Concepts·LPIC-2
Two papers, and where the marks actually are
LPIC-2 is two exams of 60 questions each, and both are required. This guide measures the practice pool against LPI's published weights and finds they do not match: three quarters of the questions belong to the 201 paper, and the heaviest topic on the 202 paper is under four per cent of the pool. What that means for how you revise is the rest of the page.
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| Server Name | IP Address | OS | Roles | CPU | RAM | HDD |
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| LPIC2-A01 | 192.168.0.78 | Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Primary service host - BIND, Apache, Samba, Postfix. Topic 204 RAID runs on loop devices; this machine has no spare disk | 2 Core | 4 GB | 50 GB |
This guide includes
Use this when you are deciding what to revise, or when a mock score is telling you that you are ready. This matters because a proportional mock is drawn three quarters from the 201 paper, so a good score can be evidence about one exam and almost none about the other.
- reading the pool in numbers - two papers, 1,466 questions and two question types
- comparing pool share against LPI's mark weights, topic by topic, and finding the gaps
- finding the three topics the pool under-covers, one of which is the heaviest in the certification
- sampling a proportional 60-question mock and seeing which paper it actually tests
- converting a threshold into a number of questions, and pricing a topic you skip
Before you start
- what-lpic-2-asks
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Two papers, and the pool behind them
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Pool share against blueprint weight
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The three topics the pool under-covers
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What a 60-question mock takes from the pool
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What a threshold costs you in questions
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Putting the machine back