Linux Training

Module 1

Installation and Initialization

Introduction

Installation

Linux Architecture

Boot Process

Kernel

System Initialization

GRUB (Modify the system boot loader)

GUI

CLI (Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax, Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)

Create and edit text files, delete, copy, and move files and directories

Introduction to Bash Shell

Basic Commands

Editors

Man Pages

Boot systems into different targets manually & automatically

Module 2

Package Management and Process MonitoringSecuring single-user mode (su login)

Shutting down and rebooting the system

RPM Package Manager

Installing and Removing Software

Rpm Queries

Rpm Verification

About yum

Using yum

Searching packages/files

Configuring local Repositories

What processes are?

The properties of a process

Parent processes and child processes

Killing processes and sending signals to a process (kill, killall, xkill)

How to start processes and monitor them

Identify CPU/memory intensive processes

Adjust process priority

Start/stop/check the status of network services

Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically

Module 3

Import Files, Directories and Utilities

Control services and Daemons

Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot, /dev & /proc directories

System documentation under /usr/share/doc, Awk, Sed

Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text

Archive

Compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2, dump, restore, Locate and interpret log files

Module 4

System Services

Network Time Protocol

X Windows

SSH: Secure Shell (Access remote systems using ssh, SCP, Passwordless SSH, Configure key-based authentication for SSH)

Cron

Controlling Access to cron

System crontab Files

Daily Cron Jobs

Anacron Scheduler

Schedule tasks using at

Module 5

User Administration

Adding a New User Account

User Private Groups

Modifying / Deleting User Accounts

Group Administration

Password Aging Policies

Switching Accounts

Sudo access

Network Users

Authentication Configuration

SUID and SGID Executable

SGID Directories

The Sticky Bit

Default File Permissions

Changing file ownership (chown)

Changing file group ownership (chgrp)

Permissions on files

Permissions on directories

How permissions are applied

Changing permissions (chmod)

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Module 6

File system security and management

Device Recognition

Disk Partitioning

Managing Partitions

Making Filesystems (vfat, ext4, and xfs,)

Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems

Filesystems and types

Labels

Tune2fs

Mount Points and /etc/fstab

Mounting Filesystems with mount

Unmounting Filesystems

Handling Swap Files and Partitions

NFS server and NFS Client

NFS share for group collaboration

Mounting NFS Filesystems

Use Kerberos to control access to NFS network shares

Automounter

Module 7

Advanced File System Management

Special file types

Symbolic links (ln -s)

Inodes and directory entries, Hard links

Preserving links while copying and archiving

Configuring the Quota System

Setting Quotas for Users

Reporting Quota Status

What is Logical Volume Manager (LVM)?

Creating Logical Volumes

Resizing Logical Volumes

Network Interfaces

IPv4 Addresses

Dynamic IPv4 Configuration

Static IPv4 Configuration

Device Aliases

Routing Table

Default Gateway

Verify IP Connectivity

Defining the Local Host Name

Local Resolver

Remote Resolvers

Verify DNS Connectivity

Network Tools

NFS server and NFS Client

NFS share for group collaboration

Module 8

Server configurations

Configure BIND to function as a caching-only DNS server

Configure a caching-only name server to forward DNS queries

Troubleshoot DNS client issues

Configuring BIND options

Configuring directory location for zone files

Apache Overview

Apache Server Configuration

Virtual Hosts

Apache Access Configuration

Deploy a basic CGI application

Configure TLS security

Configure private directories

Analyze and store logs

Module 9

Shell scripting & Kerberos Authentication

Shell Scripting basics

Loops

Shell variables

Arrays

Writing scripts

Kerberos authentication

Module 10

Samba & Mail services, Virtualization

Configure SMB to provide network share to clients

Configure mail server to forward all emails to Central mail server

Introduction to KVM Virtualization

Virtual Machine installation

Configuring Virtual Machines

Install centos systems as virtual guests

Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot

Annie’s Quizzes, LAB, Q & A, Quick Recap

Module 11

Advanced security & Networking concepts

SELinux Overview

SELinux Tools

SELinux Contexts

SELinux Booleans

Use SELinux port labeling to allow services to use non-standard ports

Diagnose and address selinux policy violations

Configure firewall settings

N/W port security

Route IP traffic and create static routes

Boot level security (GRUB)

Security need for TCP wrappers

Configure aggregated links between two systems

Use firewalld and associated mechanisms such as rich rules

Zones and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT)

Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel runtime parameters

Linux Containers

Module 12

Database Configuration

Install MariaDB

Schema Creation and Writing Queries

Backup & restore operations

Configure a system as either an iSCSI target or initiator that persistently mounts an iSCSI target

Annie’s Quizzes, LAB, Q & A and Quick Recap

Module 13

IPv6 configuration, Kickstart configuration

Ipv6 configuration

Kickstart installation using NFS

HTTP services

Setting Grub Password

Setting root password for single user mode from Grub page

Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally Unique ID (UUID) or label, List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks

Module 14

Project – Prepare for the RHCE Exam

Include questions from all the topics covered so far

New troubleshooting scenarios

Writing Scripts for given use cases

Project for Certification, Q & A and Quick Recap