Linux Curriculum

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UNIX/LINUX Command Line Essentials: This is the first in a series of courses focusing on the Linux Operating System. It is vendor neutral with an emphasis on the latest version of RedHat Linux. A comprehensive study of Linux is undertaken. Topics include Linux evolution, graphical environments, terminal interfaces and bash, file system, file manipulation commands, data manipulation commands, editors, software tools, networking tools, and system administration tools. The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises that reinforce the lectures.
Linux for Users: This course focuses on the basics of the Linux Operating System. It is vendor neutral with an emphasis on the latest version of RedHat's Fedora Linux. Topics include Linux evolution, graphical environments, terminal interfaces, the bash shell, Linux file system, file manipulation commands, and process management. The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises that reinforce the lectures.
Linux for Programmers With Shell Scripting: This course is an introduction to writing Linux shell scripts. Topics include the use of pipes and filters, shell variables, start-up scripts, looping and decision constructs, and script exit status. Hands-on exercises include writing scripts to schedule recurring tasks, automate system maintenance, create archives and backups, connect to remote machines, and send and retrieve files across the network. Students are also introduced to software tools available under Linux.

Red Hat System Administration I (RH124): Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) is designed for IT professionals who are new to Linux and require core Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. Focused on administration tasks that will be encountered in the workplace, this course will actively engage students in task-focused activities, lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skill transfer and retention. In addition, GUI-based tools will be featured to build on the students' existing technical knowledge, while key command line concepts will be introduced to provide a foundation for students planning to become full-time Linux system administrators. By the end of the five-day course, students will be able to perform installation, establish network connectivity, manage physical storage, and perform basic security administration.
Red Hat System Administration II (RH134): Red Hat System Administration II without the RHCSA Exam (RH134) is designed for IT professionals working to become full-time enterprise Linux system administrators. The course is a followup to System Administration I and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching methodology. Students will be actively engaged in task-focused activities, lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skills transfer and retention. Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in System Administration I, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kits" of administration skills. By the end of this five-day course, students will be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, package management.
Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam (RH135): Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam (RH135) is designed for IT professionals working to become full-time enterprise Linux system administrators. The course is a followup to System Administration I and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching methodology. Students will be actively engaged in task-focused activities, lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skills transfer and retention. Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in System Administration I, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kits" of administration skills. By the end of this five-day course, students will be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, package management. Students who attend Red Hat System Administration I & II will be fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam.
RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH199): The RHCSA Fast Track course without the RHCSA exam (RH199) is designed for experienced Linux System Administrators who want to harden their technical skill sets and become accredited with the RHCSA certification. Using a best-of-breed contemporary teaching approach, students will learn to properly manage a Linux workstation and server, including installation and configuration of local components and services as well as connections to existing network services. To successfully navigate this course, students must already have solid Linux command line experience to perform tasks at an accelerated pace. In addition, they should possess the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and yum, and be familiar with accessing man pages for help.
RHCSA Rapid Track Course with Exam (RH200): The RHCSA Fast Track course with exam (RH200) is designed for experienced Linux System Administrators who want to harden their technical skill sets and become accredited with the RHCSA certification. Using a best-of-breed contemporary teaching approach, students will learn to properly manage a Linux workstation and server, including installation and configuration of local components and services as well as connections to existing network services. To successfully navigate this course, students must already have solid Linux command line experience to perform tasks at an accelerated pace. In addition, they should possess the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and yum, and be familiar with accessing man pages for help. At the completion of the course, students will be adequately prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam.
Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting (RH242): Troubleshooting is both an art and a science. An instinct and a technique. In Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting (RH242), system administrators will learn techniques for troubleshooting a Linux system and how to use the troubleshooting tools available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course is a four-day, heavily lab-oriented class designed to help the student learn or improve troubleshooting skills. Students will gain troubleshooting experience by debugging live, virtualized systems.
Red Hat System Administration III (RH254): Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) is designed for experienced Linux administrators who require networking and security administration skills. With a heavy emphasis on practical, hands-on labs, this course is tightly aligned with experienced Linux administrators' job tasks and the skills required for advancement. Focus is placed on enhancing the students' automation skills to securely configure, deploy and manage network services including DNS, Apache, SMTP, and network file sharing. In addition, this course emphasizes security, including monitoring, packet filtering, access controls, and SELinux. At the completion of this course, students already familiar with the RHCT/RHCSA administration skills will have exposure to all competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams.
Red Hat System Administration III with RHCSA & RHCE Exam (RH255): Red Hat System Administration III with RHCE Exam (RH255) is designed for experienced Linux administrators who require networking and security administration skills. With a heavy emphasis on practical, hands-on labs, this course is tightly aligned with experienced Linux administrators' job tasks and the skills required for advancement. Focus is placed on enhancing the students' automation skills to securely configure, deploy and manage network services including DNS, Apache, SMTP, and network file sharing. In addition, this course emphasizes security, including monitoring, packet filtering, access controls, and SELinux. At the completion of this course, students already familiar with the RHCT/RHCSA administration skills will have exposure to all competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams. This class includes the RHCSA and the RHCE exams.
