| Section | Objectives |
| Manage users and groups | - Configure privileged access
- Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
- Create, delete, and modify local user accounts
- Change passwords and adjust password aging for local users
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| Manage software | - Install and remove Flatpak software packages
- Install and remove RPM software packages
- Configure access to Flatpak repositories
- Configure access to RPM repositories
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| Create simple shell scripts | - Process script inputs
- Process output of shell commands within a script
- Conditionally execute code
- Use looping constructs to process files and command-line input
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| Configure local storage | - Create and delete logical volumes
- List, create, and delete partitions on GPT disks
- Create and remove physical volumes
- Assign physical volumes to volume groups
- Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by UUID or label
- Add new partitions, logical volumes, and swap non-destructively
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| Deploy, configure, and maintain systems | - Configure time service clients
- Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
- Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot
- Modify the system bootloader
- Install and update software packages
- Schedule tasks using at, cron, and systemd timer units
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| Operate running systems | - Locate and interpret system log files and journals
- Start, stop, and check the status of network services
- Interrupt the boot process to gain access to a system
- Manage tuning profiles
- Boot systems into different targets manually
- Adjust process scheduling
- Securely transfer files between systems
- Identify CPU and memory intensive processes and kill processes
- Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
- Preserve system journals
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| Create and configure file systems | - Mount and unmount network file systems using NFS
- Create, mount, unmount, and use VFAT, ext4, and XFS file systems
- Configure autofs
- Diagnose and correct file permission problems
- Extend existing logical volumes
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| Manage basic networking | - Configure hostname resolution
- Restrict network access using firewalld and firewall-cmd
- Configure network services to start automatically at boot
- Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
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| Understand and use essential tools | - Access remote systems using SSH
- Log in and switch users in multi-user targets
- Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
- Create hard and soft links
- Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, gzip, and bzip2
- Create and edit text files
- Use input-output redirection
- Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
- Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
- Locate, read, and use system documentation
- List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
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| Manage security | - Manage default file permissions
- Configure key-based authentication for SSH
- Restore default file contexts
- Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux
- List and identify SELinux file and process contexts
- Manage SELinux port labels
- Configure firewall settings using firewall-cmd and firewalld
- Use Boolean settings to modify SELinux settings
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