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.

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.

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