Linux Syllabus – RHEL 9.4

Date generated: 02 May 2025

Part I – Basic Linux Commands / Administration (16 lectures)

Lecture 1 – Installation

• Installation of Linux / Windows dual‑boot
• Building a Dual‑Boot System
• Installing RHEL 9.1 from a bootable pendrive

Lecture 2 – Essential Commands

• Listing files & directories
• Working with files & directories
• Date & time commands
• Processes & daemons
• Editors: vi, nano, mcedit

Lecture 3 – Storage & Filesystems

• df – partitions & filesystems
• Partition editors: fdisk, parted
• Recommended partition layout (min / max)
• Symbolic & hard links
• Hardware inventory: dmesg, lspci -v

Lecture 4 – Archiving & Process Management

• Archiving: tar; compression: gzip, bzip2, xz
• Process status: ps, top, htop, nice, renice
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
• Permissions & security bits (rwx sSt)

Lecture 5 – systemd Fundamentals

• Managing services with systemctl (start, stop, enable, etc.)
• Listing units & unit files

Lecture 6 – TCP/IP Networking

• CLI configuration with nmcli
• Curses UI: nmtui
• GNOME network settings & nm-connection-editor
• Legacy files: /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, ifcfg scripts

Lecture 7 – Troubleshooting & Rescue Modes

• Securing GRUB 2 with a password
• Single‑user mode (standard & quick)
• Rescue & emergency modes
• Recovering from the grub> prompt

Lecture 8 – fstab & Mounting

• Device drivers: block vs character
• Working with removable media (mount, umount)
• fstab options: LABEL, UUID, defaults

Lecture 9 – Package Management

• Installing software (RPM, source tarballs)
• Creating local repositories for yum / dnf
• DNF command essentials
• Configuring the EPEL repository

Lectures 10‑12 – Shell Programming & User Management

• Shell scripting fundamentals (Parts 1 & 2)
• User administration with adduser & related tools

Lecture 13 – Samba Part 1 & SELinux/AppArmor

Lecture 14 – Samba Part 2

Lecture 15 – Disk Quotas

• Setting up user & group quotas (/etc/fstab)

Lecture 16 – Job Scheduling

• cron & at utilities

Part II – Network Services (11 lectures)

Lecture 17 – NFS & AUTOMOUNT

Lecture 18 – Telnet, FTP, Wireshark, OpenSSH, DHCP

Lecture 19 – Apache Part 1

Lecture 20 – Apache Part 2

Lecture 21 – Apache Part 3

Lecture 22 – DNS with BIND 9

Lecture 23 – Kernel Updating & Tuning

Lecture 24 – Firewalling with iptables / firewalld

Lecture 25 – Proxy & Caching with SQUID / Varnish

Lecture 26 – Logical Volume Management (LVM 2)

Lecture 27 – Mail Server (Zimbra / RHEL 9.4)

Part III – Advanced Administration

I. Advanced System Administration Topics

1. Linux boot process (BIOS/MBR, UEFI‑GPT)
2. Apache, Maven, Nginx
3. C / C++ programming
4. Agile & Scrum methodology
5. Ansible automation
6. Generative AI: Gemini Pro, OpenAI, Llama, LangChain, Pinecone, vector DBs
7. ChatGPT integration
8. DevOps pipelines
9. Django framework
10. Docker containers
11. Filesystems & storage
12. Hadoop ecosystem
13. HTML & web fundamentals
14. Hydra configuration management
15. Linux kernel internals
16. Jenkins CI/CD
17. Kubernetes orchestration
18. Data Science (R programming, data structures, D3 visualisation)
19. Deep learning & neural networks / machine learning / NLP
20. React + Redux; full‑stack development
21. GitHub & Eclipse IDE
22. JavaScript
23. CUPS printing system
24. Bitbucket
25. Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB
26. LUKS disk encryption
27. Python programming
28. Puppet configuration mgmt
29. SELinux security
30. Advanced shell scripting
31. SQL / PL‑SQL
32. SSL / TLS fundamentals
33. Storage: SAN vs NAS vs DAS vs iSCSI
34. Networking: subnetting, supernets, VLANs, routing protocols
35. TAILS live OS
36. TensorFlow
37. Projects – Rajiv Banerji
    • Amanda RHEL 9.4
    • KVM RHEL 9.4
    • RHEV RHEL 9.4
    • Nagios RHEL 9.4
    • Data Protector RHEL 9.4

II. Advanced Network Administration Topics

1. ACLs (getfacl, setfacl)
2. Cloud computing & virtualisation
3. Clustering & high availability
4. Containers
5. Cryptography & cybersecurity
6. Firewall comparison: iptables vs firewalld
7. DNS deep dive
8. CUPS printing system
9. Bitbucket workflows
10. Foreman + Katello server
11. Identity management: FreeIPA, AppArmor, SELinux, Firejail
12. iSCSI storage server
13. KVM hypervisor
14. LDAP directory services
15. Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana
16. Mail servers: Postfix, Sendmail, Zimbra
17. Nagios monitoring
18. Network security best practices
19. OpenShift container platform
20. OpenSSH hardening
21. Postman & Power BI
22. RAID architectures
23. Red Hat Satellite Server
24. Rsync, sar, sed, awk, tmux
25. AWS & Azure cloud engineering study guide
26. Varnish cache & load balancing
27. Squid proxy
28. VPN & Tor networking
29. XenServer