# mindmap

System:

• Hardware basics:
  • BIOS vs UEFI and Device Interfaces
  • Hardware modules
  • Storage basics
  • Storage alternatives
    • RAID
    • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Partitioning tools
  • Understanding Linux filesystems
• Package management:
  • Managing shared libraries
  • dpkg
  • apt-cache
  • apt-get
  • rpm
  • yum
• Administering the System
  • Managing users and groups
  • Managing email
  • Using Log and Journal files
  • Maintaining the system time
  • Understanding processes
    • ps
• Securing the System
  • Encryption methods
    • RSA Encryption
    • AES Encryption
  • TLS/SSL
  • Administering network security
  • Administering local security
  • Looking at SSH
  • Looking at GPG
• Booting and init process
  • Linux boot process
  • Bootloaders
    • GRUB2
    • GRUB Legacy
  • The initialization processes
    • systemd initialization process
    • sysV initialization process
  • Stopping the system
  • Notifying the users
• Linux Networking
  • Networking basics
  • Configuring network features
  • Basic network troubleshooting
    • ip
    • traceroute
  • Advanced Network troubleshooting
• Managing files
  • Hard links
  • Soft links
  • Managing file ownership
  • Controlling access to files
  • Locating files
• Firewalls
  • iptables