Red Hat Academy

ECU has partnered with Red Hat to provide students with the latest curriculum material that teaches Linux-based skills.

Red Hat Course Information:

(Click on any course title below for a detailed description, syllabus, and/or technologies covered)

• ICTN 3530/31: Network Environment II
  Credit Hours: 3/0
  Corequisites/Prerequisites: ICTN 1500
  2 lecture and 2 lab hours per week
  Network management using various UNIX products, such as Linux and Solaris. Topics include NOS setup, network resource management, user and group management, and security model.
• RHA 030 Red Hat Linux Computing Essentials
  Students will learn to be effective users of Linux systems, acquiring skills and understanding of command line functions, file systems, users and groups, bash shell, process management, text editors, network applications, searching and organizing data, and graphical applications.
• RHA 130 Red Hat Linux Core System Administration
  Students will learn to be effective administrators of Linux systems, mastering tasks such as hardware and device configuration, file system management, user administration, network configurations, kernel services, attaching new Linux systems to a corporate network, configuring the new systems for end-users, and troubleshooting.
• ICTN 3540/41: Network Environment III
  Credit Hours: 3/0
  Corequisites/Prerequisites: ICTN 2510, ICTN 3530
  2 lecture and 2 lab hours per week
  Enterprise system administration using mixed vendor network operating systems, such as Linux and Microsoft. Topics include integrating networking services such as network file systems, enterprise printing administration, remote administration, and host and network security issues.
• RHA 230 Red Hat Linux Network Applications
  Students learn to deploy and administer the core networking services which have made Red Hat Enterprise Linux popular, including the Apache Web Server, the Samba File Server, BIND Domain Name Service, the Sendmail Mail Transport Agent, the Network File System (NFS), and more.
• RHA250 Red Hat Linux Security Administration
  Students learn to implement and administer basic security policies relating to user authentication (including PAM and NIS) and securing network applications using application level access control and kernel level firewalling (ipchains). Students additionally learn skills in administering SELinux, system monitoring, and implementing common encryption protocols (including public key infrastructures).