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Foundation - Linux+ Certification |
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| | | Course DC937 - 5 Days | | Overview |
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| | | 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
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