User intensity level
Who is the course for
The training course is intended for computer system administrators who are
beginning to work with or are switching over to the LINUX operating system. You
will learn the installation and common tasks associated with its system
administration and management
What we teach you
Trainees will learn to install CentOS and the common tasks associated with
this system administration (disk installation and administration, user account
administration, working with files, administration of installed packages, basic
CentOS configuration).
Required skills
A basic knowledge of PC architecture and knowledge of OS operation and
administration on the PC platform.
Teaching methods
Expert lecturing with practical demonstrations, practising on computers.
Teaching materials
Books released by expert publishing houses.
Course outline
Introduction
- History of UNIX and LINUX operating systems (BSD, System V)
- Philosophy of Unix-type operating systems, use, properties
- Standardization of POSIX, Single Unix Specification - SUS, Linux Standard
Base - LSB
- Linux development, GNU project and Free Software Foundation, GPL
license
- Alternatives to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris and other
systems
- Source of information and documentation
- Summary of Linux distribution and properties (RedHat, Debian, SUSE,
Ubuntu, Mandriva, and others)
CentOS
- RedHat, Fedora, RHEL operating systems
- CentOS community system
- Distribution development cycle, CentOS support
- Installation options and types
- Installation medium review
Step-by-step CentOS installation
- Starting installation
- Hard disk partitioning, basic information about disk equipment in Linux,
software RAID, LVM, file systems used (ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS,
etc.)
- Selecting installed packages
- Other installation procedure options and choices
Basic Administration and Management
- Directory structure overview, FHS
- Text and graphics mode, system login, basic system overview and
review
- Midnight Commander, the basic tool for working with system files
- User account administration
- Files, ownership, access rights
- File systems, creating, checking and correcting, working with file
systems
- Package administration, RPM Package Manager, YUM tool, repositories,
updating, etc.