RHCSA Rapid Track Course with Exam

The RHCSA Rapid Track course (RH200) relates to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 and is designed for students who already have significant experience with Linux administration. The course reviews the tasks covered in Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and II (RH134) at an accelerated pace. On completion of course materials, students should be prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.

Who Can Benefit

• Students for this class should have 1-3 years of full time Linux administration experience.

Skills Gained

• Managing users and groups, files, and file permissions
• Updating software packages with yum
• Managing and troubleshooting systemd services during the boot process
• Network configuration and basic troubleshooting
• Managing local storage and creating and using file systems
• Firewall management with firewalld
• Managing Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVMs)
• Automating installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Kickstart

Prerequisites

• Students attending this course should have basic experience with the following, with minimal dependence on documentation:
• Linux (some of the course may be review)
• The bash shell, including job control (&, fg, bg, jobs), shell expansion (command, tilde, globbing, brace, protection from expansion), I/O redirection, and pipes
• IPv4 networking addressing and routing concepts, TCP/UDP, and ports
• Navigation of the GNOME 3 interface
• Editing text files from the command line with vim or other available programs
• Finding information in man pages and info nodes
• The concept of file permissions
• Interactive installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Per-user 'at' and 'cron' jobs
• Use of archival utilities such as 'tar', 'zip', and compression utilities
• Absolute and relative paths
• Finding files with 'find' and 'locate'

Course Content

Accessing the command line

• Log in to a Linux system and run simple commands using the shell.

Managing Files from the command line

• Work with files from the bash shell prompt.

Managing local Linux users and groups

• Manage Linux users and groups and administer local password policies.

Controlling access to files with Linux file system permissions

• Set access permissions on files and interpret the security effects of different permission settings.

Managing SELinux security

• Use SELinux to manage access to files and interpret and troubleshoot SELinux security effects.

Monitoring and managing Linux processes

• Monitor and control processes running on the system.

Installing and updating software packages

• Download, install, update, and manage software packages from Red Hat and yum package repositories.

Controlling services and daemons

• Control and monitor network services and system daemons using systemd.

Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux networking

• Configure basic IPv4 networking on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Analyzing and storing logs

• Locate and interpret relevant system log files for troubleshooting purposes.

Managing storage and file systems

• Create and use disk partitions, logical volumes, file systems, and swap spaces.

Scheduling system tasks

• Schedule recurring system tasks using cron and systemd timer units.

Mounting network file systems

• Mount network file system (NFS) exports and server message block (SMB) shares from network file servers.

Limiting network communication with firewalld

• Configure a basic local firewall.

Virtualization and kickstart

• Manage KVMs and install them with Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Kickstart.