LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) Cert Prep (2024)

Course details

The LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) course is designed for IT Professionals who are seeking the LPIC-2 certification. The course covers skills required of any intermediate-to-advanced systems administrator who is tasked with supporting Linux in a production environment. Topics covered include: configuring Linux to act as a web server, name server, email server, file server, or VPN server. This course, accompanied by the 201-450 course, covers all the topics needed to earn your LPIC-2 certification.

Concepts

Introduction

About the course

Capacity Planning

Installing the BIND DNS server
Creating forward lookup zones
Creating reverse lookup zones
Troubleshooting DNS
Supporting mail servers with DNS
Securing BIND with DNSSEC
Implementing Transaction Signatures (TSIG)

Web Services

Installing the Apache web server
Configuring virtual servers in Apache
Redirecting URLs with Apache
Enabling SSL encryption with Apache
Installing the Squid proxy server
Restricting server access with Squid
Enabling user authentication in Squid
Implementing NGINX as a web server
Implementing NGINX as a reverse proxy

File Sharing

Configuring a Samba client
Integrating Samba with Microsoft Active Directory
Configuring shared folders in Samba
Building a file server with Samba
Configuring a NFS client
Building a file server with NFS
Controlling access to NFS shares

Network Client Management

Building a DHCP server
Configuring multiple subnets in DHCP
Building an authentication server with OpenLDAP
Managing objects in OpenLDAP
Configuring OpenLDAP with TLS
Connecting a client to OpenLDAP

Email Services

Building an SMTP server with Postfix
Securing Postfix with TLS
Supporting IMAP and POP3 with Dovecot
Using Sieve to filter email

System Security

Building a router with iptables
Configuring port forwarding with iptables
Using iptables as a firewall
Building an FTP server with vsftpd
Building an FTP server with Pure-FTPd
Restricting access to SSH
Enabling certificate authentication in SSH
Blocking brute force attacks with Fail2ban
Scanning for open ports with Nmap
Building a VPN server with OpenVPN
Configuring an OpenVPN client