RH1999 - RHCSA Rapid Track Course

Overview

Duration: 4 days

RHCSA Rapid Track Course (RH1999) - This course designed for experienced Linux® system administrators who want to expand their technical skills and become accredited with the Red Hat® Certified System Administration (RHCSA) certification. To successfully navigate this course, students must already have solid experience with the Linux command line—including the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and yum—and be familiar with accessing man pages for help. At the completion of the course, students will be adequately prepared to take the RHCSA exam (not included).

Objectives

Please refer to course overview

Content

Installation, configuration, and management of local storage
Deployment and maintenance of network services
Network services: virtual network computing (VNC), secure shell (SSH), file transfer protocol (FTP), and web
Securing files with access control lists (ACLs)
Securing network services with firewall and SELinux
Managing virtual machines with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology
Automating installation of Linux using Kickstart

Audience

Practiced Linux or UNIX system administrators who currently manage servers at the enterprise level
Skilled Linux system administrators who wish to earn an RHCSA certification

Prerequisites

Full-time Linux administration with 1-3 years of experience
The following skills:
- Using the Bash shell and managing files and directories from the command line
- Configuring print queues to local and remote printers
- Monitoring system resources at a basic level (ps, kill)
- Managing system software (installing and updating packages with yum)
- Establishing network connectivity using dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)
- Administering local user and group accounts
- Managing local, physical storage
- Installing Linux graphically on a bare-metal system