Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.  With a strong emphasis on practical hands on training, this course will teach further essential administrative tasks required to successfully administer a Red Hat Linux system.

Targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat certification curriculum, this course together with the Administering Red Hat System Linux - Part I course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) qualification.

In addition, by attending the Administering Red Hat System Administration - Part I & Part II courses together with the Administrating Red Hat Linux - Part III course, will enable the attendee to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) qualification.

Skills Gained

The delegate will have knowledge in all, and practice in some, of the following:

• Automate a system install using Kickstart
• Use switch user command
• Understand hard and symbolic links
• Use vim to edit text files
• Use further piping and redirection techniques
• Search files and output using regular expressions
• Create Partitions, Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Extend and decrease Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Extend file systems
• Implement and use LVM snapshots
• Backup, Restoring and Compressing files
• Access a Network File System (NFS) Server
• Configure autofs
• Use CIFS
• Manage password ageing
• Managing groups, extended file permissions and Access Control Lists
• SELinux context types and management commands
• Manage software using YUM and configure software repositories
• Process scheduling and control
• Manage kernel modules
• Manage and configure system logging
• Troubleshooting and disaster recovery

Who will the Course Benefit?

This Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course is suitable for anyone who has acquired basic administration skills from attending the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course.  This will include novice System Administrators, Network administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key administration tasks required to administer a Red Hat Linux system.

This course will teach many of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification followed by the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.  The course assumes knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course.

Course Objectives

On completion of this Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course the delegate will have gained practical experience of the Linux commands, the GUI's and posses the technical knowledge required to perform System Administration tasks.

Examinations

The delegate will gain the essential knowledge required to study towards the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification routes.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The Red Hat website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Pre-Requisite Courses

• Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I

Follow-On Courses

• Administering Red Hat Linux - Part III
• Apache Web Server
• Perl Programming
• Oracle SQL

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

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