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Best Practices·Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

What a performance exam rewards

LFCS gives you a live system and a list of tasks, and grades the state the machine ends in. Nobody reads your commands. That changes what is worth practising: not memorising one blessed route, but finishing, making it survive a reboot, and checking it as the grader will - which is not the same as checking it as yourself.

Readiness Guide 38 of 38 Intermediate

Captured on RHEL 10 because the Ubuntu hosts were offline; every command here behaves identically on both families, which is why this guide is the one that could be written while they were down.

The RHEL host does the work and everything it creates is removed at the end of the transcript. Ubuntu appears in the last step, because the service names this page checks are among the few things the two families spell differently.
Server NameIP AddressOSRolesCPURAMHDD
LFCS-A01192.168.0.70Ubuntu 26.04 LTSPrimary host - most guides run only here2 Core4 GB50 GB
LFCS-C01192.168.0.72AlmaLinux 10.2The other distribution - dnf, firewalld and NetworkManager2 Core4 GB50 GB

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Use this before sitting the exam. This matters because LFCS grades the state of the machine rather than your route to it - and a task is not finished until it survives a reboot.

Before you start

  1. Three routes, one end state

  2. So check the end state, not your memory of it

  3. And verifying as the wrong user looks like a failure

  4. A task is not finished until it survives a reboot

  5. The same rule, for everything else you change

  6. The same check, on a host that spells the units differently

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