Author Name

This is to ensure that authors get credit for their work. Please include your level of LPI certification after your name. If there are other appropriate certifications, please include these as well. For example, someone writing a chapter on networking might include the fact that they have a Cisco certification in addition to the LPI certification like this: "Joe Smith, LPIC-1, CCNA".

A Brief Look At The Objectives

Each chapter should start with a high-level look at the LPI testing objectives. Within this "Brief Look" section there should be hyperlinks to sources of additional information. For example, one might say, "The networking section of the exam requires familiarity requires familiarity with IP addresses and subnet masks." The phrases 'IP addresses' and 'subnet masks' should be hyperlinked to additional information. Wikipedia is the prefered source of external information, but it is also helpful to link to man pages for specific commands.

Detailed Discussion

Each one of the LPI exam objectives should receive a section for more detailed coverage of the objective and how it relates to Linux and the LPI exam. A good way to do this is by using hands-on exercises and examples from real-world Linux systems whenever possible. For example, when discussing a configuration file in /etc, give a sample of what a typical file might look like and encourage the reader to cat the file on their own system.

Objectives may be grouped together when it is logical to do so.

Practice Questions

At the end of each chapter there should be a section dedicated to practice questions that cover the exam objectives. These should not be verbatim questions from the exam! The idea is to let readers test their mastery of the knowledge in each chapter and get a feel for the exam format, not to help them cheat. Anyone intentionally submitting verbatim questions will be reported to the LPI and risks losing their certification.