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CompTIA Linux+

Linux+ certification is an international industry credential that validates the knowledge of individuals with at least six months of practical Linux experience. Professionals who want to certify their technical knowledge in basic installation, operation and troubleshooting for Linux operating systems should consider this certification. The skills and knowledge measured by this examination were developed with global input to assure accuracy, validity and reliability.
Duration: 5 Days   |   Location : Online
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Course Content

LXO-103 and LXO-104: CompTIA Linux+

101 System Architecture

101.1 Determine and Configure hardware settings

  • Enable and disable integrated peripherals.
  • Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards.
  • Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices.
  • Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices.
  • Determine hardware resources for devices.
  • Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g. lsusb, lspci, etc.).
  • Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices.
  • Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev, dbus.

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101.2 Boot the System

  • Provide common commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the boot sequence from BIOS to boot completion.
  • Understanding of SysVinit and systemd.
  • Awareness of Upstart.
  • Check boot events in the log file.

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101.3 Change runlevels / boot targets and shutdown or reboot system

  • Set the default runlevel or boot target.
  • Change between runlevels / boot targets including single user mode.
  • Shutdown and reboot from the command line.
  • Alert users before switching runlevels / boot targets or other major system events.
  • Properly terminate processes.

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102 Linux Installation and Package Management

102.1 Design hard disk layout.

  • Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks.
  • Tailor the design to the intended use of the system.
  • Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting.
  • Knowledge of basic features of LVM.

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102.2 Install a boot manager.

  • Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options.
  • Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB Legacy.
  • Perform basic configuration changes for GRUB 2.
  • Interact with the boot loader.

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102.3 Manage shared libraries.

  • Identify shared libraries.
  • Identify the typical locations of system libraries.
  • Load shared libraries.

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102.4 Use Debian package management.

  • Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages.
  • Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed.
  • Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed).

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102.5 Use RPM and YUM package management.

  • Install, re-install, upgrade and remove packages using RPM and YUM.
  • Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures.
  • Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from.

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103 GNU and Unix Commands

103.1 Work on the command line.

  • Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line.
  • Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables.
  • Use and edit command history.
  • Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path.

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103.2 Process text streams using filters.

  • Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package.

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103.3 Perform basic file management.

  • Copy, move and remove files and directories individually.
  • Copy multiple files and directories recursively.
  • Remove files and directories recursively.
  • Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands.
  • Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time.
  • Usage of tar, cpio, and dd.

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103.4 Use streams, pipes and redirects.

  • Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error.
  • Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command.
  • Use the output of one command as arguments to another command.
  • Send output to both stdout and a file.

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103.5 Create, monitor and kill processes.

  • Run jobs in the foreground and background.
  • Signal a program to continue running after logout.
  • Monitor active processes.
  • Select and sort processes for display.
  • Send signals to processes.

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103.6 Modify process execution priorities.

  • Know the default priority of a job that is created.
  • Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default.
  • Change the priority of a running process.

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103.7 Search text files using regular expressions.

  • Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements.
  • Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content.

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103.8 Perform basic file editing operations using vi.

  • Navigate a document using vi.
  • Use basic vi modes.
  • Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text.

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104 Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

104.1 Create partitions and filesystems.

  • Manage MBR partition tables
  • Use various mkfs commands to create various filesystems such as:
  • ext2/ext3/ext4
  • XFS
  • VFAT
  • Awareness of ReiserFS and Btrfs
  • Basic knowledge of gdisk and parted with GPT

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104.2 Maintain the integrity of filesystems.

  • Verify the integrity of filesystems.
  • Monitor free space and inodes.
  • Repair simple filesystem problems.

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104.3 Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems.

  • Manually mount and unmount filesystems.
  • Configure filesystem mounting on bootup.
  • Configure user mountable removeable filesystems.

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104.4 Manage disk quotas.

  • Set up a disk quota for a filesystem.
  • Edit, check and generate user quota reports.

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104.5 Manage file permissions and ownership.

  • Manage access permissions on regular and special files as well as directories.
  • Use access modes such as suid, sgid and the sticky bit to maintain security.
  • Know how to change the file creation mask.
  • Use the group field to grant file access to group members.

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104.6 Create and change hard and symbolic links.

  • Create links.
  • Identify hard and/or soft links.
  • Copying versus linking files.
  • Use links to support system administration tasks.

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104.7 Find system files and place files in the correct location.

  • Understand the correct locations of files under the FHS.
  • Find files and commands on a Linux system.
  • Know the location and propose of important file and directories as defined in the FHS.

