Course summary

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) course
• This 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.

Follow up courses and exams:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting (RH242)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318)
• Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services (RHS333)
• Red Hat Enterprise Deployment, Virtualization and Systems Management (RH401)
• Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication (RH423)
• Red Hat Enterprise SE Linux Policy Administration (RHS429)
• Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (RH436)
• Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442)

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

PLEASE NOTE, DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RHCSA AND RHCE EXAMS.

Course Outline
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