Exam 201: Objective Changes as of August 1, 2012
Topic 201: Linux Kernel
201.1 Kernel Components
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Candidates should be able to utilise kernel components that are necessary to specific hardware, hardware drivers, system resources and requirements. This objective includes implementing different types of kernel images, identifying stable and development kernels and patches, as well as using kernel modules. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Kernel 2.6.x documentation
Kernel 3.x documentation
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/usr/src/linux
/usr/src/linux/Documentation
zImage
bzImage
201.2 Compiling a kernel
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Candidates should be able to properly configure a kernel to include or disable specific features of the Linux kernel as necessary. This objective includes compiling and recompiling the Linux kernel as needed, updating and noting changes in a new kernel, creating an initrd image and installing new kernels. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
/usr/src/linux/
GRUB configuration files
Kernel 2.6.x make targets
Kernel 3.x make targets
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
mkinitrd
mkinitramfs
make
make targets (config, xconfig, menuconfig, oldconfig, mrproper, zImage, bzImage, modules, modules_install)
201.5 Manage/Query kernel and kernel modules at runtime
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Candidates should be able to manage and/or query a 2.6.x or 3.x kernel and its loadable modules. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Use command-line utilities to get information about the currently running kernel and kernel modules.
Manually load and unload kernel modules.
Determine when modules can be unloaded.
Determine what parameters a module accepts.
Configure the system to load modules by names other than their file name.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms
and utilities:
/lib/modules/kernel-version/modules.dep
module configuration files in /etc
/proc/sys/kernel/
depmod
insmod
lsmod
rmmod
modinfo
modprobe
uname
Topic 203: Filesystem and Devices
203.2 Maintaining a Linux filesystem
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Candidates should be able to properly maintain a Linux filesystem using system utilities. This objective includes manipulating standard filesystems. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Tools and utilities to manipulate and ext2, ext3 and ext4
Tools and utilities to manipulate reiserfs V3
Tools and utilities to manipulate xfs
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
fsck (fsck.*)
badblocks
mkfs (mkfs.*)
dumpe2fs, xfsdump, xfsrestore
debugfs, debugreiserfs
tune2fs, reiserfstune
mkswap
xfs_info, xfs_check and xfs_repair
203.3 Creating and configuring filesystem options
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Candidates should be able to configure automount filesystems using AutoFS. This objective includes configuring automount for network and device filesystems. Also included is creating filesystems for devices such as CD-ROMs and a basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystems. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
autofs configuration files
UDF and ISO9660 tools and utilities
awareness of CD-ROM filesystems (UDF, ISO9660, HFS)
awareness of CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet, Rock Ridge, El Torito)
basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystems
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/etc/auto.master
/etc/auto.[dir]
mkisofs
dd
mke2fs
Topic 205: Networking Configuration
205.1 Basic networking configuration
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Candidates should be able to configure a network device to be able to connect to a local, wired or wireless, and a wide-area network. This objective includes being able to communicate between various subnets within a single network including both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. |
Key Knowledge Areas:
Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces
Configuring wireless networks
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/sbin/route
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ip
/usr/sbin/arp
/sbin/iwconfig
/sbin/iwlist