Fast-track your Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration skills and prepare for RHCSA certification.

Designed for experienced Linux administrators, this accelerated course combines essential system administration content from Red Hat System Administration I and II. Build practical skills to configure, operate, secure, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems before validating your capabilities through the included RHCSA exam.

  • Why get trained: Strengthen practical skills in command-line administration, users and groups, file permissions, software management, systemd services, networking, storage, file systems, security, process management, and troubleshooting across Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments
  • Why it matters: RHCSA validates core system administration skills through the performance-based EX200 exam. These capabilities form the foundation for administering Red Hat environments and are also required before progressing towards Red Hat Certified Engineer credentials.
  • Who should attend: Experienced Linux System Administrators, Platform Engineers, Developers, and IT professionals with Linux command-line knowledge who need an accelerated route to Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and RHCSA certification. Red Hat recommends significant Linux administration experience for the rapid-track format.

Prepare to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and validate your practical skills with the included RHCSA exam. HRD Corp Claimable.

Overview

Learn and validate essential Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 configuration, administration, and maintenance tasks and methods in a condensed format.

The RHCSA Rapid Track course with exam (RH200) combines Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134), reviewing the tasks at an accelerated pace. The Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) is also included in this offering.

This offering is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.2 and is designed for experienced Linux system administrators.

Skills Covered

  • Package management with new repository structure and appstream modules
  • Create storage devices, volumes, and file systems, including Stratis storage management
  • Configure network services and security
  • Manage processes, scheduling, and tuning
  • Manage users, groups, and authentication
  • Perform server management with the Cockpit web management utility
  • Troubleshoot and obtain support
  • Run containers

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 DHCP
    • Administering local user and group accounts
    • Managing local, physical storage
    • Installing Linux graphically on a bare-metal system

Target Audience

This offering is geared toward Windows system administrators, network administrators, and other system administrators who are interested in supplementing current skills or backstopping other team members, in addition to Linux system administrators who are responsible for these tasks:

  • Configuring, installing, upgrading, and maintaining Linux systems using established standards and procedures
  • Providing operational support
  • Managing systems for monitoring system performance and availability
  • Writing and deploying scripts for task automation and system administration

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Access Systems and Get Help

  • Log in to local and remote Linux systems, and investigate problem resolution methods provided through Red Hat Insights and support

Module 2: Navigate File Systems

  • Copy, move, create, delete, and organize files while working from the bash shell

Module 3: Manage Local Users and Groups

  • Create, manage, and delete local users and groups and administer local password policies

Module 4: Control Access to Files

  • Set Linux file system permissions on files and to interpret the security effects of different permission settings

Module 5: Manage SELinux Security

  • Protect and manage the security of a server by using SELinux

Module 6: Tune System Performance

  • Evaluate and control processes, set tuning parameters, and adjust process scheduling priorities on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system

Module 7: Install and Update Software Packages

  • Download, install, update, and manage software packages from Red Hat and yum package repositories

Module 8: Manage Basic Storage

  • Create and manage storage devices, partitions, file systems, and swap spaces from the command line

Module 9: Control Services and the Boot Process

  • Control and monitor network services, system daemons, and the boot process using systemd

Module 10: Manage Networking

  • Configure network interfaces and settings on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers

Module 11: Analyze and Store Logs

  • Locate and accurately interpret logs of system events for troubleshooting purposes

Module 12: Implement Advanced Storage Features

  • Create and manage logical volumes containing file systems and swap spaces from the command line, and configure advanced storage features with Stratis and VDO

Module 13: Schedule Future Tasks

  • Schedule tasks to automatically execute in the future

Module 14: Access Network-Attached Storage

  • Access network-attached storage, using the NFS protocol

Module 15: Manage Network Security

  • Control network connections to services using the system firewall and SELinux rules

Module 16: Run Containers

  • Obtain, run, and manage simple, lightweight services as containers on a single Red Hat Enterprise Linux server

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Exam & Certification

Red Hat Certified System Administrator.

