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Linux Foundation Certified Cloud Technician (LFCT)

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The Linux Foundation Certified Cloud Technician (LFCT)  exam demonstrates a candidate’s competence of using the command line to configure, manage, and troubleshoot Linux systems and containers in a platform- and distribution-agnostic way

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Who Is It For
The LFCT is for Linux Power Users, Software Developers, or existing certified candidates (CKA, etc.) who wish to demonstrate their ability to work efficiently in a Linux environment and be more successful at their job. Other candidates for LFCT include Cloud Administrators or LFCA-certified candidates who don’t wish to invest fully in becoming a Linux System Administrator (LFCS).
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About This Certification
A Linux Foundation Certified Cloud Technician (LFCT) can proficiently work with modern cloud infrastructure built on Linux, VMs, containers, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and orchestration tools.
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What It Demonstrates
An LFCT understands key concepts such as automation, pipelines, change management, validation, and troubleshooting.
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Domains & Competencies
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Essential Commands20%
Search for, compare, and manipulate files and file content
Use pipes and shell input/output redirections
Analyze file content using regular expressions
Create and work with archives
Create and manage hard and symbolic links
List, set, and change file access permissions
System Configuration15%
Install software packages
Create and maintain filesystems
Administer local user and group accounts
Configure and set system time and timezone
Configure networking and local hostname resolution
Troubleshooting20%
Identify and inspect processes and services
Health-check and repair network services
Identify and inspect storage issues
Troubleshoot containers
Virtualization and Containers20%
Create and manage local and cloud-hosted Virtual Machines
Use cloud-init to initialize cloud-hosted Virtual Machines
Create and manage application containers (Podman or Docker)
Understand the need for container orchestration
GitOps Basics25%
Use the Git version control system
Perform change/code review
Work on version control and collaboration platforms (GitHub, GitLab)
Understand models of change management
Run commands on multiple systems and capture output
Automate configuration management
Exam Details & Resources
This exam is an online, proctored, performance-based test that requires solving multiple issues from a command line running Linux.
Candidates have 2 hours to complete the tasks.
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this exam.
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Certification Valid for 3 Years
Includes 12 Month Exam Eligibility
One Retake
Performance-based and Multiple Choice Exam
Duration of Exam 120 minutes
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