Hey guys and welcome to the LPIC 2 course here on CBT Nuggets.
So before we begin actually digging into the details of what we actually have to learn
for this examination, let's just briefly take a word about the exam itself.
Now the first thing to state about this examination is that you will have heard of the LPIC 1
examination if you are interested in taking the LPIC 2 exam, no doubt.
That is because the LPIC 2 actually builds upon the LPIC 1 exam.
Pretty much what you learn in LPIC 1 is a more foundational level of information and
then you take that information and build upon it on LPIC 2.
Now the LPIC 2 examination ultimately attempts to validate the candidate's ability to administer
small to medium networks.
Now when you're getting to administer medium sized networks for example, you really do
have to be fairly comfortable with the Linux system.
Now one thing to note about the LPIC 2 examination is that any candidate seeking to take this
exam must actually have an LPIC 1 certification and an active certification.
So that means that your LPIC 1 certification cannot be expired.
I do believe the validity period for the LPIC 1 certification is five years.
So within five years of passing the LPIC 1 exam, you will be able to take the LPIC 2
exam.
Another thing to note is that just like with the LPIC 1 exam, the LPIC 2 certification
actually is comprised of two separate exams.
The first exam is known as the 201 exam and the second exam, this is the 202 exam.
Now as it transpires, what you can do is take these examinations completely separately
so you could just focus on the content of the 201 exam, pass that and then focus your
attention on the 202.
This is often the recommended way to undertake the LPIC 2 examination and just like with
the LPIC 1 examination, when you happen to pass your LPIC 2 exam, you will have this
certification valid for five years.
Unless of course you happen to gain an even higher level of certification.
Say for example an LPIC 3 exam.
Now one thing to really note about the LPIC 2 examination is that there is going to be
such a common theme with the contents of what you learned within LPIC 1.
Like I say, it does heavily build upon that knowledge.
That means that you can expect to see many of the same tools that you've used within
LPIC 1.
Again revisited in LPIC 2 and very often actually expanded upon, i.e. we dig a little bit deeper
into these tools.
But as a high level overview, some of the things that you should be expected to be able
to do when you go to sit the LPIC 2 certification exam is that you should be able to perform
fairly advanced system administration tasks.
And this would be things like relating to the actual Linux kernel as well as the system
start-up and its maintenance.
Now not only that, you should also be able to perform fairly advanced networking and
authentication as well as by the way, being able to handle and manage particular security
features such as dealing with firewalls or virtual private networks otherwise known as
VPNs.
Now with respect to talking about networking, some of the things that you can expect to
be able to have to know for this examination is being able to be comfortable with configuring
things like DHCP.
This is the dynamic host configuration protocol.
Now again, if you happen to be a little bit hazy on this from what you learned in the
LPIC 1 examination, do not worry, we'll get to cover the concepts once again and like
I say dive a little bit deeper.
But we'll get to see things like DHCP like I say as well as DNS, which is domain name
system, which we use to resolve our domain names to particular IP addresses, as well
as dealing with things such as secure shell for secure encrypted remote management of
servers, as well as dealing with things like web servers and file servers, using things
such as FTP, the file transfer protocol, as well as dealing with email delivery and things
such as SAMBA.
And as always with Linux, we also want to dip our toe into a little bit of automated
management, things like being able to use scripting to help us manage our systems.
So really what I'm saying is that the LPIC 2 examination really is a fun one.
There's a lot of things to dig into.
And if you have recently passed the LPIC 1 examination, so much of what we're going
to cover should be fresh in your head.
And that will make it much, much easier for you to take that fresh knowledge and build
upon it within this course in LPIC 2.
But like I say, if you happen to be a little bit rusty on that information, do not worry,
we will absolutely cover all the essentials and core fundamentals we are bringing along
with us from the LPIC 1 and make sure we are definitely up to speed in where we need to
be. So that really is our little introduction into the LPIC 2 certification exam.
How about now we actually dig in to some of the details of what we have to know.
The first subject I want to talk to you about is all about monitoring CPU and memory
utilization. And well, that is what we're going to be covering in the very next Nuggets.
I hope this has been informative for you and I'd like to thank you for viewing.