Linux Syllabus 2024

 Linux Training 2024

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Module 1 – Understanding Linux Concepts 

 What is Linux? 

 Everyday use of Linux 

 Unix vs. Linux

Module 2 – Download, Install and Configure

  What is Oracle Virtual Box? 

 Downloading and Installing Oracle Virtual Box 

 Creating virtual machine 

 Linux Distributions 

 Different way to install Linux 

 Downloading and Installing Linux (CentOS) 

 Redhat Linux installation (Optional) 

 Linux Desktop (GUI) 

 Virtual Machine Management 

 Linux vs. Windows 

 Who Uses Linux? 

Module 3 – System Access and File System 

 Accessing Linux system 

 Download and install Putty 

 New Network Commands (ifconfig and ip) 

 Connect Linux VM via Putty 

 Important Things to Remember in Linux 

 Introduction to File System 

 File system structure description 

 File system navigation commands 

 File System Paths 

 Directory listing overview 

 Creating Files and Directories 

 Linux File Types 

 Finding Files and Directories (find, locate) 

 Difference between find and locate command 

 Changing Password 

 Wildcard (*, $, ^) 

 Soft and Hard Links (ln) 

 How to open image file through GUI

Module 4 – Linux Fundamentals 

 Commands Syntax 

 File Permissions (chmod) 

 File Ownership (chown, chgrp) 

 Getting Help (man, whatis etc.) 

 TAB completion and up arrow keys 

 Adding text to file 

 Standard output to a file (tee command) 

 Pipes ( | ) 

 File Maintenance Commands 

 File Display Commands 

 Filters / Text Processing Commands (cut, sort, grep, awk, uniq, wc) 

 Compare Files (diff, cmp) 

 Compress and un-compress files/directories (tar, gzip, gunzip) 

 Truncate file size (truncate) 

 Combining and Splitting Files (cat and split) 

 Linux vs. Windows Commands

Module 5 – Linux System Administration 

 Linux File Editors (vi text editor) 

 “sed” command 

 User account management 

 Switch users and Sudo access 

 Monitor users 

 Talking to users (users, wall, write) 

 Linux Directory Service - Account Authentication 

 System utility commands (date, uptime, hostname, which, cal, bc etc.) 

 Processes and schedules (systemctl, ps, top, kill, crontab and at) 

 System Monitoring Commands (top, df, dmesg, iostat 1, netstat, free etc.) 

 OS Maintenance Commands (shutdown, reboot, halt, init etc.) 

 System logs monitor (/var/log) 

 Changing System Hostname (hostnamectl) 

 Finding System Information (uname, cat /etc/redhat-release, cat /etc/*rel*, dmidecode) 

 System Architecture (arch) 

 Terminal control keys 

 Terminal Commands (clear, exit, script) 

 Recover root Password (single user mode) 

 SOS Report 

 Environment variables

Module 6 – Shell Scripting 

 Linux Kernel 

 What is a Shell? 

 Types of Shells 

 Shell scripting 

 Basic Shell scripts 

 If-then scripts 

 For loop scripts 

 Do-while scripts 

 Case statement scripts 

 Aliases 

 Command history

Module 7 – Networking, Servers and System Updates

  Enabling internet in Linux VM 

 Network Components 

 Network files and commands (ping, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, networking config files) 

 NIC Information (ethtool) 

 NIC or port bonding 

 Download files with URLs (wget) 

 curl and ping commands 

 File transfer commands (ftp, scp etc.) 

 System updates and repositories (rpm and yum) 

 System Upgrade/Patch Management 

 Create Local Repository from CD/DVD 

 Advance Package Management 

 Rollback Patches and Updates 

 SSH and Telnet 

 DNS 

 Hostname and IP Lookup (nslookup and dig) 

 NTP 

 chronyd 

 Sendmail 

 Apache Web Server (http) 

 Central Logger (rsyslogd) 

 Securing Linux Machine (OS Hardening) 

 OpenLDAP Installation 

 Tracing Network Traffic (traceroute)

Module 8 – Disk Management and Run Levels 

 System run levels 

 Linux Boot Process 

 Message of the Day 

 Customize Message of the Day 

 Storage

  Disk partition (df, fdisk, etc.) 

 Add Disk and Create Standard Partition 

 Logical Volume Management (LVM) 

 LVM Configuration during Installation 

 Add Disk and Create LVM Partition 

 Extend disk using LVM 

 Adding swap space 

 RAID 

 File System Check (fsck and xfs_repair) 

 System Backup (dd Command) 

 Network File System (NFS) 

 Difference Between CentOS/Redhat 5, 6 and 7