Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites for this class other than basic computer skills.
Length: 5 days
Recommendation Statement:
There are no prerequisites for this class other than basic computer skills.
Course Description:
This course teaches the introductory topics required to administer a Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux 7 system. Topics in this course also apply to the CentOS and Debian distributions. Students will learn essential Linux commands, shell features, and how to install, configure and administer a Linux enterprise system.
This course prepares the student for the CompTIA Linux+® Certification LX0-103 and the LPIC-1® certification exams.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Introduction to the Linux OS
- The command line vs. the desktop environments
- Understand Bash shell features using the command line interface
- Use the Linux commands from the command line interface (CLI)
- Process text streams and use filters
- Perform file management
- Use streams, pipes and redirects
- System Architecture
- System bootup and shutdown
- Change run levels, boot targets
- Create, manage, monitor and kill processes
- Manage process priorities
- Search text files using regular expressions
- Edit files using the command line editors (vi, vim and nano)
- Determine and configure fundamental system hardware
- Install and Update the OS
- Administer users and groups
- Linux installation and package management
- Install a boot manager
- Manage share libraries
- Use Debian, RPM and YUM package management
- Understand Devices, file systems and filesystem hierarchy standards
- Mount and unmount file systems
- Manage disk quotas
- Manage file permissions and ownership
- Understand symbolic and hard links
- Find files using Linux command line utilities
- Configure and Administer the network and firewall
- Administer system log files
- How to setup your own virtual lab environment using VirtualBox
