LPIC-2 Exam 201 Objectives
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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. The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Use monitoring and measurement tools 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 Icinga2, Nagios, collectd, MRTG and Cacti The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.x documentation The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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/usr/src/linux/ Kernel Makefiles Kernel 2.6.x, 3.x and 4.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 Use DKMS to compile kernel modules. Awareness of dracut The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Use command-line utilities to get information about the currently running kernel and kernel modules. 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 analyse information about the available hardware udev rules The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Systemd SysV init Linux Standard Base Specification (LSB) The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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BIOS and UEFI NVMe booting GRUB version 2 and Legacy grub shell boot loader start and hand off to kernel kernel loading hardware initialisation and setup daemon/service initialisation and setup Know the different boot loader install locations on a hard disk or removable device. Overwrite standard boot loader options and using boot loader shells. Use systemd rescue and emergency modes. The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, PXELINUX Understanding of PXE for both BIOS and UEFI Awareness of systemd-boot and U-Boot The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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The concept of the fstab configuration Tools and utilities for handling swap partitions and files Use of UUIDs for identifying and mounting file systems Understanding of systemd mount units The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Tools and utilities to manipulate and ext2, ext3 and ext4 Tools and utilities to perform basic Btrfs operations, including subvolumes and snapshots Tools and utilities to manipulate XFS Awareness of ZFS The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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autofs configuration files Understanding of automount units UDF and ISO9660 tools and utilities Awareness of other CD-ROM filesystems (HFS) Awareness of CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito) Basic feature knowledge of data encryption (dm-crypt / LUKS) The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Software RAID configuration files and utilities The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA Tools and utilities to configure Solid State Drives including AHCI and NVMe Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyse system resources (e.g. interrupts) Awareness of sdparm command and its uses Tools and utilities for iSCSI Awareness of SAN, including relevant protocols (AoE, FCoE) The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Tools in the LVM suite Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes Creating and maintaining snapshots Activating volume groups The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces Configuring basic access to wireless networks The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Utilities to manipulate routing tables Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces Utilities to analyse the status of the network devices Utilities to monitor and analyse the TCP/IP traffic The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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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 recognised and used hardware devices System initialisation files and their contents (Systemd and SysV init) Awareness of NetworkManager and its impact on network configuration The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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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. The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
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Knowledge about directories that have to be included in backups