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Course Length - 5 Days
 
Course Description

This five-day hands-on course prepares students for the Linux+ CompTIA certification exam.

 
  
You Will Learn How To

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

  • Set up a Linux system from scratch
  • Update and install new software packages
  • Configure and install printing services
  • Create hard and symbolic links
  • Find files, applications and utilities by date, name, owner, type or other criteria
  • Create and update a secure database to locate files
  • Configure Linux services such as FTP, SSH, and the like
  • Monitor system performance and identify performance bottlenecks
  • Kill, suspend and alter process priority
  • Schedule and reschedule tasks
  • Add, modify, and delete users and groups
  • Configure user shell environments
  • Back up and restore files
  • Describe Linux processes
  • Identify Linux special files and devices
  • Manage passwords
  • Protect files and directories from unauthorized access
  • Start up and shutdown any Linux computer
 
  
Course Benefits

Students will increase their productivity by learning the tools and techniques needed to efficiently and effectively administer a Linux system.

 
  
Course Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take either our Introduction To UNIX course or our Introduction To Linux course, or have the equivalent knowledge (about six to twelve months of prior Linux experience).

 
  

Who Should Attend?

This course is valuable for all computer professionals involved with Linux and want to obtain a Linux+ certification, and those who want to increase their knowledge of Linux.

 
  
Hands-On Exercises:

Throughout this course, students perform a series of extensive hands-on exercises, including: 

  • Installing Linux
  • Discerning the Linux flavor
  • Adding a new manual page
  • Setting file permissions
  • Creating hard and symbolic links
  • Finding files with find and slocate
  • Managing file and group ownership
  • Setting and changing permission modes with chmod, and umask
  • Working with SUID and SGID
  • Obtaining process status and changing status priorities
  • Scheduling, and rescheduling processes with at, cron, nice, and renice
  • Monitoring performance with free, vmstat, ps and top
  • Discovering available devices on the Linux system
  • Mounting and unmounting file systems
  • Booting and rebooting the system
  • Understanding the boot process
  • Understanding run levels and startup scripts
  • Customizing system log files
  • Add new users and groups
  • Managing passwords
  • Making, editing, and deleting a crontab entry
  • Using dump, cpio, and tar to back up files
  • Enabling disk quotas
  
Course Outline:  

Getting Started

 
  • Brief history of Linux
  • Logging in and using the system
  • Accessing and searching the on-line reference manual
  • Entering shell commands
  • Starting and stopping Linux
 
User and Group Accounts 
  • Creating user and group accounts
  • Setting passwords and defaults
  • Managing new users and groups
  • Password management
  • Customizing the user environment
 
The Linux File System 
  • Navigate through the Linux filesystem
  • Filesystem types
  • Removable media
  • Maintaining the filesystem
 
Working With Files 
  • Locating files
  • Linking files
  • The vi editor
  • Redirection and pipes
  • Planning a backup strategy
  • Backing up files
  • Restoring files
 
Ownership and Permissions 
  • Modifying file and directory permissions
  • Modifying default permission setting
  • Set user ID and set group ID
 
Printing 
  • Printer configuration
  • Printing files
  • Managing print jobs
  • Managing print queues
  • Remote printing
  • The init Daemon
 
Package Management 
  • Package solutions
  • Verify and repair packages
  • Update and refresh packages
 
The Linux Environment 
  • Using shell variables
  • Create and edit shell scripts
  • The cron utility
  • The /etc/cron.d directory
  • The cron utility
  • Making your own crontab entry
  • The at utility
  • Controlling access
  • Configuring applications
 
Managing Processes 
  • Monitoring disk usage
  • Using the process table to manage processes
  • The pstree utility
  • The top utility
  • The vmstat utility
  • The free utility
  • Delayed and detached processes
  • System logs
 
Client Services 
  • Managing services
  • Configuring NFS
  • Configuring NIS
  • Configuring Samba
 
Basic Internet Services 
  • Configuring Apache Web sever
  • Configuring eletronic mail
  • Configuring FTP
  • Configuring SSH
 
Network Services 
  • Configuring TCP/IP
  • Configuring DHCP
  • Configuring DNS
  • Configuring SNMP
 
Security 
  • System Security
  • Authentication
  • Encryption
  • Firewalls
  • Login levels
  • Password policies
  • Imprementing security auditing
 
Hardware 
  • Components and resources
  • Power management
  • Configuring removable hardware
  • Configuring storage devices
  • Troubleshooting hardware
 
Linux Installation  
  • Installation considerationgs
  • Disk partitioning
  • Boot loaders
  • Installing the operating system
  • Post-installation tasks