AWS has worked with Linux Academy to provide a hands-on training experience, and has developed two Amazon DynamoDB courses for AWS customers. Easily find and deploy minimal and hardened installations or specialized Linux distributions for security and GPU workloads. AWS Marketplace has free and paid listings. They're easy to use because there's no hardware to buy, and no infrastructure to maintain and most can be run on the AWS Free Tier. In this Linux certification series will prepare you for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 certification exam. While the series' main focus will be on Linux, where there's a parallel or overlap with the professional administration of deployments on Amazon's AWS architecture, we'll also highlight the skills you'll need to integrate the cloud into your Linux portfolio.

Course content

Linux Administration

Introduction to Linux

• Introduction to Linux
• Basics of Shell
• Basics of Kernel
• CentOS 8 installation and VBox additions
• Basic Linux Commands
• ECHO and EXPR command
• Set and unset a variable
• Header of a shell script (#!)

Labs: Executing basic Linux commands, Installing CentOS 8 on VirtualBox and adding guest additions to the installed OS.

 File Management

• Text editors and file creation
• Users, Groups and Processes
• Root and Linux file hierarchy
• Understanding file hierarchy
• Understanding file permissions
• chmod and chown commands
• the LS command
• Metacharacters
• Editing a file using VIM
• Displaying contents of a file
• Copy, Move and Remove files

Labs: Using VIM, Creating users and groups, Creating files and directories, Assigning file permissions and ownership using chmod and chown, Editing files in VIM.

Files and Processes

• Everything is a file in UNIX/Linux (files, directories, executables, processes)
• Process control commands (ps and kill)
• other process control tools (top, nice, renice).

Labs: Executing ps and kill commands on running services, Monitoring the OS using top.

Introduction to Shell Scripting

• What is shell scripting
• Types of shell
• Creating and writing a shell script
• Changing the permission of the shell script
• Executing the script
• Environment variables
• Defining a local and a global variable
• User input in a shell script.

Labs: Creating a shell script, Writing and executing the shell script, creating a local and a global variable, taking input from the user in a shell script.

Automating Programs

• Run Levels
• /etc/rc.d Files
• Customization of Run Levels
• cron and anacron
• at and batch

Login Options

• Console Logon
• Controlling Console Login
• Virtual Consoles
• Serial Login
• Remote Login
• ssh Login

Building a Custom Linux Kernel 

• Kernel Versions
• Kernel Source Files
• Kernel Patch Files
• Kernel Configuration
• Kernel Building
• Testing a New Kernel

The GNU/Linux Filesystem 

• Partition Types
• Filesystem Types
• Mounting
• Automount
• File Types
• File Security

Key Filesystem Locations

• Boot Files
• User Files
• Administrator Files
• Configuration Files
• Log Files

The /proc Pseudo Filesystem

• Process Info
• Kernel Config Info
• Hardware Info
• Changing /proc Info
• Sysctl

BASH – Borne Again Shell 

• Key /bin Commands
• Key /sbin Commands
• History
• man and info
• vi
• Using Shell Scripts

User Management 

• Users and Groups
• Home Directories
• Password Files
• PAM
• Quotas
• NIS Intro

Software Management 

• tar Files
• Patch Files
• RPM

Hardware Management

• Types of Devices
• /dev Namespace
• Modules

Database Connectivity

• Installing and configuring MySQL
• Securing MySQL
• Running Queries from terminal
• Running Queries from a shell script.

Labs: Downloading and installing MySQL, Connecting to MySQL from terminal, Querying directly from the terminal, Pushing the query result inside a file, CRUD operations from a shell script.

Network Management 

• Types of Network Devices
• Monitoring Network Devices
• Controlling Network Services
• xinted
• iptables

Network Services – Part I 

• DHCP
• DNS
• SSH

Network Services – Part II

• FTP
• NFS
• Samba

Network Services – Part III 

• Sendmail
• Apache
• Squid Proxy Server

The X Window System 

• X Servers and X Clients
• XFree86
• X Fonts
• GTK and KDE

Exam Practice

Installation Challenges

Configuration Challenges

Troubleshooting Challenges

AWS Solution Architect

Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

• Course Introduction
• Introduction of Cloud Computing
• Key characteristics of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Analogy
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Cloud Computing Deployment Models
• Comparison between Cloud and Legacy IT systems
• Advantages of Cloud Computing

AWS Cloud Overview

• Introduction to AWS Cloud
• History of AWS Cloud
• Global Infrastructure of AWS
• AWS Service scope in this course
• AWS Global vs. Regional Services
• Overview on Billing and Pricing

AWS Free Tier Account

• Introduction
• AWS Free Tier Account Creation
• Basic account Setting & Management
• Setting up Billing Alarm & Budget
• Activate MFA on Root Account

AWS IAM: Security & Authentication

• Introduction to Identity & Access Management
• Components of IAM
• Creating and Managing Users & Groups
• Creating and Managing IAM Policies
• Roles and its use cases
• Multi-Factor Authentication – [MFA]
• Security Token Service [STS]
• Security Features in IAM
• Best Practices of IAM
• Pricing

AWS Compute (EC2, ECS, Lambda and Lightsail) 

• Introduction to EC2
• EC2 vs. Traditional Servers
• Introduction to Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and its Uses
• Configuring EC2 Instance and its types
• Security Groups – Creation & Management
• Launching & Connecting to EC2 instance (Hands On)
• Instance User Data and Instance Metadata
• Instance User Data and Instance Metadata (Hands On)
• Setting up a web server on EC2 Instance – Hosting a website
• Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS)
• AWS Lambda (Serverless Computing)
• AWS Lambda Hands On
• Amazon Lightsail
• Amazon Lightsail Hands on (create Lightsail WordPress Site)
• Pricing