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105 Shells, Scripting and Data Management

105.1 Customize and use the shell environment.

  • Set environment variables (e.g. PATH) at login or when spawning a new shell.
  • Write BASH functions for frequently used sequences of commands.
  • Maintain skeleton directories for new user accounts.
  • Set command search path with the proper directory.

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105.2 Customize or write simple scripts.

  • Use standard sh syntax (loops, tests).
  • Use command substitution.
  • Test return values for success or failure or other information provided by a command.
  • Perform conditional mailing to the superuser.
  • Correctly select the script interpreter through the shebang (#!) line.
  • Manage the location, ownership, execution and suid-rights of scripts.

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105.3 SQL data management

  • Use of basic SQL commands.
  • Perform basic data manipulation.

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106 User Interfaces and Desktops

106.1 Install and configure X11.

  • Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server.
  • Awareness of the X font server.
  • Basic understanding and knowledge of the X Window configuration file.

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106.2 Setup a display manager.

  • Basic configuration of LightDM
  • Turn the display manager on or off.
  • Change the display manager greeting.
  • Awareness of XDM, KDM and GDM.

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106.3 Accessibility

  • Basic knowledge of keyboard accessibility settings (AccessX).
  • Basic knowledge of visual settings and themes.
  • Basic knowledge of assistive technology (ATs).

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107 Administrative Tasks

107.1 Manage user and group accounts and related system files.

  • Add, modify and remove users and groups.
  • Manage user/group info in password/group databases.
  • Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts.

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107.2 Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs.

  • Manage cron and at jobs.
  • Configure user access to cron and at services.
  • Configure anacron.

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107.3 Localisation and internationalisation.

  • Configure locale settings and environment variables.
  • Configure timezone settings and environment variables.
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms, and utilities:
  • LC_*
  • LC_ALL
  • LANG
  • TZ

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108 Essential System Services

108.1 Maintain system time.

  • Set the system date and time.
  • Set the hardware clock to the correct time in UTC.
  • Configure the correct timezone.
  • Basic NTP configuration.
  • Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service.
  • Awareness of the ntpq command.

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108.2 System logging

  • Configuration of the syslog daemon.
  • Understanding of standard facilities, priorties and actions.
  • Configuration of logrotate.
  • Awareness of rsyslog and syslog-ng.

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108.3 Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics.

  • Create e-mail aliases.
  • Configure e-mail forwarding.
  • Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, qmail, exim) (no configuration).

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108.4 Manage printers and printing.

  • Basic CUPS configuration (for local and remote printers).
  • Manage user print queues.
  • Troubleshoot general printing problems.
  • Add and remove jobs from configured printer queues.

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109 Networking Fundamentals

109.1 Fundamentals of internet protocols.

  • Demonstrate an understanding network masks and CIDR notation.
  • Knowledge of the differences between private and public “dotted quad” IPAddresses.
  • Knowledge about common TCP and UDP ports (20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 123, 139, 143, 161, 162, 389, 443, 465, 514, 636, 993, 995).
  • Knowledge about the differences and major features of UDP, TCP and ICMP.
  • Knowledge of the major differences between IPv4 and IPv6.
  • Knowledge of the basic features of IPv6.

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109.2 Basic network configuration

  • Manually and automatically configure network interfaces.
  • Basic TCP/IP host configuration.
  • Setting a default route.

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109.3 Basic network troubleshooting.

  • Manually and automatically configure network interfaces and routing tables to include adding, starting, stopping, restarting, deleting or reconfiguring network interfaces.
  • Change, view or configure the routing table and correct an improperly set default route manually.
  • Debug problems associated with the network configuration.

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109.4 Configure client side DNS.

  • Query remote DNS servers.
  • Configure local name resolution and use remote DNS servers.
  • Modify the order in which name resolution is done.

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110 Security

110.1 Perform security administration tasks.

  • Audit a system to find files with the suid/sgid bit set.
  • Set or change user passwords and password aging information.
  • Being able to use nmap and netstat to discover open ports on a system.
  • Set up limits on user logins, processes and memory usage.
  • Determine which users have logged in to the system or are currently logged in.
  • Basic sudo configuration and usage.

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110.2 Setup host security.

  • Awareness of shadow passwords and how they work.
  • Turn off network services not in use.
  • Understand the role of TCP wrappers.

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110.3 Securing data with encryption.

  • Perform basic OpenSSH 2 client configuration and usage.
  • Understand the role of OpenSSH 2 server host keys.
  • Perform basic GnuPG configuration, usage, and revocation.
  • Understand SSH port tunnels (including X11 tunn)

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CTU Training Solutions , Updated: May 7th, 2018

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