About this Course
The RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH199) is designed for experienced Linux® system administrators who want to expand their technical skills 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 (not included).
Course Content
During the course, students will cover the following:
- Installation, configuration, and management of local storage
- Deployment and maintenance of network services
- Network services: virtual network computing (VNC), secure shell (SSH), file transfer protocol (FTP), and web
- Securing files with access control lists (ACLs)
- Securing network services with firewall and SELinux
- Managing virtual machines with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology
- Automating installation of Linux using Kickstart
Course Outline
1. Network configuration and troubleshooting
Configure, manage, and test network settings.
2. Managing user accounts
Manage user accounts, including password aging, and connect to a central lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory service.
3. Command-line process management
Launch, monitor, govern, and terminate processes using the Bash command line.
4. Manage system resources
Schedule recurring tasks; monitor and manage system logs.
5. Installing and managing software
Install software and query with yum using Red Hat® Network and a custom repository.
6. Administer remote systems
Access remote systems using command-line and graphical techniques.
7. Deploy and secure file-sharing services
Install and manage basic network services, including firewall configuration.
8. Managing SELinux
Manage SELInux booleans and file system contexts.
9. Managing simple partitions and file systems
Manage encrypted partitions, file systems, and swap space.
10. Using file system access control lists
Restrict file access with file system access control lists (ACLs).
11. Logical volume management
Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes, including snapshots.
12. Control the boot process
Understand runlevels and manage GRUB.
13. Tune and maintain the kernel
Pass parameters to the kernel and manage kernel modules.
14. Manage virtual machines
Deploy and manage Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM).
15. Automate installation with Kickstart
Create Kickstart configurations and use them to install Linux®.
16. Get help in a graphical environment
Access Red Hat documentation and services.