SUSE Linux Essentials

4 days @ £1,095.00  
S5

SUSE Linux Essentials Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led SUSE Linux Essentials course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the SUSE Linux operating system.

Targeted to closely follow the official Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCP) curriculum, this course together with the SUSE Linux System Administration and the SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCP - SLES 10) and the Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA- SLES 10) certifications.

The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line, wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Bash Shell are introduced.

Skills Gained

The delegate will practise:

  • Using basic Shell commands
  • Using and customising the desktop systems
  • Accessing help and documentation facilities
  • Printing and viewing files
  • Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
  • Listing and changing access permissions on files
  • Using the Shell's redirection and pipe facilities
  • Editing text files using the vi/vim editors
  • Monitoring and controlling processes
  • Managing the contents of files
  • Using the basic file and text searching utilities
  • Customising their own login BASH shell environment
  • Creating Shell scripts
  • Use basic network commands to access remote systems

Who will the Course Benefit?

The SUSE Linux Essentialscourse is suitable for anyone who needs to understand and use the SUSE Linux operating system.

This course will teach some of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCP - SLES 10) certification.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in a SUSE Linux environment.  The delegate will possess the fundamental skills required to begin their studies in achieving the Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCP - SLES 10) certification and the Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA- SLES 10) certification.

Examinations

Together with the SUSE Linux System Administration and the SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration course, this course is suitable for delegates intending to achieve the Novell Certified Linux Professional (NCP - SLES 10) certification and the Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA- SLES 10).

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The Novell website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Requirements

The delegate should be familiar with basic computer concepts and terminology e.g. hardware, software, files and directories.

SUSE Linux Essentials Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO LINUX

  • A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
  • GNU project
  • GPL - GNU General Public license (Copyleft)
  • The LINUX kernel
  • Common Distributions of LINUX available
  • Common Shells
  • Login sessions
  • Entering commands in the Shell
  • Basic syntax rules
  • Essential keyboard shortcuts
  • Basic commands and utilities
  • Exercise

Session 2: THE GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT

  • The X Window System
  • The GNOME Desktop
  • Configuring the Desktop
  • Exercise

Session 3: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
  • Sources of information available on the WEB
  • Basic File handling commands
  • Printing and locating files
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Command Aliases
  • Command line history, viewing and re-executing
  • Exercise

SUSE Linux Essentials Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: THE LINUX FILE SYSTEM

  • The file system structure
  • Standard Linux directories and files
  • Pathnames : relative and absolute
  • Navigating the file system using shell commands
  • Managing files and directories
  • Links
  • Graphical file managers
  • Backup using tar
  • Exercise

Session 5: FILE ACCESS CONTROL

  • File access criteria
  • Users and groups
  • Basic file access permissions
  • List permissions
  • Changing file permissions
  • Default file permissions
  • Extended permissions and file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Exercise

Session 6: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Overwriting and appending output redirection
  • Using pipes to connect processes together
  • Teeing output within pipelines
  • Exercise

SUSE Linux Essentials Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: THE VI/VIM EDITORS

  • Introduction to text file editing
  • Basic commands
  • Copying and moving text
  • Search and replace features
  • Reading and writing from files
  • Exercise

Session 8: PROCESSES

  • Time-sharing
  • What is a process?
  • System and user processes
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Managing background processes
  • Using Job control
  • Altering Process scheduling priorities
  • Desktop tools to monitor and manage processes
  • Exercise

Session 9: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • Finding files
  • Searching the contents of text files
  • Sorting files
  • Miscellaneous file handling commands
  • Exercise

SUSE Linux Essentials Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: THE BASH ENVIRONMENT

  • What is an environment?
  • Environmental variables
  • The system/user profiles
  • The shell start up file
  • Using variables
  • Bash shell options
  • Exercise

Session 11: BASH SHELL SCRIPTING BASICS

  • What is a shell script?
  • Creating and executing shell scripts
  • User interaction
  • Command line arguments
  • Decision constructs using the 'if' statement
  • Exercise

Session 12: BASH SHELL SCRIPTING

  • Case statement
  • Looping constructs: for/while/until
  • Functions
  • Exercise

Session 13: BASIC NETWORKING COMMANDS

  • Remote login
  • Using the secure shell: ssh
  • Copying files with scp
  • Using ftp and sftp
  • Displaying networking information
  • Testing access to a remote host
  • Exercise

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