Learn Linux administration and linux command line skills (Updated 1/2020)

Learn Linux administration and Linux command Line skills from scratch. Great for both beginners and Advanced Learners.

What you'll learn

Become a professional Linux administrator and be able to apply for Linux jobs
Gain advance Linux systems administration skills and have deep understanding of Linux fundamentals and concepts
Be able to create, support and manage Linux servers in a Corporate environment
Be able to better troubleshoot servers and get started with automating tasks
Design on your own career path from scratch as a Linux Professional

Requirements

Desire to Learn

Description

My name is Kashif Ali and I have worked as a Linux administrator, IT Manager, infrastructure and security consultant for many Fortune 500 companies in the the toughest market in the world …… New York. It's often quoted that if you can survive as an IT professional in New York and the Wall street - You can survive any IT environment in the world.

So Learn from my experience/expertise and take your career to the next level.

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Learn Linux administration | Linux command Line skills

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Learn Red Hat Linux & CentOS: Use the in-demand skills to start a career as a Linux Server Admin or Linux Administrator!

After taking this course you will fully understand the most important and fundamental concepts of Linux server administration and Linux command Line. More importantly, you will be able to put those concepts to use in practical real-world situations. You'll be able to configure, maintain, and support a variety of Linux systems. You can even use the skills you learned to become a Linux System Engineer or Linux System Administrator.

A career in Linux is one of the top 5 highest paid in the IT industry. Linux is the number ONE operating system for the fortune 500 companies and even the startups.

If you want to start your career in Linux, and have little or no knowledge of Linux then this course can help. In this course you will learn Linux installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, command line, OS tools and much more…

I have also included Job Technical Interview questions and answers that will definitely help achieving your Career goals.

All hands on exercises that I have covered are downloadable as text files so you can download and practice all lectures easily.

I have also created quizzes for you to go through and test your knowledge.

Learning Linux can be daunting - I have designed this course keeping in mind the most important things I would need to know if I was starting my Career in Linux today.


Following is the list of topics I have covered in this course:


Section 1 - Course Overview

Course Overview

Section 2 - Installing and accessing a Linux system

Install VirtualBox

Download CentOS Linux

Install CentOS Linux

Download, Install and connect through putty

Install Red Hat 8 with Custom Partitioning on VirtualBox

Download SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

Install SLES 15 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server)

Install SLES 12 SP3 with expert partitioning on VirtualBox

Different ways of accessing your Linux server

Section 3 - Linux Fundamentals

The Linux Directory Structure

The Shell

Basic Linux Commands cd, ls, cat, pwd, and more

Listing Files and Understanding LS Output

Changing Password

Absolute vs relative Path

Finding help at the command line

Creating Files and Directories

Understanding the Basic File and Directory Permissions

Changing File Permissions

Modify File Ownership for user and group

Finding Files in your system

Introduction to vi editor

Copying Directories and Files

Removing Directories and Files

Moving and renaming Directories and Files

Quiz (22 questions)

Section 4 - Intermediate Linux Skills

more and less command

head and tail commands

Tab Completion

Command History

Wild Cards

Soft and Hard Links

Input, Output and Error Redirection

grep

pipe

Shell Aliases

echo command

Environment Variables

Connecting from one server to another

Transferring and Copying Files over the Network

Counting Words, Lines and Characters

Viewing and Monitoring Processes

Schedule and automate tasks with Cron

User and group administration

Switching Users

The sudo utility

Compressing and archiving files tar, gzip

Displaying and Setting the Hostname

Find you IP address

tr, sort, diff and uniq command - Text File Manipulation

cut and sort command - Text File Manipulation

32-bit vs 64-bit operating systems

Finding system information (uname, dmidecode)

Root Password recovery

sosreport for Redhat troubleshooting

Monitor Users (who, last w, id)

Message of the day (motd) and wall

Quiz

Section 5 - Software installation - Redhat/CentOS, SUSE, Fedora and UBUNTU

Red-hat/CentOS/Fedora software installation using YUM

Package management using RPM

Introduction to Repositories

Create a Local Repository

System updates and preparation (version lock)

Roll back patches and updates

Installing Software in SUSE Linux using Zypper

Installing software in Ubuntu

Quiz

Section 6 - Managing Users and Groups

User and group administration

Create a User account with No Login Access

The passwd command

Password Aging on User accounts

Create, Modify and Delete Group Accounts

Activating and Deactivating Shadow Password Mechanism

User Authentication Files

The passwd File

The shadow File

The group File

The gshadow File

Switching Users

The sudo utility

Section 7 - Disk and Volume Management (LVM, parted)

Introduction to partitioning and file system

Introduction to LVM - The Logical Volume Manager

Add a new disk through Oracle Virtual Box

Managing Storage with parted

Creating Physical Volumes (PVs), Volume Groups (VGs) and Logical Volumes (LVs)

Extending Volume group (VG) and Logical Volumes (LV)

Mirroring Logical Volumes

Moving Volumes (Data) from one storage to another

Removing Logical Volumes (LVs), Volume Groups (VGs) and Physical Volumes (PVs)

Section 8 - Linux Networking

Network Components

Network Classes

TCP and UDP Protocols

The OSI model

Ping Command

Network Interfaces, configuration files and commands

Find your IP address

Add a Network Adapter through Oracle VM Virtual Box

NIC Bonding

Section 9 - Servers and Services

Apache Web Server

LAMP Server

Section 10 - Linux Security

Firewall and iptables

Linux Server Security

Section 11 - Managing Processes

Understanding processes

Viewing and Monitoring Processes

Listing a Specific Process

View Processes by User and Group Ownership

Process States

What is Process Niceness?

Viewing and Changing Process Niceness

Renicing a Running Process

Control Processes with Signals

Section 12 - Linux Technical Interview Prep

Linux Basic Technical questions

Who this course is for:

Anyone with the desire to learn Linux from Scratch
Anyone who wants to start or advance a career as a Linux Professional
If you have Basic Linux skills but want to level up your career
Already working in IT and want a Career change supporting Linux
Learn Linux to host your personal or business servers
IT professionals that need to acquire higher Linux skills to move up in their career
Anyone planning to become a Linux system administrator or a Linux systems engineer
Recent graduates who want to pursue Linux as a Career