1.
0 System Management
1.2 Given a scenario, manage files and directories
File editing
- sed
- awk
- printf
- nano
- vi(m)
File compression archiving, and backup
- gzip
- bzip2
- zip
- tar
- xz
- cpio
- dd
File metadata
- stat
- file
Soft and hard link
Copying files between systems
- rsync
- scp
- nc
File and directory operations
- mv
- cp
- mkdir
- rmdir
- ls
- pwd
- rm
- cd
- .
- ..
- ~
- tree
- cat
- touch
1.3 Given a scenario, configure and manage storage using the appropriate tools.
Disk partitioning- Commands
- fdisk
- parted
- partprobe
Mounting local and remote devices
- systemd.mount
- /etc/fstab
- mount
- Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS)
- External devices
Filesystem management
- XFS tools
- Ext4 tools
- Btrfs tools
Monitoring storage space and disk usage
- df
- du
Creating and modifying volumes using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- pvs
- vgs
- lvs
- lvchange
- lvcreate
- vgcreate
- lvresize
- pvcreate
- vgextend
Inspecting RAID implementations
- mdadm
- /proc/mdstat
Storage area network (SAN)/ network-attached storage (NAS)
- multipathd
- Network filesystems
- Network File System (NFS)
- Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS)
Storage hardware
- lsscsi
- lsblk
- blkid
- fcstat
1.4 Given a scenario, configure and use the appropriate processes and services.
System services
- systemctl
- stop
- start
- restart
- status
- enable
- disable
- mask
Scheduling services
- cron
- crontab
- at
Process management
- Kill signals
• SIGTERM
• SIGKILL
• SIGHUP
- Listing processes and open files
- top
- ps
- lsof
- htop
- Setting priorities
- nice
- renice
Process states
- Zombie
- Sleeping
- Running
- Stopped
- Job control
- bg
- fg
- jobs
- Ctrl+Z
- Ctrl+C
- Ctrl+D
- pgrep
- pkill
- pidof
1.5 Given a scenario, use the appropriate networking tools or configuration files.
Interface management
- iproute2 tools
- ip
- ss
- NetworkManager
- nmcli
- net-tools
- ifconfig
- ifcfg
- hostname
- arp
- route
- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
- Name resolution
- nsswitch
- /etc/resolv.conf
- systemd
- hostnamectl
- resolvectl
- Bind-utils
- dig
- nslookup
- host
- WHOIS
Network monitoring
- tcpdump
- wireshark/tshark
- netstat
- traceroute
- ping
- mtr
Remote networking tools
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- cURL
- wget
- nc
- rsync
- Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
- SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
1.6 Given a scenario, build and install software.
Package management
- DNF
- YUM
- APT
- RPM
- dpkg
- ZYpp
Sandboxed applications
- snapd
- Flatpak
- AppImage
System updates
- Kernel updates
- Package updates
1.7 Given a scenario, manage software configurations.
Updating configuration files
- Procedures
- Restart service
- Reload service
- .rpmnew
- .rpmsave Repository configuration files
- /etc/apt.conf
- /etc/yum.conf
- /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
- /etc/yum.repo.d
- /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Configure kernel options
- Parameters
- sysctl
- /etc/sysctl.conf
- Modules
- lsmod
- rmmod
- insmod
- modprobe
- modinfo
Configure common system services
- SSH
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Syslog
- chrony
Localization
- timedatectl
- localectl
