Red Hat System Administration II without exam - RH134

Course summary

Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) is designed for IT professionals working to become a full-time enterprise Linux system administrator. The course is a follow on to System Administration I, and continues to utilizes today´s best-of-breed contemporary teaching methodology. Students 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 System Administration I, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kit" of administration skills. By the end of this four day course, students will be able to administer file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, package management and troubleshooting best practices. Students who attend Red Hat System Administration I & II will be fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam.
Please note that the RHCSA exam (EX200) is not included in this course only offering. It can be booked separately, or as part of the RH135 course

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Includes:

  • 4 days intensive training on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Hands-on labs and exercises
  • Catered lunch
  • One workstation per student
  • Student materials, pre-assessment questionnaire, study aids, handouts
  • Red Hat promotional items

All other expenses of travel and per diem are the student´s responsibility.
PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE DOES NOT INCLUDE RHCSA EXAM

Course Outline

The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) course.

  • Unit 1 - Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    Objective: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart
  • Unit 2 - Accessing the Command Line
    Objective: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line
  • Unit 3 - Intermediate Command Line Tools
    Objective: Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim
  • Unit 4 - Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
    Objective: Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output
  • Unit 5 - Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
    Objective: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues
  • Unit 6 - Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
    Objective: Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions
  • Unit 7 - Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes
    Objective: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots
  • Unit 8 - Access Network File Sharing Services
    Objective: NFS, CIFS and autofs
  • Unit 9 - Managing User Accounts
    Objective: Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service
  • Unit 10 - Controlling Access to Files
    Objective: Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL)
  • Unit 11 - Managing SELinux
    Objective: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs
  • Unit 12 - Installing and Managing Software
    Objective: Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files
  • Unit 13 - Managing Installed Services
    Objective: Managing services, verify connectivity to a service
  • Unit 14 - Analyzing and Storing Logs
    Objective: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate
  • Unit 15 - Managing Processes
    Objective: Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule processes
  • Unit 16 - Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
    Objective: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments
  • Unit 17 - Troubleshooting
    Objective: Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems