Linux LPI 101 exam preparation. (3 ECTS, 84 hours)

This years course will enable you to prepare for the LPI 101 exam. The course will start in week 6 (from Feb. 8) and end in week 13 (from March 29). We will have a weekly session in which we will address one subject. The recommended strategy is to sit next to a PC (running Linux) and try the commands that are introduced in the book and sessions. The sessions alone are not enough to pass the exam. THe LPI exam tends to ask of knowledge on the different commandline tools and commands.

Since April 2009, the LPI exam uses new objectives, which makes the market for up to date books a bit small. I found a (German) Galileo Computing title and succesfully used an O'Reilly book in the past for the old objectives.

The recommended literature is:

• LPIC-1 Sicher zur erfolgreichen Linux-Zertifizierung, Lernziele der Version 3.0
  Harald Maaßen. Galileo Computing Verlag Bonn. ISBN 978-3-8362-1451-3.
  This is the book I currently recommend for German reading students.
• LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell.
  S. Pritchard, B. Gomes Pessanha,N. Langfeldt, J. Stanger and J. Dean: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA 954727, 2006. (ISBN 978-0-596-00528-3)
  This book fits the old objectives and contains most of the exam 101 and 102 objectives as well as the objectives for the 201 and 202 exams. The version 3.0 exam objectives are reordered with respect to this book. It is useable but not quite up to date.

Updated exam objectives

The conditions for the exams can be be found on the conditions page.

Exercise resources:
Text by Edgar Allan Poe for regex excersize.
slides and handout pipes, filters and regex
All files of lecture 2 on sed. For you convenience here are the sheets too.