Learn more about the LPIC Linux Server administration certification training for Exam 202.
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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BIND 9.x configuration files, terms and utilities
Defining the location of the BIND zone files in BIND configuration files
Reloading modified configuration and zone files
Awareness of dnsmasq, djbdns and PowerDNS as alternate name servers
BIND 9 configuration files, terms and utilities
Utilities to request information from the DNS server
Layout, content and file location of the BIND zone files
Various methods to add a new host in the zone files, including reverse zone
BIND 9 configuration files
Configuring BIND to run in a chroot jail
Split configuration of BIND using the forwarders statement
Configuring and using transaction signatures (TSIG)
Awareness of DNSSEC and basic tool
Apache 2.x configuration files, terms and utilities
Apache log files configuration and content
Access restriction methods and files
mod_perl and PHP configuration
Client user authentication files and utilities
Configuration of maximum requests, minimum and maximum servers and clients
Apache 2.x virtual host implementation (with and without dedicated IP addresses)
Using redirect statements in Apache’s configuration files to customize file access
SSL configuration files, tools and utilities
Ability to generate a server private key and CSR for a commercial CA
Ability to generate a self-signed Certificate from private CA
Ability to install the key and Certificate
Awareness of the issues with Virtual Hosting and use of SSL
Security issues in SSL use
Squid 3.x configuration files, terms and utilities
Access restriction methods
Client user authentication methods
Layout and content of ACL in the Squid configuration files
Nginx
Reverse Proxy
Basic Web Server
Samba 3 documentation
Samba configuration files
Samba tools and utilities
Mounting Samba shares on Linux
Samba daemons
Mapping Windows usernames to Linux usernames
User-Level and Share-Level security
NFS version 3 configuration files
NFS tools and utilities
Access restrictions to certain hosts and/or subnets
Mount options on server and client
TCP Wrappers
Awareness of NFSv4
DHCP configuration files, terms and utilities
Subnet and dynamically-allocated range setup
PAM configuration files, terms and utilities
passwd and shadow passwords
LDAP utilities for data management and queries
Change user passwords
Querying the LDAP directory
OpenLDAP
Access Control
Distinguished Names
Changetype Operations
Schemas and Whitepages
Directories
Object IDs, Attributes and Classes
Awareness of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
Configuration files for postfix
Basic knowledge of the SMTP protocol
Awareness of sendmail and exim
procmail configuration files, tools and utilities
Usage of procmail on both server and client side
Courier IMAP and Courier POP configuration
Dovecot configuration
iptables configuration files, tools and utilities
Tools, commands and utilities to manage routing tables.
Private address ranges
Port redirection and IP forwarding
List and write filtering and rules that accept or block datagrams based on source or
Destination protocol, port and address
Save and reload filtering configurations
Awareness of ip6tables and filtering
Configuration files, tools and utilities for Pure-FTPd and vsftpd
Awareness of ProFTPd
Understanding of passive vs. active FTP connections
OpenSSH configuration files, tools and utilities
Login restrictions for the superuser and the normal users
Managing and using server and client keys to login with and without password
Usage of multiple connections from multiple hosts to guard against loss of connection to remote host following configuration changes
Tools and utilities to scan and test ports on a server
Locations and organizations that report security alerts as Bugtraq, CERT or other sources
Tools and utilities to implement an intrusion detection system (IDS)
Awareness of OpenVAS and Snort
Candidates should be able to configure a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections.
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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.