Accessing the Command Line

• Access the command line locally and remotely;
• Manage administration privileges from the command line

Command Line Tools

• Use hardlinks;
• Use archives and compression;
• Use vim

Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

• Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output;
• Redirect and pipe output

Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

•  Configure network settings;
• Troubleshoot network issues

Managing Partitions and Filesystems

• Create and format partitions,
• Create and manage swap partitions ;
• Create and manage encrypted partitions

Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

• Implement LVM;
• Implement LVM snapshots

Access Network File Sharing Services

• NFS,
• CIFS
•  Autofs

Managing User Accounts

• Manage user accounts including password aging;
• Connect to a central LDAP directory service

Controlling Access to Files

• Manage group memberships,
• File permissions;
• Access control lists (ACL)

Managing SELinux

• Activate and deactivate SELinux;
• Set file contexts;
• Manage SELinux booleans;
• Analyze SELinux logs

Installing and Managing Software

•  Manage software and query information with yum,
•  Configure client-side yum repository files

Managing Installed Services

• Managing services,
• Verify connectivity to a service

Analyzing and Storing Logs

• Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

Managing Processes

• Identify and terminal processes,
• Change the priority of a process,
• Use cron and at to schedule processes

Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

• List, load, and remove modules;
• Use kernel arguments

Troubleshooting

• Understand the boot process,
• Resolve boot problems

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