I. Core subjects: system administration basics

1. Commands, shells, processes
2. Installation and upgrade
3. Server virtualization with KVM
4. Linux package management
5. Networking
6. Network File System (NFS)
7. System Run levels and process scheduling (at, cron)
8. Linux and Windows interoperability
9. Shell scripting

II. Advanced system administration track

10. Application compilation and linux package building
11. Python for Linux administration
12. Centralized system management (dsh, salt, nagios)
13. LDAP server configuration
14. System analysis and troubleshooting techniques

III. Security track

10. Vulnerability analysis
11. Intrusion detection
12. Firewall configuration and tcp wrappers
13. Kernel linux security (Selinux and Apparmor)
14. Encrypted file systems and communications

IV. High Performance Computing (HPC) track

10. Concepts of parallel computing
11. OpenMP code development
12. MPI code development
13. Computational cluster configuration
14. Queue systems and job scheduling