Professional Certificate in Linux Fundamentals

About this course

This three-month, 48-hour certificate from the IIT Professional Development Unit teaches Linux from the command line up. It is held face-to-face in Colombo on Saturday mornings. The five parts introduce Linux and its distributions, user and system administration with permissions and package management, shell scripting, networking and security including firewalls and web and database set-up, and system management topics such as Docker virtualisation, backups, job scheduling, Ansible and cloud fundamentals. IIT says the content is aligned with the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and LPIC-1 certifications. Undergraduates, DevOps aspirants, network administrators and job seekers are the target audience.