Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Fast Track
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
The RHCE Fast Track Course (RH299) is designed for Senior Linux system administrators. This is a fast-paced preparation course that combines the RHCSA Fast Track Course (RH199) and System Administration III (RH254) courses, normally eight days of training, into a single four-day course. Building on the students extensive knowledge of command line based Linux Administration, the course moves very quickly through the intermediate and advanced tasks covered by lab based knowledge checks and facilitative discussions. By the end of this course, the senior Linux administrator students will have been exposed to all the intermediate and advanced competencies tested by the RHCSA and RHCE exams. Please note that the RHCSA and RHCE exams are not included with this course only offering.
Audience: Experienced Senior Linux system administrators with a minimum of 3 years of Linux experience who want a fast track solution to earn an RHCE certification.Experienced Solaris System administrators that have completed the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Solaris Administrators (RH290) courseThis course is not recommended for students who have successfully completed the RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH200). For those students, the Red Hat System Administration III (RH254) course is recommended. Learning Objectives On completion of the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of intermediate and advanced administration duties of the Red Hat Linux system.
They will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards taking the official Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer exam.
About this course
Students must meet the requirements for attending Red Hat System Administration I, II and III coursesStudents must have the same skill set as an RHCT / RHCSAConfirmation of the correct skill-set required for this course can be obtained by passing the online pre-assessment quiz -redhat.com/explore/pre-assessment
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Subjects
- Network Training
- Red Hat
- Solaris
- Network
- Server
- Linux
- Access
Course programme
The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the RHCE Rapid Track Course (RH299) course.
Unit 1 - Software Management
- Objective: Manage packages with yum, rpm, and RHN; build an RPM package and place it in a repository
Unit 2 - Network Management
- Objective: Configure and troubleshoot network settings; configure network bonding
Unit 3 - Storage Management
- Objective: Manage partitioning, filesystems and swap space; configure encrypted partitions and iSCSI initiator
Unit 4 - Logical Volume Management (LVM)
- Objective: Manage physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes with their filesystems
Unit 5 - Account Management
- Objective: Provide password aging for accounts; use ACLs and SGID directories for collaborative directories
Unit 6 - Authentication Management
- Objective: Configure an LDAP and Kerberos client; configure autofs to support authentication client
Unit 7 - Installation, Kickstart, and Virtualization
- Objective: Install a system and manage kickstart and firstboot; use virtualization tools to manage virtual machines
Unit 8 - Boot Management
- Objective: Configure runlevels and sysctl; reset the root password; understand the boot process
Unit 9 - Scheduling Commands (at and cron)
- Objective: Schedule commands using at and cron
Unit 10 - Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Management
- Objective: Understand, troubleshoot, and manage SELinux
Unit 11 - Firewall Management
- Objective: Manage the firewall
Unit 12 - Network Time Protocol (NTP) Service
- Objective: Configure an NTP server and provide that service to clients
Unit 13 - System Logging (rsyslog) Service
- Objective: Troubleshoot by finding and analyzing logs; configure remote logging
Unit 14 - Web (HTTP/HTTPS) Service
- Objective: Manage a web server with virtual hosts and using file/directory access controls
Unit 15 - Email (SMTP) Service
- Objective: Null client; outbound smarthost relay; accept inbound connections
Unit 16 - Domain Name System (DNS) Service
- Objective: Configure a caching nameserver and DNS forwarder
Unit 17 - Network File System (NFS) Service
- Objective: Manage the NFS service; use autofs to access the NFS server
Unit 18 - Common Internet File System (CIFS) Service
- Objective: Configure a CIFS server; use autofs to access the CIFS server
Unit 19 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service
- Objective: Provide anonymous-only download service; provide drop-box upload service
Unit 20 - Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) Service
- Objective: Configure local and remote printers
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Fast Track