Prerequisites:

No Pre-Requisite

Audience :

Who Should Learn Linux?

Aspiring IT Professionals: Individuals starting a career in IT, system administration, or networking.

Developers: Programmers who want to work in environments like cloud computing, DevOps, or with servers.

System Administrators: Professionals managing servers, networks, and infrastructure.

DevOps Engineers: Those looking to automate workflows, manage containers, and streamline deployment processes.

Cloud Enthusiasts: Individuals working with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) where Linux plays a key role.

Cybersecurity Enthusiasts: People interested in learning secure system administration and network defense.

Tech Hobbyists: Anyone interested in understanding how operating systems work and exploring open-source software.

Module 1 – Understanding Linux Concepts

1. Orientation Class.
2. Slide Presentation (What is Linux? And Everyday use of Linux in Details)
3. Questions & Answers.

Module 2 – Download, Install and Configure

1. What is Virtualization, Types and Advantages?
2. Downloading and Installing VMware Workstation.
3. Creating virtual machine
4. Linux Distributions
5. Different way to install Linux
6. Downloading and Installing Linux (CentOS) / Oracle Linux
7. Linux Desktop (GUI)
8. Virtual Machine Management  (OVA, Snapshots)
9. Quiz, Homework and Handouts

Module 3 – System Access and File System

1. Accessing Linux system
2. Download and install Putty
3. New Network Commands (ifconfig and ip)
4. Connect Linux VM via Putty
5. Important Things to Remember in Linux
6. Introduction to File System
7. File system structure description
8. File system navigation commands
9. File System Paths
10. Directory listing overview
11. Creating Files and Directories
12. Linux File Types
13. Finding Files and Directories (find, locate)
14. Difference between find and locate command
15. Changing Password
16. Wildcard (*, $, ^)
17. Soft and Hard Links (ln)
18. How to open image file through GUI
19. Quiz, Homework and Handouts

Module 4 – Linux Fundamentals

1. Commands Syntax
2. File Permissions (chmod)
3. File Ownership (chown, chgrp)
4. Getting Help (man, whatis etc.)
5. TAB completion and up arrow keys
6. Adding text to file
7. Standard output to a file (tee command)
8. Pipes ( | )
9. File Maintenance Commands
10. File Display Commands
11. Filters / Text Processing Commands (cut, sort, grep, awk, uniq, wc)
12. Compare Files (diff, cmp)
13. Compress and un-compress files/directories (tar, gzip, gunzip)
14. Truncate file size (truncate)
15. Combining and Splitting Files (cat and split)
16. Linux vs. Windows Commands
17. Quiz, Homework and Handouts

Module 5 – Linux System Administration
 Linux File Editors (vi text editor)

1. “sed” command
2. User account management
3. Switch users and Sudo access
4. Monitor users
5. Talking to users (users, wall, write)
6. Linux Directory Service – Account Authentication
7. System utility commands (date, uptime, hostname, which, cal, bc etc.)
8. Processes and schedules (systemctl, ps, top, kill, crontab and at)
9. System Monitoring Commands (top, df, dmesg, iostat 1, netstat, free etc.)
10. OS Maintenance Commands (shutdown, reboot, halt, init etc.)
11. System logs monitor (/var/log)
12. Changing System Hostname (hostnamectl)
13. Finding System Information (uname, cat /etc/redhat-release, cat /etc/*rel*, dmidecode)
14. System Architecture (arch)
15. Terminal control keys
16. Terminal Commands (clear, exit, script)
17. Recover root Password (single user mode)
18. SOS Report
19. Environment variables
20. Quiz, Homework and Handouts

Module 6 – Shell Scripting

1. Linux Kernel
2. What is a Shell?
3. Types of Shells
4. Shell scripting
5. Basic Shell scripts
6. If-then scripts
7. For loop scripts
8. Do-while scripts
9. Case statement scripts
10. Aliases
11. Command history

 Module 7 – Networking, Servers and System Updates

1. Enabling internet in Linux VM
2. Network Components
3. Network files and commands (ping, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, networking config files)
4. NIC Information (ethtool)
5. NIC or port bonding
6. Download files with URLs (wget)
7. curl and ping commands
8. File transfer commands (ftp, scp etc.)
9. System updates and repositories (rpm, yum, dnf)
10. System Upgrade/Patch Management
11. Create Local Repository from CD/DVD
12. Advance Package Management
13. Rollback Patches and Updates
14. SSH and Telnet
15. DNS
16. Hostname and IP Lookup (nslookup and dig)
17. NTP
18. chronyd
19. Sendmail
20. Apache Web Server (http)
21. Central Logger (rsyslogd)
22. Securing Linux Machine (OS Hardening / Firewalld)
23. OpenLDAP Installation
24. Tracing Network Traffic (traceroute)
25. Quiz, Homework and Handouts

Module 8 – Disk Management and Run Levels

1. System run levels
2. Linux Boot Process
3. Message of the Day
4. Customize Message of the Day
5. Storage
6. Disk partition (df, fdisk, etc.)
7. Add Disk and Create Standard Partition
8. Logical Volume Management (LVM)
9. LVM Configuration during Installation
10. Add Disk and Create LVM Partition
11. Extend disk using LVM
12. Adding swap space
13. RAID
14. File System Check (fsck and xfs_repair)
15. System Backup (dd Command)
16. Network File System (NFS)
17. Difference Between CentOS/Redhat 5, 6, 7 and 8 [EOL]

Module 9 – All About Interview

1. What is IT and it’s components?
2. Concept about IT Job Market in Bangladesh, Midel-East, EU and North Amerika Market?
3. Discussion about Linux System Admin Job on the world market.  
4. IT Management Jobs
5. Dummy Interviews for Fresher
6. IT Interview workshop  
7. Discussion about Redhat certifications & What should be your limit.
8. Introducing with Linux communities and Solutions sites.  
9. 200+ interview questions