The RHCSA Rapid Track Course with Exam (RH200) is designed for experienced Linux® system administrators who want to expand their technical skill sets and become accredited with the Red Hat® Certified System Administration (RHCSA) certification. To successfully navigate this course, students must already have solid experience with the Linux command line, including the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and yum, and be familiar with accessing man pages for help. At the completion of the course, students will be adequately prepared to take the RHCSA exam.
- Installation, configuration, and management of local storage
- Deployment and maintenance of network services
- Network services: VNC, SSH, FTP, and web
- Securing files with ACLs
- Securing network services with firewall and SELinux
- Managing virtual machines with KVM technology
- Automating installation of Linux using kickstart
Unit 1: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
Objective: Configure, manage, and test network settings.
Unit 2: Managing User Accounts
Objective: Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service.
Unit 3: Command-Line Process Management
Objective: Launch, monitor, govern, and terminate processes using the BASH command line.
Unit 4: Manage System Resources
Objective: Schedule recurring tasks; monitor and manage system logs.
Unit 5: Installing and Managing Software
Objective: Install software and query with yum using RHN and a custom repository.
Unit 6: Administer Remote Systems
Objective: Access remote systems using command-line and graphical techniques.
Unit 7: Deploy and Secure File-Sharing Services
Objective: Install and manage basic network services, including firewall configuration.
Unit 8: Managing SELinux
Objective: Manage SELInux booleans and file system contexts.
Unit 9: Managing Simple Partitions and File systems
Objective: Manage encrypted partitions, file systems, and swap space.
Unit 10: Using Filesystem Access Control Lists
Objective: Restrict file access with file system ACLs.
Unit 11: Logical Volume Management
Objective: Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes, including snapshots.
Unit 12: Control the Boot Process
Objective: Understand runlevels and manage GRUB.
Unit 13: Tune and Maintain the Kernel
Objective: Pass parameters to the kernel and manage kernel modules.
Unit 14: Manage Virtual Machines
Objective: Deploy and manage KVM virtual machines.
Unit 15: Automate Installation with Kickstart
Objective: Create kickstart configurations and use them to install Linux®.
Unit 16: Get Help in a Graphical Environment
Objective: Access Red Hat® documentation and services.
- Practiced Linux or UNIX system administrators who currently manage servers at the enterprise level
- Skilled Linux system administrators who wish to earn an RHCSA certification
1. Full-time Linux administration with 1-3 years of experience
2. The following skills:
- Using the Bash shell and managing files and directories from the command line
- Configuring print queues to local and remote printers
- Monitoring system resources at a basic level (ps, kill)
- Managing system software (installing and updating packages with yum)
- Establishing network connectivity using DHCP
- Administering local user and group accounts
- Managing local, physical storage
- Installing Linux graphically on a bare-metal system
