• Understand system and service initialization
  • Integrate new filesystems
  • Understand advanced partitioning schemes
  • Perform filesystem management tasks
  • Set up networking
  • Perform user and group administration
  • Automate tasks with at, cron, and anacron
  • Set up core services: Logging, Printing, X window system
  • Manage software package with yum and rpm
  • Install the system interactively and with Kickstart
  • Perform basic troubleshooting