Linux Administration

The course Linux Administration is a hands-on introduction to the administration of the Linux operating system. Aimed at relative beginners (in Linux), this course provides a foundation, for students wishing to become full-time Linux system administrators, by introducing key command line concepts and other enterprise-level tools. These concepts are further developed in the follow-on courses.

The course is hands-on and you will be provided with full course notes, virtual machines (Debian and CentOS) and instructions how to install and use them during the training.
A link to the video recoding of the lecturer’s screen will be sent to you after each session.

Outline

Introduction to GNU/Linux distributions
Getting help (man, whatis, apropos)
Basic commands and key parameters (pwd, cd, cp, mv, rm)
Managing file access for users and groups (chmod)
Creating soft and hard links (ln)
Advanced shell techniques (shortcuts, terminals, history)
Redirecting standard input/output streams
Pipes between commands
Executing multiple commands
Executing commands in background
Filtering commands’ output with regular expressions (grep)
Package management tools (apt, yum)
Installing software from source packages

Audience

This course is for students on the path to becoming a Linux system administrators.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this course; however, previous operating system administration experience will be very beneficial.

Duration and Training Formats

The overall duration of the course is 10 hours

Training Formats

At your site
Live on-line instructor-led
Public classes

Course Language

English