Linux 101: Linux+/LPIC-1/CLA Preparation

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description This five-day course provides the student with the knowledge to use Linux both as an end user and as a system administrator. This course is also designed to prepare students for the Linux+ LX0-101 certification exam.*

Designed for individuals who are new to Linux, OCS-linux-101 lays the foundation necessary to become successful working in a Linux environment. Students are provided with hands on instruction in both fundamental and advanced topics.

In addition to helping students prepare for the Linux+ exam, students gain experience that will assist them in handling real world Linux administration tasks

Prerequisites
Prior to attending this class, students should have the following experience:

Basic computer knowledge
Basic keyboarding skills

Unit 01: The Filesystem

Filesystem structure
Accessing the filesystem
Modify the filesystem

Unit 02: Handling Files

Copying & moving files
Viewing files
Removing files

Unit 03: File Manipulation

Filter commands
Finding files
Comparing files

Unit 04: Metacharacters

Wildcards
Redirection of input & output

Unit 05: File Security

Understanding file permissions
Setting file permissions
Default permissions

Unit 06: The vim Editor

vim functionality
Input & movement commands
advanced vim commands

Unit 07: Jobs and Processes

Listing jobs & processes
Signals
Stopping and pausing jobs & processes

Unit 08: Software Administration

Connection to a repository
Installing software
Removing software
Creating a repository
rpm & yum
Debian package management

Unit 09: The Boot Process

The boot sequence
Run levels
Controlling services

Unit 10: Administering Partitions

Partition structure & fdisk
mkfs & mke2fs
Filesystems Labels

Unit 11: Mounting Filesystems

Manually mounting & unmounting filesystems
Mounting automatically at boot
Creating swap filesystems
Sharing & mounting network filesystems

Unit 12: Administering the Filesystem

Fixing filesystems
Displaying filesystem attributes
Modifying filesystem attributes

Unit 13: Disk Quotas

Filesystem support
Creating disk quotas
Hard and soft limits

,b>Unit 14: Hardware Management

Compatibility
Device nodes
Using udev rules

Unit 15 The proc File System

Viewing system information
Kernel features
sysctl

Unit 16 Shell Features

Variables
Aliases
Quoting

Unit 17 Shared Libraries

Configuring shared libraries

RELATED COURSES

Technical Training
Red Hat

Red Hatï¿½ Ceph Storage for OpenStack Technologies

This course is part of the emerging technology series of courses from Red Hat. In this course, you will learn how to integrate Red Hat Ceph Storage into your own OpenStack environment.

Technical Training
Red Hat

Building Advanced Red Hatï¿½ Enterprise Applications

This course is part of JBoss developer courses. The course is based on a case study. It’s an intensive, hands-on course in which you’ll have the opportunity to integrate front- and back-office applications.

Technical Training
Red Hat

Red Hatï¿½ Enterprise Performance Tuning

In this course, you will learn about system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments, open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system and networking performance, and tuning configurations for specific application loads.

This course can help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442). This version of the course does not include the exam.

Technical Training
Red Hat

Red Hatï¿½ Linux Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting is both an art and a science. It is both an instinct and a technique. In this lab-intensive course, system administrators will learn techniques for troubleshooting a Linux system and how to use the troubleshooting tools available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Through hands-on labs, you will learn or improve your troubleshooting skills and gain additional experience by debugging live, virtualized systems.