Introduce yourself to Linux, and advance your proficiency, through a
spectrum of self-paced tutorials.
With these tutorials, you can build fundamental skills on Linux systems
administration at your level of expertise:
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
certifies Linux® system administrators at three levels:
- Certification level 1 (Junior level)
- Certification level 2 (Advanced level)
- Certification level 3 (Senior level)
To attain certification level 1, you must pass LPIC-1 exams
101 and 102.
To attain certification level 2, you
must pass LPIC-2 exams 201 and 202.
To attain
certification level 3, you must pass LPIC-3 exam 301
("core") and have an active certification level 2. You may also need to pass
additional specialty exams at the senior level.
Before you take the exams, review these developerWorks tutorials, designed
as study guides for each topic in the five exams. These tutorials serve as a
comprehensive self-study guide so you can take the exams with confidence.
Get started with the tutorials on these pages, and we'll add the rest as we
complete them. Good luck in preparing for certification!
See all
LPI exam-prep tutorials
on developerWorks, to date.
We're happy to hear our self-study material is helpful, whether your aim is
attaining certification or simply polishing your job skills. Here's what our readers are saying about the
LPIC-1 series:
"This series by Ian Shields has become one of the major focal points of my
exam preparation. Thanks for the opportunity."
"I support Domino on Linux and this is very useful information to me. I am
self-taught with Linux, so learning through a self-study resource like this
is completely natural."
"Overall, excellent information presented. A great deal of valuable information
that was very useful to me that was not presented in the tldp.org HOWTOs - e.g.
more emphasis on the theory and reasons for doing it a certain way. Thank
you."
"Good, concise intro to basic linux sysadmin skills."
"Thanks a bunch for writing this stuff. It'll help me get certified, for
sure."
"I like how this guy does tutorials. They aren't dry and thus I am able to
concentrate on them."
"I can't believe this material can be delivered any easier.... I found it easy to
understand and it gives good examples. A+"
The LPIC-1 tutorials (for exams 101 and 102) are authored by Ian Shields.
The LPIC-2 tutorials (for exams 201 and 202) are authored by David Mertz and
Brad Huntting, individually or together. The LPIC-3 tutorials (for exam 301)
are authored by Sean Walberg.
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Ian Shields, Ph.D. works on a multitude of Linux projects for the
developerWorks Linux zone. He is a Senior Programmer at IBM at the
Research Triangle Park, NC. He joined IBM in Canberra, Australia, as a
Systems Engineer in 1973, and has since worked on communications systems
and pervasive computing in Montreal, Canada, and RTP, NC. He has several
patents and has published several papers. His undergraduate degree is in
pure mathematics and philosophy from the Australian National University.
He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina State
University. Browse his published papers and other interests at his
personal Web page. You can
contact Ian at ishields@us.ibm.com.
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David Mertz, Ph.D. is Turing complete, but probably would not pass
the Turing Test. For details on his life, see his
personal Web page. He's been writing
the developerWorks columns Charming Python and XML Matters
since 2000. Check out his book
Text Processing in Python. You
can contact David at mertz@gnosis.cx.
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Brad Huntting has been doing UNIX systems administration and
network engineering for about 14 years at several companies. He is
currently working on a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of
Colorado in Boulder, and pays the bills by doing UNIX support for the
Computer Science department. You can contact Brad at
huntting@glarp.com.
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Sean Walberg has been working with Linux and UNIX since 1994 in
academic, corporate, and Internet service provider environments. He has
written extensively about systems administration over the past several
years. You can contact Sean at
sean@ertw.com.
The
LPI certification program
is designed to certify the competency of system administration using the
Linux operating system and its associated tools. It is designed to be
distribution neutral, following the Linux Standard Base and other relevant
standards and conventions. The Linux Professional Institute does not endorse
any third-party exam preparation material or techniques in particular. For
details, please contact info@lpi.org.
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