At the end of the LPIC-2 course, you will be able to:

• Manage a small to medium-large site
• Designing, implementing, maintaining, protecting and troubleshooting a small, mixed (MS, Linux) network, including a:
  • LAN server (Samba, NFS, DNS, DHCP, customer management)
  • Internet gateway (firewall, VPN, SSH, web cache/proxy, mail)
  • Internet Server (web server and reverse proxy, FTP server)
  • Supervision of assistants Advising management in the field of automation and purchasing

• System architecture: Linux kernel
  • Kernel and modules
  • Compilation – when and how to compile the kernel
  • Patches: applying and removing
  • Kernel module management
• The boot process
  • Differences between the distributions
  • GRUB
  • Kernel parameters
  • Init and init tab, upstart
  • Startup scripts
  • Launching services
  • Boot process
• Filesystems and devices
  • Filesystems and their tools: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, SAWP
  • Creating a file system (MKFS, MKISOFS, MKSWAP)
  • Filesystem debugging
  • Mount – practical aspects: fat and other file systems, -o loop, choosing a file system
  • /Etc/fstab, /etc/mtab and related topics;
  • Automount and AutoFS;
  • Device files, udev.
• Disk management
  • Configuring and using RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5
  • Configuring and using LVM logical volumes
  • Hard disk settings: hdparm, sdparm
• Networks
  • Network interface configuration
  • Wireless network configuration
  • Routing tables
  • Monitoring devices and traffic
  • OpenVPN client configuration
  • Solving the common network problems
  • Communicating with remote users
• Compiling and installing programs: configure, make
• Backups
  • Backup strategies
  • An overview of available solutions
• DNS server
  • Server configuration
  • DNS zones and their transfers
  • DNSSEC

• Linux Administrators
• Linux Professionals who want to prepare for the LPIC 201 exam

Before attending this LPIC 2 201 course, you must have mastered the topics covered by the LPIC-1 certificate – that is, the basics of working in Linux, the command line and system configuration.