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| Topic 1 | - Remote Administration: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers the administration of Linux systems remotely using SSH, key-based authentication, and graphical remote access tools like VNC and RDP.
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| Topic 2 | - Network Management Fundamentals: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers physical network interfaces, configuration testing, and name resolution. It also introduces network management tools such as Wicked and YaST.
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| Topic 3 | - Extended Access Control Lists: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers the configuration and usage of Access Control Lists to provide more granular permission settings beyond the traditional owner-group-other model.
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| Topic 4 | - System Logging: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers logging mechanisms including kernel messages, system log daemons, log rotation, and journal logs managed by systemd, concluding with the use of Supportconfig for diagnostic data collection.
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| Topic 5 | - System and Service Management: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers managing system services with systemd, including starting, stopping, enabling, and disabling services and configuring system targets.
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| Topic 6 | - Logical Volume Manager: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers LVM concepts, configuration through command line and YaST, and usage of snapshots. It enables flexible disk management and efficient storage allocation.
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| Topic 7 | - Foreground and Background Processes: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers how to control job execution in the foreground and background, helping users multitask in the shell environment.
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| Topic 8 | - Task Scheduling: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers various methods for scheduling tasks in Linux, including cron for recurring jobs, at for one-time jobs, and systemd timers for integrated service management.
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| Topic 9 | - The Linux Filesystem: This section of the exam measures the skills of technical support engineers and covers the organization and structure of the Linux filesystem. It explains different Linux file types and how data is stored and accessed within the system’s directory hierarchy.
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| Topic 10 | - Process Management: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers the management of processes in a Linux environment. It includes how to start, monitor, and control processes efficiently during system operations.
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| Topic 11 | - Btrfs Management: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and focuses on creating, managing, and using Btrfs filesystems both through command line and YaST. It includes snapshot capabilities and subvolume usage.
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| Topic 12 | - The Command Line: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers the basics of interacting with the system using the command-line interface. It introduces the Bash shell, essential command-line utilities, and fundamental techniques like stream redirection and piping to manipulate output efficiently.
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| Topic 13 | - File and Directory Permissions: This section of the exam measures the skills of Linux system administrators and covers permission settings for files and directories, including ownership attributes and access control mechanisms that ensure proper user privileges.
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| Topic 14 | - Process Priority: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and focuses on how to manage and adjust the priority of processes to ensure proper system resource allocation during heavy workloads.
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| Topic 15 | - File System Permissions: This section of the exam measures the skills of technical support engineers and extends the understanding of permission schemes, focusing on how they affect security and access control within different filesystems.
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| Topic 16 | - VIM: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers the use of VIM, a powerful text editor commonly used in Linux environments. It focuses on editing configuration files and managing scripts effectively from the command line.
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| Topic 17 | - Signals and Process Termination: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers how processes respond to signals, how they can be terminated, and how users can send signals to processes through the command line.
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| Topic 18 | - Storage Management Fundamentals: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers disk partitioning, mounting volumes, and managing filesystems through both the command line and YaST. It provides the foundation for managing Linux storage devices effectively.
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| Topic 19 | - Privilege Delegation: This section of the exam measures skills of Linux system administrators and covers how Linux manages user permissions through effective and real IDs, as well as how to securely delegate privileges using sudo.
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| Topic 20 | - Manage Users and Groups from Command Line and YaST: This section of the exam measures skills of technical support engineers and covers user and group management using both the command line and the YaST administration tool. It includes account creation, modification, and group assignments.
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