8) This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit. Evidence shall show that knowledge has been acquired of safe working practices and installing, configuring and administering Unix based computers. All knowledge and skills detailed in this unit should be contextualised to current industry practices and technologies. KS01-ED113A Unix fundamentals and operating systems Evidence shall show an understanding of computer operating systems Unix fundamentals, Mac OSX fundamentals to an extent indicated by the following aspects: T1 Operating system components and structure T2 System installation and configuration Note. System installation includes drivers and internet access and simple networking T3 File structure and management T4 System tools Note: Examples include control panels, wizards and the like T5 Operating systems malfunctions and solutions T6 Troubleshooting techniques. T7 UNIX operating systems encompassing: Overview of basic function, components and concepts of computer systems and operating systems History of UNIX and flavours of UNIX UNIX administrators role T8 Accessing UNIX and common desktop environment encompassing: User Accounts Desktop environment Customising using Style Manager Sub-panels T9 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Applications encompassing: Using Mail Tool, Calendar Manager and other applications Using GUI help and other help systems Troubleshooting T10 Accessing files and directories encompassing: File system structure and navigation Pathnames Listing directory contents Identifying and using meta-characters T11 Directory and file management encompassing: Using Command Line Using File Manager T12 File and user information utilities encompassing: File systems File processing commands Users Scripting T13 File security encompassing: Overview of security concepts and functions Permissions Changing permissions with Command Line and File Manager T14 Printing encompassing: Command line printing Print manager, print status and queue Printing from File Manager T15 Backup and restoring data encompassing: Overview of back up and restoring strategies Using tar utility to perform file storage Compression tools Using jar command GUI backup tools T16 System processes and memory management encompassing: Processes and PIDs Terminating a process Memory management T17 Korn and C Shells encompassing: Overview of shell Korn Shell features C Shell Features Shell Feature Comparison T18 Customisation encompassing: Overview of customisation Initialisation files Shell customisation GUI customisation T19 Network Basics encompassing: Client – Server Network commands NIS+ and NFS+ T20 Mac OSX operating systems encompassing: System structure and component functions System Installation Setting user preferences T21 Security encompassing: Setting up multiple user accounts Role and function of Keychain T22 Networking/internet set up procedures T23 Onstalling applications software T24 Installing and managing server software encompassing: Setting up servers for a variety of protocols Managing access T25 Using ‘Terminal’ |