Installing Oracle Linux - Install Oracle Linux on any supported architecture.
- Create partitions, software RAID and LVM storage configurations.
- Select Packages for Installation.
PC Hardware & Linux - Get detailed information about all PCI & USB devices that are connected to a Linux system
- Identify, load, unload and configure kernel modules
- Tune the running kernel using the /proc/ filesystem
Post-Install System Configuration - Set and maintain the system clock with date, hwclock and NTP
- Install, update and remove RPM packages with the rpm & yum commands
- Configure printers with CUPS
- Create and use Kickstart files for automated, hands-off installations
Boot Process & SysV Init - Configure the GRUB boot loader
- Manage SysV Init scripts, including customizing files under the /etc/sysconfig/ directory to tune SysV Init scripts
- Configure and use SysV runlevels
- Shutdown & reboot Linux systems
User/Group Administration and NFS - Describe and apply the User Private Group scheme
- Create, delete and configure user and system accounts
- Create, delete and configure groups
- Customize the PAM configuration
- Configure and control access to su and sudo
- Configure Linux systems to use centralized authentication and user information stores for system logins
- Implement a file server to share files with NFS v3 & v4
- Configure the automounter (autofs) allowing un-privileged users to mount filesystems on-demand
| Filesystem Administration - Work with device nodes and udev
- Partition hard drives after installation
- Create and tune filesystems
- Mount filesystem, including persistent configuration in the /etc/fstab file
- Create, manage and tune swap devices
- Configure, manage, assign and maintain quotas on filesystems
- Create, use and remove File Access Control Lists (FACLs)
LVM & Raid - Configure Logical Volume Manager volume groups and logical volumes
- Create and use software RAID devices
- Grow and shrink logical volumes and the filesystems on them
- Use LVM snapshots to create consistent, reliable backups
Task Automation & Process Accounting - Use the at & batch facilities to run one-time tasks
- Manage cron jobs for recurring tasks, both system-wide and per-user
- Configure syslog for central system logging
- View, manage and kill running processes
- Monitor system and application logs on a daily basis with logwatch
- Configure process accounting and examine the resulting logs
- Limiting and measuring resource usage (ulimit, pam, sar, vmstat, iostat)
Client Networking - Configure TCP/IP networking on Linux systems
- Configure static routing on a Linux system
- Aggregate multiple network links into a single interface via the bonding driver's Etherchannel and 802.3ad support
- Configure a Linux system to participate in multiple VLANs on a managed switch via 802.1q frame tagging
- Configure and maintain a DHCP server
- Using networking diagnostics tool (ping,arp,ethtool)
| The X window System - Create a working X server configuration
- Configure the GDM & KDM display managers
- Configure X to allow remote logins via XDMCP
- Securely deploy VNC
Security Concepts - Perform basic system hardening by minimizing the number of services that are installed
- View and set SELinux security context labels
- Use TCP Wrappers to control network access to local services
- Create simple, secure Netfilter firewalls via the iptables command
Linux Kernel Compilation - Compile and install kernel modules externally from the kernel source tree.
- Apply a kernel patch to add additional support
- Configure and compile a Linux kernel from source
Troubleshooting - Use standard system commands to gather information about a running system
- Recover a damaged Master Boot Record
- Enter the Rescue environment
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