Linux+ Certification

Course Description

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

Course Objectives

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 effective administer a Linux system.

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.

Prerequisite

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).

Method Of Instruction

Lecture, demonstrations, questions and answers, and numerous hands-on exercises.

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

Chapter 1: 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

Chapter 2: User and Group Accounts

• Creating user and group accounts
• Setting passwords and defaults
• Managing new users and groups
• Password management
• Customizing the user environment

Chapter 3: The Linux File System

• Navigate through the Linux filesystem
• Filesystem types
• Removable media
• Maintaining the filesystem

Chapter 4: Working With Files

• Locating files
• Linking files
• The vi editor
• Redirection and pipes
• Planning a backup strategy
• Backing up files
• Restoring files

Chapter 5: Ownership and Permissions

• Modifying file and directory permissions
• Modifying default permission setting
• Set user ID and set group ID

Chapter 6: Printing

• Printer configuration
• Printing files
• Managing print jobs
• Managing print queues
• Remote printing
• The init Daemon

Chapter 7: Package Management

• Package solutions
• Verify and repair packages
• Update and refresh packages

Chapter 8: 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

Chapter 9: 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

Chapter 10: Client Services

• Managing services
• Configuring NFS
• Configuring NIS
• Configuring Samba

Chapter 11: Basic Internet Services

• Configuring Apache Web sever
• Configuring eletronic mail
• Configuring FTP
• Configuring SSH

Chapter 12: Network Services

• Configuring TCP/IP
• Configuring DHCP
• Configuring DNS
• Configuring SNMP

Chapter 13: Security

• System Security
• Authentication
• Encryption
• Firewalls
• Login levels
• Password policies
• Imprementing security auditing

Chapter 14: Hardware

• Components and resources
• Power management
• Configuring removable hardware
• Configuring storage devices
• Troubleshooting hardware

Chapter 15: Linux Installation

• Installation considerationgs
• Disk partitioning
• Boot loaders
• Installing the operating system
• Post-installation tasks