Linux+ Part 4 (Replaced with courses NGE16260-NGE16264)

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Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This course teaches learners about administering services and processes and about system maintenance. The Administration section teaches about configuration files, run levels, processes, shell commands, and security. The System Maintenance section teaches about managing partitions, scheduling jobs, core dumps, and backing up and restoring data.

Audience

The audience includes Linux Professionals and System Administrators with 6 months of experience with the Linux operating system. They provide basic installation, operation, and troubleshooting services and basic system administration tasks.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites are: - 6 months experience with the Linux operating system - Core hardware examination from A+ revised for Linux, or equivalent experience - Basic computer skills

Objective

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• identify functions of system configuration files.
• identify functions of common configuration files.
• identify functions of run levels.
• match file system hierarchy directories with their descriptions.
• match fdisk commands with their functions.
• match mkfs parameters used to create new file systems with their functions.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Administering Services and Processes

• Identify functions of system configuration files.
• Identify functions of common configuration files.
• Identify functions of run levels.
• Identify functions of commands used to change runlevels.
• Identify features of startup scripts.
• Identify features of inetd.conf and xinetd.conf.
• Identify features of custom startup files.
• Identify considerations for examining processes by using ps.
• Match top command options with their functions.
• Identify functions of commands used to kill processes.
• Identify features of nice and renice commands used to set process priority.
• Identify features of the find command.
• Identify features of vi.
• Identify features of basic shell scripting.
• Identify guidelines for performing security tasks.
• Identify considerations for log file analysis.
• Identify considerations for physically securing a computer.
• Match methods of accessing user documentation with their descriptions.
• Identify considerations for creating system documentation.
• Identify considerations for writing system documentation.
• Identify features of the cut and paste commands.
• Identify functions of the grep commands.

Unit 2: System Maintenance

• Match file system hierarchy directories with their descriptions.
• Match fdisk commands with their functions.
• Match mkfs parameters used to create new file systems with their functions.
• Identify functions of fsck parameters used to check file systems.
• Match partitionsmount command options and parameters with their functions.
• Identify command options used to monitor disk space.
• Identify features of cron.
• Identify features and functions of the crontab command.
• Identify features and functions of the at command.
• Identify features of a core dump.
• Identify considerations for managing core dumps.
• Identify features of backup strategies.
• Match types of backup media with their descriptions.
• Identify features of backup software.
• Identify features of tar for creating a backup.
• Identify methods used to recover from a disaster by using a backup.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

CDROM