Course Content
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