LPI certifications are currently the fastest growing Linux certifications with over 16,000 people people certified worldwide.

The course delves into administrative tasks including sophisticated user and group management, and tuning global and user profiles. The course also focuses on using scheduling techniques to automate administrative tasks and backups. The class also covers the setup and configuration of X services include XFree86, XDM, and customizing Window Manager environments. The course wraps up with a study of network services, including TCP/IP, PPP, Sendmail, Apache, DNS services, and host/user security administration.

	About the LPI test.

OBJECTIVES:

At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to

• Manage the shell environment
• Write and customize simple scripts
• Edit and print files and manage printers
• Manage kernel modules and compile a custom kernel
• Install programs from source and manage shared libraries
• Describe the fundamentals of TCP/IP
• Configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP protocols
• Configure and use PPP
• Manage networking daemons and related services
• Operate and perform basic configuration of Apache and DNS services
• Operate and perform basic configuration of sendmail
• Install, configure and manage XFree86, XDM, and X applications
• Install and customize a window manager
• Configure TCP wrappers, host security and user-level security