Overview
Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam (RH135) 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 five 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.
Audience
IT professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I, and want the skills to be a full-time enterprise Linux administrator and/or earn an RHCSA certification
Prerequisites
- Red Hat System Administration I
- Confirmation of the correct skill-set knowledge can be obtained by passing the online pre-assessment quiz – pre-assessment questionnaire
Course Outline
The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the Red Hat System Administration II (RH135) 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