The course is designed for highly experienced administrators with a RHCE certification or similar, with significant professional experience. The course is not intended for those with only a Microsoft system administration background. Administrators with less than five years of active, professional experience are recommended to take the
Deploying Ubuntu Server Edition course.
Attendees should already have an
Ubuntu Certified Professional, LPI Level 1 and Level 2 certification, and / or an RHCE certification, and / or or the equivalent training and working knowledge of Solaris, HPUX, Red Hat or other RPM Package Management distributions.
They should also have a solid understanding of:
- SSH
- Setting up password-free authentication
- bash
- History operations
- Working with the environment
- Loops and simple shell scripts
- lBasic configuration of services such as
- Client-side DNS
- Apache
- MySQL
- NFS and/or Samba
- Postfix
- TCP/IP networking and configuration
- Static interface configuration
- DHCP interface configuration
- Booting and system initialization
- Starting and stopping a service
- Writing System V init scripts
- Package Management basics
- Knowledge of debian package management system or RPM
- A text editor like vi or emacs
Self Assessment
To assist you to select the most suitable Ubuntu
training course for your level of knowldge, please feel free to take the
Canonical self-assessment.This accelerated course focuses on using Ubuntu command line tools. By drawing on the participant's existing knowledge base, common tasks and strategies for deployment, installation, security and package management are quickly accomplished using the Ubuntu server software. RPM package management system administration methods and tools are demonstrated in the “Ubuntu Way.”
