I am familiar with Linux on my personal computer yet I have no experience in administrating systems. As a side job to university I applied to a job that requires some skills in administration and I wonder what skills I should work on for the interview. -Intern Geek
From a Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator experience…
- Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation
- Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines, and controlling services
- Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes
- Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists, and network file systems
- Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update, and core services
- Manage users and groups, including use of a centralized directory for authentication
- Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration
Basic Knowledge List for Linux Administrator :
- Basic commands (listing, cat, removing files/dir, nano, vi editor, more, tail etc )
- LVM
- User Authentication (user add, remove, lock, unlock, home dir, ssh access)
- Group Administration (group add, remove, sudo group)
- Using SSH, Disabling root for ssh access & using sudo
- Installing programs using rpm & yum (configuring yum)
- Configuring a network (basics)
- Types of process & Managing process (basics)
- Kill signals
- Backup and restore
- Types of Run levels
- NFS, Samba, NIS (basics)
- Cron and At Jobs
- FTP & using Filezilla (easy)
- Booting process
- Kernel Parameters (basics)
- Top, Nice values
- Services
- Scripting (very basic)
To clear a interview, I suggest to polish your skills depending on the company
For Example
If the company runs Web or DB Servers, then you should be familiar with installing LAMP Server and phpMyAdmin, mail servers and configuring them (which is absolutely very easy) & hardening of a server (basics)
(Tutorials: Tutorials | DigitalOcean , Hardening : How to secure an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server – Part 1 The Basics)
If you land on some big company then your first work will be monitoring system performance with maintaining a running environment. Be able to add additional systems
And at last learn some basics of Ubuntu commands (commands for installing packages in Ubuntu are different when compared to Red-hat but with the basics understood, you’ll be able to admin most common environments.).
Throughout the 2017 year I will be posting follow up details to Linux training. Eventually I’ll have some webinars for average user training in Linux.
