Course Overview

This Unix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing UNIX shell scripts Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to develop and customise UNIX shell programs.

Course Content

UNIX Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation and regular expressions characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

UNIX Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

UNIX Introduction Course Overview

This Unix Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the UNIX Operating System. The most commonly used unix commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in the UNIX environment.

Course Content

UNIX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

UNIX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

UNIX Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands

Course Overview

This Unix Operating System and Shell Programming training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the UNIX Operating System. The most commonly used unix commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced. It is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shellscripts. Most of the built-in unix shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to work productively in a UNIX environment to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

UNIX Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

UNIX Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

UNIX Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands

UNIX Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation and regular expression characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 13: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 14: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 15: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 16: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 17: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 18: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

UNIX Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 19: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 20: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 21: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 22: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 23: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview

The UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of UNIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into UNIX shell scripts.

Course Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard UNIX programming and development tools.

Course Content

UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 2: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 3: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 4: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 7: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 8: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 9: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK AND,OR and range operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

UNIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 10: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 11: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 12: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 13: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

This instructor led Ubuntu Server Administration training course is designed to teach the key configuration,administration,networking,security,and performance tasks required on an Ubuntu Server.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have the required technical knowledge to administer Ubuntu Linux Server within the enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of the key configuration,administration,networking,security,and performance aspects of Ubuntu Linux Server.

Course Content

Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

  • User Private Group scheme
  • Files used in creating a user
  • Managing groups
  • Password administration
  • The Bash Shell environment
  • Extended permissions
  • Configuring Privilege Delegation via sudo
  • Monitoring login activity
  • Exercise

Session 2: FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS

  • File system types
  • The Linux I/O stack
  • MBR vs GPT partition tables
  • Partitioning a disk
  • Comparison of Linux file systems
  • Creating XFS and Btrfs file systems
  • Displaying disk usage
  • Mounting and unmounting file systems
  • Configuring labels and UUIDs
  • Exercise

Session 3: RAID

  • An overview of RAID levels
  • Creating,managing and modifying RAID arrays
  • Creating Nested RAID
  • Failing and replacing drives
  • Exercise

Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT

  • Logical Volume Management overview
  • Viewing LVM information
  • Configuring LVM
  • Resizing Logical Volumes
  • The role of the Device Mapper
  • Exercise

Session 5: ZFS

  • ZFS overview
  • Configuring,managing and modifying ZFS Pools
  • Tuning ZFS
  • Viewing ZFS statistics
  • ZFS Snapshots and Clones
  • Exercise

Session 6: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

  • The Debian Package Manager
  • Managing packages with apt
  • Managing software Snaps
  • Exercise

Session 7: INTRODUCTION TO THE VIM EDITOR

  • Vim overview
  • Basic functions
  • The language of Vim
  • Further Vim functions
  • The Vim Environment
  • Vim quick reference
  • Exercise

Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: SYSTEM INITIALISATION

  • Managing systemd
  • The Startup Script Framework
  • Starting and stopping services dynamically
  • Creating Systemd services,timers and mount units
  • Running transient units
  • Changing run levels and shutdown
  • Exercise

Session 9: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

  • Process monitoring tools
  • Scheduling processes with at and cron
  • The cron configuration files
  • crontab command options
  • Scheduling processes with anacron
  • Exercise

Session 10: LINUX NETWORKING

  • Networking overview
  • Network services and port numbers
  • Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  • Resolving hostnames and DNS
  • Secure communications via SSH
  • Capturing and analysing network packets
  • Configuring Network Time
  • Exercise

Session 11: LOCALISATION

  • Localisation overview
  • Locale variables
  • Converting character sets and encoding
  • Configuring the locale and keymap
  • Configuring the system and user time zone
  • Exercise

Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 12: CONFIGURING LINUX LOGGING

  • Configuring rsyslog
  • Configuring remote logging
  • Testing using logger
  • Managing logs with logrotate
  • Basic and advanced journal queries
  • Configuring the journal
  • Exercise

Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE

  • Archiving and restoring with tar
  • Cloning devices with dd
  • Compressing files
  • Transferring files with rsync
  • A comparison of backup programs
  • Exercise

Session 14: VIRTUALISATION AND CONTAINERS

  • Configuring KVM virtualisation
  • Installing and managing virtual systems
  • Understanding Linux containers
  • Pulling and running Docker containers
  • Exercise

Session 15: UBUNTU SECURITY

  • The Uncomplicated Firewall
  • Creating and managing UFW applications
  • Configuring AppArmor
  • Creating and modifying AppArmor profiles
  • Exercise


Course Overview

This course enables a new system operator to develop basic to intermediate level skills needed for day-to-day operations of IBM i. Specifically, the course explains how to:

  • Use the online help and references
  • Send, display, and reply to messages
  • Monitor and control jobs, devices, and job and output queues 
  • Start and stop the system
  • Create and change user profiles
  • Use authorization lists and group profiles
  • Manage system configuration
  • Save and restore objects, libraries, and the system
  • Monitor job and history logs
  • Diagnose a system problem
  • Order, receive, and apply PTFs 
  • Perform all of these functions using a 5250 emulation session as well as IBM i Access Client Solutions and IBM Navigator for i

Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture topics and prepare the student to successfully operate an IBM Power environment that runs IBM i.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

On completion participants will be able to:

  • Send, display, and respond to messages
  • Use the on-line help and reference material
  • Monitor and control job queues, active jobs and output queues
  • Create and change User Profiles
  • Use authorization lists and group profiles
  • Start and Stop the Operating System
  • Manage system devices, user display stations and printers S
  • ave and restore objects and libraries Monitor job and history logs
  • Diagnose System problems Order, receive and install PTFs.

