LPIC-1 Summary Version 4.0 To 5.0
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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
- 101.1 Determine and configure hardware settings
- 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
- 102.1 Design hard disk layout
- 103: GNU and Unix Commands
- 103.1 Work on the command line
- Added quoting
- Added type and which
- 103.2 Process text streams using filters
- Decreased weight from 3 to 2
- Removed expand, fmt, join, pr and unexpand
- Added bzcat, md5sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, xzcat and zcat
- 103.3 Perform basic file management
- Added bunzip2 and unxz
- 103.4 Use streams, pipes and redirects
- (no changes)
- 103.5 Create, monitor and kill processes
- Added watch and tmux
- 103.6 Modify process execution priorities
- (no changes)
- 103.7 Search text files using regular expressions
- Increased weight from 2 to 3
- Added understanding of the differences between basic and extended regular expressions
- Added understanding of the concepts of special characters, character classes, quantifiers and anchors
- Added use of regular expressions to delete, change and substitute text
- 103.8 Basic file editing
- Renamed from 'Perform basic file editing operations using vi' to ' Basic file editing'
- Clarified wording of 'Understand and use vi modes.'
- Removed vi commands c and :e!
- Added awareness of other common editors (Emacs, nano and vim) and setting the default editor (EDITOR environment variable)
- 103.1 Work on the command line
Changes in Exam 102
The following changes constitute the update of exam 102 from version 4.0 to version 5.0:
