Because Linux is a big topic in Azure as well, there’s an exam from Microsoft, that is called “Linux on Azure”. The prerequisites therefore are two things: A passed LFCS test of the Linux Foundation (Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator), as well as the MS exam 70-533 “Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions”. You can find details over here:
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/learning/mcsa-linux-azure-certification.aspx
The Linux Foundation has created a six-part series of video tutorials as a preparation for the former test. For the latter there are materials from MS. You can find both here:
http://aka.ms/azuremaster
Because I wanted to have a look at them (and had some free time) I watched them during the christmas holidays. With a monotonous enthusiams, a guy explained there in about 12h (all videos are about 1,5-2,5h long) the various topics.
It might have been a little bit more or less time – but with all my taking-notes, jumping forwards and backwards as well of course the watching, it took me about 19h.
Roughly grouped you’re told about the following topics
- Shell
- Folder structure (and the most important directories in Linux)
- Filesystem + Mounting of devices
- Editors (and especially VI)
- Bootsequence / Bootloader / Config
- SystemD (+systemctl)
- Permissions (ACL,…) + Root
- Manpages
- Processes (pids; lists; signals)
- Scheduling
- Softwareinstallation + Packagemanager
- User / Passwords / Groups
- LSM (Linux security modules) / SELinux / PAM
- SSH, Telnet
- Network + Firewall (iptables) + Routing + DNS + FTP + NFS + KVM
- Timeserver (chrony)
- Samba
- Mails (postfix, dovecot)
- Apache (Webserver), Squid (Cache), MariaDB
- Container
- Partitions (dd, xdd, fdisk, LVM) + Raid, LUKS, Quota
So now I got a long list of dangerous superficial knowledge 😉 … I’m curious what of these I’ll learn in greater detail during this year and which I’ll need at all ;-D.