Course Description
The Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration skills and knowledge. You will perform a number of routine system administration tasks and be evaluated on whether you have met specific objective criteria. Performance-based testing means that you must perform tasks similar to what you would perform on the job.
Audience Profile
- RHCSAs with certifications more than three years old
- Students who have completed the RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH200)
- Students who have completed System Administration I (RH124) and System Administration II (RH134/RH135)
- Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills
- Experienced Linux system administrators who require a certification either by their organization or based on a mandate (DoD 8570 directive)
- IT professionals who are on the path to earn RHCE certification
- An RHCE who needs to recertify as an RHCE
Prerequisites
- Red Hat Certification Lab with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH300)
- Red Hat System Administration III (RH254)
- Red Hat System Administration III with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH255)
- RHCE Certification Lab (RH299)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam IES (EX200K)
Learning Objectives
The RHCSA certification exam consists of one half-day session. The exam is performance-based, meaning that candidates must perform tasks on a live system, rather than answering multiple choice questions.
The RHCSA exam objectives provides authoritative guidance on the knowledge and skills candidates will need to demonstrate in the RHCSA exam. It also provides more specific information on the exam format and coverage. All candidates are urged to use this information to evaluate their readiness for the exam.
Course Outline
Module 1: Boot, reboot, and shut down the system normally
Module 2: Diagnose and correct problems at boot
Module 3: Boot systems into different runlevels for troubleshooting and system maintenance
Module 4: Use single-user mode to gain access to a system for which the root password is not known
Module 5: Diagnose and correct misconfigured networking settings
Module 6: Diagnose and correct hostname resolution problems
Module 7: Diagnose and address permissions problems and SELinux policy violations
Module 8: Diagnose and correct non-hardware disk storage problems
Module 9: Adding new partitions, logical volumes, filesystems, and swap areas to a system non-destructively
Module 10: Manually open, mount, unmount, and close LUKS-encrypted filesystems
Module 11: Extend existing unencrypted ext4-formatted logical volumes
Module 12: Login or switch user to the root account
Module 13: Use ssh and VNC to access remote systems
Module 14: Locate and read on-line documentation using man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc
Module 15: Locate and analyze system log files
Module 16: Understand how to use grep and regular expressions to analyze text output
Module 17: Access a bash shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax; use pipelines and I/O redirection
Module 18: Use text editors such as gedit and vim to create and edit text files
Module 19: Manage system resources: Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, kill processes
Module 20: Manage files and directories: Create/delete/copy/move; create hard and soft links
Module 21: Use tar, gzip, and bzip2 to archive and compress files
Module 22: Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux manually with the graphical installer from network installation
media
Module 23: Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
Module 24: Configure a physical machine as a RHEL-based virtualization host
Module 25: Manage virtual machines: Install/start/stop/configure to start at boot/access a VM’s graphical console
Module 26: Manage disk partitions: Understand MBR-style partitions (primary, extended, logical); list/create/delete partitions
Module 27: Manage logical volumes: Create/remove physical volumes, assign PVs to volume groups, create/delete logical volumes
Module 28: Create and configure LUKS-encrypted partitions and logical volumes to prompt for password and mount decrypted filesystem at boot
Module 29: Canage ext4 filesystems: Create, label, mount, mount automatically at boot (by UUID or label), unmount
Module 30: Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network filesystems, manually or by configuring autofs
Module 31: Manage network devices: Understand basic IP networking/routing, configure IP addresses/default route statically or dynamically
Module 32: Manage name resolution: Set local hostname, configure /etc/hosts, configure to use existing DNS server
Module 33: Manage network services: Check status, start, stop, configure to start automatically at boot
Module 34: Configure the scheduling of tasks using cron and at
Module 35: Manage local user and group accounts: Create, delete, change passwords, adjust password aging, adjust group memberships
Module 36: Use network user and group accounts stored on an existing LDAP directory service
Module 37: Manage standard permissions: List, interpret, change ugo/rwx
Module 38: Use sgid directories for collaboration
Module 39: Set and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Module 40: Manage SELinux security: Set enforcing/permissive modes, list file and process context, restore default file context, use “booleans” to adjust policy
Module 41: Manage default firewall settings with basic tools
Module 42: Install and update software packages from RHN or remote repository, or from the local filesystem
Module 43: Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system
Module 44: Modify the system bootloader
Module 45: Configure the system to synchronize system time using remote NTP servers
Module 46: Deploy a VNC server that allows multiple desktops to be shared
Module 47: Deploy file sharing services with HTTP/FTP
