Hands-On Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam

Course Description

This Hands-On course is designed for IT professionals working to become full-time Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators, this course is a follow up to Red Hat System Administration I (RH124), includes the RHCSA exam, and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching methodology. You will be actively engaged in task-focused activities, lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skills transfer and retention.

Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in RH124, you will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, adding to your arsenal of administration skills. By the end of this course, you will be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, and package management. You will take the RHCSA exam on the final day of class.

Students Will Learn

Administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning
Administer and troubleshoot logical volume management
Administer and troubleshoot access control
Administer and troubleshoot package management
Prepare for and take the RHCSA exam

Target Audience

T professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and want the skills to be full-time Enterprise Linux administrators

Prerequisites

Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)

Course Outline

1. Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Create and manage kickstart configuration files
Perform installations using kickstart

2. Accessing the Command Line

Access the command line locally and remotely
Gain administration privileges from the command line

3. Intermediate Command Line Tools

Use hardlinks
Use archives and compression
Use vim

4. Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output
Redirect and pipe output

5. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

Configure network settings
Troubleshoot network issues

6. Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems

Create and format simple partitions
Create and format swap partitions
Create and format encrypted partitions

7. Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

Implement LVM and LVM snapshots

8. Access Network File Sharing Services

NFS
CIFS
autofs

9. Managing User Accounts

Manage user accounts including password aging
Connect to a central LDAP directory service

10. Controlling Access to Files

Manage group memberships,
Manage file permissions
Manage access control lists (ACL)

11. Managing SELinux

Activate and deactivate SELinux
Set file contexts
Manage SELinux booleans
Analyze SELinux logs

12. Installing and Managing Software

Manage software and query information with yum
Configure client-side yum repository files

13. Managing Installed Services

Managing services
Verify connectivity to a service

14. Analyzing and Storing Logs

Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

15. Managing Processes

Identify and terminal processes
Change the priority of a process
Use cron and at to schedule processes

16. Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

List, load, and remove modules
Use kernel arguments

17. Troubleshooting

Understand the boot process
Resolve boot problems

Delivery Method

Instructor-Led with numerous Hands-On exercises.

Equipment Requirements
(This apply's to our hands-on courses only)

BTS always provides equipment to have a very successful Hands-On course. BTS also encourages all attendees to bring their own equipment to the course. This will provide attendees the opportunity to incorporate their own gear into the labs and gain valuable training using their specific equipment.

Course Length

5 Days