RH290 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Solaris Administrators: RH290 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Solaris Administrators quickly and efficiently covers many of the hands-on, practical skills needed when migrating from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Focusing on the differences between the two operating systems, the course covers Red Hat Enterprise Linux equivalents to Solaris-specific technologies, such as applying software patches, automated deployment with Jumpstart, and advanced filesystem features. In addition, the course demonstrates how to use RPM, yum, the Red Hat Network (RHN), and Kickstart to manage your environment. You will acquire and set Linux kernel tunables, explore and configure the many supported hardware devices available from multiple vendors, and secure your users and services. Upon completion of this course, you will have the knowledge and skillset to take RH253, Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration, or the RH300 Rapid Track Course.
RHCE Rapid Track Course (RH299): The RHCE Fast Track Course with no exam (RH299) is a fast-paced preparation course that combines the RHCSA Fast Track Course (RH199) and System Administration III (RH254) courses, normally eight days of training, into a single four-day course. Building on the students' extensive knowledge of command line based Linux administration, the course moves very quickly through the intermediate and advanced tasks covered by lab-based knowledge checks and facilitative discussions. By the end of this course, the senior Linux administrator students will have been exposed to all the intermediate and advanced competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams.
RHCE Rapid Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH300): The RHCE Fast Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH300) is designed for senior Linux system administrators who want to validate their competencies by earning the RHCSA and RHCE credentials. This is a fast-paced preparation course that combines the RHCSA Fast Track Course (RH199) and System Administration III (RH254) courses, normally eight days of training, into a single four-day course. Building on the students' extensive knowledge of command line based Linux administration, the course moves very quickly through the intermediate and advanced tasks covered by lab-based knowledge checks and facilitative discussions. By the end of this course, the senior Linux administrator students will have been exposed to all the intermediate and advanced competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams. The RHCSA and RHCE exams are included with this course.
RH318/EX318 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization With Exam: Virtualization allows users to make the most out of their IT environments by allowing a single server to run multiple server or desktop operating systems. As a leader in open source software, Red Hat has expanded choice in the virtualization industry with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization—an open virtualization alternative for enterprises.The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization course (RH318) arms professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization technologies. This extensive hands-on training course explores the virtualization features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the advanced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform*. This class includes the EX318 Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) exam on the last day. With hands-on labs and a deep dive into the technology, this training course is the perfect first step for any enterprise planning or executing a virtualization deployment strategy.
RH401/EX401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management With Exam: Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management (RH401) is a four-day lab-based course that explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Experienced system administrators learn how to implement and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments efficiently and effectively, in ways that make their systems manageable by a team of administrators. Central to the course is hands-on training in the use of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server for deployment and provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. By the end of this course, students will have built their own RPM packages and will have used Subversion to make changes to scripts. The EX401 exam is administered on the 5th day.
RH423/EX423 Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication With Exam: Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication is an intensive course that provides four days of instruction and labs on cross-platform integration of directory services to provide authentication or information service across the enterprise using the Red Hat Directory Server. An exam is administered on the last day.
RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management With Exam: Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management provides intensive hands-on experience with the emerging Shared Storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System™ (GFS). This 4-day course focuses on the implementation of native Red Hat Enterprise Linux technologies included in Cluster Suite and GFS. An exam is administered on the final day of class.
RH442/EX442 Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning with Exam: Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442) is designed to teach senior Linux system administrators the methodology of performance tuning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course discusses system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments, open source bench-marking utilities, methods for analyzing system and networking performance, and tuning configurations for specific application loads. The EX442 exam will be administered on the 5th day.
RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming: This intensive course rapidly trains programmers to develop applications and programs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Over the span of five days, you'll get hands-on training, concepts, and demonstrations with emphasis on realistic labs and programming exercises. Learn concepts and skills essential to programming and software development for Linux-based applications and products.
RHD361 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Internals: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Internals (RHD361) is a hands-on course providing experienced developers an intensive, low-level examination of the Linux kernel architecture. Topics include kernel compilation, debugging tools and techniques, and internal kernel APIs including synchronization, process management, and memory management. These topics provide a solid understanding of the kernel's architecture, providing a useful base from which more specialized topics such as device drivers or performance tuning can be addressed, such as those presented in Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Device Drivers (RHD362).
RHD362 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Device Drivers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Device Drivers (RHD362) teaches experienced C programmers already familiar with the Linux kernel architecture the skills and strategies they need to develop device drivers. The course covers device driver models (including character, block, and network device drivers), device interaction (including port I/O, memory mapped I/O, interrupt handling, and DMA transfers), managing PCI and USB devices, strategies for deferring activity using tasklets and work queues, device registration using the Unified Device model and the sysfs filesystem, and process interaction, including basic file operations, polling, and wait queues.
RHS333/EX333 Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services With Exam: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has gained considerable momentum as the operating system of choice for deploying network services such as web, ftp, email, and file sharing. Red Hat's RHCE curriculum provides training in deploying these services and on the essential elements of securing them.
RHS429 Red Hat Enterprise SE Linux Policy Administration: RHS429 introduces advanced system administrators, security administrators, and applications programmers to SE Linux policy writing. Participants in this course will learn how SE Linux works; how to manage SE Linux; and how to write an SE Linux policy. This class culminates in a major project to scope out and then write policies for previously unprotected services.