RHEL7 LFCS Exam objectives

Note: On February 2, 2016, the Domains and Competencies for the LFCS Certification and Exam will be updated as listed at the Linux Foundation website.

In the meantime, the core domains and related competencies covered by the LFCS Exam are:

Command-line

• Editing text files on the command line
• Manipulating text files from the command line

Filesystem & storage

• Archiving and compressing files and directories
• Configuring swap partitions
• File attributes
• Finding files on the filesystem
• Formatting filesystems
• Mounting filesystems automatically at boot time
• Mounting networked filesystems
• Partitioning storage devices
• Troubleshooting filesystem issues

Local system administration

• Creating backups
• Creating local user groups
• Managing file permissions
• Managing fstab entries
• Managing local users accounts
• Managing the startup process and related services
• Managing user accounts
• Managing user account attributes
• Managing user processes
• Restoring backed up data
• Setting file permissions and ownership

Local security

• Accessing the root account
• Using sudo to manage access to the root account

Shell scripting

• Basic bash shell scripting

Software management

• Installing software packages

Source: Linux Foundation website.