RHCT: Red Hat Linux Essentials (4 day)

Course Overview

This course is designed for system administrators and end-users that are new to the Linux or UNIX operating systems. On this course delegates will learn the basic skills required to use their own Red Hat Linux systems. This course shows delegates how to accomplish basic tasks such as creating, organising and removing files, using the GNOME interface and text editors, printing and setting file/directory permissions. Delegates learn to accomplish these tasks through the command line and graphical interfaces.

Skills Gained

• Understand the Linux file system Perform common file maintenance tasks
• Use and customise the GNOME interface
• Issue essential Linux commands from the command line
• Perform common tasks using the GNOME GUI
• Open, edit and save text documents
• Understand and set file access permissions
• Understand the use of various print commands and utilities
• Customise the X Window System
• Implement regular expression pattern matching and I/O redirection
• Copy files to and from a floppy diskette
• Utilise various user network utilities
• Use the Linux Power user utilities

Prerequisites

Delegates should have user-level experience with any computer system and be familiar with basic information technology (IT) concepts and the role of an operating system. Experience of another operating system would also be beneficial.

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Quick Tour
• File and Shell Basics
• Users and Groups
• File Access Permissions
• The Linux File System
• String Processing
• Standard I/O and Pipes
• Introduction to Processes
• The bash Shell
• X/GNOME/KDE
• Printing and Mailing
• Basic Networking
• Using the vi Editor
• bash Shell Scripting
• Sed, awk and Other Languages
• System Tools
• Installation