Learn more about the LPIC Linux Server administration certification training for Exam 201.
LPIC-2 is the second certification in LPI’s multi-level professional certification program. The LPIC-2 will validate the candidate's ability to administer small to medium–sized mixed networks. The candidate must have an active LPIC-1 certification to receive LPIC-2 certification, but the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams may be taken in any order.
The course is run 5 days full time.
To become LPIC-2 certified the candidate must be able to:
The course can be offered privately onsite or on our premises. A minimum of 4 delegates is required to schedule the course. The course price is R9 500 onsite and R12 500 on our premises. There is no set date to run the course, we schedule a date that suits your team.
This course is also offered publicly. The course runs at our offices in Cape Town or Johannesburg. A minimum of 4 delegates is required to run the course. A tentative date is set but the course will only be confirmed to run once we have 4 confirmed bookings. There is no set date as the course is run on demand.
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Measure CPU usage
Measure memory usage
Measure disk I/O
Measure network I/O
Measure firewalling and routing throughput
Map client bandwidth usage
Match/correlate system symptoms with likely problems
Estimate throughput and identify bottlenecks in a system including networking
Use collectd to monitor IT infrastructure usage
Predict capacity break point of a configuration
Observe growth rate of capacity usage
Graph the trend of capacity usage
Awareness of monitoring solutions such as Nagios, MRTG and Cacti
Kernel 2.6.x documentation
Kernel 3.x documentation
/usr/src/linux/
Kernel Makefiles
Kernel 2.6.x/3.x make targets
Customize the current kernel configuration.
Build a new kernel and appropriate kernel modules.
Install a new kernel and any modules.
Ensure that the boot manager can locate the new kernel and associated files.
Module configuration files
Awareness of dracute
Manually load and unload kernel modules
Determine when modules can be unloaded
Determine what parameters a module accepts
Configure the system to load modules by names other than their file name.
/proc filesystem
Content of /, /boot , and /lib/modules/
Tools and utilities to analyze information about the available hardware
udev rules
Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB)
SysV init environment)
GRUB version 2 and Legacy
Grub shell
Boot loader start and hand off to kernel
Kernel loading
Hardware initialization and setup
Daemon/service initialization and setup
Know the different boot loader install locations on a hard disk or removable device
Overwriting standard boot loader options and using boot loader shells
Awareness of UEFI
LILO
SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, PXELINUX
Understanding of PXE
The concept of the fstab configuration
Tools and utilities for handling SWAP partitions and files
Use of UUIDs
Tools and utilities to manipulate and ext2, ext3 and ext4
Tools and utilities to manipulate xfs
Awareness of Btrfs
autofs configuration files
UDF and ISO9660 tools and utilities
Awareness of CD-ROM filesystems (UDF, ISO9660, HFS)
Awareness of CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito)
Basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystem
Software raid configuration files and utilities
mdadm.conf
mdadm
/proc/mdstat
partition type 0xFD
Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA
Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyze system resources (e.g. interrupts)
Awareness of sdparm command and its uses
Tools and utilities for iSCSI
Tools in the LVM suite
Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes
Creating and maintaining snapshots
Activating volume groups
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces
Configuring basic access to wireless networks with iw, iwconfig and iwlist
Utilities to manipulate routing tables
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces
Utilities to analyze the status of the network devices
Utilities to monitor and analyze the TCP/IP traffic
Location and content of access restriction files
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces
Utilities to manage routing tables
Utilities to list network states.
Utilities to gain information about the network configuration
Methods of information about the recognized and used hardware devices
System initialization files and their contents (SysV init process)
Awareness of NetworkManager and its impact on network configuration
Unpack source code using common compression and archive utilities
Understand basics of invoking make to compile programs
Apply parameters to a configure script
Know where sources are stored by default
Knowledge about directories that have to be include in backups
Awareness of network backup solutions such as Amanda, Bacula and BackupPC
Knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks of tapes, CDR, disk or other backup media
Perform partial and manual backups
Verify the integrity of backup files
Partially or fully restore backups
Automate communication with users through logon messages
Inform active users of system maintenance
Choose your training options. Attend a public or private training.
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Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.
With public training you attend the course with other delegates from other companies at our premises. If you would like private training we can arrange that the training be done at your premises, however, we require a minimum of 4 delegates for a private course.
The training runs at your premises or you can come to us. We require a minimum of 4 delegates for a private training.
Should you not be happy with the training, this should be raised within the first hour of training. We will try to resolve the issue and if we can't we refund 100% your money.
You can not cancel the course once you have booked. Please make sure that you have resolved your dates before making a booking. It takes a long time to organise the training, so we will not be able to refund once you book, however we can try to re-schedule the course at a later date for you.
The course price depends on whether the course will be on your site(private training) or at our offices(public). For a private course we require a minimum of 4 delegates in order to schedule the course.
Most of our coruses are offered over 5 days full time, except for the Xamarin Cross Platform Mobile App Development course which is offered over 2 weeks. No part-time courses are offered at the moment.
We don't provide accomodation but we can help you find accomodation close to the center. We can also help you with arranging transport to pick you up from the airport.
Our preferred accomodation provider is AirBnb. We recommmend if its your first time, only book from a Super Host on AirBnB.
Our mobile app development courses are hands on, for you to receive a certificate of completion, you will need to demonstrate that you have master the concepts during the course by developing a production mobile application and deploying it to the Google Play or Apple store. No certificates of completion will be awarded without proof that you have developed and deployed your app to the relevant store.