Ubuntu Professional 1

The Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) is a training certification designed for system administrators, based on the LPI level 1 certification. To earn the UCP, candi- dates are required to pass the LPI 101, LPI 102 and the Ubuntu 199 exams. Exams can be written in any order. Ubuntu Professional Courses 1 & 2 will assist you to pass the required exams, achieve the Ubuntu Certified Pro- fessional certification and enable you to:

Configure a network of Ubuntu system
Understand security and package management fundamentals
Perform key maintenance tasks

The Ubuntu Professional 1 is a five day course which will help you prepare for the LPI 101 exam. Get ahead of the crowd and certify today.

Audience:

System administrators seeking to learn how to configure and work with multiple Ubuntu systems in the office.

Prerequisites:

Candidates should have a good overall knowledge of IT and systems administration of other operating systems. You should also have a basic understanding of:

How the Linux system works and interacts with a shell
Command line interface, such as DOS or UNIX shell
UNIX experience is an advantage

Duration: 5 days Price: 2495 $

Syllabus:

Ubuntu Community
- Ubuntu's technical infrastructure
  - Debian
  - Ubuntu releases
  - Ubuntu variants : Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu
  - Ubuntu software repositories
  - Launchpad components
- Help through support resources
  - Online documentation at: helpubuntucom
  - Ubuntu Wiki and Forum
  - Free community support
  - Canonical Support
Performing a basic Ubuntu installation
- Getting Ubuntu
- Installing Ubuntu with the live CD
GNU & Unix commands
- Working on the command line
  - UNIX and Linux
  - History of Unix development
  - Shell
  - Shell variables
  - Command lines
  - /bin/bash
  - Log In and Out
  - Passwords
  - Man pages
- Processing text streams using filters
  - Concatenate files using cat and tac
  - Viewing the beginning and end of a file
  - Number file lines using nl
  - Count items in a file using wc
  - Cutting fields in files using cut
  - Converting characters
  - Manipulating lines using paste, join and uniq
  - Splitting files using split
  - Formatting for printing using fmt and pr
  - Sorting files using sort
  - Dump binary files using od
- Performing basic file management
  - Filenames
  - Basic Navigation
  - File globbing and wildcards
  - Listing filenames and information
  - Determining the type of file content
  - Creating and removing directories
  - Copying files and directories
  - Removing files or directories
  - Moving (renaming) files
  - Quoting mechanisms
  - Locating files in a directory tree
  - Examples of using find
  - whereis and which
- Using streams, pipes and redirects
  - Standard input and output
  - Redirecting with pipes
  - Building arguments
  - The /dev/null device
- Process management
  - Creating processes
  - Monitoring processes
  - Monitoring processes in real-time
  - Sending signals to processes
  - Controlling jobs
  - Starting jobs that will continue after logging out
- Modifying process execution priorities
  - Modifying process execution priorities
  - Altering the priority of running processes
- Using regular expressions
  - Matching patterns
  - Regular Expression Syntax
  - Searching for regular expressions using grep
  - Using grep as a filter
  - Stream editing with sed
- Editing files using vi
  - Performing basic file editing using vi
Hardware & Architecture
- Configuring Fundamental BIOS Settings
  - The Firmware (BIOS)
  - Accessing large hard drives
  - Collecting information through the kernel
  - Collecting hard drive information
  - PCI bus
  - I/O Ports
  - Interrupts and DMA
- Configuring power management
  - APM configuration
  - ACPI configuration
- Configuring Modems
  - Serial ports -Modem configuration
  - Configuring a dial-in and dial-out connection
- Configuring Communication Devices
  - ADSL connection with PPPoE
  - Setting up non-IDE devices
  - Using non-IDE devices
  - Configuring SCSI devices
- Setting up PC expansion cards
  - Setting up PC expansion cards
- Configuring USB devices
  - Listing USB devices
  - USB drivers
- Configuring hardware
  - The Hardware Abstraction Layer
  - udev
  - Wifi network interface configuration
  - Bluetooth configuration
  - IrDA configuration
- Diskless Clients
  - Operation of diskless clients
  - PXE-based network installations
Linux Installation & Package Management
- Performing an installation
  - Installation types
  - debian-installer
  - The Ubuntu installer
  - Installer parameters
  - Installation steps
  - Preseeding
  - Ubiquity
- Designing a hard disk layout
  - Designing a filesystem layout
- Installing a boot loader
  - Choosing a boot loader
  - LILO configuration
  - GRUB configuration
- Building programs from source
  - Handling archive files with tar
  - Compressing files with gzip & bzip
  - Compiling software using the GNU toolchain
  - Installing source using the APT toolset
- Managing shared libraries
  - Libraries
  - Library dependencies
  - Runtime loader
- Using Debian package management
  - Dpkg
  - Using the APT toolset
  - Using aptitude and dselect
  - Recompiling a deb package from sources
- Using the RPM Package Manager
  - Using the RPM package manager
  - RPM queries
  - A comparison of RPM and dpkg commands
  - Installing from source RPMs
  - Ubuntu package & repository management
  - Managing software repositories
  - Using Synaptic
  - Using update-manager
  - Creating a local mirror
Devices, Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Creating partitions and filesystems
  - Partition naming
  - Creating partitions
  - Linux supported file systems
  - Creating filesystems
  - Creating ext/ext filesystems
- Maintaining filesystems integrity
  - Monitoring disk usage with du and df
  - Checking ext/ext file system consistency
  - Dumping ext/ext filesystem information
  - Debugging ext/ext filesystems
  - Adjusting ext/ext filesystem parameters
- Mounting a file system
  - Mounting a filesystem
  - Umounting a filesystem
  - /etc/fstab
- Managing disk quotas
  - Managing disk quotas
  - Setting up quotas for users
  - Establishing quota limits
  - Reviewing per-user quota utilisation
  - Reviewing per-partition quota utilisation
- Using file permissions to control file access
  - Unix file security
  - File permissions
  - Default permissions
  - Changing file permissions
  - Special File Permissions
- Managing file ownership
  - Changing file owner and group
- Creating hard and symbolic links
  - Hard links
  - Symbolic links
  - Hard links and symbolic links compared
- Configuring Ubuntu system security
  - Using sudo to gain superuser privileges
  - Managing /etc/sudoers using visudo
  - Managing users and groups using vipw and vigr
  - Managing users and groups using users-admin
The X Window System
- Installing & Configuring X -Introduction
  - XFree and Xorg
  - Configuration
  - Edit X configuration file
- Understanding the X start-up process
  - Display Manager
  - xinit and xinitrc
  - X resources and the Xdefaults file
  - Remote display
GNOME Desktop and Applications
- Configuring GNOME
  - Configuring GNOME using graphical tools
  - Configuring GNOME using gconf
  - Customising panels and menus
  - Adding launchers to the desktop
- Configuring GNOME Display Manager
  - GDM configuration with gdmsetup
- Configuring screen features and fonts
  - Screen configuration
  - Font configuration
  - Installing fonts
- Configuring Evolution mail client
  - Configuring Evolution for POP/IMAP/SMTP
  - Configuring Evolution for Exchange
  - Evolution and Spam
- Localising the operating system
  - Getting, installing and updating language packs