Course Content

  • Unit 1. IBM Power and IBM i concepts and overview
  • Unit 2. Reference material and support
  • Unit 3. Overview of IBM i Access Client Solutions
  • Unit 4. Overview of 5250 emulation and help
  • Unit 5. Overview of IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 6. Messaging concepts
  • Unit 7. Messaging using 5250 emulation
  • Unit 8. Messaging with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 9. CL command concepts
  • Unit 10.CL commands with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 11.Concepts: Object, library, and the IFS
  • Unit 12.Object management with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 13.Object management with IBM i Access Client Solutions
  • Unit 14.Introduction to work management
  • Unit 15.Work management with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 16.Job control with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 17.Job control with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 18.Print concepts
  • Unit 19.Print control with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 20.IBM i Access Client Solutions printer output
  • Unit 21.Print control with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 22.Starting and stopping the system
  • Unit 23.IBM i security concepts
  • Unit 24.System security with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 25.System security with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 26.System configuration overview
  • Unit 27.Configuration with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 28.Configuration with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 29.Control language programming
  • Unit 30.IBM DB2 for i introduction
  • Unit 31.Save concepts
  • Unit 32.Save with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 33.Restore concepts and overview
  • Unit 34.Problem determination with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 35.Overview of the PTF process
  • Unit 36.PTFs with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 37.Storage management
  • Unit 38.Introduction to IBM i performance tuning

Course Overview

This is a 4-day ILT course that is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to support and troubleshoot Windows 11 PCs and devices in an on-premises Windows Server Active Directory domain environment.

These skills include understanding:

– Important Windows 11 features

– How these features are used in an Active Directory

– How to troubleshoot these features

Course Objectives

By the end of this course students will be able to;

  • Describe the processes involved in planning and using a troubleshooting methodology for Windows 11.
  • Troubleshoot startup issues and operating system services on a Windows 11 PC.
  • Perform system recovery.
  • Resolve issues related to hardware devices and device drivers.
  • Administer Windows 11 devices.
  • Troubleshoot issues related to network connectivity.
  • Configure Windows 11 devices by using Group Policy.
  • Configure and troubleshoot user settings.
  • Configure and troubleshoot resource access.
  • Implement remote connectivity.
  • Deploy and troubleshoot applications.
  • Maintain Windows 11 devices.

Course Content

Module 1: Introducing Windows 11

This module describes the new Windows 11 operating system features and devices, with a particular focus on what’s changed since Windows 10. The modules also describes the process of developing and applying a Windows 11 troubleshooting methodology.

Lessons for Module 1:

  • Overview of Windows 11
  • New features in Windows 11
  • Highlight significant changes from Windows 10
  • Brief overview of UI changes
  • Includes overview of system architecture, including both Linux and Androidsubsystems
  • Troubleshooting installation and deployment
  • Overview of required hardware, identifying differences from Windows 10
  • Describe common reasons why devices cannot upgrade to Windows 11
  • Recommendations for typical troubleshooting procedures
  • Introduction to troubleshooting tools
  • Task Manager
  • Resource Monitor
  • Performance Monitor
  • Review of revised Settings app

Module 2: Administering Windows 11 Remotely

This module describes how to use the various remote administration tools in Windows 11 to resolve issues. It describes the features and functionalities of tools such as Windows Admin Center, Remote Desktop, Quick Assist, and Windows PowerShell.

Lessons for Mdoule 2:

  • Overview of administration tools
  • Using Remote Desktop
  • Using Quick Assist
  • Using Windows Admin Center
  • Introduction to Windows PowerShell
  • Remoting with Windows PowerShell
  • Enabling PowerShell Remoting
  • Trusted hosts
  • Introduction to provisioning

Module 3: Troubleshooting startup and performing system recovery

This module describes potential problems that can cause startup issues in Windows 11. It also provides an overview of the Windows startup process, including the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Boot Configuration Data (BCD). It also describes how to resolve issues related to operating system services and how to recover a computer.

Lessons for Module 3:

  • Overview of the Windows 11 Recovery Environment
  • Configuring the Registry
  • Troubleshooting startup settings
  • Recovering BitLocker-protected drives
  • Troubleshooting OS service Issues
  • Recovering a computer

Module 4: Troubleshooting devices and device drivers

This module explores how to troubleshoot issues related to hardware devices and device drivers.

