Linux
This series provides a general overview of the Linux operating system. Topics include partitioning and the boot process, basic system configuration, file management, and text stream processing. The series also covers user management, group management, and file permissions. Administrative tasks covered in this series include basic job scheduling utilities, as well as system backup strategies and strategies for system documentation and user support.
This series is for anyone who is interested in learning the fundamentals of the Linux operating system. This online course contains 9 lessons and should take approximately 27 hours to complete.
Partitions and the Boot Process
This course introduces users to the process of preparing a hard drive for use with the Linux operating system and explains the Linux boot process and teaches you how to identify the types of partitions that exist on a Linux system, explain the capabilities of the disk formatting utilities fips and fdisk, create primary partitions, swap partitions, and extended partitions with fdisk, describe the Linux boot process, identify and describe the contents of the /etc/inittab file, describe the function of LILO, and safely shut down a Linux system.
File Management
This course introduces users to the commands necessary to create, view, copy, move, and delete files on a Linux system and teaches you how to view man page documentation for Linux commands, navigate through the directory structure, list directory contents, view file contents, create, copy, move, and delete files and directories, search file content, and compress and uncompress files.
GNU and Linux Commands
This course introduces users to shells and shows users how to configure user and environment variables and how to manage processes on a Linux system and teaches you how to define a shell, explain how commands entered at the Linux command line are interpreted, customize user and environment variables, describe and view the history file, list running processes, modify process priority, and stop processes, and list and control jobs.
File System Maintenance
This course shows users how to mount and unmount file systems, verify file system integrity, perform disk maintenance tasks, manage disk quotas, create links to files, and locate files and teaches you how to mount and unmount file systems, identify and describe the files controlling filesystem configuration, verify filesystem integrity, perform disk maintenance, manage disk quotas, create hard and symbolic links to files, and locate important system files.
Users and Groups
This course shows users how to create and manage user accounts and how to manage groups and teaches you how to describe the purpose of the root account, create and delete user accounts, manage user passwords, and create, modify, and delete user groups.
Text Streams
This course shows users basic Linux commands for editing, filtering, and manipulating text and teaches you how to use the sed command to filter text, use the sort utility, cut and paste text, divide files using pr and split, and direct output using pipes, tee, and xargs.
Permissions
This course shows users how to manage user and group permissions for files and directories and teaches you how to change the owner and group associated with a file, define read, write, and execute permissions as applied to files and directories, change permissions using symbols, change permissions using numbers, and change the default permissions set for newly created files and directories.
Administration and Documentation
This course shows users how to schedule jobs, manage system logging, and document their own Linux systems and teaches you how to schedule and manage jobs using the at command, schedule jobs using the batch command, schedule and manage jobs using cron, configure and manage system logging, document a Linux system, and identify key documentation resources.
Backup and Restore
This course introduces users to the process of planning a backup strategy and shows them how to create and restore a backup and teaches you how to create a backup and restoration strategy based on business requirements, differentiate between full backups, partial backups, incremental backups, and copies, plan for backup storage and retention, create a backup using the tar utility, restore a backup that was created using the tar utility, and create and restore backups using cpio.