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Linux/Unix System Administration Series

Completion of the group of courses below earns students a Certificate of Linux/Unix System Administration from the Univeristy of Illinois. The goal of this series is to prepare students for a career as a system administrator. Upon completing this series students will have the skills needed for an entry level Linux/Unix system administrator.

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Throughout this series students will be operating and using real Linux machines. They will have root and console access to these machines online. Thus students will gain REAL experience as they learn about Unix and Linux.

Linux/Unix 1: The Unix file system
As the first course in the Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate series, this course familiarizes students with the Linux/Unix environment and covers the basics of system administration and user management. Students will learn and perform on real Unix/Linux systems that are provided by OST and can be accessed online.
Regular Price: $398.00


Linux/Unix 2: Networking and DNS
This is the second course in the Linux/Unix System Administration certificate series. In this course, students continue to administrate a real system. Some of the subjects covered in the course include IP addresses, the configuration of ethernet devices, the services offered by a Linux/Unix server, and DNS. At the end of the course, students will configure their very own DNS service from scratch and will be well on their way to having the skills of an entry level system administrator.
Regular Price: $398.00


Linux/Unix 3: Unix Services
The third course in the Linux/Unix System Administration certificate series covers the fundamentals necessary to run an email server and a web server. The first part of the course is devoted to email, how it works, the role of sendmail, aliases, and procmail filters. In the second part of the course, students install and configure their own Apache web server. They also learn how to reconfigure Apache so that it works in conjunction with PHP and postgreSQL.
Regular Price: $398.00


Linux/Unix 4: Scripting for Administrators Sed, Awk, and Perl
A system administrator would get completely overloaded if repetitive tasks were not automated. The fourth course in the Linux/Unix System Administation certificate series teaches the basics of sed, awk, and shell scripting. The majority of the course focuses on the undeniable power of Perl scripting in the hands of a system administrator.
Regular Price: $398.00