Lessons for Module 4:

  • Overview of hardware troubleshooting
  • Group Policy settings than can control/inhibit hardware installation
  • Troubleshooting device driver failures

Module 5: Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity

This module describes how to identify network settings and troubleshoot issues related to network connectivity in wired and wireless networks, IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, and name resolution. This module also provides an overview of Remote Access and describes how to troubleshoot issues with VPN connectivity.

Lessons for Module 5:

  • Identifying incorrectly configured network and TCP/IP settings
  • Overview of IPv4 subnet addressing to help identify incorrectly configured devices
  • Determining Network Settings
  • Troubleshooting network connectivity
  • Troubleshooting name resolution
  • Overview of remote access
  • Troubleshooting issues with VPN connectivity

Module 6: Troubleshooting Group Policy

This module provides an overview of Group Policy application and describes how to resolve issues in client configuration GPO application.

Lessons for Mdoule 6:

  • Overview of Group Policy
  • Resolving client-configuration failures and GPO application issues

Module 7: Configuring and Troubleshooting Security Settings

This module describes various security settings in Windows 11, including Credential Guard, Exploit Guard, and Application Guard. Windows Hello authentication is also covered, in addition to common sign-in issues, how to detect them, and how to troubleshoot these issues. The module also explains ways to secure the startup environment, including Secure Boot and related technologies.

Lessons for Module 7:

  • Overview of Secure Boot, Trusted Boot, Measured Boot
  • UEFI settings
  • TPM requirements
  • Implementing network security with Windows Defender Firewall and Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
  • Implementing Credential Guard, Exploit Guard, and Application Guard
  • Configuring Windows Hello
  • Troubleshooting sign-in issues

Module 8: Configuring and Troubleshooting User State

This module provides guidance on configuring and troubleshooting user state synchronization in an on-premises network. This includes managing roaming profiles, UE-V, and folder redirection.

Lessons for Module 8:

  • Troubleshooting the application of user settings
  • Configuring and troubleshooting UE-V
  • Configuring and troubleshooting Folder Redirection

Module 9: Configuring and Troubleshooting Resource Access

This module describes how to troubleshoot issues with file permissions and printer access. It also describes how to configure and manage file recovery in Windows 11.

Lessons for Mdoule 9:

  • Troubleshooting file permissions issues
  • Troubleshooting issues with printers
  • Performing File Recovery in Windows 11

Module 10: Troubleshooting applications

This module explains how to troubleshoot common desktop application operations issues. It also describes the Universal Windows apps and the Microsoft Store. The module also explains how to resolve issues related to Application Control and AppLocker policies. Finally, the module covers how to enable and configure Kiosk mode.

Lessons for Module 10:

  • Troubleshooting desktop apps
  • Managing Universal Windows apps
  • Overview of Application Control
  • Troubleshooting AppLocker Policy application
  • Troubleshooting application compatibility Issues
  • Configuring Kiosk mode

Module 11: Maintaining Windows 11

This module describes how to identify performance issues in Windows 11. It also explains how to manage and troubleshoot Windows updates.

Lessons for Module 11:

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Computer Performance
  • Overview of Windows Update
  • Configuring Windows Update for Business
  • Troubleshooting Windows updates


Classroom Live Labs

Lab: Using Windows 11 Troubleshooting Tools

  • Use Windows 11 troubleshooting tools

Lab: Administering Windows 11 remotely

  • Implement Remote Desktop
  • Manage remote computers using Windows PowerShell

Lab: Troubleshooting startup and performing system recovery

  • Explore Windows RE
  • Resolve a startup issue
  • Configure and recover BitLocker
  • Recover a computer after failure

Lab: Troubleshooting devices and device drivers

  • Troubleshoot missing drivers
  • Resolve a hardware issue

Lab: Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity

  • Troubleshoot a network connectivity issue
  • Troubleshoot name resolution
  • Troubleshoot remote access

Lab: Troubleshooting Group Policy

  • Troubleshoot the application of GPOs on client devices

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting Security Settings

  • Resolve a sign-in issue

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting User State

  • Configure UE/V
  • Configure Folder Redirection
  • Troubleshoot Folder Redirection

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting Resource Access

  • Resolve a file access issue
  • Troubleshoot printing
  • Recover files

Lab: Troubleshooting applications

  • Troubleshoot AppLocker
  • Provision a kiosk device

Lab: Maintaining Windows 11

  • Review computer performance
  • Configure Windows Update

Course Overview

This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing SOLARIS shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

This Solaris Shell Programming course provides the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

Solaris Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: SOLARIS COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation and regular expression characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Solaris Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. The course also gives practical experience using a range of Solaris tools to manipulate text and incorporate into Solaris shell scripts.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs and to make effective use of a wide range of standard Solaris programming and development tools.

Course Content

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercises: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 14: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 15: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 16: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 17: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 18: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 19: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 20: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 21: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 22: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 23: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 24: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 25: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

Solaris Introduction Course Overview

This Solaris Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the SOLARIS Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Solaris curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered

Course Objectives

This Solaris Introduction course provides the skills needed to work productively in the SOLARIS environment.

Course Content

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands