Overview

Master Linux Administration, Advanced Linux Server Management and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in one career-focused combo course from Zoom Technologies, India's trusted IT training institute since 1996. This 6-week online Linux and AWS training program takes you from Linux fundamentals to enterprise server deployment and full cloud infrastructure management. In the Linux Administration training, you learn Linux installation, file system hierarchy, user and group administration, file permissions and ACLs, LVM disk management, process control, cron scheduling, SELinux, firewalld, iptables and bash scripting. The Advanced Linux training module builds real enterprise skills — configuring NFS, Samba and Samba PDC, FTP/SFTP, Apache with SSL, DNS (BIND), DHCP, Squid Proxy, Postfix mail, NTP, centralized Rsyslog logging, RAID 5 with mdadm, passwordless SSH and server backup strategies. The AWS training module then applies those skills on the cloud with EC2, AMIs, EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, Glacier, EFS, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, SES, SQS and SNS. Taught live by industry experts with hands-on labs, downloadable lab manuals, recorded sessions, course certificate and placement assistance — ideal for system administrators, SOC analysts, DevOps and cloud aspirants in Hyderabad and across India.

Curriculum

Linux Administration Training

2 Week

Module 1: Introduction & Installation

  •  Features of Linux  
  •  Linux Distributions 
  •  Linux Installation 
  •  File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS) 


Module 2: Basic Commands & File Management

  • Opening Terminal & Switching Consoles 
  • Navigation: pwd, cd, ls  
  • File Creation: cat, touch 
  • Directory Management: mkdir  
  • Absolute vs Relative Paths  
  • File Editing with vi/vim 
  • Copying & Removing Files & Directories 


Module 3: Boot & Recovery

  • Booting Process Explained  
  • Run Levels 
  • Resetting Root Password  


Module 4: Filtering & Search Commands

  •  Viewing Files: more, less, head, tail 
  •  File Statistics: wc 
  •  Searching & Editing: grep, find, sed 


Module 5: User & Group Administration

  • Creating, Modifying, Deleting Users 
  • Assigning & Changing Passwords 
  • Managing User Database Files 
  • Group Creation, Memberships, Group Admins 


Module 6: File Permissions

  • Basic Permissions (Owner, Group, Others) 
  • Access Control Lists (ACLs) 
  • Advanced Permissions: setuid, setgid, Sticky Bit 


Module 7: Links & Disk Management

  • Soft Links & Hard Links 
  • Disk Partitioning Basics 
  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 


Module 8: Backup & Automation

  • Bo Backups using tar + gzip, cpio 
  • Scheduling Tasks with at & crontab 


Module 9: Process Management

  • Process Monitoring: ps, top 
  • Killing Tasks: kill  
  • Managing Background Jobs: jobs 


Module 10: Security & Scripting

  •  SELinux Modes (Enforcing, Permissive, Disabled) 
  •  Firewalld Rules 
  •  iptables Rules 
  •  Basic Bash Scripting: echo, if…then 


Amazon Web Services Training

2 Week

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

  • What is Cloud
  • Why Cloud?
  • Types of Cloud Deployment Models
  • Types of Cloud Services
  • Future of Cloud Technologies
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud


Module 2: Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • What is AWS?
  • How to Subscribe for AWS account
  • What is the AWS Free Usage Tier
  • AWS Certification
  • Introduction to the AWS management Console
  • List of services given by AWS


Module 3: Compute Services

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

  • What is Amazon EC2?
  • Features of Amazon EC2
  • Managing the EC2 infrastructure
  • EC2 Dashboard
  • Pricing for Amazon EC2


Regions and Availability Zone Concepts

  • Describing Regions
  • Availability Zones, and Endpoints
  • Managing instances in an Availability Zone


Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

  • Managing AMIs
  • Working with Windows, Linux AMIs
  • Shared and Paid AMI
  • Making an AMI Public


EC2 Instances

  • Instance Type
  • Instance life cycle
  • Differences between reboot, stop, and terminate
  • Building an EC2 windows and linux instances
  • To install instance in public and private subnet
  • Security via Key Pairs
  • EC2 Class and VPC Security Groups
  • Managing Elastic IP’s
  • Pricing model in EC2 instances
  • EC2 with Amazon command line interface


Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

  • Features of Amazon EBS
  • Amazon EBS volumes
  • Managing EBS volumes
  • Increasing the volume size
  • Amazon EBS snapshots


