no changes)
  • 102.3 Manage shared libraries
    • (no changes)
  • 102.4 Use Debian package management
    • Removed aptitude
    • Added awareness of apt.
  • 102.5 Use RPM and YUM package management
    • Removed yumdownloader
    • Added Zypper (equal to YUM)
    • Added awareness of dnf
  • 102.6 Linux as a virtualization guest
    • New objective (weight: 1)
    • Added specialties of running Linux in a virtual machines and containers on premise and in the cloud

Changes in Exam 102

The following changes constitute the update of exam 102 from version 4.0 to version 5.0: