RH135 - Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam
Building on command line skills for Linux Administrators
Course Description
Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) is designed for IT
professionals working to become full-time enterprise Linux
system administrators. The course is a followup to System
Administration I and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed,
contemporary teaching methodology. Students will be actively
engaged in task-focused activities, labbased 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 kits" of
administration skills. By the end of this five-day course,
students will be able to administer and troubleshoot file
systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access
control, package management. 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 full-time
enterprise Linux administrators and/or earn RHCSA
certifications
Prerequisites
- Red Hat System Administration I
- Confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge
can be obtained by passing the online pre-assessment quiz
Course Content
- Network configuration and troubleshooting
- Managing file systems and logical volumes
- Controlling user and file access
- Installing and managing services and processes
- Essential command line operations
- Troubleshooting
Course Outline
Unit 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
Objectives: Create and manage kickstart configuration
files; perform installations using kickstart
Unit 2: Accessing the Command Line
Objectives: Access the command line locally and
remotely; gain administrative privileges from the command line
Unit 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools
Objectives: Use hardlinks, archives and compression,
and vim
Unit 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O
Redirection
Objectives: Use regular expressions to search patterns
in files and output; redirect and pipe output
Unit 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
Objectives: Configure network settings; troubleshoot
network issues
Unit 6: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
Objectives: Create and format simple partitions, swap
partitions, and encrypted partitions
Unit 7: Managing Flexible Storage with the Logical
Volume Manager (LVM)
Objectives: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots
Unit 8: Access Network File Sharing Services; NFS and
CIFS
Objectives: Implement NFS, CIFS, and autofs
Unit 9: Managing User Accounts
Objectives: Manage user accounts including password
aging
Unit 10: Network User Accounts with LDAP
Objectives: Connect to a central LDAP directory service
Unit 11: Controlling Access to Files
Objectives: Manage group memberships, file permissions,
and access control lists (ACL)
Unit 12: Managing SELinux
Objectives: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file
contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs
Unit 13: Installing and Managing Software
Objectives: Manage software and query information with
yum; configure client-side yum repository files
Unit 14: Managing Installed Services
Objectives: Managing services; verify connectivity to a
service
Unit 15: Analyzing and Storing Logs
Objectives: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate
Unit 16: Managing Processes
Objectives: Identify and terminate processes, change
the priority of a process, and use cron and at to schedule
processes
Unit 17: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
Objectives: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel
arguments
Unit 18: System Recovery Techniques
Objectives: Understand the boot process and resolve
boot problems