EX200K: Red Hat® Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam IES

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Duration: 1 Day

The Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam (IES) is a performance-based evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration skills and knowledge. This new exam replaces the RHCT. 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 must perform on the job.

What You Will Learn

 

Audience

 

  • RHCTs certified on RHEL 3 or RHEL
  • Linux IT professionals that can demonstrate the competencies needed to earn an RHCT/RHCSA, but have not taken the RHCT or RHCSA exams

Prerequistes

 

  • Knowledge of the competencies needed to earn an RHCT/RHCSA

Course Outline

 

You should be able to:

  • Boot, reboot, and shutdown the system normally
  • Diagnose and correct problems at boot
  • Boot systems into different runlevels for troubleshooting and system maintenance
  • Use single-user mode to gain access to a system for which the root password is not known
  • Diagnose and correct misconfigured networking settings
  • Diagnose and correct hostname resolution problems
  • Diagnose and address permissions problems and SELinux policy violations
  • Diagnose and correct non-hardware disk storage problems
  • Adding new partitions, logical volumes, filesystems, and swap areas to a system non-destructively
  • Manually open, mount, unmount, and close LUKS-encrypted filesystems
  • Extend existing unencrypted ext4-formatted logical volumes
  • Login or switch user to the root account
  • Use ssh and VNC to access remote systems
  • Locate and read on-line documentation using man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc
  • Locate and analyze system log files
  • Understand how to use grep and regular expressions to analyze text output
  • Access a bash shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
    • Use pipelines and I/O redirection
  • Use text editors such as gedit and vim to create and edit text files
  • Manage system resources:
    • Identify CPU/memory intensive processes
    • Adjust process priority with renice
    • Kill processes
  • Manage files and directories:
    • Create/delete/copy/move
    • Create hard and soft links
  • Use tar, gzip, and bzip2 to archive and compress files
  • Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux manually with the graphical installer from network installation media
  • Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart
  • Configure a physical machine as a RHEL-based virtualization host
  • Manage virtual machines:
    • Install/start/stop/configure to start at boot/access a VM's graphical console
  • Manage disk partitions:
    • Understand MBR-style partitions (primary, extended, logical)
    • List/create/delete partitions
  • Manage logical volumes:
    • Create/remove physical volumes
    • Assign PVs to volume groups
    • Create/delete logical volumes
  • Create and configure LUKS-encrypted partitions and logical volumes to prompt for password and mount decrypted filesystem at boot
  • Canage ext4 filesystems:
    • Create, label, mount, mount automatically at boot (by UUID or label)
    • unmount
  • Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network filesystems, manually or by configuring autofs
  • Manage network devices:
    • Understand basic IP networking/routing,
    • Configure IP addresses/default route statically or dynamically
  • Manage name resolution:
    • Set local hostname,
    • Configure /etc/hosts,
    • Configure to use existing DNS server
  • Manage network services:
    • Check status, start, and stop
    • Configure to start automatically at boot
  • Configure the scheduling of tasks using cron and at
  • Manage local user and group accounts:
    • Create, delete, and change passwords
    • Adjust password aging
    • Adjust group memberships
  • Use network user and group accounts stored on an existing LDAP directory service
  • Manage standard permissions:
    • List, interpret, and change ugo/rwx
  • Use sgid directories for collaboration
  • Set and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • Manage SELinux security:
    • Set enforcing/permissive modes
    • List file and process context
    • Restore default file context
    • Use "booleans" to adjust policy
  • Manage default firewall settings with basic tools
  • Install and update software packages from RHN or remote repository, or from the local filesystem
  • Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system
  • Modify the system bootloader
  • Configure the system to synchronize system time using remote NTP servers
  • Deploy a VNC server that allows multiple desktops to be shared
  • Deploy file sharing services with HTTP/FTP

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