Load Balancing

  • Creating a load balancer
  • Internal and external load balancer
  • Load balancing protocols
  • Security groups for the load balancer
  • Health check for the load balancer
  • Cross-zone load balancing
  • Connection Draining


Auto Scaling

  • What is auto scaling?
  • Auto scaling components
  • Benefits of auto scaling
  • Creation of launch configuration
  • Configuration of auto scaling policies
  • Advantages of using auto scaling with ELB


Network & Security

  • Security Groups
  • Elastic IPs
  • Key Pairs
  • Network Interfaces


Elastic Beanstalk

  • Deploy, manage, scale an application
  • How management complexity are reduced
  • Workflow of Elastic Beanstalk
  • Create Application
  • Launch Environment
  • Manage Environment
  • Modifying the properties of the deployment


Module 4: Networking Services

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • What is Amazon VPC?
  • VPC Essentials
  • Default and Nondefault VPC
  • VPC Networking and ACL
  • Security Groups
  • DNS and DHCP Options Sets
  • VPC Peering and Endpoints
  • Subnet Routing
  • VPC Internet Gateway
  • Elastic IP addresses and network interfaces
  • VPC integration with many other AWS services
  • Creating a NAT instance in a VPC
  • Configuring a Web application in VPC


Amazon Route 53

  • Route 53 as your DNS service
  • Using Traffic Flow
  • Route 53 Health Checks
  • Configuring DNS Failover
  • Latency Based Routing
  • Weighted Routing Policies


Cloud Front

Module 5: Storage & Content Delivery Services

Amazon S3

  • What is object Storage?
  • Data as objects
  • Lifecycles of S3
  • Managing Buckets
  • Accessing S3 storage via tools
  • Creation of a static website using S3 storage


Amazon Glacier

  • Low-cost storage service
  • Storage for data backup and archival
  • Pricing model for Glacier storage
  • Working with vaults and archives


EFS Elastic File System

Module 6: Security & Identity Services

  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • IAM Features
  • Getting Started With IAM
  • Creation of user, groups, roles
  • Managing policies
  • Credential Report
  • IAM Console and the Sign-in Page


Module 7: Database Services

Relational Database Service (RDS)

  • RDS Essentials
  • Launching RDS instance
  • Selecting the Engine
  • Configuring the Database Engine
  • Managing RDS Database
  • Setting up automatic backups
  • Authorizing access to the DB


DynamoDB (NoSQL Service)

  • DynamoDB overview
  • What is NoSQL database?
  • How It Works
  • Using the DynamoDB Console
  • Creating Tables and Loading Sample Data
  • Query and Scan Operations in DynamoDB


Module 8: Management Tools

Amazon CloudWatch

  • Amazon CloudWatch Architecture
  • List of services monitored by CloudWatch
  • Collect and track metrics
  • Monitoring memory and disk Metrics
  • Monitoring logs, Graphs
  • Set Alarms


Cloud Formation

  • Building AWS infrastructure as a code
  • Design a template
  • Create a Stack
  • Create a Template from your Existing Resources


Cloud Trail

Module 9: Application Services

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

  • Simple email service overview
  • Configuring Amazon email service
  • Amazon SES and Deliverability
  • Amazon SES Email-Sending Process
  • Email format and Limits of SES


Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

  • Simple Queue service overview
  • SQS for background work task
  • Creating a Queue
  • Confirming the Queue exists
  • Add a permission to the Queue


Module 10: Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Simple Notification Service overview

  • Publishers and subscribers
  • Subscribing to topic via Email
  • Setting notification for EC2 instance changes

Advanced Linux Training

2 Week

Module 1: SFTP Server

  •  Enabling SFTP in Linux 
  •  Configuring Secure File Transfers with SSH 
  •  Using WinSCP for Linux ↔ Windows Data Sharing 
  •  Restricting Users to Chroot Directory for Security 


Module 2: FTP Server

  • Installing & Configuring FTP Server 
  • Uploading & Downloading Files 
  • Creating FTP Users & Restricting Access 
  • Limiting File Transfer Permissions per User 


Module 3: Samba Server

  • Installing Samba Service  
  • Sharing Directories between Linux & Windows  
  • Configuring Access Permissions (Read/Write) 
  • Persistent Mounting of Samba Shares 


Module 4: Samba PDC (Primary Domain Controller)

