Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: CSIT 180
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course provides students with an understanding of Linux operating systems with an emphasis on Linux Server operating systems. It focuses on the installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting of Linux operating systems. Topics covered include administration of Linux systems, application servers, such as web, mail, ftp, and file/print servers, basic scripting, interworking services, such as TCP/IP and secure shell, as well as file sharing in hybrid environments using SAMBA with Windows, system performance and tuning, system security, package installation and removal, logging, scheduling, and Linux tools. This course helps prepare students for network server administration certification exams, such as CompTIA Server+ and Linux+ and Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1 (LPIC-1) exams. C-ID ITIS-155.