RS-DS.AB1
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31 Hands-On LiveLabs
Practice real IT tasks in guided environments.
- Real environments
- Auto-graded
- No installation
01 / Lessons & labs
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Lessons
5 Interactive Lessons · 76 topics01 Installation and Storage concepts 18 topics · 6 LiveLab +
- Hardware and Linux Installation
- The Linux Boot Process
- Boot Loaders and Files
- When Kernels Panic
- Basic Partitions
- Filesystem Hierarchy
- Device Mapper
- Filesystem Types
- Disk Partitioning Tools
- Managing LVM
- Managing Software RAID
- Creating Filesystems
- Advanced Filesystem Commands
- Mounting and Unmounting
- Space Utilization
- Time Zones
- Character Encoding
- Representing Locales
6 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
02 Account Management 19 topics · 5 LiveLab +
- User Account Fundamentals
- Group Accounts
- Adding Users and Groups
- Modifying Users and Groups
- Removing Users and Groups
- The Shadow Suite
- Changing Passwords
- Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAMs)
- Secure Shell
- Terminals PTY/TTY
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Using TCP Wrappers for Securing Services
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) Clients
- System Logging
- Understanding Linux Hardware
- Managing Printers and Printing
- Linux Graphical User Interfaces
- Accessibility Options
- Remote Desktop
5 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
03 File Management 16 topics · 9 LiveLab +
- File and Directory Operations
- Working with Input/Output Streams
- Reading File Contents
- Filters
- A Tour of the vim Editor
- nano, nano
- Working with Permissions
- Manipulating Permissions
- Special File Permissions
- Finding Files by Permission
- Access Control Lists
- Understanding Permission Problems
- Default Permissions
- Changing User Ownership
- Changing Group Ownership
- User Privilege Escalation
9 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
04 System Management 11 topics · 6 LiveLab +
- Software in a Linux System
- Installing Software from Source
- Packages and Package Managers
- RPM and YUM Package Management
- systemd
- Down Memory Lane with SysVinit
- Managing Processes
- Sending Signals to Processes
- Job Control
- Managing Process Priorities
- Leaving Programs Running After Logout
6 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
05 Network Management 12 topics · 5 LiveLab +
- Storage Monitoring and Configuration
- CPU Monitoring and Configuration
- Memory Monitoring and Configuration
- Troubleshooting Additional Hardware Issues
- Conceptual Overview of Networking
- Managing Interfaces
- Network Configuration Utilities
- Bonding
- Key Network Troubleshooting Concepts
- Network Troubleshooting Tools
- The iptables Command
- Additional Firewall Technologies
5 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →
Hands-On Labs Our edge
31 LiveLabs- Installing CentOS
- Booting Linux into Single-User Mode
- Creating a Physical Volume, Volume Group, Logical Volume, and File Systems
- Creating Partitions and Filesystems
- Working with Time Zones
- Using the timedatectl Command to Set the System Time
- Reviewing Account Settings
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using usermod to Lock an Account
- Viewing the System Logs
- Making an Inventory of System Devices
- Creating a Hard Link
- Performing Basic File Management
- Exploring a File System
- Using Filters
- Using Redirection
- Changing Permissions on a File
- Finding Files
- Assigning Additional ACLs to a File
- Investigating File Obstacles
- Using Red Hat Package Management Tools
- Investigating RPM App Package Issues
- Managing Services with systemctl
- Managing Processes
- Displaying Process Information
- Sending a Job to the Background
- Viewing Disk Usage
- Identifying System Hardware
- Finding the Network Information
- Understanding Network Configuration on CentOS
- Using Firewalld
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