CentOS & Red Hat Linux Certified System Administrator Course

1. Thank you for taking this course! Find out what value you get immediately!
- Introduction to the course
- Why learn Linux

2. Installing RedHat or CentOS with minimal modifications to your current system
- Downloading, installing and configuring VirtualBox on Windows 8
- Create a Red Hat virtual machine - part 1
- Create a Red Hat virtual machine - part 2
- Create a Red Hat virtual machine - part 3

3. Installing RedHat or CentOS with a dual boot approach on Windows 8
- How to dual boot Red Hat and windows 8 - part 1
- How to dual boot Red Hat and windows 8 - part 2

4. Linux Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Basic familiarization with Linux Graphical user interface - part 1
- Basic familiarization with Linux Graphical user interface - part 2

5. Linux command line
- File system navigation. Commands _ls, cd, pwd_ - part 1
- File system navigation. Commands _ls, cd, pwd_ - part 2
- Finding files. Commands _find, locate, upadtedb, man_
- File and folder ownership and permissions. Commands _chown, chmod_ - part 1
- File and folder ownership and permissions. Commands _chown, chmod_ - part 2
- Move, delete and copy files. Commands _mv, rm, cp_
- Commands _grep, pipe, echo, cat_
- YUM packet manager - part 1
- YUM packet manager - part 2
- RPM package manager

6. RedHat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam preparation
- Intro to RedHat Certified System Administrator exam

7. Essential tools for using Red Hat Linux and passing the exam
- Globbing (wildcards) - Getting files fast without the entire name - part 1
- Globbing - part 2
- IORedirection - Input and output redirection with standard input:output - part 1
- IORedirection - Redirect standard error to standard error in more depth - part 2
- IORedirection - Redirecting standard eror in more depth - part 3
- Vim text editor - How to do text editing and use text editors - part 1
- Vim text editor - Making changes in the Vim text editor - part 2
- Vim text editor - How to search for text within a file - part 3
- Vim text editor - part 4
- Vim text editor - Combining commands together to build new files - part 5

8. The Red Hat Linux file system explained and basic functions
- Linux file system explained where all files are in the root directory
- Hard and soft links in the Linux file system
- Backups, recovery, and compression in Linux - Introduction and use - part 1
- Backups - How to uncompress files and restore backed up files - part 2
- Backups, recovery, and compression - More about tar - part 3
- Automating tasks with cron - Meet the crontab and schedule tasks - part 1
- Automating tasks with cron - Creating a cron job and bash script - part 2
- Automating tasks with cron - Commenting out a line and making notes - part 3
- Automating tasks with cron - More about crontabs - part 4

9. User and groups management
- User properties and where are they stored on the system
- Creating a user
- Creating groups and assigning users to them

10. Network configuration
- Intro to network interfaces
- Network manager and network configuration - part 1
- Network manager and network configuration - part 2 + some troubleshooting tools

11. Establishing secure connections via SSH
- Installing and configuring SSH server - part 1
- Installing and configuring SSH server - part 2
- SSH passwordless login and SCP (secure copying of files between hosts)

12. Partitioning
- Partitioning and file systems
- Partitioning a new disk
- Formating a partition using xfs file system
- Mounting the partitions

13. Managing LVM Logical Volumes
- Linux Volume Management (LVM) - part 1
- Linux Volume Management (LVM) - part 2
- Linux Volume Management (LVM) - part 3
- Linux Volume Management (LVM) - part 4
- Linux Volume Management (LVM) - part 5

14. Encrypted file systems
- LUKS - part 1
- LUKS - part 2

15. Servers under Red Hat/ HTTP, FTP, VNC
- How to install and configure a web server - part 1
- How to install and configure a web server - part 2
- How to install and configure an FTP server - part 1
- How to install and configure an FTP server - part 2
- How to install and configure VNC

16. SELinux
- SELinux general talk - part 1
- SELinux general talk - part 2
- Basics
- SELinux and Apache - part 1
- SELinux and Apache - part 2
- SELinux and Apache - part 3
- SELinux and SSH