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 …
Weight: 4 Description: Candidates should be able to redirect streams and connect them in order to efficiently process textual data. Tasks include redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error, piping the output of one command to the input of another command, using the output of one command as arguments …
Weight: 4 Description: Candidates should be able to use the basic Linux commands to manage files and directories. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should should be able to apply filters to text streams. Key Knowledge Areas: Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package Terms and Utilities: cat cut expand fmt head join …
Weight: 4 Description: Candidates should be able to interact with shells and commands using the command line. The objective assumes the Bash shell. Key Knowledge Areas: Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line Use and modify the shell environment including …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should be able to perform package management using RPM and YUM tools. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 …
Weight: 3 Description: Candidates should be able to perform package management using the Debian package tools. Key Knowledge Areas: 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 …