Linux basic concepts & installations

• Installation in Standalone Machine
• Installation through NFS
• Installation through FTP
• Installation through HTTP
• Installation through KICKSTART

File system management

• Creation of File Systems
• Understanding EXT2, EXT3& EXT4  File Systems
• Converting Ext2 to Ext3 file systems
• Reverting back from Ext3 to Ext2 files systems
•  Understanding fdisk,e2label, mount, umount commands
• Understanding fstab and mtab files
• Troubleshooting

User management

• Understanding different types of groups and creation of groups
• Creation of users in different groups
• Understanding Passwd, Shadow Files
•  Understanding passwd aging
• Creation of quotas for users, groups and file systems
• Understanding users security files
• The different commands for Monitoring the users
• Troubleshooting

Run Levels

• Understanding the different types of run-levels
• Understanding different types of shutdown commands
• Understanding run control scripts
• Understanding the different types

Network File System (NFS)

• Understanding NFS server and NFS clients
• Understanding daemons and files in NFS
• Configuring NFS server and different NFS clients
• Configuration of autofs, NFS security

File Transfer Protocol

• Understanding the features and advantages of FTP server
• Configuring FTP server and FTP clients
• Configuring FTP server for anonymous and real users with download and upload permissions
• Configuring FTP user access, FTP security
• Understanding FTP Basic  Commands
• Configuring of anonymous FTP Server

XINETD

• Understanding xinetd based and non xinetd based services
• Configuring xinetd based services
• Xinetd security

Tcp Wrapper

• Understanding TCP WRAPPER
• Configuring TCP WRAPPER for services

Domain Naming Service

• Understanding DNS service and different types of DNS servers
• Configuring DNS (master) DNS (Slave)
• Understanding & Configuring forward (DNS) and cache (DNS)of boot phases
• Understanding different types of files when the system is booting
• Troubleshooting

Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

• Creation of file systems and converting into LVM
• Creation of physical partitions
• Creation of volume groups
• Creation of logical partitions
• Extending the volume group
• Extending the logical partitions

Package Manager (RPM)

• Understanding the features and advantages of RPM
• Installation of RPM packages
• Upgradation of RPM
• Verification of RPM
• Querying , Troubleshooting

Backup and Recovery

• Understanding different types of file system backup
• Understanding different types of files backups
• Understanding different types of file system backups
• Understanding different types of dump levels
• Understanding monthly, weekly, daily backups
• Different types of backup strategies

Automation of Jobs

• At Jobs
• Cron Jobs

Network Information Service

• Understanding NIS and daemons at NIS (Server, Slave and Clients)
• Configuring NIS (master), NIS (slave) and NIS clients in heterogeneous environments
• Integrating NIS (master and slave) with NFS Server

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

• Understanding DHCP
• Configuring DHCP server for different DHCP clients

APACHE

• Understanding APACHE
• Configuring APACHE web server with virtual hosting
• Configuring APACHE web server with IP BASED, HOST BASED and PORT BASED
• Configuring member logins for APACHE web server

SAMBA

• Understanding the features and advantages of SAMBA server
• Configuring SAMBA for heterogeneous environment
• Sharing the resources between unix to unix using SAMBA
• Sharing the resources between windows to unix (vice-versa)
• SAMBA security

SQUID

• Understanding SQUID proxy
• Configuring SQUID proxy with ACL

Raid Levels

• Understanding RAID LEVELS
• Configuring different types of RAID LEVELS (0,1and 5)