Dear all,

This thread is supposed to capture the discussion of the objectives draft
for exam 201-500. The current draft for the new version is available in the
LPI wiki:

  https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V5.0#Objectives:_Exam_201

Please note that this document will be edited as the discussion goes.
Please use the history and diff features of the wiki to keep track of
changes.

The major change proposals can be summarized like this:

- Topic 200, capacity planning, is merged into the new objective 055.3,
Resource Management, and now focuses on resource management using systemd
features, with less weight that the topic used to have before

- Topic 201, Linux Kernel, and topic 202, System Startup have been merged
and aspects of custom kernels have been removed. We focus on kernel
updates, modules and DKMS, as well as systemd management. No other init
systems are covered beyond awareness level

- Topic 203 (old)/202 (new), File systems, has been reduced to remove
overlap with LPIC-1 and add systemd specific aspects

- Topic 204 (old)/203 (new), Advanced storage management, has received more
weight to go into more details of mdraid and LVM. There is also a new
objective on ZFS.

- Topic 205 (old)/204 (new), Advanced Networking Configuration, has been
structured to make the distinction of runtime (iproute2) and persistent
(NetworkManager and systemd-networkd) configuration as well as
troubleshooting. net-utils are gone.

- Topic 206 (old)/205 (new) was updated and extended to include resource
management, along with some aspects of the former topic 200.

Topic 206 (new) covers configuration management using Ansible. This topic
is very similar to the Ansible topic of the DevOps Tools Engineer, which
will no longer cover Ansible in the future. Ansible seems to have the
largest adoption nowadays, along with the most convenient learning curve of
the major tools in this field. This topic mostly fills weights that became
vacant due to the reduction of the resource management and kernel
compilation objectives.

There are, of course, numerous smaller changes, fixes and improvements.

Looking forward to your thoughts,

Fabian

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Fabian Thorns <[email protected]> GPG: F1426B12
Director of Product Development, Linux Professional Institute
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