Detailed Syllabus

Exam 101

System Architecture

• Design, plan and configure hardware settings
• Linux Boot the system
• Introduction to Run Levels, Change runlevels and shutdown or reboot system

Linux Installation and Package Management

• Plan and Design hard disk layout
• Install a boot manager in Linux
• Manage shared libraries in Linux
• Use Debian package management
• Use RPM and YUM package management

GNU and Unix Commands

• Linux command line
• Process text streams using filters
• Manage and Perform basic file management
• Use streams, pipes and redirects
• Create, monitor and kill processes in Linux
• Modify process execution priorities in Linux

Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

• Plan, Manage and Create partitions and filesystems
• Manage and Maintain the integrity of filesystems
• Command Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
• Linux disk and Manage disk quotas
• Manage file permissions and ownership in Linux
• Manage, Create and change hard and symbolic links
• Find system files and place files in the correct location

Exam 102

Shells, Scripting and Data Management

• Understand the Shell Environment and Customize and use the shell environment
• Write basic Script, Customize or write simple scripts
• SQL data management

User Interfaces and Desktops

• Manage and Install and configure X11
• Setup a display manager in User Interface
• Configure Layer 3 path control
• Verify that a Layer 3 path control was implemented
• Document results of a Layer 3 path control implementation and verification plan
• Implement basic teleworker and branch services
• Describe broadband technologies
• Configure basic broadband connections
• Describe basic VPN technologies
• Configure GRE
• Describe branch access technologies

Administrative Tasks in Linux

• Manage and maintain user and group accounts and related system files
• Linux Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs
• Linux Localisation and internationalisation

Essential System Services

• Maintain system time in Linux
• Linux System logging
• Linux Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics
• Manage printers and printing in Lunix

Networking Fundamentals

Fundamentals of internet protocols

• TCP/IP network fundamentals.
• Demonstrate an understanding network masks.
• Knowledge of the differences between private and public "dotted quad" IP-Addresses.
• Setting a default route.
• Knowledge about common TCP and UDP ports (20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 139, 143, 161, 443, 465, 993, 995).
• Knowledge about the differences and major features of UDP, TCP and ICMP.
• Knowledge of the major differences between IPv4 and IPV6.
• ftp
• telnet
• host
• ping
• dig
• traceroute
• tracepath

Basic network configuration

• view, change and verify configuration settings on client hosts.
• Manually and automatically configure network interfaces
• Basic TCP/IP host configuration.
• /etc/hostname
• /etc/resolv.conf
• ifconfig
• ifdown
• route
• Ping

Basic network troubleshooting

• troubleshoot networking issues on client hosts.

• Manually and automatically configure network interfaces and routing tables to include adding, starting, stopping, restarting, deleting or reconfiguring network interfaces.
• Change, view, or configure the routing table and correct an improperly set default route manually.
• Debug problems associated with the network configuration.
• Debug problems associated with the network configuration.
• ifconfig
• ifup
• ifdown
• route
• host
• hostname
• dig
• netstat
• ping
• traceroute

Configure client side DNS

• Configure DNS on a client host.
• Demonstrate the use of DNS on the local system.
• Modify the order in which name resolution is done.
• /etc/hosts
• etc/resolv.conf
• /etc/nsswitch.conf

Security

Perform security administration tasks

• review system configuration to ensure host security in accordance with local security policies.
• Audit a system to find files with the suid/sgid bit set.
• Set or change user passwords and password aging information.
• Being able to use nmap and netstat to discover open ports on a system.
• Set up limits on user logins, processes and memory usage.
• Basic sudo configuration and usage.
• find
• passwd
• lsof
• nmap
• chage
• netstat
• sudo
• /etc/sudoers
• su
• usermod
• ulimit

Setup host security

• set up a basic level of host security.
• Awareness of shadow passwords and how they work.
• Turn off network services not in use.
• Understand the role of TCP wrappers.
• /etc/nologin
• /etc/passwd
• /etc/shadow
• /etc/xinetd.d/*
• /etc/xinetd.conf
• /etc/inetd.d/*
• /etc/inetd.conf
• /etc/inittab
• /etc/init.d/*
• /etc/hosts.allow
• /etc/hosts.deny

Securing data with encryption

• Puplic key techniques to secure data and communication.
• Perform basic OpenSSH 2 client configuration and usage.
• Understand the role of OpenSSH
• Perform basic GnuPG configuration and usage.
• Understand SSH port tunnels (including X11 tunnels).
• ssh
• ssh-keygen
• ssh-agent
• ssh-add
• ~/.ssh/id_rsa
• id_rsa.pub
• ~/.ssh/id_dsa
• id_dsa.pub
• /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
• ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
• /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
• ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
• ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• /etc/ssh_known_hosts
• gpg
• ~/.gnupg/*