Linux Administration
Foundation course
Linux administration from the first shell prompt to a running server - the command line, users and permissions, storage, services, networking and shell scripts - on Linux servers of your own in the lab. You leave able to build a Linux server, maintain it and troubleshoot it, with the material of the LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ exams covered.
- Registration
- Waiting list
- Duration
- 36 academic hours
- Format
- In personHybrid
- Level
- Foundation
- Certification
- Preparation for LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006)
- Language
- Hebrew, course materials in English
- For organisations
- By arrangement - at the academy or hybrid
What you will be able to do
- Build a Linux server from installation to a running service - partitions, LVM and file systems, packages and updates
- Manage users, groups and permissions, and set up sudo and key-based SSH access
- Run services under systemd, schedule jobs with cron and timers, and read logs with journalctl
- Configure networking, DNS and firewalld, and troubleshoot connectivity from the server outward
- Write Bash scripts that automate repeating work - backups, checks and reports
- Harden and monitor a server - SELinux, security updates, resource monitoring and logs
The syllabus
8 modules over 36 academic hours. Open a module for its topics.
- Distributions, the kernel and the boot sequence - BIOS and UEFI, GRUB, systemd targets
- Installing a server, disk layout and first login
- Hardware, devices and kernel modules
- Targets, shutdown and reboot, and what runs at boot
- The shell, paths and the filesystem hierarchy
- File permissions, ownership and links
- Text processing with grep, sed, awk and sort; pipes and redirection
- Editing with vi
- Finding files and managing processes
- Package management with dnf and apt, repositories and Flatpak
- Partitions, LVM, file systems (ext4, XFS), mounting and fstab
- Swap, quotas and disk usage
- Archiving and backup with tar and rsync
- Users, groups, passwords and sudo
- SSH: keys, hardening sshd, tunnels
- firewalld and zones
- SELinux modes, contexts and booleans
- systemd units - enabling, starting and troubleshooting services
- cron, at and systemd timers
- journald, rsyslog and log rotation
- Time synchronisation with chrony
- IP configuration with NetworkManager and nmcli - static and DHCP
- Name resolution: DNS, /etc/hosts and the hostname
- Troubleshooting with ip, ss, ping, traceroute and tcpdump
- Common services: a web server, NFS and Samba shares
- Variables, conditions, loops and functions
- Exit codes, input and arguments
- Scripts for backup, checks and reports
- Scheduling scripts and logging their output
- Security updates, minimal services and file integrity
- Monitoring resources with top, vmstat, iostat and sar
- An introduction to containers with Podman
- Practice exercises in the RHCSA exam's hands-on format
Who it is for
Who takes this course, and what you need before the first session.
Support and IT staff moving from Windows into Linux server administration
Network and security staff who meet Linux in appliances, servers and monitoring tools
Newcomers who want an orderly foundation before DevOps, cloud or cyber
Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with computers and networks; no previous Linux experience is needed.
The exam and the certification
The course follows the published objectives of LPIC-1 (exams 101-500 and 102-500, objectives version 5.0) and CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006). LPIC-1 is two exams of 90 minutes and 60 questions each, and the certification is valid for 5 years; Linux+ is up to 90 questions in 90 minutes, in English, on CompTIA's three-year renewal cycle. Both are delivered by Pearson VUE at a test centre, and LPIC-1 also online through OnVUE. For a hands-on certification, Red Hat's RHCSA exam (EX200) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is the next step, and the course's lab exercises follow its format. The academy issues its own certificate of completion at the end of the course.
The certification
Preparation for LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006)
CompTIA Linux+
XK0-006: up to 90 questions including performance-based items, 90 minutes, passing score 720 on a 100-900 scale; three-year renewal cycle. Through Pearson VUE.
LPIC-1
Two exams, 101-500 and 102-500, each 90 minutes with 60 questions; no prerequisites; valid five years. At a test centre or online with OnVUE.
Red Hat RHCSA
EX200: a hands-on practical exam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat certifications are current for three years.
The labs
Every participant works on Linux servers of their own in the academy's virtual lab - Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu machines installed from scratch, disks laid out with LVM, users, SSH, firewalld and SELinux configured, services run under systemd, and network faults the instructors plant on purpose to be found. The closing sessions are lab exercises in the RHCSA exam's format - a task, a clock, and a server to bring to the required state.
Two ways to take the course
The waiting list for the next open cohort, or an intensive format for a team - which a team can have on its own dates, whatever the open cohorts are doing.
The next cohort
The next cohort is in planning - 36 academic hours at the academy in Shoham. A hybrid option is available, with part of the sessions remote. Join the waiting list and you hear the dates first; the list is also what decides which course opens next.
For your team
An intensive format, by arrangement - at the academy in Shoham, or hybrid with part of the sessions remote. Small groups, and a syllabus adjusted to your equipment and environment.
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