Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1
The LPI Certification has been developed by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a nonprofit organization. This Professional Linux Certification is designed to provide a usable, common measurement of Linux skills when considering people for hire, contracting or other roles. The Linux Professional Institute LPIC is an industry recognized certification.
The Linux Professional Institute believes in the need for a standardized, multi-national, and respected program to certify levels of individual expertise in Linux. This program must be able to satisfy the requirements of Linux professionals, as well as organizations, which would employ or contract such professionals. The goal is to design and deliver such a program from within the Linux community, using both volunteer and hired resources as necessary. The LPI resolve to undertake a well-considered, open, disciplined development process, leading directly to the establishment of a recognized and widely-endorsed Linux certification body.
Career Opportunities
The LPI Certification is appropriate for individuals pursuing a career in information technology with experience related to the Linux Operating System. Individuals may be required to perform the following tasks:
- Installing and configuring a workstation (including X) and connecting it to the LAN, or a stand-alone PC via modem to the Internet
- Performing easy maintenance tasks: help users, add users to a larger system, back up and restore, shut down and reboot
- Working at the UNIX command line
Duties & Responsibilities
- Working effectively on the Unix Command Line.
- Process text streams using text processing filters.
- Perform basic file management.
- Use Unix Streams, Pipes, and Redirects.
- Create, monitor, and kill Processes.
- Modify process execution priorities.
- Perform searches of text files making use of regular expressions.
- Create partitions and filesystems.
- Maintain the integrity of filesystems.
- Control filesystem mounting and unmounting.
- Use file permissions to control access to files.
- Manage file ownership.
- Create and change hard and symbolic links.
- Use and manage local system documentation.
- Find Linux documentation on the Internet.
- Provide user support.
- Manage users and group accounts and related system files.
- Tune the user environment and system environment variables.
- Configure and use system log files to meet administrative and security needs.
- Maintain an effective data backup strategy.
- Configure system hardware.
- Linux Installation and Package Management.
- Manage kernel modules, reconfigure, build and install a custom kernel and modules.
- Text editing, processing and printing.
- Customize and use the shell environment.
- Customize or write simple scripts.
- Perform security admin tasks.
