Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 training course is designed to give the delegate practical experience in the areas of networking, security, basics of shell scripting and elementary installing of MariaDB. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training, this course will teach the essential network, security and shell scripting tasks required on a Red Hat Linux system.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Review of Controlling Services and deamons
• Introduction to IPV6
• Configure Aggregated network links (teaming) and Bridging
• Set up network routing using static routes
• Configure a Secure Firewall Configuration
• Configure a DNS server
• Configure a basic email server
• Configure iSCSI
• Configure an NFS server and SMB shares
• Configure the system to use Kerberos security
• Create conditional shell scripts to automate tasks
• Install, configure and backup a MariaDB database
• Setup a Network Time Protocol Server
• Understand encryption techniques
• Configure SSH
• Configure HTTP/HTTPS servers
• Overview of Linux Containers and Docker

Who will the Course Benefit?

The Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 course is designed for System Administrators and Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key networking, security and scripting tasks required to administer a Linux system.

This course will teach many of the extra necessary skills required, over and above the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam requirements, to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. Courses covering the topics required for RHCSA certification, which are also a requirement of RHCE certification, are covered on the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2 courses.

The course assumes administration knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Part 2 courses.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to perform more advanced administration of networking facilities, securing the system and the use of scripting on a Red Hat Linux system.

Examinations

This course together with the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 and Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2 courses will aid the delegate in their preparation for the following exams:

• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA): EX200
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE): EX300

Attending this course will help delegates gain many of the skills and product knowledge requirements as outlined in the exam objectives. Studying this course and its associated reference materials can form part of the preparation to achieve certification. Experience, practice, self-study and aptitude are also key requirements for exam success.

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.

Requirements

The delegate should be competent with common command line tools, the vi editor, managing logical volumes, using systemd, configuring SELinux and also be capable of creating client access to NFS and CIFS. Students should also be capable of configuring kickstart, basic networking, basic firewalls and scheduling jobs to run automatically.

The requirements for this course can be met by either of the pre-requisite courses listed.

Pre-Requisite Courses

• Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2
• FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator

Follow-On Courses

• System Security for Red Hat Linux
• Apache Web Server
• Perl Programming
• Oracle SQL

• Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
• Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.