Linux Certification Courses

LINUX BASICS

Linux Usage Basics

• Logging In, Managing your password, Root User, Becoming a Super User

Understanding Shell

• Different Shells, Shell Usage, Where does shell fit in, Variables, profiles and More.
• Running Commands and Getting Help

Getting around File systems

• File System Hierarchy, Directories, Files, Absolute and Relative Paths, Finding Files and Directories

Understanding and Managing Users and groups

• Commands to list users and groups, passwd, shadow and group files, Naming Information Services.

Understanding File and Directories in detail

• Permissions, File Owner, Group, Special Permissions, Access/Modify and Create Time

Understanding File System Structure

• Listing file systems, understanding partitions, Understanding file system components inodes, superblock etc

Basic System Configuration

• vi Editor
• Standard IO and pipes

Understanding and Managing Processes

• Starting, Listing and Killing Processes, background and foreground processes, PID, PPID and More.

Understanding Networking and Network Applications

• IP Addresses, Network connectivity, Network applications -telnet, ftp, ssh, etc...

Understanding Package Basics

• rpm listing

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION (BASED ON REDHAT) Part-I

Boot Process -Starting the Linux Operating System

• BIOS, GRUB Boot Loader, Kernel Initialization, First process and /etc/inittab, Run Levels, Controlling Services

Linux File System Administration

• Partitioning Hard Disks, Managing FileSystems, FileSystem Management and Automounter, Access Control List

Package Management Red hat

• Package Manager, Understanding RPM and RPM commands, managing packages using Centralised Repos.

User Administration

• User Account Management, Basic User Environment, Shell Profiles, Disk Quotas, Groups, PAM, Network Authentication -NIS and LDAP

System Administration Tools

• Network Configuration, Cron and at, System Logs

Advanced Partitioning

• Software RAID, Logical Volume Management

Linux Installation

• Installation of Linux OS, Understanding the requirement.

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION (BASED ON REDHAT) Part-II

Apache and Squid

• Apache Web Server, Access Configuration, Virtual Hosts, Squid Web Proxy Server

Network File Sharing Services

• Configuring NFS Server, Client Side NFS, FTP, Samba Services

Domain Name Services

• Understanding DNS, BIND, Utilities

Naming Information Services

• Understanding NIS, NIS Server and Client

Other Networking Services

• Internet Services Daemon, SSH, DHCP, NTP

Securing Services

• tcp_wrappers, Firewalls.

Linux Kernel Limits

• Semaphores, shared memory, open files etc.