Maricopa Community Colleges  CIS223   19966-20016 

Official Course Description:  MCCCD Approval:  09/25/01

CIS223  19966-20016

L+L

2 Credit(s)

3 Period(s)

Advanced UNIX Operating System-Multi-User

Advanced level UNIX operating system. Intended for system administrators and advanced users wishing to expand their UNIX knowledge for use on the job and for utilizing the Internet. Prerequisites: CIS122AC, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.

 

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

 

 

CIS223  19966-20016

Advanced UNIX Operating System-Multi-User

 

1.

Identify and define the major hardware and software components of the computer system, including how to define their device drivers. (I)

2.

Describe how the system supervisor installs, starts, and stops the operating system. (II)

3.

Use the system utilities to perform system maintenance such as security, accounting, backing up system and user files, restoring system and user files, system monitoring, and system chronological upkeep. (III)

4.

Create new users, assign passwords, delete users, archive user files, and monitor system performance. (IV)

5.

Maintain system supervisor exclusive files (passwd, group, cron, etc.) (IV)

6.

Execute jobs in batch mode and manage printed output. (V)

7.

Write and maintain user and system login scripts. (IV, V)

8.

Write and execute UNIX scripts in C shell, Korn shell, and AWK programming languages. (V)

9.

Maintain system communications links with other UNIX systems and the Internet. (VI)

10.

Perform uu-communications (Unix Unix) for UNIX news and mail. (VI)

 

 

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CIS223  19966-20016

Advanced UNIX Operating System-Multi-User

 

 

I. System components

A. Hardware components and their functions

B. Software components and their functions

C. Writing device drivers

II. System supervisor duties

A. Installing software

B. Starting the operating system

C. Stopping the operating system

III. System maintenance utilities

A. Security

B. Accounting

C. System backup

D. System restoral

E. Performance monitoring

F. Manage user mail and mailx software

G. Chronological maintenance scripts 966

IV. User maintenance

A. Creating new users

B. Deleting users

C. Maintaining passwd and group files

D. Managing supervisor batch files

E. System and user login scripts

F. User shell, mail, and login profiles

V. Writing UNIX scripts and batch files

A. Writing C shell scripts

B. Writing Korn and Bourne scripts

C. Writing AWK scripts

VI. Managing UNIX communications services

A. UNIX mail servers

B. UNIX Internet servers

C. UNIX to UNIX transfers

 

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