Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites for this class other than basic computer skills
Length: 5 days (10 hours/day)
Recommendation Statement:
This is a fast pace Linux Administration class and it’s recommended that students have some basic Linux experience before taking this course.
Course Description:
This course teaches intro through advanced level topics for administering a Linux Enterprise system. Topics in this course apply to Red Hat® 7 as well as Oracle ® Linux 7, 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 & LX0-104 and the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 ® 101 & 102 certification exams.
This course covers the following topics:
LX0-103 & LPIC-1 101 Topics
- Introduction to the Linux OS
- The command line vs. the desktop environments
- Understand Bash shell features and the CLI
- Use the Linux commands from the 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
- Determine and configure fundamental system hardware
- Install and Update the OS
- 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
LX0-104 & LPIC-1 102 Topics
- Customize and use the bash shell environment
- Customize and write simple shell scripts
- SQL Data management
- Install and configure X11
- Setup a display manager
- Understand accessibility settings
- Manage users and groups, understand related system configuration files
- Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
- Localization and internationalization
- Maintain the system date and time
- System logging
- Mail transfer agent (MTA) basics
- Manage printers and printing
- Understand internet protocols
- Network configuration and troubleshooting
- Configure client-side DNS
- Perform security administration tasks
- Setup host security
- Secure data with encryption
