Linux Certified System Administrator Exam (EX200 – 2.5 Hours Required), there are two course modules as shown below.
- Linux System Administration I – SA1 First Part ==> This Course Module will teach you this module.
- Linux System Administration II – SA2 Second Part
Linux Certified Engineer Exam (EX-294 – 4 Hours Required)
- Linux System Administration III: Linux Automation with Ansible
Course Description:
Linux System Administration I – SA1
Introduction
- Linux System Administration 1
- About Linux Certification
- Links to download RHEL, CentOS, VMWare Workstation or Oracle Virtual Box
- Create Linux OS 8 Template using VMWare Workstation
- Installation of Linux OS 8 using VMWare Workstation
- Installation of Linux OS 8 using Oracle Virtual Box
- Connect from putty
Accessing the Command Line
- Overview of Bash Shell
- Virtual and Physical Consoles
- GNOME3 Desktop Environment
- Practice Lab Session on Accessing Command Line
Manage Files From the Command Line
- About Linux File System Hierarchy Concepts
- Identifying Linux File types
- Absolute and relative paths
- Command Line File Management
- Soft Link And Hard Link In Linux
- Pattern Matching
- Tilde Expansion
- Brace Expansion
- Variable Expansion
- Practice Lab Session
Getting Help, Creating and Editing Text Files in Linux
- Reading Manual Pages
- GNU Info
- Input Output Redirection in Linux
- Channels (File Descriptors)
- Pipelines in Linux
- tee command
- Editing Text files from the shell prompt
- Insert Mode
- Command Mode
- Extended Command Mode
- Visual Mode
User Administration
- Overview of User Administration
- Describing user and Group Concepts
- Primary Groups and Supplementary Groups
- Types of User Account
- Overview of Shadow file
- Managing users passwords
- Overview of Sudoers file
- Syntax of sudoers file
- Various Practice Lab Session
Controlling Access to Files
- Overview of Linux File System Permissions
- Attributes of a file
- Managing File System Permissions from Command Line
- Special permissions like Setuid, Setgid & Sticky bit etc
- Practice Lab Session
Managing Linux Processes
- Overview of Load Average in Linux
- top command
- Lab Session on Load Average
- Process Management
- Foreground & Background Process
- Various Process Stats
- Practice Lab Session
About Linux OS 8
- Overview of Linux OS 8
- Features of Linux OS 8
- Controlling Services and Daemons
- Introduction to Systemd, Systemd units
- Lab on systemctl command and journal
Configuring and Securing SSH Service
- Introduction about OpenSSH
- SSH Hot Keys
- SSH Key Based Authentication
- Customizing OpenSSH Service Configuration
- Practice Lab Session
Analyzing and Storing Logs
- Describing System log Architecture
- System Logging
- Logging Events to the System
- Collecting Information using journalctl
- Log file rotation
- Practice Lab Session
Archiving & transferring files
- Archive a file using tar command
- tar operations
- tar compression options
- Transferring files between systems securely
- Practice Lab Session
Managing Networking
- Describing Network Concepts
- TCP/IP Network Model
- Configuring network
- Lab on add a network interface
- Lab on modify an interface
- Lab on delete an interface
Accessing Linux File Systems
- Identifying File Systems
- Block Devices
- Lab Session on File System, mount, unmount etc
- Locate Command
- Find Command
- Practice Lab Session
Monitoring the system
- Overview of web console to monitor and analyze the server
- Cockpit tool
- Navigating the server using web console
- Lab Session
- Last Lecture