Course Description

This is a complete course on LFCS certification which will cover all the latest domains of the certification as of 2020. Here are the domains that are covered:

 Essential Commands– 25%

    Log into local & remote graphical and text mode consoles

  •     Search for files
  •     Evaluate and compare the basic file system features and options
  •     Compare and manipulate file content
  •     Use input-output redirection
  •     Analyze text using basic regular expressions
  •     Archive, backup, compress, unpack, and uncompress files
  •     Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
  •     Create and manage hard and soft links
  •     List, set, and change standard file permissions
  •     Read, and use system documentation
  •     Manage access to the root account

Operation of Running Systems – 20%

  •     Boot, reboot, and shut down a system safely
  •     Boot or change system into different operating modes
  •     Install, configure and troubleshoot bootloaders
  •     Diagnose and manage processes
  •     Locate and analyze system log files
  •     Schedule tasks to run at a set date and time
  •     Verify completion of scheduled jobs
  •     Update software to provide required functionality and security
  •     Verify the integrity and availability of resources
  •     Verify the integrity and availability of key processes
  •     Change kernel runtime parameters, persistent and non-persistent
  •     Use scripting to automate system maintenance tasks
  •     Manage the startup process and services (In Services Configuration)
  •     List and identify SELinux/AppArmor file and process contexts
  •     Manage Software
  •     Identify the component of a Linux distribution that a file belongs to

User and Group Management – 10%

  •     Create, delete, and modify local user accounts
  •     Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
  •     Manage system-wide environment profiles
  •     Manage template user environment
  •     Configure user resource limits
  •     Manage user privileges
  •     Configure PAM

Networking – 12%

  •     Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically
  •     Configure network services to start automatically at boot
  •     Implement packet filtering
  •     Start, stop, and check the status of network services
  •     Statically route IP traffic
  •     Synchronize time using other network peers

Service Configuration – 20%

  •     Configure a caching DNS server
  •     Maintain a DNS zone
  •     Configure email aliases
  •     Configure SSH servers and clients
  •     Restrict access to the HTTP proxy server
  •     Configure an IMAP and IMAPS service
  •     Query and modify the behavior of system services at various operating modes
  •     Configure an HTTP server
  •     Configure HTTP server log files
  •     Configure a database server
  •     Restrict access to a web page
  •     Manage and configure containers
  •     Manage and configure Virtual Machines

Storage Management – 13%

  •     List, create, delete, and modify physical storage partitions
  •     Manage and configure LVM storage
  •     Create and configure encrypted storage
  •     Configure systems to mount file systems at or during boot
  •     Configure and manage swap space
  •     Create and manage RAID devices
  •     Configure systems to mount file systems on demand
  •     Create, manage and diagnose advanced file system permissions
  •     Setup user and group disk quotas for filesystems
  •     Create and configure file systems


Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Online Help

  • 3

    Essential Commands

    • Your first taste of Linux Command Line Interface (CLI)

    • Interacting with the Linux Shell

    • Changing hostname in Linux

    • Using find command in Linux

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Archiving and Compression tools in Linux

    • Linux File Permissions

    • Input Output redirects in Linux

    • Hard Links and Soft Links

    • The Linux Filesystem

    • Remote access

    • Regular expressions

    • Summary

  • 4

    Operation of running system

  • 5

    User and Group Management

    • User accounts

    • Group Management

    • System wide user environment

    • Settings limits for user running processes

    • The sudoers file

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Configuring PAM

    • Summary

  • 6

    Networking

    • IP Configuration on a running system

    • Network configuration in persistant mode

    • Network Time Protocol (NTP)

    • Start, Stop and Stutus commands

    • Statically routing IP traffic

    • Packet Filtering - part 1

    • Packet Filtering - part 2

    • Packet Filtering - part 3

    • Packet Filtering - part 4

    • Packet Filtering - part 5

    • Packet Filtering - part 6

    • Summary

    • Domain Summary

  • 7

    Service Configuration

  • 8

    Storage Management

    • storage-mgmt-1

    • swap partition

    • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

  • 9

    Package Management

    • Introduction

    • apt-get command

    • apt-get continued

    • YUM command

    • YUM continued

    • RPM command

  • 10

    Linux Virtualization (KVM)

    • Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Cost and benefits of virtualization

    • Virtualization Software installation

    • Virtual Machine installation

    • The virsh command

  • 11

    Automating tasks with cron, at and anacron

    • Introduction

    • Example of a cron job

    • CRON vs AT

    • User access

    • ANACRON

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