Linux Essentials

Coming soon. Course preview.

Find your footing in Linux, open source and the command line.

010-160 Version 1.6

Before you begin

No prior certificate required. Pass this exam to earn Linux Essentials; it is optional preparation for LPIC-1.

Linux and open source
- Distributions and industry uses
- Popular free software
- Licensing and communities
- Desktop and terminal basics
Find your way around
- Shell syntax and variables
- Help and documentation
- Paths and directory navigation
- File and directory operations
Put the shell to work
- Archives and compression
- Search, filters and redirection
- Small Bash scripts
Understand the system
- Operating-system choices
- Hardware and devices
- Processes, logs and configuration
- Basic network inspection
Users and permissions
- Account types and privilege
- User and group creation
- Ownership and access bits
- Special files and directories

Lessons and labs are not available yet. This preview describes planned coverage.