• Enable and disable integrated peripherals
• Configure systems with or without external peripherals such as keyboards
• Differentiate between the various types of mass storage devices
• Set the correct hardware ID for different devices, especially the boot device
• Know the differences between coldplug and hotplug devices
• Determine hardware resources for devices
• Tools and utilities to list various hardware information (e.g., lsusb, lspci, etc.)
• Tools and utilities to manipulate USB devices
• Conceptual understanding of sysfs, udev, hald, dbus
• Terms: /sys, /proc, /dev, modprobe, lsmod, lspci, lsusb

• Provide common commands to the boot loader and options to the kernel at boot time
• Demonstrate knowledge of the boot sequence from BIOS to boot completion
• Check boot events in the log file
• Terms: /var/log/messages, dmesg, BIOS, bootloader, kernel, init

• Set the default run level
• Change between run levels including single user mode
• Shutdown and reboot from the command line
• Alert users before switching run levels or other major system events
• Properly terminate processes
• Knowledge of basic features of systemd and Upstart
• Terms: /etc/inittab, shutdown, init, /etc/init.d, telinit

• Allocate filesystems and swap space to separate partitions or disks
• Tailor the design to the intended use of the system
• Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting
• Knowledge of basic features of LVM
• Terms: / (root) filesystem, /var filesystem, /home filesystem, swap space, mount points, partitions

• Providing alternative boot locations and backup boot options
• Install and configure a boot loader such as GRUB Legacy
• Perform basic configuration changes for GRUB 2
• Interact with the boot loader
• Terms: /boot/grub/menu.lst, grub.cfg and other variations, grub-install, MBR, superblock

• Identify shared libraries
• Identify the typical locations of system libraries
• Load shared libraries
• Terms: ldd, ldconfig, /etc/ld.so.conf, LD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Install, upgrade and uninstall Debian binary packages
• Find packages containing specific files or libraries which may or may not be installed
• Obtain package information like version, content, dependencies, package integrity and installation status (whether or not the package is installed)
• Terms: /etc/apt/sources.list, dpkg, dpkg-reconfigure, apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude

• Install, re-install, upgrade and remove packages using RPM and YUM
• Obtain information on RPM packages such as version, status, dependencies, integrity and signatures
• Determine what files a package provides, as well as find which package a specific file comes from
• Terms: rpm, rpm2cpio, /etc/yum.conf, /etc/yum.repos.d/, yum, yumdownloader

103.1 Work on the command line (Chapter 1) Use single shell commands and one line command sequences to perform basic tasks on the command line Use and modify the shell environment including defining, referencing and exporting environment variables Use and edit command history Invoke commands inside and outside the defined path The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: ., bash, echo, env, exec, export, pwd, set, unset, man, uname, history

103.2 Process text streams using filters (Chapter 1) Send text files and output streams through text utility filters to modify the output using standard UNIX commands found in the GNU textutils package The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: cat, cut, expand, fmt, head, od, join, nl, paste, pr, sed, sort, split, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc

103.3 Perform basic file management (Chapter 4) Copy, move and remove files and directories individually Copy multiple files and directories recursively Remove files and directories recursively Use simple and advanced wildcard specifications in commands Using find to locate and act on files based on type, size, or time Usage of tar, cpio, and dd The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: cp, find, mkdir, mv, ls, rm, rmdir, touch, tar, cpio, dd, file, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, file globbing

103.4 Use streams, pipes and redirects (Chapter 1) Redirecting standard input, standard output and standard error Pipe the output of one command to the input of another command Use the output of one command as arguments to another command Send output to both stdout and a file The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: tee, xargs

103.5 Create, monitor and kill processes (Chapter 2) Run jobs in the foreground and background Signal a program to continue running after logout Monitor active processes Select and sort processes for display Send signals to processes The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: &, bg, fg, jobs, kill, nohup, ps, top, free, uptime, killall

103.6 Modify process execution priorities (Chapter 2) Know the default priority of a job that is created Run a program with higher or lower priority than the default Change the priority of a running process The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: nice, ps, renice, top

103.7 Search text files using regular expressions (Chapter 1) Create simple regular expressions containing several notational elements Use regular expression tools to perform searches through a filesystem or file content The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: grep, egrep, fgrep, sed, regex(7)

103.8 Perform basic file editing operations using vi (Chapter 5) Navigate a document using vi Use basic vi modes Insert, edit, delete, copy and find text The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: vi, /, ?, h, j, k, l, i, o, a, c, d, p, y, dd, yy, ZZ, :w!, :q!, :e!