Kurs: Red Hat System Administration II

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 Bundle

Follow up courses and exams:

• Red Hat System Administration III with RHCE Exam (RH255)

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318), RHCVA Exam (EX318)

• Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting (RH142)

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 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.

Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.

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