A Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) will be able to:
- Proficiently install, configure, and operate Linux-based systems, whether on-premise or cloud-based
- Understand key concepts such as networking, storage, maintenance, logging, monitoring, security, automation, and troubleshooting
- Competently use Linux to deploy and operate applications and services
- Understand Linux networking fundamentals and its role of supporting cloud-native deployments
Operations and Deployment – 25%
- Configure kernel parameters, persistent and non-persistent
- Diagnose, identify, manage, and troubleshoot processes and services
- Manage or schedule jobs for executing commands
- Search for, install, validate, and maintain software packages or repositories
- Recover from hardware, operating system, or filesystem failures
- Manage Virtual Machines (libvirt)
- Configure container engines, create and manage containers
- Create and enforce MAC using SELinux
Essential Commands – 20%
- Basic Git Operations
- Create, configure, and troubleshoot services
- Monitor and troubleshoot system performance and services
- Determine application and service specific constraints
- Troubleshoot diskspace issues
- Work with SSL certificates
Storage – 20%
- Configure and manage LVM storage
- Manage and configure the virtual file system
- Create, manage, and troubleshoot filesystems
- Use remote filesystems and network block devices
- Configure and manage swap space
- Configure filesystem automounters
- Monitor storage performance
Users and Groups – 10%
- Create and manage local user and group accounts
- Manage personal and system-wide environment profiles
- Configure user resource limits
- Configure and manage ACLs
- Configure the system to use LDAP user and group accounts
Networking – 25%
- Configure IPv4 and IPv6 networking and hostname resolution
- Set and synchronize system time using time servers
- Monitor and troubleshoot networking
- Configure the OpenSSH server and client
- Configure packet filtering, port redirection, and NAT
- Configure static routing
- Configure bridge and bonding devices
- Implement reverse proxies and load balancers