AWS Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Configuration

• Introduction
• Types of Load Balancer in AWS
• Important Components of Load Balancer
• How Health-Check Works for Load Balancer
• Creating and Configuring Application Load Balancer (Hands On)
• Understanding Launch Configuration and AutoScaling Group
• Creating and Configuring Autoscaling group (Hands On)
• Pricing

AWS Storage (S3, EFS and Storage Gateway)

• Introduction to Storage services
• Difference Between Object, Block and File Storage
• Introduction to Simple Storage Service (S3)
• S3 Storage Classes (or Tiers)
• S3 Consistency model
• Important Properties, Permissions and Management of S3 bucket
• Versioning of Objects
• Hosting a static-website in S3 (Hands On)
• Cross-Region & Same Region replication in S3
• S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Security feature of S3-Encryption, Bucket Policy and Permissions
• Storage Pricing
• Launch EC2 instance with IAM role and view data
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• AWS EBS Volume types
• Amazon EBS snapshots
• Instance Store Volumes
• Take snapshot, create AMI and Launch new Instance
• AWS Elastic File System (EFS)
• Create and mount EFS (Hands On)
• AWS Storage Gateway
• Pricing (Block store, EFS and Storage Gateway)

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Introduction
• Amazon VPC
• Amazon VPC console Walkthrough Hands On
• Create Custom VPC Hands On
• IP Address and CIDR Block concepts
• Subnet and Route Tables
• Public, Private and Elastic IP addresses
• Internet Gateway and NAT
• Creating and managing NAT Gateways and NAT Instances
• Network Access Control List – NACL
• VPC Peering and VPC Endpoints
• Securely Connecting to the VPC
• VPN and CGW

AWS Relational Database Services (RDS)

• Introduction to RDS
• Components of RDS
• DB engines provided by RDS
• Snapshots and Back-up in RDS
• Read Replicas in RDS
• Creating and connecting to a RDS database
• RDS Security Groups
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon DynamoDB Table Hands On
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Elasticache
• Limitations and Best Practice – RDS
• Pricing in RDS

AWS Content Delivery

• Introduction to CloudFront
• Create CloudFront Distribution with S3 Bucket (Hands On)
• CloudFront Caching, Caching Invalidations and Cache Hit Ratio
• Pricing

AWS Monitoring and Logging services 

• Introduction
• Important Components of CloudWatch
• Create and view Alarms & Events in CloudWatch
• Amazon CloudTrail
• Create and view CloudTrail records
• Limitations and Best Practices
• Pricing

AWS Automation and Platform services

• Introduction to Cloud Automation
• CloudFormation introduction
• CloudFormation Stack creation Hands On
• Understanding Beanstalk
• Benefits of Beanstalk
• Create/ Deploy PHP application with Beanstalk service
• Pricing

AWS Migration and Data Transfer services

• Introduction
• AWS Data Migration Service
• AWS Server Migration Service
• AWS Snowball
• AWS Snowmobile
• AWS Migration Hub

AWS Cloud Security and Encryption

• AWS Security Overview
• AWS Shared Security Responsibility Model
• AWS Cloud Compliance and AWS Artifact
• AWS Config
• KMS and CloudHSM
• AWS Inspector and Trusted Advisor
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard
• AWS WAF & Shield
• AWS Direct Connect
• IAM Identity Providers and Federation
• AWS Single Sign-on
• AWS Directory Service
• AWS Macie
• Use cases and Pricing

AWS DNS Service and Routing Policies 

• Introduction to Route53
• How Route53 Works
• Domain Registration in Route53
• Health Checks in Route53
• Routing Policies in Route53
• Creating and Managing different Routing Policies
• Records Sets supported by Route53
• Alarms and Notifications in Route53
• Limitations & Best Practices in Route53
• Pricing – Route53

DynamoDB, AWS NoSQL Database Service 

• Difference between SQL and NoSQL
• Components of DynamoDB
• AutoScaling in DynamoDB
• DynamoDB Streams
• Primary and Secondary Indexing in DynamoDB
• Data Distribution in DynamoDB
• Backup and Monitoring in DynamoDB
• Creating Table and loading data into DynamoDB
• Best Practices – DynamoDB
• Pricing in DynamoDB

AWS Cloud Management Services 

• Understanding and configuring Trusted Advisor
• Understanding and configuring Config
• Understanding and configuring AWS System Manager
• Use Cases
• Pricing

AWS AWS SNS, Notification Service 

• How SNS Works?
• Important Components of SNS
• Creating and Managing Topics in SNS
• Adding Subscriber in SNS
• Managing SNS Policies
• Pricing in SNS

AWS Kinesis

• Types of Data Streaming in Kinesis
• Kinesis Firehose and its Architecture
• Kinesis Analytics and its Architecture
• Best Practice in Kinesis
• Use cases
• Pricing in Kinesis

AWS CLI, Amazon Command Line Interface

• Setting-Up AWS CLI on local machine
• Creating Users and groups using AWS CLI
• Creating & Managing Policy using AWS CLI
• Creating and Managing IAM Roles using AWS CLI
• AWS CLI Command Syntax walkthrough

AWS SQS

• How SQS Works – Architectural Walkthrough
• Important Components of SQS
• Pricing in SQS
• Best Practice – SQS

AWS Billing and Pricing

• Introduction
• AWS Budgets and Cost Explorer
• AWS Monthly Cost Calculator and TCO
• AWS Monthly Cost Calculation with an example
• AWS Support Plans
• AWS Resource grouping and Tagging
• AWS Organization and Consolidated Billing
• Pricing discussed as per modules above

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