  • Configuring Samba as a Domain Controller
  • Integrating Linux Users into Windows Login System 
  • Managing Authentication & Access Controls 


Module 5: DHCP Server

  • Installing & Configuring DHCP Service 
  • Assigning Dynamic IP Addresses to Clients 
  • Creating IP Address Reservations  
  • Testing with Linux & Windows Clients 


Module 6: DNS Server

  • Installing & Configuring BIND DNS Service 
  • Creating Forward Lookup Zones 
  • Creating Reverse Lookup Zones 
  • Adding Records (A, CNAME, MX, PTR) 


Module 7: Apache Web Server

  • Installing Apache Service 
  • Hosting Websites via HTTP 
  • Securing Websites with HTTPS (SSL/TLS Certificates) 
  • Managing Virtual Hosts for Multiple Sites 


Module 8: Proxy Server

  • Installing Squid Proxy Server 
  • Blocking Specific Websites or Domains 
  • Controlling Internet Access by User/IP 
  • Configuring Proxy Authentication 


Module 9: Postfix Mail Server

  • Installing & Configuring Postfix 
  • Sending & Receiving Mails in Text Mode 
  • Configuring Mail Aliases 
  • Integrating Mail Logs for Monitoring 


Module 10: NTP Server

  • Installing & Configuring NTP Service 
  • Synchronizing Server Time with External Sources 
  • Configuring Linux Clients for NTP 
  • Ensuring Time Consistency in Enterprise Networks 


Module 11: Rsyslog Server

  • Installing & Configuring Rsyslog 
  • Centralizing Logs from Multiple Systems 
  • Filtering & Storing Logs by Service  
  • Monitoring Logs for Security Events 


Module 12: NFS Server

  • Installing & Configuring NFS Service 
  • Exporting Directories for Sharing 
  • Configuring Client Mounts 
  • Managing Access Permissions on Shared Directories 

Module 13: Network & Package Management

  • Assigning IP Addresses (Temporary & Permanent) 
  • Configuring Hostname 
  • Installing Applications with rpm 
  • Package Management with yum 
  • Configuring & Using a Yum Server 

Module 14: Remote Access & Backup

  • Remote Login with ssh-keygen
  • Passwordless SSH Setup  
  • Remote Backup using scp 
  • Backup of User Data using dump 

Module 15: Storage Management

  • Implementing RAID Level 5 using mdadm 
  • Monitoring & Maintaining RAID Arrays 
  • Advanced User Data Backup Strategies 

Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Linux Administration Training

31 Aug 2026

08:00 AM to 10:00 AM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

30 Sep 2026

07:00 PM to 09:00 PM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

Amazon Web Services Training

17 Aug 2026

08:00 AM to 10:00 AM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

15 Sep 2026

08:00 PM to 10:00 PM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

Advanced Linux Training

17 Aug 2026

07:00 PM to 09:00 PM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

15 Sep 2026

08:00 AM to 10:00 AM

(IST - GMT +05:30)

2 Weeks

2 Hrs/Day

Sunday off

Online

FAQ'S

Is this Linux and AWS combo course suitable for beginners?

Yes. The course starts from Linux basics, so no prior Linux experience is required. Basic computer and networking awareness is enough.

How long is the Linux + Advanced Linux + AWS training?

Approximately 6 weeks (2 weeks per module), 2 hours per day, Monday to Saturday, delivered online.

Will I get a certificate and placement assistance?

Yes — a Zoom Technologies course certificate plus placement assistance is included.

What jobs can I apply for after this course?

Linux System Administrator, Linux Server Engineer, AWS Cloud Administrator, Cloud Support Engineer, DevOps Associate and Infrastructure Support roles.

Do I need to buy AWS or Linux lab access?

No. Lab instructions are provided to practise on your own PC, and AWS Free Tier is used for cloud labs. I can also generate the ready-to-paste JSON-LD schema block for this combo page if you want it drop-in for the site.
Linux Administration + Advanced Linux + AWS Training Preview this course
Duration : 6 Weeks
Mode Of Training : Online
Placement Assistance : Yes
Certificate : Yes

Introductory Limited Period Offer

INR 17,500

Price: 11,900

All prices are subject to an 18% Goods and Service Tax (GST) Charge. Rate quoted in U.S. dollars subject to change according to Foreign Exchange rates.

Once you make the payment, kindly contact our course counsellor at priya@zoomgroup.com to schedule the course as per your convenience from the available slots.