Linux Curriculum

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Introduction to Linux

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 System Administration

This course equips participants with the necessary tools to insure the well-being of a Linux system. Lab sessions include the installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of a Linux system.

Advanced Linux System Administration

This course takes Linux System Administrators to the next level of maintaining Linux systems and implementing advanced levels of security and administration.

Linux Security

This course provides an introduction to installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems from a security perspective. It serves as an administrative guide to implementing security and security tools on Linux. This course will not teach you how to break into systems, although some obvious tricks are described to heighten your awareness. And provide a framework - a foundation if you will - that will allow you to learn more and be as dynamic as the field of computer security itself.

Intermediate Linux

This course focuses on some of the intermediate level features of the Linux Operating System. Topics include an overview of Linux, system administration, job control, shell programming, software tools, system processes, system startup and shutdown, software package administration, kernels, networking, the Network File System, and naming services. The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises that reinforce the lectures.

RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials

The first day of this course provides a conceptual and practical transition for individuals to successfully add Linux management competencies to their portfolio. The remaining four days immerses students in the basics of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment and prepares them for future roles as cross-platform system administrators.

RH133/RH202 Red Hat Linux System Administration and RHCT Exam

This is a course for users of Linux (or UNIX) who want to start building skills in systems administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to a level where they can attach and configure a workstation on an existing network. This course provides intensive hands-on training on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and includes the RHCT Certification Lab Exam on the last day.

RH253/RH302 Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration With Exam

This course teaches Linux and/or UNIX systems administrators how to build skills at configuring common network services and security administration using Red Hat Linux. This course is updated for building skills on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4!

RH300 RHCE Rapid Track

This Red Hat Certified Engineer course is designed for UNIX and Linux experienced users, networking specialists, and system administrators. This 5-day course provides intensive hands-on training on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and includes the RHCE Certification Lab Exam on day 5.

RH320 Red Hat Apache and Secure Web Server Administration

This course is for Linux and/or UNIX systems administrators who want to configure and maintain a secure Apache Web Server.

RH401/EX401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management With Exam

Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management is a 5-day intensive hands-on lab course in skills and methods critical to large-scale deployment and management of mission-critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems; network service failover and load-balancing; CVS for system administrators; construction of custom RPMs. 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 Diretory 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 System Monitoring and Performance Tuning With Exam

This course is designed to teach the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This class will cover: a discussion of system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments (benchmarking), open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system performance and networking performance, tuning configurations for specific application loads. Where possible, emphasis will be placed on using tools that are provided as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. The EX442 exam will be administered on the 5th day.

RHD143 Red Hat Linux Programming Essentials

Red Hat Linux Programming Essentials is an intensive hands-on course designed to rapidly train key skills for developing applications and programs on Red Hat Linux. This 5-day course provides hands-on training, concepts, demonstrations, with emphasis on realistic labs and programming exercises. Upon completion of the course students will have learned and practiced the essential skills required to develop programs for Linux systems.

RHD221 Red Hat Linux Device Drivers

Red Hat Linux Device Drivers is designed to teach experienced programmers how to develop device drivers for Linux systems. Upon completion of the course, students will understand the Linux architecture, hardware and memory management, modularization, and the layout of the kernel source, and will have practiced key concepts and skills for development of character, block, and network drivers.

RHD236 Red Hat Linux Kernal Internals

Red Hat Linux Kernel Internals is an intensive hands-on course designed to provide a detailed examination of the Linux kernel architecture, including process scheduling, memory management, filesystems, and driving peripheral devices. It is taught in a classroom with computers equipped with the current Linux distribution. The course provides hands-on training, concepts, and demonstrations, with emphasis on realistic labs and programming exercises. Students will get a detailed examination of the Linux kernel architecture, including process scheduling, memory management, filesystems, and driving peripheral devices.

RHD256 Red Hat Linux Application Development and Porting

Red Hat Linux continues to enjoy an ever-expanding role in providing enterprise-level solutions. As companies migrate from proprietary to open source platforms, technical staff must leverage their existing expertise by learning the tools and techniques of the world of open source. Red Hat's RHD256 course provides a succinct introduction to new application development, as well as providing insight into porting existing applications, into the Red Hat Linux environment.

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 Selinux Policy Administration With Exam

RHS429 introduces advanced system administrators, security administrators, and applications programmers to SELinux policy writing. Participants in this course will learn how SELinux works; how to manage SELinux; and how to write an SELinux policy. This class culiminates in a major project to scope out and then write policies for previously unprotected services.

RHS435 Red Hat Enterprise Certificate Management

Red Hat Enterprise Certificate Management is an intensive course that provides four days of instruction and labs for Linux and UNIX administrators who want to learn to manage and validate certificates using the Red Hat Certificate System.

RH184 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization

Virtualization--the ability for a single system to act as multiple systems--is becoming a key technology in the data center. Virtualization permits more efficient allocation of hardware resources, keeping costs in control while maintaining the security that comes with placing key applications in separate computer silos. The RH184 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization course teaches system administrators how to deploy virtualized versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, thus taking greater advantage of hardware and other resources.

JB336 JBoss for Administrators

JBoss for Administrators is targeted toward application support individuals, such as system administrators, configuration management and quality assurance personnel who wish to become proficient in configuring and administrating the JBoss application server (3.2.x and 4.x series) and the applications deployed on the application server.

JB261 JBoss for Advanced J2EE Developers

This course provides the necessary knowledge regarding the implementation of the JBoss microkernel, the JBoss security framework, and interceptor based approach to building component containers. It covers topics such as JMX and those beyond the J2EE specification such as Microkernel architecture, Security, Clustering, and Fine Tuning.

Introduction to SuSE Linux

Linux has risen in popularity because it is Open Source technology. This means that customers are no longer locked into any one particular vendor's software. The rise in popularity of Linux has resulted in various Linux distributions. SuSE Linux is now capturing an increasing market share of Linux users. With legions of developers contributing to Linux, it is safe to assume that Linux is here to stay and that Linux will only continue to grow in popularity. This course is divided between lectures and hands-on exercises. If you are taking this course in a classroom setting, rest assured that your instructor is not only a Linux expert, but is ready and willing to answer any and all of your classroom questions.

SuSE Linux for Developers

This is the first course in a series of courses in the SuSE Linux Curriculum. This course places emphasis on Linux developers. Topics include: Linux principles, a detailed view of the file system, the vi editor, fundamental Linux commands including awk, sed, and grep, a detailed view of the bash shell including its function as a programming language, other programming languages such as C, and Perl, software tools such as make and rcs, and related system administration topics. The course is supplemented with many hands-on exercises that reinforce the lectures.</dd>

SuSE System Administration

This course equips participants with the necessary tools to insure the well being of a LINUX system. Lab sessions include the installation, troubleshooting, backup and recovery and administrative maintenance of a LINUX system.

Advanced SuSE Linux System Administration

This course takes Linux System Administrators to the next level of maintaining Linux systems and implementing advanced levels of security and administration.