LPIC-1 101-500 study plan

Configure and verify BIOS/UEFI settings and describe the boot sequence from firmware to init

Identify and change runlevels/targets with systemctl and SysV init tools on a practice system

Explain the purpose of the kernel modules and enable or blacklist one at boot

Map the hardware inventory of your machine using lspci, lsusb, and lsblk output

Set up and query syslog/journald logging, including persistent journals

Schedule tasks with cron, at, and systemd timers and verify they fire

Change the system locale and timezone and confirm with locale and timedatectl

Interpret dmesg and journalctl output to diagnose one real (or simulated) boot-time failure

Partition a scratch disk with both MBR and GPT layouts using fdisk, gdisk, and parted

Create, mount, verify, and tune ext4, XFS, and VFAT filesystems and compare their options

Write and test /etc/fstab entries including UUID-based mounts and a swapfile

Explain and demonstrate the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard by locating where config, logs, binaries, and variable data live

Set and inspect standard and special permission bits including setuid, setgid, and sticky

Manage disk usage and quotas with du, df, and a simulated quota workflow

Create and tune filesystem attributes with tune2fs, xfs_admin, and chattr

Identify device names and udev-related information for block devices

Process text streams with grep, sed, awk, cut, sort, uniq, and tr in pipelines

Redirect input/output/error and build multi-stage pipelines with tee and xargs

Navigate and manipulate the filesystem with cp, mv, ln, tar, and gzip/bzip2/xz

Locate files and commands using find, locate, which, and type with at least five different search criteria

Manage processes: inspect with ps and top, signal with kill and pkill, and reprioritize with nice and renice

Edit files efficiently in vi, including search, replace, and multi-file workflows

Combine commands with shell job control and background execution

Explain the difference between hard and soft links and demonstrate when each breaks

Install, upgrade, remove, and query packages with dpkg and apt, including dependency repair

Build a simple .deb package and inspect package metadata and file lists

Configure a repository source list and explain how package signing is verified

Compare Debian and RPM package management concepts at a conceptual level

Re-run every lab from weeks 1-7 from memory in a fresh virtual machine

Time yourself on mixed-domain practice questions and log every miss by domain

Close the three weakest objectives identified by your error log

Recite the exact command syntax for the ten commands you got wrong most often