Pre-requisites-
Basic understanding of operating systems.

Course content Day 1

•  Fundamentals of UNIX
•  Unix Operating System
•  Unix Commands
•  Files & Directories
•  Unix Utilities
•  Process
•  Introduction to Linux
•  History of Linux
•  Overview File Systems
•  Basic Commands
•  Installation of Linux
•  Different levels of Boot Process
•  Installation Steps
•  Pre installation process
•  Post installation procedures

Day 2

•  Disk Management
•  Introduction about the basic architecture of a disk
•  Volume Management using LVM’s
•  File System Management
•  Introduction about the file system
•  Hierarchies of the directories
•  Installation of RPM’s
•  Partitions, File system and checking free space
•  Mounting CDs, DVDs
•  Creating, Inspecting & Extracting Files from File Archives
•  Compressing Utilities, Compressing Archives
•   Performing User Administration
•  Introduction of user administration
•  Essentials components of a User accounts
•  Managing User accounts (Creation, Modifying & Deletion)
•  Group Management
•  Configuring a co-administrator - the sudo utility
•  Exploring suid/sgid/sticky bits
•  The Extended Attributes
•  File System ACL 's
•  Performing System Security
•  Users & Groups, Permission Types
•  Monitoring System Access
•  Switching users on a System
•  Controlling System Access

Day 3

• Process Management
•  Process Control (kill, terminate etc...)
•  Process Scheduling using crontab & at
• Troubleshooting tips
•  Networking features of Linux
•  Configuring a NIC
•  Mii-tool
•  Setting Gateway
•  IP Forwarding

Day 4

Networking Essentials

• The OSI Model
• Network Adapters
• Network Cabling
• Topology and Physical Layout
• Bridges, Brouters and Routers
• Remote Connectivity
• Troubleshooting hardware Components

Storage Area Networks

•  Basics for Storage Area Networks
•  RAID Concepts
•  Different levels of RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, & 1 0)
•  Storage Architectures (DAS, NAS & SAN)
•  Disk Technologies
•  About SCSI

Day 5

•  Shell Programming
•  Introduction to Shells
•  Getting started with Shell Programming
•  Shells (bash) structured Language Constructs
•  awk Revisited
•  Examples of Shell Scripts