This course is designed to offer hands on experience to kick start an IT career as an IT professional or
enhance student’s skills to increase their earning potential in areas such as Linux System Administration,
Cloud support engineer, Software testing, Systems administration etc.
Any small or large IT organizations such as Amazon, Google, Facebook,
Twitter, Media, Publishing, Financial institutions, E-commerce businesses, Government services etc. prefer to
build their Infrastructure and Application platforms using Open Source tools and technologies. GNU/Linux is
the most popular open source operating system in the world. You are going to master GNU/Linux basics and will
confidently work on linux like a pro after completing course: Linux skills are mandatory for following roles
- Brief history about GNU/Linux
- Linux Introduction and installation of Virtual linux system
- Overview & Installation of Virtualbox and Vagrant.
• What is Virtualbox?
• How Virtualbox can help us to build local on-prem Testing / QA environment
• Things to take care with Virtualbox
- Setup virtual machine (CentOS-7, Ubuntu)
- Linux fundamentals – Introduction with command line:
• Globally Linux based production environment are more than 60%
• Day to day CLI based tasks are very important for Production environment
- Learn and practice basic Linux Commands – ls, cd, pwd, date, mkdir, touch, who, cp, which, mv, rm
- What is a file editor? Vi Editor Introduction, Practical, Exercises
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• Create a new group.
• Create a new user in that group.
• Assign password to that new user.
• Create new user in the same group with SHELL and COMMENT options.
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• What is SSH? How to use it for daily administration?
• Familiarise with default sshd server config.
• How to enable / disable password based authentication.
• Importance of Private key. (never share it with others).
• Learn how to generate a new key pair?
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• What is a process in Linux ?
• Which filesystem (directory) stores details of all processes.
• What is a process id?
• List a specific process. List all processes using top
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• What are file / directory permissions ? How to change them?
• How data is written on Hard disk?
• Everything in linux is file only
• Two different ways to assign / change permissions.
• Learn chown, chmod commands.
• Permissions assigned to new users and groups /etc/limits.conf + skeleton config.
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• ip addr, curl, ping, wget
• What is TCP-IP, Port, IP Address, Subnet, Gateway?
• How to check IP address & other details?
• What is ping, route commands & its use?
• Netstat command
• What is curl, wget packages? Their use cases in day to day administration
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• Introduction to Shell scripting
• Screen command – helpful tips for remote system administration
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