Re: [lpi-examdev] Objectives LPIC-2 Exam 201 Version 5.0 Discussion

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:40:16 -0700 

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 3:20 AM Ingo Wichmann via lpi-examdev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Fabian,
>
>
> 203.1 Configuring RAID
> partition type 0xFD
> -> is this still relevant with UEFI/GPT everywhere?
>
>
> 203.3 Basic ZFS Operations
> I love having ZFS in for my trainings. It's a nice topic and an example
> for DKMS.
> But I question it's relevance for LPIC2. It's a topic that most
> candidates will only learn for the exam.
>
>
> 204.1 Runtime Networking Configuration
> * iwconfig
> * iwlist
> wireless-tools did not see a release since 2007
> and no commits since 2016:
> https://github.com/HewlettPackard/wireless-tools/commits/master
> -> I recommend to remove it
>
>
> "Determine what network configuration framework a system use"
> -> please native English speakers have a look at this sentence
>
>
> 204.3 Network Troubleshooting
> /etc/HOSTNAME
> is gone from SuSE, no need to keep it here
>
>
> 205.1 Make and Install Programs from Source
> "Know where sources are stored by default."
> /usr/src/
> -> is this still true and relevant?
>
> Please add zstd
> Is bzip2 still relevant?
>
>
> 206.3 Ansible Templates and Variables
> typo:
> "Candidates should be able to understand variables and facts and Ansible
> and write simple Jinja2 templates."
> ->
> "Candidates should be able to understand variables and facts and write
> simple Jinja2 templates."
>
>
> 212.1 Configuring a Router
> nft is missing
>
>
> 212.3 Advanced Secure Shell (SSH)
> I really like to teach SSH CA. But does the number of deployments found
> in the wild justify it for LPIC2?
> I'd go for keeping SSH CA out and take SOCKS dynamic application-level
> port forwarding in
>
>
> 212.4 Security Tasks
> Awareness of OpenVAS and Snort
> -> isn't Suricata today much more relevant than Snort?
>
I see more snort and the ease of finding snort rules online, and other
tools have snort built in
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ingo
>
>
> Am 23.10.23 um 19:43 schrieb Fabian Thorns via lpi-examdev:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > This thread is supposed to capture the discussion of the objectives
> > draft for exam 201-500. The current draft for the new version is
> > available in the LPI wiki:
> >
> > https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V5.0#Objectives:_Exam_201
> > <https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V5.0#Objectives:_Exam_201>
> >
> > Please note that this document will be edited as the discussion goes.
> > Please use the history and diff features of the wiki to keep track of
> > changes.
> >
> > The major change proposals can be summarized like this:
> >
> > - Topic 200, capacity planning, is merged into the new objective 055.3,
> > Resource Management, and now focuses on resource management using
> > systemd features, with less weight that the topic used to have before
> >
> > - Topic 201, Linux Kernel, and topic 202, System Startup have been
> > merged and aspects of custom kernels have been removed. We focus on
> > kernel updates, modules and DKMS, as well as systemd management. No
> > other init systems are covered beyond awareness level
> >
> > - Topic 203 (old)/202 (new), File systems, has been reduced to remove
> > overlap with LPIC-1 and add systemd specific aspects
> >
> > - Topic 204 (old)/203 (new), Advanced storage management, has received
> > more weight to go into more details of mdraid and LVM. There is also a
> > new objective on ZFS.
> >
> > - Topic 205 (old)/204 (new), Advanced Networking Configuration, has been
> > structured to make the distinction of runtime (iproute2) and persistent
> > (NetworkManager and systemd-networkd) configuration as well as
> > troubleshooting. net-utils are gone.
> >
> > - Topic 206 (old)/205 (new) was updated and extended to include resource
> > management, along with some aspects of the former topic 200.
> >
> > Topic 206 (new) covers configuration management using Ansible. This
> > topic is very similar to the Ansible topic of the DevOps Tools Engineer,
> > which will no longer cover Ansible in the future. Ansible seems to have
> > the largest adoption nowadays, along with the most convenient learning
> > curve of the major tools in this field. This topic mostly fills weights
> > that became vacant due to the reduction of the resource management and
> > kernel compilation objectives.
> >
> > There are, of course, numerous smaller changes, fixes and improvements.
> >
> > Looking forward to your thoughts,
> >
> > Fabian
> >
> > --
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> > Director of Product Development, Linux Professional Institute
> >
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