An IT professional who has earned the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®) is able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The credential is earned after successfully passing the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (EX200).

A Red Hat® Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) is able to perform the following tasks:

  • Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation
  • Create simple shell scripts
  • Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines, and controlling services
  • Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes
  • Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists, and network file systems
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update, and core services
  • Manage users and groups
  • Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration
  • Perform basic container management

Training & Certification Guide

The performance-based Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200) tests your knowledge in areas of system administration common across a wide range of environments and deployment scenarios. The skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system administration across all Red Hat® products.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator. If you choose to continue your learning journey beyond RHCSA, the credential can also serve as a foundational step on your path toward our highest level of certification—Red Hat Certified Architect.

This exam is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.2.

  • Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills
  • Students who have attended Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) and are on the path to becoming an RHCSA
  • Experienced Linux system administrators who require a certification either by their organization or based on a mandate (DoD 8570 directive)
  • IT professionals who are on the path to becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • An RHCE who is noncurrent or who is about to become noncurrent and wants to recertify as an RHCE
  • DevOps professionals who wish to demonstrate their expertise with the fundamentals of container technology

  • Have either taken Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) or the RHCSA Rapid Track course (RH199) that combines those courses, or have comparable work experience as a system administrator on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Review the Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam (EX200) objectives
  • Take our free assessment to find the course that best supports your preparation for this exam.

RHCSA exam candidates should be able to accomplish the tasks below without assistance. These have been grouped into several categories.

Understand and use essential tools
  • Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax
  • Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
  • Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
  • Access remote systems using SSH
  • Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
  • Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2
  • Create and edit text files
  • Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
  • Create hard and soft links
  • List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
  • Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info, and files in /usr/share/doc
Create simple shell scripts
  • Conditionally execute code (use of: if, test, [], etc.)
  • Use Looping constructs (for, etc.) to process file, command line input
  • Process script inputs ($1, $2, etc.)
  • Processing output of shell commands within a script
  • Processing shell command exit codes
Operate running systems
  • Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally
  • Boot systems into different targets manually
  • Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system
  • Identify CPU/memory intensive processes and kill processes
  • Adjust process scheduling
  • Manage tuning profiles
  • Locate and interpret system log files and journals
  • Preserve system journals
  • Start, stop, and check the status of network services
  • Securely transfer files between systems
Configure local storage
  • List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
  • Create and remove physical volumes
  • Assign physical volumes to volume groups
  • Create and delete logical volumes
  • Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by universally unique ID (UUID) or label
  • Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system non-destructively
Create and configure file systems
  • Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems
  • Mount and unmount network file systems using NFS
  • Extend existing logical volumes
  • Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
  • Configure disk compression
  • Manage layered storage
  • Diagnose and correct file permission problems
Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
  • Schedule tasks using at and cron
  • Start and stop services and configure services to start automatically at boot
  • Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
  • Configure time service clients
  • Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a remote repository, or from the local file system
  • Work with package module streams
  • Modify the system bootloader
Manage basic networking
  • Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Configure hostname resolution
  • Configure network services to start automatically at boot
  • Restrict network access using firewall-cmd/firewall
Manage users and groups
  • Create, delete, and modify local user accounts
  • Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user accounts
  • Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
  • Configure superuser access
Manage security
  • Configure firewall settings using firewall-cmd/firewalld
  • Create and use file access control lists
  • Configure key-based authentication for SSH
  • Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux
  • List and identify SELinux file and process context
  • Restore default file contexts
  • Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings
  • Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations
Manage containers
  • Find and retrieve container images from a remote registry
  • Inspect container images
  • Perform container management using commands such as podman and skopeo
  • Perform basic container management such as running, starting, stopping, and listing running containers
  • Run a service inside a container
  • Configure a container to start automatically as a systemd service
  • Attach persistent storage to a container

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) to help prepare. Attendance in these classes is not required; you can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of your preparation, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat products are available. Red Hat does not endorse any of these materials as preparation guides for exams. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading helpful to deepen your understanding.

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