About this course:

This course is the combination of Red Hat System Administration I and II at a rapid speed. This course is designed for the student who are fairly experienced with Linux administration. The course reviews the tasks covered in Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administrator II (RH134) at high speed pace. This course also prepares the students for the Red Hat EX200: Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.

Note: This course builds on a student's existing understanding of command-line based Linux system administration. Students should be able to execute common commands using the shell, work with common command options, and access man pages for help.

The average salary for a Linux Systems Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer is $72,762 per year.

Course Objective:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• 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

Audience:

This course is intended for:

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

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'

Suggested prerequisites courses:

• Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)
• Red Hat System Administrator II (RH134)