Technical Training Specialists

Unix Curriculum

Unix Basics

3 days

This course acquaints new users to the Unix environment, the Korn Shell, and text editing. Multiple exercises reinforce the concepts.

Technical and non-technical personnel, including technical managers, programmers, and system and network administrators who need to understand the basics of Unix.

Unix Utilities

2 days

This course introduces the Unix system commands used for data or text manipulation and teaches how to string these commands together producing powerful utilities. Multiple exercises reinforce the concepts.

The target audience includes technical Unix users who need broad familiarity with the resources available in the Unix system.

Unix Shell Programming

3 days

This course uses either the Bourne or the Korn shell to review command line features, and provide a thorough introduction to looping and conditional constructs. The Korn shell version also demonstrates various shell options. The format includes lecture, class discussion, and programming exercises.

The target audience includes application developers, technical users, system programmers, and others who need a thorough understanding of shell programming.

Unix Advanced Shell Programming

3 days

This course combines lecture and lab work to offer further insights into the effective and efficient use of features and commands available in the Unix System V Bourne Shell.

The target audience includes technical users, application programmers, and system programmers requiring an in-depth understanding of the shell.

Unix Shell Programming and Report Generation

4 days

This course teaches the techniques needed to develop advanced shell and reporting type procedures under Unix. Hands-on exercises reinforce the concepts. All Unix systems support the techniques shown in this course.

The target audience includes users, system administrators, application programmers, and system programmers.

Programming in PERL (Basic/Intermediate)

2 days

Using a combination of lecture and lab work, this course introduces the programming interface and techniques for writing procedures in PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language).

The target audience includes users, system administrators, application programmers, and system programmers.

Programming in PERL (Advanced)

1 day

This course teaches advanced concepts and capabilities used to write procedures in PERL, with emphasis on the interfaces that use object-oriented features. Lab work complements the lectures.

The target audience includes users, system administrators, application programmers, and system programmers with experience in PERL.

Programming in PERL - Tk and CGI Extensions

2 days

The first part of this course teaches both the programming interface and the techniques that can be used to write procedures in Tk (ToolKit GUI) from the PERL scripting language. The second part teaches programming techniques used to write CGI procedures in PERL to interface with web browsers, web servers, and applications written in HTML (text documents and forms). The format includes lecture and hands-on exercises.

The target audience includes users, system administrators, application programmers, and system programmers with experience in PERL.

Unix Essential Operations

4 days

This course teaches the commands and methods needed to set up and manage a Unix system. The course uses a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach advanced topics for long-term management of the system.

The target audience includes Unix system administrators.

Unix Networking Features

3 days

This course teaches commands and methods to set up and manage advanced features in a Unix system. The lab work uses a problem-solving approach to teach the proper application of these advanced features.

The target audience includes Unix system administrators.

Unix Security Issues

2 days

This course teaches the commands and methods to set up and enforce a security domain on a Unix system. The problem solving approach of the lab work offers hands-on reinforcement of these methods.

The target audience includes Unix system administrators.

Unix System V Administration

5 days

This course provides an overview of the tools and utilities available under the Unix System V Operating System with respect to system administration. It gives the students insight into areas involved in the administration of a Unix computer system. The format includes lecture and lab sessions.

The target audience includes system administrators, technical users, and programmers who are involved in managing a Unix system.

Motif and CDE Administration

2 days

This course combines lectures with lab sessions to teach the concepts and techniques necessary to set up and manage an X Window system. Topics range from the basics to specifics for the X Window-based environments of Motif and CDE (Common Desktop).

The target audience includes system administrators, technical users, and programmers who are involved in managing a Motif or CDE environment.

Unix Performance Concepts and Analysis

1 day

This course introduces performance concepts relating to Unix systems (Compaq Tru64 Unix, SUN Solaris, and HP-UX). In the hands-on exercises, the student will use these concepts to develop a tuning methodology to monitor, interpret, and adjust performance.

The target audience includes system administrators, technical users, and programmers who are involved in managing a Unix system.

C Language

5 days

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the C language through lecture, examples, and exercises. The course material contains 160 complete programs, including input and output examples.

The target audience includes experienced programmers.

WebSphere MQ System Administration for Sun Solaris

3 days

This course teaches the student how to install, customize, operate and administer WebSphere MQ for Sun Solaris. Hands-on lab work reinforces the lecture and provides the student with useful scripts and utilities to take with them after the course ends.

The target audience includes technical support personnel responsible for the successful implementation, operation and daily system administration of WebSphere MQ for Sun Solaris.