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- | ====== RHCSA ====== | ||
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- | **General Information** | ||
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- | Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam study notes. | ||
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- | ====== External Resources ====== | ||
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- | ====== Schedule an Exam ====== | ||
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- | Taking an individual exam means you will sit at a kiosk style computer and be monitored via a camera at an exam center. | ||
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- | * Buy an exam voucher from Red Hat (good for 1 year): [[https:// | ||
- | * Click on Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) | ||
- | * Under "How will you train/ | ||
- | * Purchase the exam voucher. | ||
- | * Schedule an exam using the voucher. | ||
- | * Sign up at Innovative Exams (create an account or sign in): [[https:// | ||
- | * Schedule a date/ | ||
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- | ====== Objectives ====== | ||
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- | Objectives are listed below in each of their sections. | ||
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- | ===== Understand and use essential tools ===== | ||
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- | * [[Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax]] | ||
- | * [[Use input-output redirection]] | ||
- | * [[Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text]] | ||
- | * [[Access remote systems using ssh]] | ||
- | * [[Log in and switch users in multiuser targets]] | ||
- | * [[Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2]] | ||
- | * [[Create and edit text files]] | ||
- | * [[Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories]] | ||
- | * [[Create hard and soft links]] | ||
- | * [[List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions]] | ||
- | * [[Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in / | ||
- | * [[Finding Files With Locate And Find]] | ||
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- | ===== Operate running systems ===== | ||
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- | * [[Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally]] | ||
- | * [[Boot systems into different targets manually]] | ||
- | * [[Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system]] | ||
- | * [[Identify CPU/memory intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, and kill processes]] | ||
- | * [[Locate and interpret system log files and journals]] | ||
- | * [[Access a virtual machine' | ||
- | * [[Start and stop virtual machines]] | ||
- | * [[Start, stop, and check the status of network services]] | ||
- | * [[Securely transfer files between systems]] | ||
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- | ===== Configure local storage ===== | ||
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- | * [[List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks]] | ||
- | * [[Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volume groups, and create and delete logical volumes]] | ||
- | * [[Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by Universally Unique ID (UUID) or label]] | ||
- | * [[Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively]] | ||
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- | ===== Create and configure file systems ===== | ||
- | * [[Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems]] | ||
- | * [[Mount and unmount CIFS and NFS network file systems]] | ||
- | * [[Extend existing logical volumes]] | ||
- | * [[Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration]] | ||
- | * [[Create and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs)]] | ||
- | * [[Diagnose and correct file permission problems]] | ||
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- | ===== Deploy, configure, and maintain systems ===== | ||
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- | * [[Configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically]] | ||
- | * [[Schedule tasks using at and cron]] | ||
- | * [[Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot]] | ||
- | * [[Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically]] | ||
- | * [[Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux automatically using Kickstart]] | ||
- | * [[Configure a physical machine to host virtual guests]] | ||
- | * [[Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems as virtual guests]] | ||
- | * [[Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot]] | ||
- | * [[Configure network services to start automatically at boot]] | ||
- | * [[Configure a system to use time services]] | ||
- | * [[Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or from the local file system]] | ||
- | * [[Update the kernel package appropriately to ensure a bootable system]] | ||
- | * [[Modify the system bootloader]] | ||
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- | ===== Manage users and groups ===== | ||
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- | * [[Create, delete, and modify local user accounts]] | ||
- | * [[Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user accounts]] | ||
- | * [[Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships]] | ||
- | * [[Configure a system to use an existing authentication service for user and group information]] | ||
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- | ===== Manage security ===== | ||
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- | * [[Configure firewall settings using firewall-config, | ||
- | * [[Configure key-based authentication for SSH]] | ||
- | * [[Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux]] | ||
- | * [[List and identify SELinux file and process context]] | ||
- | * [[Restore default file contexts]] | ||
- | * [[Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings]] | ||
- | * [[Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations]] | ||
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