•     History of UNIX & LINUX
•     Basic Concepts of Operating Systems, Kernel, shell and file system structure

•     Different types of Installation Methods

              -    GUI
              -    Text

•     Basic concepts of Linux
•     Differences between Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Cent OS
•     Basic bash commands of Linux
•     Editors [GUI & CLI]

•     What is booting and boot process of Linux?
•     Init Process or Runlevels

•     Description of a Repository
•     Difference between RPM and YUM
•     Configuration of YUM server
•     Installing and deleting software packages
•     Querying and updating software packages

•     Types of Users in Linux
•     Creating and deleting Users and Groups
•     Modifying Users profile
•     Adding Users into the Groups
•     Important system files related to User & Group administration

•     Definition of Partition
•     Types of Partitions
•     Difference between ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems
•     Creating partitions using fdisk utility
•     Formatting partitions using mkfs to create filesystems
•     Mounting various filesystems temporarily and permanently

•     What is LVM?
•     Conversion of Partition into Physical Volume
•     Creating volume groups and logical volumes
•     Mounting the logical volume filesystems
•     Extend and Reduce the logical volumes.
•     Data storage using LVM
•     Renaming volume groups and logical volumes
•     Removing physical volume, volume group and logical volume

•     Introduction to various types of backup media
•     Backup and restoring using tar commands
•     Automation of Jobs

•     Configuring NFS server
•     Mounting NFS exports on clients

•     Basics of NIS
•     Configuring NIS Servers and client
•     Creating NIS users

•     Basics of Internet
•     Basics of DNS and BIND 9
•     Configuring DNS primary server

•     Configuring Linux as DHCP Server
•     Configuring various clients for DHCP Server

•     Basics of Web Service
•     Introduction to Apache
•     Configuring Apache for main site
•     Configuring Apache for multiple sites using IP-based, port based and name-based

•     Basics of File Transfer Protocol.
•     Configuring vsftpd for anonymous ftp service.

    Basics of proxy services
    Configuring proxy services
    Creating ACL's for controlling access to internet

•     Basics of file sharing in Windows
•     Configuring Samba service for file sharing with windows systems

•     Basics of Mail Servers
•     Configuring SMTP service using sendmail

•     Importance of logs
•     Configuring Syslog Messages

•     Configuring Physical IP Address
•     Configuring Virtual IP Address
•     Enabling & Disabling the Network Connections
•     Iptables

• Basics of Shell scripting

•     Recovering the super user password.
•     Troubleshooting network related problems.