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Exam 101-500

The first of the two exams needed for LPIC-1. 60 questions, 90 minutes.

Topics

Topic Objectives Weight What it covers
101 System Architecture 3 8 Hardware, the boot process, runlevels and targets
102 Installation and Package Management 6 12 Disk layout, bootloaders, libraries, apt, rpm
103 GNU and Unix Commands 8 26 The shell, text processing, files, processes, regex, vi
104 Devices, Filesystems, FHS 6 14 Partitions, mounting, permissions, links, the FHS

Topic 103 alone is 26 of the 60 points. That is 43% of the exam in one topic. If your study time is short, that is where it belongs.