I agree wholeheartedly with Ross. I'm the author of the online LPI
Roadmap (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lpic1-map/) on IBM
developerWorks. I don't cover every option in my tutorials and many
folks have reported success when using them. I do tend to cover what *I*
interpret as the most important things to know. I don't have any inside
LPI information that isn't available to anyone else, so it's totally my
judgement. I tend to also cover some background that isn't required,
along with some things that I think you should know even if they are not
yet in the requirements.
Ian Shields.
On 3/20/2018 6:01 PM, ross brunson wrote:
Hi,
As the author of at least one of those books you got from the
bookstore, I think i can help with this question. I also spent about
6 years as one of LPI’s staff teaching and explaining exactly this
sort of thing, so I think they’ll forgive me stepping in here.
The main thing is to look at the command, see what it does, try to
imagine the command being used and then pick 3 of it’s main options
and study what those do.
For example, the shutdown command, from the 101.3 objectives.
1. Read the man page for the shutdown command, note it’s main
options, such as “-h halt the system at a given time”, “-k kick
everybody off” and “-r reboot the system at a given time.”
The authors of the books will often give you examples, such as the
ones I and Sean give on page 42 of the CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Guide we
wrote. It lists h, p, r and k as the options and those are the most
common ones.
Read the man page “EXAMPLES” section of each man page for a file or
command if it’s present. You can search very easily for it, usually
at the bottom of the man page by pressing the following keys to search
for the section, which is i ALL CAPS.
/^EXAMPLES
(That is a forward slash for search, the caret symbol which is a
shifted 6 on US keyboards and the word EXAMPLES in upper case, if the
man page has an EXAMPLES section, you’ll magically be transported
there. Read those, along with the explanations higher up in the man
page.)
2. Imagine you are a systems admin, responsible for a system or set
of systems. What does a given command do for a busy sysadmin and what
options would you think might be useful to you in managing your
systems? Learn and practice those, by hand, don’t just read about them.
3. Search the web for articles like “What the HECK does the
“shutdown” command do? Read those articles, try the things discussed
on a VM or whatever instance of Linux you have running.
4. Having read the books, looked at the man pages for each command,
go on youtube and search for videos of labs and demos of those commands.
Sound like lot of work, it is. Becoming a competent sysadmin requires
months of studying and trying everything, but I ( and many others)
will all agree, this is a great set of skills to have, you’re
immediately useful to so many organizations and companies when you
have valid and provable skills such as those tested by the LPIC-1 exams.
Good luck, and maybe go join Stack Overflow, LinuxQuestions or one of
the large Linux user communities, they all have great gobs of
discussions these sorts of things.
Ross
—
Ross Brunson
Author of Pearson Press CompTIA Linux+/LPIC-1 Cert Guide
Available here: http://amzn.to/2DH6MCH
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:30 AM, ediomora...@hotmail.com
<mailto:ediomora...@hotmail.com> <ediomora...@hotmail.com
<mailto:ediomora...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello lpi-discuss team, i have a question regarding the LPIC-1 101
exam. According to the objectives, i have to learn about
common options for the list of specified commands, but what
options ? There are too many, and i'm confused as i have no idea
what to learn. I own several books from the LPI Store, and each
one is different when referring to options. I think that the LPI
Team itself will be a great help for me. I'm counting on you
guys. Thanks in advance.
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