Categories: Linux (LPI), Linux administration
A preparatory course for the LPIC-2 – Advanced Level Linux Certification; this training a part of our LPIC-2 certification path.
This training a a followup for our Linux Administrator Course, intended for participants interested in acquiring the LPIC-2 certification. The material in these two training courses combined covers all the exam requirements (and the necessary, fundamental topics needed to learn it from ground-up).
For persons interested in a deeper exploration of the topics mentioned during the training, we recommend the Advanced Linux Administrator course, which provides a hands-on workshop on several useful technologies.
Duration
4 days
Agenda
- DNS server
- Server configuration
- DNS zones and their transfers
- DNSSEC
- DHCP server
- Server configuration
- BOOTP and DHCP protocols
- Best practices in maintaining DHCP servers
- LDAP directory services in Linux
- Using the LDAP client; data modification
- Importing and adding objects
- Managing users
- Linux kernel
- Compilation – when and how to compile the kernel
- Patches: applying and removing
- Managing kernel modules
- Disk management
- Configuring and using RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5
- Configuring and using LVM logical volumes
- Creating backups using rdiff-backup
- Backup strategies and best practices
- Filesharing via NFS
- Configuring NFS: client- and server-side
- Basic tools
- Access control
- Automatic filesystem mounting – AutoFS
- Proxy servers – Squid
- VPN
- Necessary tools:
- network protocol stack, ISO/OSI model
- IP/ICMP/UDP/TCP protocols. Reliability. Retransmissions.
- Encryption – symmetric and public key. RSA. Security. Man-in-the-middle attacks.
- VPN. Common uses. How does it work? Examples. When not to use VPN?
- OpenVPN.
- Designing and deploying solutions
- Server and client configuration
- Necessary tools:
- E-mail systems: Postfix
- Design, installation and configuration
- Maps and data sources
- Postfix server – management and command-line tools
- Procmail
- Safe e-mail infrastructure based on Postfix and Dovecot (IMAP and POP3), monitoring its work
- Security
- Secure FTP server – vsftpd
- TCP Wrapper
- Log monitoring
Audience and prerequisites
This training is created for persons who, having finished the Linux Administrator course, wish to take the LPIC-2 exams as soon as possible. It requires having mastered at least the material contained in the mentioned above Linux Administrator course.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- Linux Essentials (For Everyday Users)
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Linux backups
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- VPNs in theory and practice
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- LDAP directory services on Linux. Integrating authorization systems
- Samba server on Linux
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- Linux virtualization
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration
