LPIC-1 Exam 102

Exam Objectives Version: Version 4.0

Exam Codes: 102-400 or LX0-104 (these exams are identical; passing either exam will count as the 102 exam toward your LPIC-1)

About Objective Weights: Each objective is assigned a weighting value. The weights indicate the relative importance of each objective on the exam. Objectives with higher weights will be covered in the exam with more questions.

Topic 105: Shells, Scripting and Data Management

105.1 Customize and use the shell environment

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to customize shell environments to meet users’ needs. Candidates should be able to modify global and user profiles.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Set environment variables (e.g. PATH) at login or when spawning a new shell
Write Bash functions for frequently used sequences of commands
Maintain skeleton directories for new user accounts
Set command search path with the proper directory
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

source
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/profile
env
export
set
unset
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile
~/.bashrc
~/.bash_logout
function
alias
lists

105.2 Customize or write simple scripts

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to customize existing scripts, or write simple new Bash scripts.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Use standard sh syntax (loops, tests)
Use command substitution
Test return values for success or failure or other information provided by a command
Perform conditional mailing to the superuser
Correctly select the script interpreter through the shebang (#!) line
Manage the location, ownership, execution and suid-rights of scripts
Terms and Utilities:

for
while
test
if
read
seq
exec

105.3 SQL data management

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to query databases and manipulate data using basic SQL commands. This objective includes performing queries involving joining of 2 tables and/or subselects.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Use of basic SQL commands
Perform basic data manipulation
Terms and Utilities:

insert
update
select
delete
from
where
group by
order by
join

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Topic 106: User Interfaces and Desktops

106.1 Install and configure X11

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to install and configure X11.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server
Awareness of the X font server
Basic understanding and knowledge of the X Window configuration file
Terms and Utilities:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
xhost
DISPLAY
xwininfo
xdpyinfo
X

106.2 Setup a display manager

Weight: 1

Description: Candidates should be able to describe the basic features and configuration of the LightDM display manager. This objective covers awareness of the display managers XDM (X Display Manger), GDM (Gnome Display Manager) and KDM (KDE Display Manager).

Key Knowledge Areas:

Basic configuration of LightDM
Turn the display manager on or off
Change the display manager greeting
Awareness of XDM, KDM and GDM
Terms and Utilities:

lightdm
/etc/lightdm/

106.3 Accessibility

Weight: 1

Description: Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of accessibility technologies.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Basic knowledge of keyboard accessibility settings (AccessX)
Basic knowledge of visual settings and themes
Basic knowledge of assistive technology (ATs)
Terms and Utilities:

Sticky/Repeat Keys
Slow/Bounce/Toggle Keys
Mouse Keys
High Contrast/Large Print Desktop Themes
Screen Reader
Braille Display
Screen Magnifier
On-Screen Keyboard
Gestures (used at login, for example GDM)
Orca
GOK
emacspeak

Topic 107: Administrative Tasks

107.1 Manage user and group accounts and related system files

Weight: 5

Description: Candidates should be able to add, remove, suspend and change user accounts.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Add, modify and remove users and groups
Manage user/group info in password/group databases
Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts
Terms and Utilities:

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/skel/
chage
getent
groupadd
groupdel
groupmod
passwd
useradd
userdel
usermod

107.2 Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to use cron or anacron to run jobs at regular intervals and to use at to run jobs at a specific time.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Manage cron and at jobs
Configure user access to cron and at services
Configure anacron
Terms and Utilities:

/etc/cron.{d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly}/
/etc/at.deny
/etc/at.allow
/etc/crontab
/etc/cron.allow
/etc/cron.deny
/var/spool/cron/
crontab
at
atq
atrm
anacron
/etc/anacrontab

107.3 Localisation and internationalisation

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to localize a system in a different language than English. As well, an understanding of why LANG=C is useful when scripting.

Key Knowledge Areas:

Configure locale settings and environment variables
Configure timezone settings and environment variables
Terms and Utilities:

/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
LC_*
LC_ALL
LANG
TZ
/usr/bin/locale
tzselect
timedatectl
date
iconv
UTF-8
ISO-8859
ASCII
Unicode

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