| 1) Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) proves core system administrator skills. An RHCT can install, and configure a new Linux system and attach it to the corporate network. Installation and core system administration concepts, tools, and troubleshooting are explored in depth.
2) Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) demonstrates senior system administrator skills. An RHCE has RHCT skills plus the ability to configure network services and security. An RHCE can make decisions about which services should be deployed on the corporate network and how.
3) Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) establishes architect skills. An RHCA has RHCE skills plus deeper and additional skills needed to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux throughout the enterprise in numerous and varied applications. The curriculum emphasizes technology and processes for software deployment and systems management, directory services and authentication, storage management, system monitoring, performance tuning, and advanced network services and security.
Class Material
1) Material from Compu21 – you need to put in an order request. It may take one to two weeks to it.
2) Redhat/IBM/HP/Veritas/Oracle websites
a) http://www.redhat.com
b) http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/ - Red Hat manuals
c) http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/ - Linux Document Project
d) http://www.linuxquestions.org/ - Linux Questions
e) http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/ - Linux at IBM
f) http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/index.html - Linux for the Real World from HP
g) http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7 – download RedHat 9 OS softwares and other good stuff
h) http://www.linux.org/docs/index.html - Howto’s, FAQ, man pages, downloads, etc
i) http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist/linuxlist/linuxlist.html - Linux Software Encyclopedia
j) http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/index.html - Linux rpm repository
k) http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_VOLUMEMAN.htm - Veritas VM for Linux
l) http://www.otn.oracle.com – download Oracle 10g here
3) Reference books from http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Step by Step Guide
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide for x86
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Introduction to System Administration
Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide
4) Material from instructor - syllabus/handouts/home works/sample exams, etc will be given by instructor. You can get material electronically as following:
a) Get a Linux account – You need to hand in your user account id and password in first class. Instructor will create Linux account for you.
b) One your home computer, open a DOS window, create a directory for getting class material files
c) Click start, then run, enter ftp –i 216.211.197.111, then hit enter, you will see a ftp.exe window
d) Enter your username and password, you should see a ftp> prompt
e) Enter following commands respectively on ftp> prompt:
i) cd /home/chenchen/docs/linux (change to the directory where class material files stored)
ii) lcd c:\<dir you just created> (change to the directory where you want to download files to)
iii) ls (you should see lots of rtf files, they are class notes)
iv) bin (make sure the file is in binary format when transferring)
v) hash (print a # sign to the screen for every 1000 units)
vi) mget * (transmission will start at this point)
vii) by (to exit ftp utility from remote)
All files should be in the directory c:\< dir you just created >
5) Material from other resources – books from market WITH example exams, etc.
Self-Study Topics (Optional)
1) Linix user and administration commands, material will be given separately
Course Contents:
The order of the chapters discussed in each class may be changed based on the situation, i.e. the average level of the class, how the class goes, the progress, etc. Hands-on Labs will be given from the list below depends on the situation.
Week 1:
Introduction to Linux Operating
System and Concept
Hardware and Device Configuration
Essential Unix/Linux commands
Red Hat Installation
Lab: Installing Red Hat Linux
Week 2:
User and Group Administration
File system Management
System Initialization and Services and
Run Level
Lab: Creating a new filesystem, adding swap, user and group administration, and automounting home directories
Week 3:
RPM Management
Boot Loaders
Kernel Services and Configuration
Crontab
Printing Service
Lab: Managing RPM, booting into a maintenance runlevel, and setup crontab
Week 4:
The X Window System
System Administration Tools
Network Configuration
NIS Setup
Lab: Creation static network settings, system administration tools, and NIS setup
Week 5:
DNS – Domain Name System
FTP – File Transfer Protocol
NFS – Network File System
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Lab: Configure DNS, NFS, and
DHCP
Week 6:
Bash Scripting
Kickstart
Other Advanced Topics
3 Lab: Write a script to complete
production task
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