Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should be able to create and manage hard and symbolic links to a file. Key Knowledge Areas: Create links Identify hard and/or soft links Copying versus linking files Use links to support system administration tasks Terms and Utilities: ln ls link A hard link is a …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should be able to control file access through the proper use of permissions and ownerships. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 …
Weight: 1 Description: Candidates should be able to manage disk quotas for users. Key Knowledge Areas: Set up a disk quota for a filesystem Edit, check and generate user quota reports Terms and Utilities: quota edquota repquota quotaon quota root@dclab-u1504s:/home/oldhorse# which quota /usr/bin/quota root@dclab-u1504s:/home/oldhorse# which quotaon /sbin/quotaon root@dclab-u1504s:/home/oldhorse# cat /etc/fstab …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should be able to configure the mounting of a filesystem. Key Knowledge Areas: Manually mount and unmount filesystems Configure filesystem mounting on bootup Configure user mountable removable filesystems Terms and Utilities: /etc/fstab /media/ mount umount mount show up mounts FS – mount – cat /dev/mounts or …
Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should be able to maintain a standard filesystem, as well as the extra data associated with a journaling filesystem. Key Knowledge Areas: Verify the integrity of filesystems Monitor free space and inodes Repair simple filesystem problems Terms and Utilities: du df fsck e2fsck mke2fs debugfs dumpe2fs …
Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should be able to configure disk partitions and then create filesystems on media such as hard disks. This includes the handling of swap partitions. Key Knowledge Areas: Manage MBR partition tables Use various mkfs commands to create various – – filesystems such as: ext2/ext3/ext4 XFS VFAT …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should be able to edit text files using vi. This objective includes vi navigation, basic vi modes, inserting, editing, deleting, copying and finding text. Key Knowledge Areas: Navigate a document using vi Use basic vi modes Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text Terms and Utilities: …
Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should be able to manipulate files and text data using regular expressions. This objective includes creating simple regular expressions containing several notational elements. It also includes using regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content. Key Knowledge Areas: Create simple regular expressions …
Weight: 2 Description: Candidates should should be able to manage process execution priorities. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 Terms and Utilities: nice ps renice …
Weight: 4 Description: Candidates should be able to perform basic process management. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 Terms and Utilities: & bg fg jobs …