Domain 4.0 Administration

This domain requires the basic knowledge and skills to manage users, file systems, services, devices and run levels using common shell commands, administrative utilities, and superuser privileges.

4.1
Create and Delete Users

4.2
Modifying Existing User Account

4.3
Create, modify and delete groups
4.4
Identify and change file permissions, modes and types by using chmod, chown and chgrp
4.5
Manage and navigate the Linux hierarchy (e.g. /etc /usr /bin /var)
4.6
Manage and navigate the standard Linux file system (e.g. mv mkdir ls rm)
4.7
Perform administrative tasks while logged in as root, or by using the su command e.g. understand commands that are dangerous to the system)
4.8
Mount and manage filesystems and devices (e.g. /mnt /dev/ du df mount umount)
4.9
Describe and use the features of the multi-user environment (eg virtual terminals, multiple logins)
4.10
Use common shell commands and expression
4.11
Use network commands to connect to and manage remote systems (eg telnet ftp ssh netstat, transfer files, redirect Xwindow)
4.12
Create, extract and edit file and tape archives using tar
4.13
Manage runlevels using init and shutdown
4.14
Stop, start, and restart services (daemons) as needed (e.g. init files)
4.15
Manage print spools and queues
4.16
Create, edit, and save files using vi
4.17
Manage and navigate the Graphical User Interface
4.18
Program basic shell scripts using common shell commands (e.g. grep, find, cut, if)